How much will your summer holiday cost you roughly?

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Majority of people in my dc's school will be heading for Florida this year on holiday-we wouldn't be able to stretch to that but are hoping to have some sort of European holiday in the school holiday time.

Just wondering If I am kidding myself about prices a bit -How much does everyone roughly spend on a fortnight in the sun. Maybe I should have budgeted more?

Ten days in Ireland, return ferry paid for by Tesco vouchers, staying with family and friends, so diesel, food wine and some days out plus DH's flight to join us half way through.

Maybe £500 if that.

Reading through this, it reminds me that holidaying can seem expensive and for this very reason, I used to take hardly any 'proper' holidays abroad. Now I see holidays as something you invest in, something you pay for with all the hard work you do for the rest of the year, so it's totally worth it.

I'm doing budgeting for our camping trip (family of 4) to the Charente-Maritime area of France this Summer for 16 days. We take our own gear so campsite fees are a bit cheaper.

I've been calculating this inn an actual excel spreadsheet, with Euro / Pound conversions. Geek out.

Eurotunnel £160
15 nights at campsites approx £500
2 nights cheap stopover hotel there and back £110
Petrol £280
Motorway tolls £60
Ferry across the river mouth between campsites £27
Travel insurance £70 (est.?)
Food, meals out, shopping for little holiday stuff (buckets, spades, etc) etc £750 (£50 a day, seems quite conservative as eating out can be expensive)
TOTAL £1900

I think quite a few people seem to be underestimating how much petrol costs on driving trips, especially when you are loaded up. Going all the way down to the South of France is going to cost you £££s in tolls and petrol (which is fine, but I think I wasn't aware of how much in the past).

Just back from Portugal. Me, DP and two kids.

Flights £140 + 60,000 BA miles (collected through Tesco cc points)
Villa £625
Parking £50
Car hire £200
Supermarket £250

Plus meals out, petrol, waterpark etc.

All booked 1 week before we went.

off to Greece next week :
flghts 1500
apartment 750
airport transfers/aircon 200
spends of 150 euro a day 2250

so thats about 4k once we factor in a trip to water park, boat trips etc.

worth every penny

This year is a weird one, we always do France for two weeks in the summer which is really cheap for us due to family. So then we pick somewhere to go either before the summer or in the winter.

This year however, just purely due to timings and work the plan was/is for the two of us:

May - Italy 3/4 days £6,000, including flights and accommodation

Aug/Sept - France 14 days, just flights and whatever we spend on food £300-400

December - Antigua 14 days £15,000, flights and AI accomodation

I should add that I have just as much fun if not more when we go to France, I think it doesn't matter what you spend as long as you enjoy the time off and the people around you :)

I'm based in London

Paying circa 5k for family of 5 to Greece. I couldn't believe it (thought it was expensive) it's a 5 star all inclusive but my travel agent friend assures me that's quite 'normal' these days!

We're off here, visithanmersprings.co.nz/ in our summer holidays in December. Costing the 6 of us (2 adults, 4dc) about £180 for 4 nights in a self contained cabin on a campsite in the forest, around £80 for petrol there and back and the hot pools are £25 for all of us to get into for the day, which we'll probably do 2 or 3 days. We'll obviously have spending money on top of this, but we'll self cater for most of it.

We normally go camping somewhere on the South Island in our trailer tent, last year was Nelson, year before that Wanaka/Queenstown, but this year we'll (hopefully) have almost 4 month old dc4 with us, so thought better to stay somewhere a bit closer with a bit more space!

Obviously we are very lucky to live close to amazing tourist destinations, and camping is still pretty cheap here in NZ, reminds me of when I used to go camping with my parents in the 80s :)

Two week gite holiday for 2 adults and 2DC in southern France

Gite for two weeks: £1,800 (I think this is a lot - we always used to reckon on £500 a week tops, but that was pre-DC and hence not in school hols)
Eurotunnel crossing: £150
Petrol and motorway tolls: about £240
2x budget motels overnight to break long drive, incl breakfast: £120
Some above-normal money for food and days out, but I think not huge amounts - will be self-catering almost all the time and spending a lot of time just hanging out at the gite. I kind of don't count this because we'd be spending money on food anyway, and probably days out too if it's in the school holidays.

So I guess our total is about £2,500.

Really interesting and useful to see other people's comparisons.

This thread is from last year but thought it may be worth a bump -loads of good ideas once you get into it and what costs what .

Florida in August:
5 flights + car hire for 2 weeks to Tampa rather than Orlando £2700. We are flying indirect but with a 3 hour change over and worth it for the money saved
1 week in a 4* condo with 3 beds outside Disney £375
1 week in a beach house on the gulf coast £750
4 day Disney pass plus 2 days universal pass £1500
Total £5200

We usually end up spending about £5k for 2 weeks in an apartment in Spain so this seems fairly good value. Took a lot of research to bring it in at that price though

That's good going Soexcited. I have always thought Florida was way out of our reach but that does seem reasonable. We end up spending similar on villas on flights and two weeks in Europe.

We have a few holidays/ short breaks this year. Summer, Lake Garda Italy: flights to Verona with BA just over £600.
Two nights in verona in hotel £300, and seven nights in an apartment on the lake for £900.
We'll be doing lots of day trips, sightseeing, and eating nice food, so I reckon about £1500 in spending money. So, over£3,000 for three of us and that's everything.

London in May half term five nights.
hotel, tickets for west end show, eating out around £600. Theathre Tickets bought with Tesco vouchers and also dinner out in spagetti house with vouchers as well.

Dublin for a long weekend in a couple of weeks. Jumped in when Ryanair had a sale recently and got three returns for £90. .DD had a training day on the Monday. Worked out perfectly. Accomadation free, staying with family. Probably around £250 in spends.
Oh forgot airport parking £30.

Soexcited very impressed with those prices for Florida.

For this summer DH had his heart set on 2x overnight ferries to/from France (which is odd, really, considering that he and DD can get travel sick) a couple of overnight hotels in France to/from a gite with a pool or a resort.

Admittedly I wasn't researching massively hard...but a BA sale email arrived mid-research. DD, DH and I are now going to spend a week in Mauritius AI (so food/drinks/kids club/watersports etc) for a little bit under £3k.

It won't be massively hot c25 degrees.

If we (summer) holiday in Europe, we often find that the last week of August is considerably cheaper.

We don't spend much on holidays. We're away over Easter on a 10-day cruise which is costing £1,800 for 4 plus £400 flights. We're also staying with friends for a few days at the end of the cruise. So £2,200 for 2 weeks.

In the summer we're going to the south of France where flights are £720, the villa is £800 and car hire £175. So £1,700 total. This is about £500 over budget because it's August.

I usually aim for around £1,000 for a week and try to pay £400 for flights, £500 for villa and then car hire. To achieve this we usually go in May half term. This doesn't include spending money.

We're going to Murcia in Spain, Flying from Bournemouth for 10 days in an apartment rented through owners dirct.

Flight £800
Apartment £590
Then spending money, Probably around £500

So around £1900 for a family of 2 adults and 2 teens

5 star all inclusive end of August £2k for flights/ transfers and hotel. (Family of 4, although children are free at hotel)

To be honest, even looking at cheap holidays you're looking to spend a fair amount, and remember that you get what you pay for. Be realistic about your expectations!

Ibiza is very cheap to travel to and we had a great time in portinitx last year in a 3 star! Room and hotel/ food was basic but we weren't expecting luxury for £900!

This year holiday is for 1 week sorry!

We went to Murcia a couple of years ago Derek-really reasonable nice accommodation.

3rd year in a row that we are going back to tenerife for 10 nights in October.
All inclusive
2 adults and 2 children £2500
In the summer I think that we might go to Blackpool as we have never been...

My kids are all teenagers - wait for the bad news. They all fly as adults. We budget around 8k for 2 weeks somewhere nice, self catering villa in Greek islands type of thing. This doesn't include extras like airport parking (200) or FOOD ! and drink or any excursions. I have shopped around for deals for years and once your kids are 10+ it shoots up. Expect to pay £6k for a cheap and cheerful fortnight somewhere. When you get into Mark Warner territory, expect at least 9-10k with teenagers plus spending and trip money.

Slightly over 3K which includes flights nice hotel in Algarve including lovely big breakfast and activities by the pool.
We buy food for lunch and eat out in restaurants and have a few drinks on an evening so probably over 4K when finished.

Two weeks west coast of Canada £6000 for 4 2ad 2 teens 18/17 flying into Calgary out of Vancouver hiring car staying AirBnB

6k should include all spends.

Also going to Portugal next week. Cost £300 flights car and 5star hotel bnb each.