How much do you spend on holidays in a year?

[LyraSilvertongue]

DP is panicking about our holidays budget.
I shot myself in the foot in 2006 and 2007 by searching out super-cheap villa holidays in Italy and the south of France for £1,200 and £1,500 respectively. Now he expects all holidays to be that cheap.
I've managed to get us holidays at Disneyland Paris in April (5 days) and Crete in August (2 weeks) for just over £3,500 in total.
Do you think this is such a huge sum? I think DP is being ridiculous (and he can afford it).

No need for I'd be the same given the chance!

I thought £3k+ was about average.

Average spend on a family holiday abroad is £650 a year here

But maybe £3k plus is average (or even low!)in the circles you move in.

I am not sure about how that statistic works. The link is very interesting though.

I think £3K for the two holidays you describe sounds about right!

DLP isn't cheap at all so probably bumps up the total.

Thinking about it, we do spend about the equivalent of 1 month's net pay on holidays per year but then they are our absolute priority .

Enjoy your holidays!

Blimmin 'eck, where does anyone find a family holiday abroad (in school holidays) for £600? Even looking through a bog standard package brochure (ie not 'luxury') you could easily spend that per person on two weeks in Spain in high season.

Blimmin 'eck, where does anyone find a family holiday abroad (in school holidays) for £600? Even looking through a bog standard package brochure (ie not 'luxury') you could easily spend that per person on two weeks in Spain in high season.

No, that's what I mean about the statistic. It says that this is an average, but if it is an average, then it could work like this:

100 people spend 1,000
100 people spend nothing because they don't go abroad

therefore the average spend is £500.

Prob spend 3 grand on two hols, one or 2 wks in 6 wk holidays from school and a cheaper deal in termtime either May or Sept.

Oh I wouldn't suggest a month's salary as a rule of thumb for most families. Lower incomes will all be used up on essentials, and some people have a lot of debt wwhich eats into their income. But if you're looking at whether to spend £2.5k or £3.5k on holidays, then it sets a level. For one month's net spend we'll be away for over 4 weeks, but obviously still have council tax and bills etc to pay whilst we're away.

Maybe they count booze cruises to Calais.

That was to Quattro.

Ladymuck, I was aiming for four weeks but managed just under 3.

Well 2 weeks in Desneyland Paris would be my idea of hell. Your Dp should be grateful that you've spared him! 5 Days is plenty long, though I'm assuming you'll do something other than DLP during that.

No, we've booked a DLP package. So it will be disney all the way. Starting to regret it now...

Ho hum.

Well, if I'm honest I wouldn't want too much of my holiday budget eaten up by DLP. And the food and souvenirs are very expensive, so having the extra couple of days there will add up in terms of overall spend. But I'm at risk of lecturing, partly because I've gone through the DLP thought process myself last week - we've booked for the Easter weekend. Even if you're staying at Disney you can still get into Paris on the RER easily enough. Or could take in Parc Asterix too.

Never done Eurodisney - had mental image of it being queues in the rain - is that unfair?

No, failry good summary, other than some Europeans don't get the concept of a queue, so if you are queuing in the rain you can at least chat to your neighbours. Lets say that whilst it is being characterised as holiday spending, neither dh nor I view it as one! At least we're getting the dcs in a separate room:- family rooms truly are my idea of hell.

Sounds like our holiday last year Jura.

Now, what is this Parc Asterix ladymuck? I used to be a huge Asterix fan (many, many years ago)

Lyra - Parc Asterix is abot 20 miles north of Paris.

The website is fairly limited as they've advertising their Christmas special. It is only open from April to October. It is over 15 years since I've been there so my memory isn't helpful but understand that there are 11 or so "rides" plus lots of theming.

You need to do house swaps I tell you

We saved loads last year by swapping which is good as our annual spend is more than most on here but not a patch on Xenia's I'm sure

Thing is I like luxorious holidays, so the person swapping with me would probably be getting a raw deal. And anyway, you live too near to count!