How much is your 2023 holiday costing you?

[FreakyFrie]

Just wondering what people are booking and at what price? If anyones found any real bargains!

Today I have booked..

10 nights in the Balearic Islands.
hotel is beach front and it includes bed and breakfast at £1,845
flights for 2 adult, 2 children is £855 via easyJet.
Going in July 2 days before schools break up so flights were still a bit high but not as much as a few days later.
so approx 2.7K

I didn’t think it was too bad as a school mum told me they are paying 6k to go to Spain next year! They have 1 extra child though!

Would love to book something really cheap in aug but I doubt that will happen!

Oh this is my plan for next year! Not booked it as dates not available yet but that’s what k want to do.

Booked a 10 day trip to Paris in April via the train and eurostar. Its cost £1400 so far not including Disney tickets and food. Has been quite a faf so I can see the attraction of package holidays.

Where are you staying @Haveagentlechristmas ? Are you flying? I wanted to take the kids to Paris this year and it seemed so expensive so I gave up.

@DorritLittle we are staying at the Paris eurocamp site. April is cheaper than peak season. I've stuck it on a 0% interest credit card and hope to pay it off monthly!

Is that the one called Maison Lafitte @Haveagentlechristmas ? That's where I was thinking of for my imaginary trip. I might try this again next year (we ended up booking Cornwall instead!). Will be interested to know what it was like in April as Easter in Paris is v appealing. I was in the Loire in May last year and it was actually way too hot (for me anyway 😀)

Ps I was also thinking of going on the Eurostar!

@LadyRoughDiamond I know of a gorgeous row of cottages in Pembrokeshire that we found on Airbnb that we have stayed at many times. They have a really flexible booking policy as well. Let me know if it would be of interest and I can send over the details.

OP that is a bargain! Very impressive.

@RagzRebooted that's a good budget for Budapest. I LOVED Budapest, so did DC.

Mine's expensive this year. Don't want to say. But we'd not been abroad for so long.

£2800 7 nights AI in Turkey May half term for 2 adults, 2 children.

Around £1500 total for 7 different weekend campervan trips in UK between April - August. Also including a 16 night UK road trip in the school summer holidays.

£2900 7 nights AI in Algarve August for 2 adults and 2 children.

This isn’t including spending money but the 16 night road trip is likely to be the most expensive as the foreign holidays are AI. I’m estimating around £4k spends in total for all trips.

I would be interested in the Pembrokeshire cottages if poss @Filterphobia 😀

Lanzarote, 10n all inclusive. £1400 for 2 adults (DS will be 1 so don't pay for him), going in September.

2k for Malta for a week all inclusive in early July. 2 adults and 2 pre schoolers.
1k for 5 nights in Devon in August.

DS starts school in September so next year we are going to do a eurocamp to keep costs down

@DorritLittle this is the campsite.
www.la-croix-du-vieux-pont.com/

I also thought April is appealing for exploring as I couldn't bear being caught in a heatwave in a caravan with two very fair dcs.

16 nights in Corfu self catering in school holidays - plus flights (all booked separately) £950

@jocktamsonsbairn Wow that's really good!

Stuck with school holidays here. 2.7k for a week AI in an apartment for 3 adults (me and 2 dc, 18 and 21) in an adults only hotel in Mallorca. Very much looking forward to it but aghast at spending that just for a week.

Thanks @Haveagentlechristmas - that site looks lovely. I feel the same abour caravans in August!!

@TheBirdintheCave Ryanair and EasyJet flights and book directly with the owner so get a good discount on accommodation. It's def doable! That's self catering which is my preference.

We have a ski trip🎿 booked for February half term. Our budget was extremely tight, so we opted for Scotland. We are taking the sleeper train from London to Aviemore and back and staying for 5 days in a bed & breakfast. Let's hope the weather permits us to ski.😃

The sleeper train was under £200 return for both me and my 13-year-old and the accommodation was about £300 for 5 days including breakfast. The ski hire, lift passes and lessons will be additional of course, but it's still a budget ski trip plus it's by direct train. If we're (extremely) lucky we might also get to see the Northern lights.

@XelaM you'll have to report back and let us know if you managed to ski!

Agree.

Any of you that work in the overseas travel agency should be utterly ashamed of yourself, clearly

A lodge in the New Forest for May half-term week (Away Resorts) which is £1620 for the week. Then Ventor on the Isle of Wight for 10 days in August in a lovely seafront apartment - That's £2400.

So local holidays this year BUT next year i've booked Corfu for 10 nights at the end of May, all inclusive - that's £4400 for 2 adults, and two kiddies

@whiteroseredrose we haven’t been to Mexico but keen to go. When I looked it was much cheaper to get a hotel & flights package (I think maybe Tui? Someone who flies there) and then you could just add on trips, potentially even not spend every night in the original hotel. May not be quite the luxury you are after though.

@MoomiMama I'm now partly booked for Mexico.

I've booked 4 nights in a 2 bedroom apartment on the beach in Puerto Morelos, 1 night in a hotel next to Chichen Itza, 4 nights in a 2 bedroom apartment in Merida (with private pool!) and 3 nights in a 2 bedroom apartment in a beachfront hotel in Holbox.

I've costed private drivers for the transfers and private day trips to Tulum/Sian Kaan, Uxmal and Celestun but not booked yet.

In total, including BA flights from Gatwick. Gatwick hotel and parking, all accommodation and transfers and 3 big trios will be about £6,000 for 4 adults, so £1500 each for 12 nights.

There will be food and cocktails on top of course, and some admission fees for smaller trips but I think that is OK.

The problem with packages for us is that they are usually for hotels which I'm not keen on. We have two vegans and a vegetarian so we prefer the cooking facilities (and space) of an apartment.

@MoomiMama I've just checked the Tui website and compared it to Booking.Com and you're right. If I wanted an AI hotel the package option is probably cheaper as it would be £6000 and include food and drink.