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 blimey - I avoid most of MN because its filled with trolls and arseholes. I mostly post on the Holidays board which is normally a happy, positive place. Don't spoil it with competitive misery please! And I am happy to help people find a bargain trip.

The way gas prices are climbing here that 2-hour drive each wayNo from “midway between Orlando and Miami” (sounds like Okeechobee or else they are in the middle of the Everglades) will use up all the savings made on accommodation.

I don’t think you’re as “used to it” as you think. Visiting here and living here are completely different.

And not everyone wants to do their dream trip on the cheap. Can you imagine Americans who are traveling to London to see Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, the museums, the galleries and do being happy with Milton Keynes and saying “oh well at least I’m saving on my lodging costs”. No way. They’ll splash out for a hotel near Trafalgar Square and love it.

Yes including flight from Manchester it is the first two weeks of term time though naughty

Sorry forgot to mention was booked through TUI

Currently sat on my sun lounger in Tenerife reading this thread with a cocktail. It’s 27 degrees!
Got a few bargains for next year, and have currently spent about 4k on three holidays.
will be booking up another holiday for September/October.
Already thinking of 2024!

My best bargain so far is January. 2023. Long weekend in northern Spain, flights and lovely apartment for £285 total for me and dh,

That's great @Holidayexpert

Has anyone ever done a wowcher mystery holiday? Wondering if they are any good.

£2200 for 14 nights Majorca (Port d’Andratx) flying from London City next August for 5 people. Very cheap as accommodation is just a service charge as part of holiday property bond.

@newmum1976 That’s a fab deal!

I find it odd that people assume that those booking expensive holidays are lying. We just got back from Orlando and the parks were packed- there are clearly plenty of people able to afford holidays.
For next year we've booked Jamaica for ten nights and its £9k for AI with premium seats.

FWIW, I work in the travel industry for a niche high end operator and I'm very glad there are still people with money to spend on holidays!

i don’t understand why people think people lie. Yes maybe a few, but I know people who drop £45k on a weeks trip. If you earn a lot, it’s irrelevant

I don't understand why people think no one is going on holiday either! We're fairly middle income but all our friendship group are managing to go on holiday next year. We don't live an extravagant life and for me, holidays are a priority so I would sacrifice a lot of other stuff if we had to so we could still go abroad. We haven't really been hit by the cost of living, we live in a new build so very energy efficient, our mortgage will go up next year but only by the amount we are currently over paying.

@dontcallmethatyoucunt the average cost of the product i sell is £3800 pp for 7 nights without flights, and we sell plenty! There are people that spend less on holidays than I do, and people who spend far more. Such is life 🤷‍♀️ We saved for three years to do Orlando, someone i know has been twice this year - neither of us are lying and neither of us are loaded, just fairly middle income but prioritise holidays over pretty much everything else.

I get what you are saying but this a holiday board and I am happy for anyone that can afford to go on holiday. What should they do pretend they can’t just to pacify people who can’t afford it ? Life’s crap at times but you don’t know how people can afford nice things. My mum died and I’ve been left some money for a holiday … I’d rather have my mum thanks 🙄

February Caribbean cruise £3000
Ibiza June around £1400 ish but still looking
City break September £800 -still deciding where

We’ve also got feb half term to Iceland. 3 nights, 2 hotel rooms (2adults 2 teens) for £950 - we got £300 cashback with our Amex. I expect the trips will cost about the same again and we plan to eat as cheaply as possible (dominoes etc.)

New York for a week in February is £3000 for 2 adults and a teenager.

Looking at city break options in October so waiting on cheap flights to come out. I quite fancy Jersey.

Second home in the Outer Hebrides so only cost of food and wine! We go abroad every second year so 2023 is a home year. We usually go for a couple of weeks in the spring, another fortnight in the summer and a week in the autumn.

Biggest cost comes as dh is a GP partner so has to pay his locum costs, which are extortionate!

Antigua, 10 nights. 2 adults. Late Feb.

Flights £300 + 65,000 avios + companion voucher.

Hotel £2,400.

Plus spending money - never really budget this but I know I should! (Recommendations welcome…)

Cristmas in Barbados this year…to visit my mother. 6 of us flying ba biz class direct to Bridgetown. Arrival. Then three weeks in three large bedrooms in the royal pavilion hotel on a lovely beach. It’s a nice hotel but getting pretty tired. Flights and transfers and three king size rooms for our needs,,,,[note there is no food included]…..deal so far is £120k. Yup….Christmas is not the time to look for better deals. Gonna be our last time this year…

€1,900 for a week in a French campsite, including the ferry. June.

@FreakyFrie if you go to Vietnam, Thailand, Indo - do it yourself and travel about by rail / bus / short internal flights. It's wonderful and you won't see anything of the real countries on a cruise.

Yikes, I thought we spent quite a bit this year. Enjoy!

I have booked a week on a chalet resort and a week in a cottage, both at peak times in the UK. Around £2500 in total, although I am sharing the cost. Holidays seem v expensive at the moment... Interesting thread.

Spring: Kuala Lumpur & Singapore for DH, me and DD who'll be 23 but we will pay for.
Flights: £9k
Hotels, 2 rooms: KL 9 nights ~£4.5k, SG 4 nights ~£3k
Food etc: ~£2.5k?
Total: ~£19k

June: Isle of Man for TT races.
So far just the house booked: £4.5k

Late summer: Algarve for DH and me.
Flights and hotel: £5.5k
Food etc: £1k
Total: ~£6.5k

Other than that, some weekends in Cornwall which we don't class as costing much as the house is to be paid for regardless of whether we go down or not.

This is all quite extravagant for us. We haven't really had a holiday, other than to our holiday home, for a few years and usually we are both too sick of travelling on business trips to want to go far but we both turned 50 last/this year and have decided to put off retiring for longer than we'd originally planned.