How much will you spend on holidays in 2023?

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Just starting to plan for holidays for next year!

I'm hoping to keep things under 3k for flights, accomodation and car rental for a couple weeks for a family of 3. We also have a campervan so we go for a lot of weekends away in that but any cost just comes out of our weekly spending money. Last year we had 3 holidays and spent roughly 14k, I don't feel great about it after adding it all up so I'm really looking to cut back this year!

Just curious what other people plan to spend if anyone is happy to share. Any holiday ninjas out there that manage to have amazing holidays on a budget?

We usually spend around 2-2.5k. We camp for a week in France then have a week in a house with a pool. We do get the more expensive ferry crossings to avoid really long drives. Would be cheaper if we did Dover to Calais. We self cater so also have to pay for food and petrol while there which probably adds around £6-700.

Just paid £1100 for four return flights to turkey in august - we fly from Glasgow ( live in North England) as the Scottish school go back a few weeks before ours so always cheaper. Minibus up to Glasgow cheaper than petrol and parking as 13 of us all together

Fuerteventura is cheap for a reason.

We have a week booked at Easter, self catering Fuerteventura…£2k.then a week in May school hols at a cottage in Wales….£500

Will need about 1.5k spends/food/trips i would've thought on top…so £4K in total for both holidays

Me, OH and 2 early teens

Sorry to be ‘that’ poster, but I think this thread is in incredibly bad taste given the current financial climate. Of course people are entitled to enjoy themselves (and I will be one of them without disclosing exactly what I’m spending), but surely threads like this will just make people feel bad who can’t afford one holiday let alone several over the course of just one year?

@Abeachsomewhere this is the "holidays" sub forum, not AIBU, no one asked you if the thread was appropriate.

@Abeachsomewhere this is and has always been life. I don’t have a huge holiday budget but am still interested to see where other people are going.

Loads. 4k

Might seem like not a lot to some but perspective is, for the past 9 years we have had 4 term time nights at Butlins that has never been more than £800 including accommodation, travel, dining plan and spending money.

2023 I'm turning 40, got a much saved for cruise booked. I'm also taking the DC to Disneyland Paris, again, been saving for years but due to covid and maintenance closures and what not its happening next year.

I'm just glad we are finally able to go.

Completely agree with @Abeachsomewhere incredibly bad taste given the current climate. People on here can't afford heating, food, Christmas...

Terrible stealth brag.

Somewhere between £22k and £25k. It's relatively typical for DD and I. It's an interesting question as this is first time I've totted up the annual cost of my holidays.

We have two trips booked costing £7k, both with no meals incIuded so easily £10k in total. One is a short-haul fortnight in the sun, the other a foreign city break for a few nights.

You can probably fit 3 (I'm assuming a couple with a small child) into a single room? We have 3DC and always go self catering. We eat out at local restaurants every day but self catering means we get multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, a sitting room, and can do a fussy child friendly meal if need be. Happy to pay for that, I'm not interested in a bargain basement beach holiday.

Apologies OP, thought this was AIBU

£0 is my budget. Another year without a holiday.

We've already booked one for £12k (not including spending money which will probably be 4-5k). Looking in the sales now for another smaller one, about 8k and a few weekend breaks that will probably end up about the same. Last year we went overboard, but it was our honeymoon for one of them. About 50k last year - lots of making up for covid lockdowns and no travelling for two years!

I’d love even a bargain basement beach holiday to be honest 🤣. Sadly it’s nothing for us again this year.

Probably about £20k, haven't booked yet though.

We’ve booked 5 nights in Tenerife in February, it is expensive but with 2 teens and restricted to school hols I’m resigned to expensive I guess, we’ve tried cheap packages and not enjoyed them. Looking at Haven in Wales at Easter and not sure about summer, considering driving to France for a week maybe, possibly a trip to Paris? Feel we should restrict ourselves to one flight a year. Total spend will depend on how much dh earns as that fluctuates a lot.

£0

Can't afford a holiday next year.

I thought I didnt spend very much but on another thread I totted it up and its about 5k a year we spend

But the context is important, for that we have around 4 full weeks, plus lots of long weekend mini break trips

Im quite frugal so hunt down the cheapest airbnb in the areas I want. We go abroad twice, the rest of the trips are UK based.

Not everyone lives in poverty and there are plenty who can afford holidays.

The thread is not in bad taste at all, this is a general forum site with many topics, perhaps join a forum where only people in poverty speak about their lives if you wish?

If people didnt get their feelings from what others are doing in their lives perhaps people wouldnt be so unhappy, some of the figures on here are eye watering, it doesnt change my perception of myself and my life though.

I can understand a discussion about where people are going, but not about how much they are going to spend - why bother mentioning it unless as a stealth brag? We are lucky to be able to have several holidays a year but I wasn’t always so fortunate and certainly wouldn’t dream of disclosing how much I spend. I think it’s tacky anyway but seems obscene given the current cost of living crisis.

We haven't been away since 2019 and have realised that we haven't missed it and actually went away because we felt we should rather than because we wanted to.

So holiday budget is zero.

£1K per person is usually our aim for a 4* AI in the med.

We avoid English school holidays.

We try for twice a year.

£7k I think. That's 4 weeks holiday, 3 separate locations for the four of us.