How much will you spend on holidays in 2023?

[shivawn]

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?

Ryanair and Booking.com. The campsite is called hu Roma Camping and looks cheap and cheerful (£45 a night) but it has a pool which is all my toddler really needs and it's close to the city and tourist attractions.

About 40k for my DH and I. Cruise to Mexico and LA stay, Cambodia and Thailand river cruise and a stay in Cambodia, Canada stay, rail journey and Alaska cruise, week in Devon. That takes me up to July so still have the second half of the year to sort out. We’re thinking maybe Australia in the Autumn and a flop and drop late August. Plus we have first class Eurostar tickets to use up paid for last year.
This is out most expensive year, for the last 15 years it’s been about 20k or so and that has mainly gone on family holidays and then couples breaks have sneaked in since the DC have got older.

@LoveAHolidayOrTwo That sounds amazing, I'm curious how you manage to get so much annual leave? Or are you retired?

@shivawn my daughter stayed at Roma Camping last year and loved it, she said there's also a great supermarket across the road too 😊

£3.5k on flights, hire car and accommodation for a week in Mallorca. It's self-catering so food and drink is on top of that but we won't eat dinner out every day.

You've made me add up this year now - 2 ski weeks, fortnight visiting family in southern Europe, a festival weekend and a stupidly expensive UK lodge long weekend with extended family - bugger, was probably £11-12k in all,for a family of 4, all in school holidays, obscene really. Having said that, 2023 will probs be similar.

We have 2 teens, so this year they are going skiing with the school £1100.
Madrid £500
Berlin £500 ish
These are all with their schools.
For the family it will be Maldives low season about £10k. Have to go in school holidays.
Then at the end of 2023 Serbia and Montenegro (I've family there)
The way I look at it is my oldest teen won't want to go on holiday with us soon...

Probably around 5-7k all in. We’ve got skiing in the alps, Kefalonia, Sicily and South of France this year.

Oh that's great to hear! 😊

We’ve got one week abroad booked for 6, AI and it was/is £4.5k. In the summer holidays I consider that to be a bargain!

We might squeeze in a UK week if I can get it sub-£500, then we’ll need spends on both of £1k max all in I think.

An absolute maximum of £6k. We’ve never spent over £1500 in a year before, as we’ve never taken all 4 kids on a ‘typical’ package holiday before. Probably won’t again either the way the price of everything is headed!

We've booked the Netherlands for May half term for 2k. Seems expensive to me but it is decent accommodation and includes theme park/attraction entrance.

Then in August we're hoping to visit family in the US and have a week away with them while we're there, so that will be another 6k I imagine - hard to do it much cheaper as flights and car hire are so expensive.

I do longingly look back at preCOVID sometimes, especially when the kids were little and we just had cheap cottages in the UK outside of peak season. It was so much simpler and cheaper!

We're having 2 weeks in Greece which is coming in at about £5000 for August. we have a long weekend in Northern Ireland for a wedding in the summer too which is costing about £900 for flights and accommodation and then we had some flight credit left over from during the pandemic which we were going to just let slide but have just booked a long weekend in Spain too to use that so including the value of the flight credit that's coming in at about £1700. This is for 2 adults and 2 children and is more than we've spent previously although we didn't have school age kids before Covid so it's hard to compare.

We have a lot of travel planned this year. We travel as much as we can anyway as its a top priority for us but 2023 is an exceptional year with milstone birthdays for dh & dd.
We've booked italy for Easter & back again in May for work but dh & dd will come. Paris in July & we're planning on bring away for Christmas.
I will also have about 5 international work trips.

£8k ish
Includes a cruise, city break abroad, three UK breaks and a break with adult dc.

@QueenWenceslas what reason? Please elaborate.

@SecretPeston it's very windy. And a little bit shit.

Around £20k for a trip to the US (Boston, Rhode Island and NY) but it's a big thing for us. Money from 2020 Orlando refund, DD surviving GCSE and my 50th birthday all put together.

£2K for a 5 day trip to Prague over Easter and £1 for a long weekend in Florence later this year.

Can you elaborate further on what "a little bit shit" means? Genuinely interested.

It's just a bit tacky and souless. Just my opinion. Have been to all of the canaries and like that one the least.

@HandbagsnGladrags OK, thanks. I'm going to start a separate thread on Fuerteventura as would like to go there.