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How much is your holiday costing you this year?

296 replies

Supernova23 · 31/01/2023 17:31

I was looking to go to the US for a week but the prices were astronomical and out of my price range. So going to Europe for a week. Destination undecided but looking at flights, accommodation and spending money, I'd still be lucky to spend less than £1000.

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EezyOozy · 31/01/2023 21:45

£0. can’t afford one. Will probably visit family who live 2 hours away 🤣

PawsOnTheBeach · 31/01/2023 21:59

Macaroni46 · 31/01/2023 21:37

@PawsOnTheBeach

"The thread is in the ‘Holidays’ topic so people talk about holidays. And even if it wasn’t should people not be able to talk about anything in case others can’t have those things? Ridiculous."

Actually, the post was in chat.

Then my second point applies. People can ‘chat’ about holidays. If you don’t like it, don’t read. 🙄

When my child didn’t get their first choice of school, should no one else here have talked about how happy they were that their child did, in case they upset me and others? Should people not discuss learning to drive because some can’t afford to drive or failed their test? Where does it end? Maybe people shouldn’t discuss a Netflix show in case it annoys someone without Netflix? ffs. Leave people alone, you don’t have to join in with absolutely everything. It’s a forum and people can talk about anything within the talk guidelines.

Ive enjoyed reading about people’s holidays even when I’ve not had a holiday. It’s possible to not be a jealous, bitter person just because someone is doing something you’re not.

XelaM · 31/01/2023 22:04

Oblomov22 · 31/01/2023 20:14

£1100 a week all inclusive for 4, Easter, east Majorca, mega cheap.

Wow who did you book with?!?

Rapunzel91 · 31/01/2023 22:07

Family of 5 going to Centre parcs in the October half term before the older 2 will be too old for that type of holiday. Accommodation will be about £1300-£1400 for 4 nights and then activities and food I’m estimating at least £1800.

SmellyNelliey · 31/01/2023 22:30

4 night glamping in March £340
7nights in Cornwall in june £1600
4night in disneyland paris in October £2000
This is without spending money and for me DH and 4 children also looking at the Isle of man camping in the summer holidays.

CoffeeIsMyMiddleName · 31/01/2023 22:45

See, I love these threads as they really reassure me I’m not missing a trick and that holidays are expensive and school holidays are bloody expensive!

We had building work done last year and didn’t expect to be able to go away this year but due to a small unexpected windfall, we’re hoping for a week in Devon in the school summer holidays. Accommodation will cost around £1000, plus food (mainly self-catering), petrol and spending money (maybe £300-400).

midsomermurderess · 31/01/2023 23:01

PawsOnTheBeach · 31/01/2023 21:59

Then my second point applies. People can ‘chat’ about holidays. If you don’t like it, don’t read. 🙄

When my child didn’t get their first choice of school, should no one else here have talked about how happy they were that their child did, in case they upset me and others? Should people not discuss learning to drive because some can’t afford to drive or failed their test? Where does it end? Maybe people shouldn’t discuss a Netflix show in case it annoys someone without Netflix? ffs. Leave people alone, you don’t have to join in with absolutely everything. It’s a forum and people can talk about anything within the talk guidelines.

Ive enjoyed reading about people’s holidays even when I’ve not had a holiday. It’s possible to not be a jealous, bitter person just because someone is doing something you’re not.

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@PawsOnTheBeach ‘Ive enjoyed reading about people’s holidays even when I’ve not had a holiday’. Me too. It doesn’t make me bitter and angry that I can’t eg go to Australia for 3 weeks. I read restaurant reviews in the papers. I like those too, even if I will never go there. It such horrible begrudgery, this ‘I can’t do it so you shut up’.

MarchingBand · 31/01/2023 23:07

Approx £15k....3 weeks in Australia, flying business class (actually main expense as my family are there so staying with them most of the time). Probably squeeze in a couple of long weekends as well.

Pootle40 · 31/01/2023 23:13

We have paid £8k for flights and 2 weeks RV rental in Canadian Rockies so I reckon £10k + by the time we factor in food, petrol and camping fees.

beachcitygirl · 31/01/2023 23:18

Macaroni46 · 31/01/2023 18:01

£0. No holiday.
Find these threads very divisive and depressing.
Clearly some people are not feeling the cost of living crisis at all.

With kindness - it is in the holidays thread.
Maybe best to mute for a while x

40goingon30 · 31/01/2023 23:27

3 nights in Wales (hiking break) - £190 total for a family room in the Premier Inn in may.

£1600 total for a week AI in Morocco for 3 of us in summer hols.

inky1991 · 31/01/2023 23:44

Macaroni46 · 31/01/2023 18:01

£0. No holiday.
Find these threads very divisive and depressing.
Clearly some people are not feeling the cost of living crisis at all.

Agreed. Someone saying they are spending 45k on their family holiday is just fucking offensive and ludicrous to most people - especially at the moment

SkankingWombat · 31/01/2023 23:58

We are in the planning/costing process ATM, but it is looking like £2.5k plus £700 food and spending money for our main holiday. The £2.5k includes the ferry (36hrs each way, but ship has a pool/cinema etc, so this will form part of the hols), petrol, tolls, 2 night city break, and 7 nights in a nice static on a Eurocamp-style site with water park in southern France (we will also spend a few nights staying with family).

On top of this, we will aim to do at least 3 long weekends away camping in the UK. We have all the kit we need and tend to pick basic campsites or rallies, so that costs £15‐30/night for the pitch. Food costs are the same as they would be at home, so no extra there. Only one won't be local, so petrol costs are minimal. The only other costs I can think of related to these is a bottle of blue loo and that we may need to get a new bottle of butane at some point this season for cooking/running the fridge (from memory it was getting low).

SkankingWombat · 01/02/2023 00:00

We're a family of 4, I should add!

sausage767 · 01/02/2023 00:10

We were talking about a trip to the UK (I’m Australian) but need to go next year for a family wedding so instead we’re going to Thailand next month, hotels and flights around £5k so far.

We’ll go skiing in our winter here (horrifically expensive) and then Bali in August.

Total for all three trips will probably be about £15-20K which is still less than a holiday in the UK for us.

Santasjingleballs · 01/02/2023 00:11

Just under 900£ for 2 weeks in Zanzibar in October for 2 adults and a toddler. Flights and hotel included. Thanks to our local travel agency !

thaegumathteth · 01/02/2023 00:22

Probably 3k ish 2 weeks in England but doing lots of things

We went to florida last What OP, 2 adults 2 kids. Cost £15k without spending money for 3 weeks which is crazy money. I'd love to go this year but unless I win the lottery it isn't happening. Going by Facebook disney pages though a lot of people are affording to go and often quite regularly - no idea how as they never seem to be loaded!

TheClitterati · 01/02/2023 00:58

We are going to Italy for 2 weeks at Easter. It's looking like costing at least £5k for me & 2 kids. That's nothing fancy at all.

I'm shocked.

PurBal · 01/02/2023 06:16

@Lilly11a I always forget about Clubcard vouchers. We don’t have much for enough for a night away somewhere, thanks for the reminder!

Catspyjamas17 · 01/02/2023 06:24

Probably will end up about £5k for ten days in Croatia - four of us. SC Apartment with own pool plus Easyjet flights came to £3k, but I expect we'll spend a fair bit on food and activites as they have the Euro now and prices have gone up.

Nw22 · 01/02/2023 07:47

I haven’t booked a holiday abroad yet due to our dog but I have booked
weekend in hotel in Feb 500 after gift vouchers we received.
week in wales at Easter 1750
4 nights in Suffolk in July 2500
forest holidays in December 800
city break December 600

GorillaGame · 01/02/2023 08:31

@40goingon30 - Do you mind if I ask who you booked the Morocco trip with? That sounds like a brilliant deal for the summer holidays <would like to go to Morocco 😁>

SecretPeston · 01/02/2023 09:55

inky1991 · 31/01/2023 23:44

Agreed. Someone saying they are spending 45k on their family holiday is just fucking offensive and ludicrous to most people - especially at the moment

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Agreed. But MN is full of liars and fantasists, so take most things on here with a large pinch of salt.

Some people just like to brag and exaggerate.

40goingon30 · 01/02/2023 09:58

GorillaGame · 01/02/2023 08:31

@40goingon30 - Do you mind if I ask who you booked the Morocco trip with? That sounds like a brilliant deal for the summer holidays <would like to go to Morocco 😁>

Sure, we booked through on the beach 😊

mondaytosunday · 01/02/2023 10:09

Not booked but hope to go to Spain early summer, three of us to our family house for a week to ten days. Flights, car hire and food/going out - £2500ish.
Boston for Xmas, three of us for two weeks. Again do not pay for accommodation, but will go to Vermont for two days skiing which will add £1500. About £5-6k all in, plus using Tesco vouchers to buy air miles to hopefully bump us up to Premium economy.
We haven't gone away since 2019 other than a mini cruise to Bruge last year, and won't go away again for a couple years.