Average cost of holiday abroad for 4

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Two older teenage children plus dh and I. How much would you expect to pay for a fortnight self catering?
We've just come back from Europe and it cost us £4000 for two weeks. How does that compare to others?

Is that everything - flights, accommodation, food, sight seeing etc?

The cost will vary depending on where you go, when you go, what sort of place you stay in, how you like to eat, if you drink alcohol, whether you hire a car etc etc.

Yes 4k all in- we did a lot of activities too but did drive rather than fly.

That’s pretty cheap. I am budgeting £4k for a week.

That’s really good I just paid nearly 5k for 11nights but we did fly.

we spent €250 - €300 per day on average last week in Ibiza for 3 adults and

We flew and hired a car. Everything is so expensive. For example, we eat out for lunch everyday and it’s nearly £100k for lunch for 4.

Sorry just 3 adults

Christ sorry keep
posting too soon! The flights were £800 and accommodation €1500 this was for a week

We are just coming to the end of our 10 day holiday in Crete. We had a villa and there were 3 of us - adult DS came along too. I'm surprised at how much it has all cost to be honest. The villa was £2,800. The flights came to just under £1500, car hire was approx £500. We ate out all but 2 evenings and have spent around £1500 I think. So nearly £6,500 in total - gulp. Good job we have had a lovely time!

Hi I think you did well OP. We just came back from Europe, 13 nights. I haven’t totted it all up yet but I think we spent about £5k for 4 of us. We did some expensive stops (a tourist hotspot, and two theme parks). Absolutely fab and unforgettable holiday though!

We paid £4K just for the package holiday (self catering). We were about £2k in spending money on top and maybe a couple of hundred on our card for excursions that didn’t take cash.

I find holidays more and more expensive, but we do go on school hols.

Family of 5. Around £4500 for a week in summer if we were to go during school holidays.
We're going in October half term for around half the price instead.

When you look at the money you’ve spent, do you think maybe you’d have been better off spending that money at home?

it’s nearly £100k for lunch for 4.

Flipping heck where are you eating?! 😂
We have £600 spends for 2 weeks in Spain but will eat in a lot so probs 2 meals out, a few ice cream and maybe one day out. We have young kids who just want to be in the pool 24/7!

I know of a family like you, away in Canaries currently.

They are in a 3 star AI for one week at 4.5k. I'd say yours was a good deal compared to.theirs.

Me, DH and 12yo just did 9 nights self catering in France (we ate out every evening.)

Accommodation, ferry and spends came to 3K.

£5k for 4 13 nights in Greece. Half board but that £5k also includes our spending for the 2 weeks.
lovely, quiet resort.

@GotMooMilk lol typo. But it is so pricey here. Just under £100 is lunch at theme parks. Nothing fancy. Yesterday, we are at a country park and lunch came to £50 for pizza and burger type of food. Four single cone of ice cream for £17.

We are in Denmark.

Food overseas is really expensive at the moment. I saw something on the news comparing our food price inflation and although ours is higher, lots had a higher starting point so self-catering seems really expensive when you get there now. We went 3* self-catering in Feb to canaries and spent huge amounts on food (even when cooking and buying from supermarket). I'd say 4k spend for a week for a very basic accommodation.

This summer we went ai (transfers, flights etc) and 4.5 to Greece and spent £3.5k for a more expensive destination and time of year. Last year we did canaries ai, 4 in Feb, water park. It was brilliant and just out of covid and it was £1400, including all flights, transfers etc. Such a crazy cheap last-minute deal. We hadn't planned to go away, but realised cost-wise it was less than double the childcare and uk food we'd be paying that week do we went for it.

Continent camping 2 weeks summer hols camping last year. No idea what we spent- 4k-5k ish perhaps? Seemed a lot for camping and driving, but we had a ball. Looking back, this was the best family-bonding holiday, but harder to plan/pack etc.

Wow where did you / go what did you do?
I factor about 1k pw per person and struggled earlier this year.

I got one quote than was 12k for 4 people for 10 days 😱

We went to Wales this year so obviously cheaper. Last year we did Greece ( I love Greece) a week self catering about £4 k all in, ate out most evenings (all except 2).

That’s probably about average tbh for 4 people if it includes accommodation, travel and food, plus trips out.

You could reduce it to 2500-3000 by booking accommodation in advance, self catering more in apartment or villa, location that has cheap flights or les still roads if driving. Less daily spend activities

Food costs are high though. It’s €22-30 now in our local restaurant that sells traditional local cusine meals. It’s great quality but as a comparison 3 years ago the same meals would have been €10-15.
So 2 adults and child - dinner each, maybe ice cream for child, drink each, there’s no much change from €70- 80 if we eat out. So easily €100 for family 4.

We’ve just had 2 weeks in a villa with pool in France, we drove and had hotel en route each way, all in its cost about £5500 for 4 of us.

Last September DH and I and 2 adult DC went to Sicily for 10 days. We flew (£600) and stayed in 3 bedroomed apartments. Total for flights, accommodation, transport and a couple of expensive trips was £3,500. We had breakfast and some lunches in but ate out every night which was probably another £1,500. So £5,000 for 10 days.

If we had properly self catered and only eaten out a couple of times then I expect we would have spent about £500. I used to find this a bit of a grey area wrt holiday budget as we'd be going to the supermarket anyway.

We had an amazing one week trip to Iceland in summer 2020. The total cost for absolutely everything was £5020. We didn't use cash at all so that included flights, accommodation, car, petrol, snorkelling, glacier walks, boat trips, the lot. But we only ate out 4 times and DH still remembers his £27 pint of craft beer!

We paid around £5k for 10 days in France. That excludes flights but covers a hotel stay, renting a nice house with a private pool, eating out, activities.