What are your holiday plans for 2024?

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Have decided on Spain in the summer for 10 days but don't know where to go for the other holidays so tell me your plans!

Mauritius in February, then France (Atlantic coast) in July and just booking Xmas - Thailand again, we love it so much. Plus some weekend trips here and there. DH keeps saying that maybe we should cut down a bit on travelling and save more but nah.

Am really shocked by other people’s holiday budgets
if they don’t have kids and aren’t tied to school hols then that will make a big difference I guess.

We are mid 50’s and retired and spend half our income (pension) on holidays. TBH when our three DC were younger we weren’t much better, holidays are our thing. We’d go away four out of the six school holidays and always go on a long haul trip feb half term (they had the Friday off before as an inset day) or Easter. It only got trickier when exams started as they wanted to stay home more and revise.

A GCSE year here, so so nothing in before 12 days in Montenegro in August .

Would love to get something in for October half term too but nothing organized yet

Do have Glastonbury too ,so a sort of holiday ,depends on your definition ...!

Tulin, Italy - skiing
Madrid - to see friends
Portugal - with a friend
Mykonos - with partner
Budapest - with work friends

Then a few holiday in the uk with our friend couples

Easter weekend in wales
Greece in May
Week in the uk in august but not booked that yet
Also need to get up to Scotland at some point to visit family.

Cornwall in sept, Ikos greece sept/oct

DS is going on his school ski trip in March. I will be very relieved when he and his passport are safely home!

All 4 of us are going to Mexico for two weeks over the Easter. We'll probably go camping in Wales/the Peak District for one of the May bank holiday weekends, then we've got a week in the French Alps in the summer holidays.

We're making the most of both the last year of our very low fixed mortgage rate and the last year before the DC hit GCSEs.

Vienna in late August/early Sept is all we get this year. We normally go abroad in June too but I'm having a baby in May so, alas*, travelling then is out 😅

*I am hugely grateful to be pregnant however!

Holidays for next year are what I'm currently planning 😂

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria for a week from tomorrow, Albania for a week in March, Switzerland- Zurich, Vaduz, Berne for a week in June and then 2 weeks in Ecuador in the Autumn. Likely squeeze in a a city break as well.

These are abroad! I’ll have some city breaks in between in the U.K.

February - Australia. Going to Melbourne,
Tasmania & Sydney

June: going to Budapest for a long weekend

September: hopefully going to Istanbul

November: going to Japan for a belated honeymoon. Visiting Tokyo, Osaka & Kyoto

Booked Rhodes in October. Looking for early July just me but everything is extortionate. Hoping for a few long weekends away in there too!

We have a little campee van, so we’re going to do a little three week road trip during the summer. Apart from that we don’t have any plans, we might visit the UK for a week during the easter holidays.

A week in Rome at Easter
DS is going on a school trip to Germany in May, so DH and I will have a weekend away- maybe Edinburgh
2 weeks in Portugal in the summer
Long weekend in North Yorkshire end of August
A week in New York in October.

@newyear24 your China and Japan trip sounds really interesting! Do you mind me asking if you booked it through a tour operator? How long is the trip?

Easter - 2 days visiting potential uni cities to see the actual towns

May half-term: 2 days northern France near Compiegne for the Armistice museum and then 5 days Bruges with trips to Ghent, Ypres and the German trenches and cemetries to look for my great-granduncle.

August - 5 days Berlin and a week in Bavaria at the Chiemsee

Everything else is blocked with DD revising and mocks for A-levels, I do hope for a short break (2-3 days) in October but it depends on the school's timeline.

We're doing

Feb - trip to London for Cursed Child

Easter - Devon for a short break with our DD and DSC who are at uni near by.

May - short weekend Chester with friends

May we are in the NE visiting MIL but will do Northumbria trips

Aug - 10 days in Provence

Dec - north Wales - we've booked a house by the beach with friends for Christmas - super excited!

We're a relatively high earning family and I am blown away both by amount of annual leave and money for some on thread.

I really need to negotiate a better annual leave package, reading this!

I'm dithering this year. Fed up of school holiday prices after 10 years of them. I've priced up Rhodes, Croatia and an October cruise but haven't hit the button on anything yet.

I am with the same company for a long while and that means I have now the maximum number of annual leave of 30 days plus Bank Holidays. New starters get 25.

We are decent earners but only in the last 4-5 years we started taking more holidays as we don't have anymore childcare costs.

Re prices - flight to Far East obviously more than Europe but Vietnam cheap as chips once there so I’m anticipating it will be about the same price as two weeks in a fancy place in Greece. Just paying upfront for the flights so it’s more initially but much, much cheaper once there (Vietnam anyway).

And annual leave - I don’t work Fridays so can easily take a long weekend and either have no leave or 1 day.

@Tinkeytonkoldfruit your holidays are probably more expensive than ours as you are going peak season. A big house at Christmas in this country is out of our price range for sure, and 10 nights in Provence in August will be ££.

It’s about being savvy with times, airlines, accommodation as well as how much you spend whilst there. I priced up our Far East trip with Trailfinders and then found it myself booking separately with airline direct and booking .com in nicer accommodation for £1.5K less.

New York for 5 days in the Easter holidays
Crete for a week for May half term

Nothing booked for summer yet apart from a long weekend camping in Sussex with friends, so interested in reading this thread :)

2 nights at Turnberry in Jan without kids
Long weekend at Center Parcs in Feb with friends
2 nights with family at hotel in Dumfries at Easter
5 nights in Jersey in July
7 nights at Ikos in Corfu early October
2 nights in Edinburgh without kids in November

This is a lot for us, we didn't go abroad last year though.

For me, the reason why I can afford to go away is because DH & I are mortgage free and have no children. We have also bought annual leave so I am entitled to 7 weeks off a year now.

Canaries in July/August (5 of us)
London city break later in August (4 of us - leaving dh home with the dog)
Dublin in September (just me with friends)

@Clearinguptheclutter all inclusive in Spain is cheaper than a week in the uk in my experience.

London in March
Dublin in May
Spain in July

Need to win the lottery please to lead the life I deserve!