Do these holidays sound excessive to you?

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For a couple in their 20s who don’t own a house yet.

Holiday 1: 7 nights greece (free accom)
Holiday 2: 10 nights barbados
Holiday 3: 7 nights cornwall (free accom)
Holiday 4: 7 nights mexico
Holiday 5: 3 nights new york

Take home pay of £6,500 a month

I would love to have this amount of holidays per year. Lucky them.

Environmentally excessive yes.

That's the only bit that's anyone else's concern though. Nobody else's business whether you spend on holidays or save for a house.

Can't spend jt when you're dead !!

Doesn't sound excessive to me, but I do enjoy holidays. They're young and can afford it.

Sounds fab. Enjoy it while you can!

The only reason it's any of you business is if they're living in your house and not paying their way. Otherwise, leave them alone (or, if it's you, enjoy!)

I feel like this has been posted about 3 times always with the same question. It’s not too many holidays but it is too much carbon emissions.

Theyre living the life if you ask me. Good on them.

People can set their own priorities.

as long as they have savings and are not using debt to finance their travel, they aren’t doing anything wrong

Who has said it is excessive?

Personally I wouldn't be comfortable with 3 long haul return flights a year for climate reasons. I'd combine into a smaller number of longer holidays, where you get a chance to explore a country more slowly. Then a different country the following year.

Otherwise, if you have the holiday allowance and you have the money then there's no problem!

I know most 20 somethings don't own houses. What I meant was that they ought to be prioritising saving for that instead of gallivanting about on holiday several times a year.

Leisure time and financial freedom is one thing, but squandering money unnecessarily on expensive long hauls is another. If they get on the property ladder early, they are far more likely to have financial freedom in later years.

If they are moaning about never being able to get on the property ladder and it's so unfair, then yes that many holidays is excessive.

I think that deciding to get on the property ladder early hoping for financial freedom later is a valid choice.

I also think that deciding to "squander money unnecessarily on expensive long hauls" is a valid choice.

Horses for courses.

Do you mean you think it's OK to spend money "travelling" but not on "holidays"?

Both things are a choice (and a spectrum) surely? As is not spending it on either and using it as a house deposit.

Yes agreed they're definitely a spectrum. But to simplify for argument's sake, travelling is about broadening your horizons, learning about other cultures, and expanding your mind beyond your day to day thoughts and worries. Holidays are more for rest and relaxation. I personally would value spending a bit of money on the former even if it meant slightly delaying a house purchase. On the latter, not so much - a staycation would work just as well. Travelling is an investment in yourself whereas expensive holidays are a luxury.

Excessive! You should be eating gruel and being miserable.

Kinda expensive.