How much do you think this couple spent this year?

[Cherriesfloss]

• 2 weeks long haul holiday at Easter
• 1 week European sun holiday in May
• 2 week European holiday this summer
• 1 week U.K. break this summer
• 1 U.K. city break long weekend

For 2 adults. Travelling comfortably in a nice standard of accommodation, not budget but not lavish either. So eating out at nice enough places but not champagne & oysters for every meal!

How much do you think this has all cost in total?!

Do you know the answer or do you want to know the answer @Cherriesfloss?

• 2 weeks long haul holiday at Easter - 4k
• 1 week European sun holiday in May - 1.5k
• 2 week European holiday this summer - 3k
• 1 week U.K. break this summer -1k
• 1 U.K. city break long weekend - 0.5k

Total 10k

16k

Anything between 12k to 20k of type of accommodation, eating out, activities, etc.

Why do you want to know? Are they family or friends? Are you jealous?

7k booked well in advance and no fancy stuff going on. You might squeeze it to 6k. Of course the sky is the limit.

The real question is how many time did they do it ? Anything else, who cares ?

One threepenny bit and a sacrificial goat.

😂

They don’t care what you know about them, Jeffrey!

Nothing because each time they 'brought back a suitcase a friend had left behind'.

You can easily do 2 weeks in Sri Lanka, Thailand etc for £2k each outside of peak times and the most touristy areas. Once you’ve paid flights food and reasonable accommodation is very cheap as are days out. Similarly two weeks in Bulgaria or Montenegro or Latvia, all European, can easily be done for under £2k. You can pick up cheap flights for under £100 and then isn’t much and neither is food. OP hasn’t given any locations so I’ve assumed she’s picked destinations which are must cheaper than the usual and hasn’t done a package, which are obviously more expensive than sorting everything yourself, because otherwise why bother starting a thread about it?

Maybe " this couple" actually refers to the Op?
Could be other people making assumptions about their finances.

Everyone assuming the Op is jealous tells you something.

This is the most random, pointless thread I have ever seen. It’s like ask8ng how long is piece of string? And there’s an answer to that!

£22k

The OP must be laughing their head off that this has kept us all occupied for so long!

Seeing as OP hasn’t bothered to come back they could be the one spending the money.

I think it cost nothing beyond spending money, because they're the sort of people who spend their lives collecting coupons and entering every competition going and therefore won all those holidays.

I'd love to know how to know how to do all that on 7-8k! Maybe if they stayed in youth hostels!

It’s doable (I think!) if they booked last minute, flexible with dates/accommodation/early hours flights etc. Although I’m not sure the OP is actually coming back to tell us anyway, they just want us to keep guessing 🤣

Certainly wouldn't be having (m)any decent meals out on that budget, unless they were all very inexpensive destinations.

I agree. There should be a time frame where if you don’t add at least a second post the thread is pulled.

But £2k each is 4k for a couple. Are all your costings per person? If so you need to double everything, which sounds far more realistic and would come to £12k.

£2k for the couple is only £1k per person. I don’t think that is realistic for long-haul even in cheap countries. The flights eat up too much of that budget, however cheap the country is.

This thread is really interesting. I remember someone telling me on another thread a while back that the £3.3k per person that we spent on a 12 day trip to Japan this year was unfeasibly cheap and we must have been slumming it. On here there are people who say you can get 2 weeks long haul in decent accommodation for a third of that price.

I suppose that just goes to show that the OP’s question is completely impossible to answer. There are too many variables in terms of county, definitions of terms like “long-haul” and what people consider to be decent accommodation. Some people will think 10k for two weeks long-haul is very reasonable and others would be horrified to have to pay half that amount.

Have you fully thought through the sums on this?

This would need to cover around 45 nights accommodation, 2 long haul return flights, 4 European return flights, decent meals and all other travel and activities.

Even if you got really bargain flights and managed by some miracle to get all 6 return airfares for £2k I just don’t see how you can get everything else for £67 per person per day. Especially when 31 days out of the 45 are in Europe and the U.K. where accommodation and eating out is relatively expensive.

And realistically, getting two long-haul and four short-haul return airfares for £2k is unlikely. The cheapest flights that I can see from London to Thailand (just as an example) for next Easter are about £650pp and that’s if you’re willing to stop twice and do a change of airport in Shanghai with a total travel time of nearly 40 hours. 1 stop and direct flights with travel time below 17 hours are all £1000 plus per person.

I suspect at least one of this couple may work in a school (as it sounds like they aren’t travelling with kids but travel in school holiday periods) and that pushes prices up.

Yep, done my sums.
The thing is, as a previous poster said, it’s a case of ‘how long is a piece of string’ 🤣

No need to put words in my mouth, I got the impression OP just doesn't like the couple and wants to engage in gossip, not that she's jealous. You're the one who went there.