I'm curious, how much did your summer holiday cost this year?

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How much are people paying to go on holiday this year?

Our stats:
2 adults 2 children
1 week in July to Lanzarote
Basic 2 star self catering apts, small pool, all clean and pleasant. No luxury.
£1800
Spending money approx £1500

We eat out for lunch and dinner each day, visit a music bar/play pool after dinner and do a few local day trips but kids happy with pool/beach/playparks. They could run up and down a wall beside stairs for hours!

I pass by some of the bigger hotels with the entertainment and activities and wonder if we would like that. Would anyone share how much they are paying for these types of holidays?

Just wondering how much people are paying for different holidays and also, as an aside, when is the best time to book for best deals?

£3.5k on a weeks all inclusive at a 5 star resort on Kos. 1 adult and 1 teenager.

We’re here now and it’s fantastic!

Have to go in school holidays due to work. 4* AI in Majorca for DH, me and 4 older teen DC. 1x family suite, 1x other room for older two DC. Around £5k for the week. Won’t spend much there.
DH and I will also take our campervan to France for a few nights and bimble round Normandy. That’ll be less than £600 I think. We do a very simple trip there. The kids don’t like coming!

Once you’ve tried both you’ll never go back to the cheap one… cheap one - one towel per person for the pool, cheap watered down drinks in plastic cups that you have to queue to get yourself, a holiday factory that requires queuing for everything - food, drink, towels, snacks…, rooms that are meh…
expensive one… they will remember your drinks order and preferred sunbed and make sure you are set up with multiple towels, ask if you want more drinks periodically, nice choice of restaurant for lunch and dinner (sit down, no fighting over tables), later breakfast, impeccable restrooms, better quality food, drinks, snacks…, fantastic rooms, great service…I’d rather stay home than go to a cheap AI…

Get back to your cocktail and stop making me feel jealous!!

We tend to go just before the October half term. Last year it was kos and £3100 all inclusive for 1 adult and 3 kids 10, 12 and 14. About £75 spending money on snacks, a trip out and lilos!

We are going to Kotor, Montenegro for a week in August. 2 adults, 2 children. £1700 flights, £800 Airbnb. Will try and keep to about £1,000 spending money whilst there are the kids are under 5 so don't eat loads/excursions will mostly be beach days and sight seeing.

£1150
1 adult, 1 teen
1 week self catering apartment in Gran Canaria including flights, luggage, reserved seats and transfers.

My children still think that the 4 day caravan park holiday in the Netherlands was the most amazing holiday ever (we usually go to a villa with own pool in Spain…).

About 8k this year.

Couple of camping trips
Few days in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games
Week in Amsterdam for an event
Week AI in Turkey in October

Last year was expensive (around 15k) with a month in the Balearics and then Australia, typically we are around 8-10k for holidays and trips.

We have a holiday home in the canaries with own pool. We go 7 weeks a year (Christmas, Easter, Summer) and it is actually cheaper maintaining a house there than paying these prices in school holidays, esp August 😮😮😮

£2700 for accommodation for 2 weeks in the Peak District. Sleeps 6 although only 5 of us go - we take MIL (used to be MIL and FIL before FIL passed away) and she pays the £700 and we pay the rest. Spends will be £2600 for the fortnight for us 4. That includes trips to Alton Towers x 2 and their water park x 2.

We’re also booked for a week 4* AI in Portugal in Apr next year and that’s £4500 for the 4 of us.

This summer holidays - £850 High spec caravan and ferry travel. 4 nights in the Isle of Wight. Picnic lunches and just a couple of evening meals out. Long awaited and much needed!

£900 for me and my daughter to go travelling round andalucia for 7 nights, doesn't include food or buses/trains, I reckon it it will be another 200 but not sure as there now and absolutely loving it!!

Wow, some massive budgets here! I'd love to have 5 or 10K to spend on a holiday. A family friend has a house in Devon she rents, so we are only paying £700 for a fortnight. We mostly eat at home and lots of days out with picnics - we'll spend a good few hundred on parking, ice cream, etc, the odd takeaway and a couple of big days out. We are really lucky to have access to a cheap holiday as we are struggling financially this year - DH has been out of work a long time and been depressed. Hoping this holiday will do us all good.

7 nights in a converted barn in North of England. 2 adults, 2 teens.
£1k
Expecting to spend another £100 per day on eating and some activities.
Total £1,700

The weather in the East tends to be much drier than the other parts of the country.

We have had our summer holiday in April Easter holidays the last two years, keeps cost right down and it good to go when it’s raining here!

We go to Turkey 5* ultra all inclusive, fantastic hotels. 2 adults and 2 children for 9 nights = £2300 (it was double to go 4 weeks later in May)

Me and DC13, 2 weeks in Italy in August, 2k

That sounds very reasonable for the Peak District. Do you stay in a set place each year? We went there ages ago for a big birthday and wanted to go back. But the SC we had was £1000 for a week in May and that only slept two of us. I looked again last year out of season and everything I came across was dearer than our usual seaside caravan holiday.

Flights to a small Spanish city, £150 return x 2 including private transfer to and from airport in Spain.
UK airport parking £80
Self catering, modern loft with private large terrace, €80 per night x 7
Local train €4 return x 2 to the beach (10 mins)
Entry to the local outdoor pool €6 x 2 plus 2 deckchairs and a parasol €5
Numerous cafe con leche - €1.40 each
Meals out with drinks €20-30 x 6

Food shop €20

I make that around €1100 gave or take a few coffees!

Family of 4, peak season, 4 nights, Welsh coast
£250 accommodation ( cabin a friend rents out
£60 fuel
£200 food
£200 spends

£700 all in!

I am quite shocked/surprised at how much people spend on holidays.

Where do you find these prices? Is it a package situation? For some reason I thought children under 5 or 7 were usually free to take along and you'd just pay for 2 adults.

Extremely well travelled (BA lifetime gold member, highest tier member with a premium hotel chain) and I don't see how one would pay this much by choice. Is it the case of being set on a very particular super premium accommodation? Not being price sensitive? Having to book flights last minute? I am just checking Paris luxury hotels for next week to see what people might be booking for that budget and some extremely good hotels are available at under 500 per room per night...

I'd usually holiday somewhere like Como (usual destination), South Italy, Paris, London, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Switzerland, Norway/Sweden, so fairly popular destinations not known for being 'budget'. Stay in the prime location in a 4-5 star hotel with beautiful pools, destination restaurants etc, or a really good Airbnb if privacy is desired.

I am currently looking at my winter holiday that's booked with full flex cancellation, in a 5-star hotel with a Michelin star restaurant on site, and the cost is 700 GBP for 7 nights. Will add flights later, I think they'll be about 200 pp RTN with BA.

I'm also doing a long-haul holiday to an Indian Ocean island this year and that's 1,500 all-in - may add optional upgrades.

I'm flying next week, so peak school holiday travel time, and my return flights are 200 with a premium airline from Heathrow. Long-haul I'd still expect to pay under 1,000 RTN pp unless it's Australia/NZ.

Assumed the 5-10K pp holidays were for the 'retired and wealthy' market rather than under 40s, I did not realise paying 5-10K for a family holiday outside the USA was a big market at all considering the noise about COL, and how cheaply companies advertise their family friendly holidays.

1 week in August for me and 2 teens (16 & 18)
Cheap but decent hotel in the centre of resort town s/c £1200
Flights £600
spends £1260 (budgeted £180 per day but may well not spend that)
Total £3060

In Majorca I forgot to add!! 😀

7-day Alaskan cruise with 3 day land add-on. Package deal included airfare, all transfers, plus bus, train, and riverboat guided tours. $8000.