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?

Yeah. Our first time at Odisia after 3 visits to Dassia.

sadly we’re potentially being priced out of going in school holiday and I’m gutted. It’s so convenient with 2 small kids

£1800 for two adults and a baby.
Staycation at a luxury rural spa hotel off-peak (June). We went hiking mostly (free) and made use of the spa. Spa treatments were 40% discounted for being off-season. We had breakfast at a cafe nearby which was about <£20 per day and lunch was similar. We had evening meals in the hotel ~£40 per night, no drinks or desserts.

It was so good, we’re going back at the end of August!

@blankcanvas3 Oof! That’s a lot of money. I bet he had a great experience though.

You can’t take it with you, so if you can afford it, all power to him.

Yes, exactly this. I'm a bit gobsmacked that there are posters here who will cheerfully spend more on one holiday than I earn in a year. And yet if I earned as much, I might well do the same. You can't take it with you.

I probably wouldn't spend it on AI hotels or cruises, though. My ideal holiday would involve a lot of walking and photography, pub music gigs, and cooking. Some of my happiest holiday experiences with friends and family have included sitting around a kitchen table chopping vegetables while starting on the wine.

£4k sc apartment 2 adults 2 kids praia da luz Portugal 7 nights
£1k car hire
£1.5k flights

I really took the opposite from this thread. Can’t believe how many people spending so much!! To me a £3k+ holiday is a lot. If I had the money I would spend more on travel though, so I sort of get it, just surprised how much disposable income people have.

You have to divide the cost by the number in the family so four or five people which means less than 800 per person on one holiday a year. It isn’t a lot for the supposedly top earners in the country who supposedly make up the majority of MN posters.

Just done 4 nights in Tuscany with my husband (finally no kids!) for £960 flights plus B&B in a stunning boutique little hotel. Used public transport & trains to visit Florence, Bologna and Pisa and with drinks, evening meals and museum/attraction tickets etc only spent around £500. So around £1500 and it was pretty much a luxury holiday with no scrimping - I'm so looking forward to this next part of my life sans kids!

£6600 for one week cruise two adults two teens

That's really reasonable...I couldn't find an Airbnb holiday home for less than £1.5k in Cornwall (2 summers ago) for x4

No problem, any time :) xxx

Jesus, I really wouldn't want to go that many times! I'd get bored...there is a lot of world to discover....but you do you :)

Don’t worry, I’ve been all over the world as well.

When I was younger, I was weirdly fixated on never visiting the same city twice and going somewhere new every holiday. I’m now approaching 40 and have realised that, if you like somewhere, then there’s also a lot to be said for repeat visits.

For me, that place happens to be Japan and we visit at least once a year now. We try to include new cities each time, but there are also places that we go back to in the ones that we’ve visited before. I have restaurants and cafes that I look forward to visiting and I look forward to the familiar train jingles, the “mamonaku…” announcements, my favourite Japanese snacks and drinks. I send pictures to my family of places we went to together on a previous trip and things we enjoyed and it brings back nice memories.

Clearly that poster gets that same pleasure out of visiting Florida.

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We haven't had a summer holiday in twelve years. Not because we can't afford it, but because we go before May when it is usually cooler (DH takes a drug that means staying out of the sun) or after October. We're the winter holidaycrew!

Yes but David Beckham is a millionaire what makes you think all these people are seems to me there just the average Joe blogs going beyond stupid money

We've just done a trip from Scotland to England to visit three theme parks over six days. Cost about £1600 all in

Of course I know they have more than me otherwise id be getting off all over the world bit of a daft reply really

We decided against a holiday this year because we’d had several expensive ones over the last few years, and fuel prices looked so uncertain earlier in the year. Looking at the prices on here, they don’t seem that different from last year.

£3,000 flights and Airbnb 5 nights in a townhouse with pool, Lisbon in August, me + 3 young adult DC.

I dread to think what spend will be on food and excursions

You have absolutely no idea what people here are earning, what are you considering as
”average Joes” for an income? My household income is 3 times the average household gross income,
so course we spend more on holidays than average.

You can always still book a last minute getaway 😀

My favourite holiday memory as a teen was my mum spontaneously booking a cheap last minute bus tour trip to Cannes/Nice/Monaco. It was an amazing holiday and I have such fond memories from it

£3000 for two adults mid july 4* Hotel (breakfast only) in Rome for 6 nights including excursions, airport hotel, transfers etc. We took €750 (brought back 200) and spent £900 on credit card (I had money in saving to pay off once home.)

We've booked Florence for next year and that has cost £1800 so far but we haven't added on excursions yet.

Just DH and I, 3 weeks in a camper van, France, Switzerland, Italy:
Eurotunnel: £500
Campsites: about £800 (not all booked yet...mixture of basic and fancy, Switzerland expensive, Italy and France cheaper)
Food, beer, wine, petrol and doing stuff probably about £1000?