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?

Hope that included paying for the tent.

1 adult, 2 over 18s, staying in a Neilson beach resort in Greece:

full board
3 x rooms
£6k all in, flights, transfers, activities.

Nope. Our tent was considerably more expensive than that.

£300 for the site £150 for fuel and the rest was for days out, food, parking and stuff like that.

I loved Madeira too, I went over Christmas. Very nice and walkable, I did quite a lot of sightseeing.

I've just booked a week in Cornwall in September. £600 for the cottage; travel will be another £30; food for week, £50; eating out once a day, £200.

6000 for three of us in Sri Lanka
travelled around by taxi. Stayed in hotels not hostels.
the bulk of this (4000) was air fares, vacccinations, insurance etc

Around £11k for an 11 day trip to Kenya for me and my 2 teens. That's for everything, including loads of activities and a day of safari. Absolutely core memory making holiday.

with only a day of safari, can I ask what else you did? - sounds interesting!

We did a few days at what was essentially an activity centre to start and went rock climbing, zip lining and white water rafting. Then we went to Lake Naivasha and camped in a wildlife conservancy where we were surrounded by animals and did a boat ride to see the hippos and a cycle ride through nearby Hells Gate national park. Then it was a night with the Maasai at a cultural camp learning all about them, their way of life and traditions, then onto the Maasai Mara. Our one full day of safari was plenty as we saw everything apart from a rhino (which are really rare to spot anyway). Then we finished with a return to Nairobi and a visit to a giraffe conservation centre. There was also a few hikes thrown in, climbing a hill to see the sunset, etc.

It was great! We really got to experience being in Kenya, not just the animals.

That sounds like an absolutely epic holiday. That’s one that your kids will remember forever.

It really was! We went with Families Worldwide. It was just us and one other small family and our guide and driver were brilliant so it was perfect.

£4800 ish
four nights in Italy near Lake Como,
Including flights with checked bags and private transfers from home and to the hotel and back,
2 superior rooms for four people with breakfast in a 4 star hotel
eating out every day plus coffee stops, aperitivo and daily gelato!
an activity each day,
a taxi and a couple of bus trips to get to activities
souvenirs and tips

Oh we’ve had some fab trips with FWW, they are great. Thanks for the info.

Ooh, which ones have you done? I'm already thinking about next year! We've been to Costa Rica and Sri Lanka with FWW too.

Oh that’s so funny, so have we 😂 We nearly went to Vietnam with them too, but then decided on another company.

I love the anticipation!

25k as we took my parents on a 2 week med cruise and 3 nights in hotel so for 4 of us. Was a special occasion.

No way! We also considered Vietnam for this year.. are you actually me?? 🤣

Only if your paying 😂

Well I can wholeheartedly recommend Vietnam, we went at Xmas, but it was fantastic.

I've had 3 holidays this year. A cruise for a week with my sister £3000. 10 days in France in our holiday home. Just cost of ferries and spending money £2k. A week on a cruise £5500 with very high flight costs.

Villa in Majorca for two weeks. Total spend at the end was around 7.5K. 2 adults 2 kids.

We just got back from a week on a French campsite - me and DH, and our boys aged 6, 4, and 9 months.

Our chalet/static caravan was €880 - really low prices as right at the end of the season, so all French schools and lots of English ones had already gone back (our school had Inset this week so kids not back until Monday). The pools, bouncy castles and restaurant on site were all still going, though.

We paid about £600 for the ferry, paid for family entry to a few zoos and theme parks which was €210 altogether, ate out most days for about €50 a time, and stocked up on food and treats for about €200 altogether. So about £2,100 all in, maybe a few bits that I haven't accounted for, but certainly not more than £2,500.

We had a great time, it was a gorgeous setting, and the kids tired themselves out enough during the day that DH and I got a decent amount of evening sitting out on the terrace and drinking wine once they were asleep. Hoping to do a similar style of holiday next year.

lake Garda 2 adults and 4 children for 1 week in August
£900 flights and luggage, £150 transfer, £1700 mobile home, spends approx £1300 ish
nor bad for 6 of us in August but I think I could have got it cheaper

Didn't spend a great deal as we keep it maritime in the summer. Not keen on heat. We had a few days in a cheap and cheerful caravan park plus travelled to stay with relatives elsewhere in the UK. About a grand altogether. I don't really even count spending money in that, because I'd be paying for activities and holiday clubs at home.

When we go abroad it's shoulder season, and I can usually get a fairly bog standard beachside AI in southern Europe for 2.5kish for 7-10 days. Then we'll do some activities on top.

I’m already planning next Summer!
We have relatives in Liguria but with DDog hating the heat we want to avoid the seaside. Adult kids can come for as much or as little as they like.

So we’ve booked a week in an abandoned hillside village in Lunigiana which has been converted into an “albergo diffuso” a collection of self catering apartments dotted around the village with central reception, award winning restaurant, zero km produce and swimming pool.

Price for a week mid July (sleeps 4) with early bird discount? €600.

Please don’t go on this line, we’ve just come back and were so disappointed. Cabins were great but the food was an appalling standard. The only fruit offering at the lunch buffet was a small bowl with 3 peaches and a plum. I’ve seen better salads on offer at the Toby carvery. The cruise market is so competitive I don’t see how they’ll be able to get away with this for long. Also only one very small pool.

If you want to go on a nice cruise I’d recommend Regent or Explora.