How much would you say you spend per year on holidays

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Everything all in, spending money etc? Also do you plan and save ahead mnoey wise for them.

Spent most of DS life as a single parent (he is now 28)so holidays were rare and if we had one it was in parents caravan.

Since marrying again in 2000, we have been to Singapore for a month, just the two of us sort of honeymoon but was a year after we married, took DGD to Eurodisney, Lapland, Cyprus and Spain, in the summer for a week, and Long haul for us at Christmas, to Maurituis, Dominican and Antigua.

But we really save for these, and no its not DH that has all the money, I work fulltime to

I think threads like this really don't give you the real picture, those with more money will likely spend more, those with less will spend less and probably have to budget to afford their holidays

I've managed to book two long weekends with The Sun £15 pp.
Theres 5 of us so should cost £75.
By the time i've upgraded to a 3 bed caravan and paid for passes and gas/electric its added another £100 onto the price!!

Have one booked for first weekend kids break up from school, and one for last weekend in august.

Also just been to legoland today and bought annual passes, so can go there anytime.

Last year we went camping in Wales, total cost - petrol from London, fees, food and trips out probably about £450?

This year we've got too much stuff going on (family weddings etc) to afford to go away, so we've just had a bit of a splash out 4 days in a friends caravan in Selsey. We've spent about £280 on food, petrol and trips, but we're skint now until Dh gets paid in a couple of weeks.

Atm we're trying to figure out when we're going to be able to next go to Cyprus (Dh is Cypriot) and see some family we've not been able to catch up with for a few years. It's a pain that you have to pay for flights only upfront, if we'd been getting a whole holiday we'd be able to pay it bit by bit!

HOW are you lot managing to spend all this money on camping?

seriously, we spend about £12 a night, meals are really just as at home (cold picnicy stuff rather than cooked as I cannot be doing with this "recreate a suburban semi" style of camping

I find that it really adds up fillyjonk. There are 5 of us, so we always have to pay extra for the DSs (DD has been too young to count so far) After realising that every time we go camping we get freak rain, thunder and lightning, we get an electric pitch and take a portable telly (and the PS2 to watch DVDs on ) and that's another £2.50 p/n. I love watching horror films in the tent late at night, with the rain pouring down, wrapped up in a blanket with DH

oh, meant to say that our pitch in Wales last year was about £21 a night all in. It was pertol and excursions that put the cost up. It pretty much p'd down the entire time we were there (in August ffs!) so we had to find indoor things to do with the DCs which cost more than the rambling up and down mountains etc that I wanted to do

We only spend so much, because we goso often! Mostly its forest holidays / caravan and camping sites but we have to pay for all 3 boys, and more fancy sites often charge for a bigger pitch for our big tent- the two we go to this year are (iirc) Cheddar where we spent £160 for 5 nights over whitsun (peak prices, EHU pitch as we had a particular spot we wanted although ehu not used- right by the playground so we could read and the boys play safely being watched). Pentewan in the summer is almost £300 but then it comes with a private beach etc, and we'd pay a lot more than that it it weren't camping. We don't do 'proper' cooking either but have lots of grilled stuff as picnics etc hard when you've a gluten free person to feed. We do spend on nice food and wine though, and even one day out at an attraction such as Wookey can cost almost £50 for 5 of us.

2006 - 1 wk skiing (2 adults)in Jan - 2K, 1 wk Majorca in May with DS(2yrs) - 1.5K, 1wk Cornwall in Aug with DS - 1K and long weekend in London in Oct (2 adults) - £500. This includes spending money so £5K for last year. This year, with the arrival of DD in Jan, we're off to Dorset for a week this Sat and vaguely considering the wisdom of Sardinia in September plus a long awaited break in New York (adults only) Oct/Nov time to celebrate my birthday so I expect it to come in well within budget.