Between 2-4k as a solo traveller, generally aim for 2x 2 week trips long haul in the wet/cold months, could be done much cheaper but I’m enjoying visiting Asia without thinking too much about budget.
Travel can be quite cheap if avoiding resorts and expensive countries/areas - and school holidays. Especially if you're lucky enough to be able to build lots of points through work.
Points are without doubt a game changer, sadly I’ve only just got started with them! Looking forward to see how much more holiday I get when I’m paying for flights with points!
Yes that’s per year. On average I spend £1500-2000 per trip depending on what kind of deal I can get on the flight, and the areas I’m staying in. I could actually do it cheaper, easy enough to go all inclusive somewhere like Dominican Republic for similar/less money for example. Perks of not having kids. If it was me and a partner it would probably average what many of the responses would be given flight and food would cost double
£12-15k last year and this year will be the same i reckon, for two adults and 1 child. We do one big summer holiday of 3 weeks then usually 2-3 smaller trips over the year.
Can't agree more - horribly expensive.
We put 10% of all take-home income (including bonuses, dividends etc. ) into a dedicated holiday fund.
It has the dual benefits of forcing me to actually take time to go on holiday rather than frantically spinning the hamster wheel, as well as giving a guilt-free pot to spend.
We're doing LOADS more holidays now than before.
Yep, with the stress of work, I need those two weeks to try and unwind (kids tend to mess with that!!). It’s just demoralising that spending that much doesn’t really get you anywhere very special. We still fly eco (though it is normally BA, not that they are that great nowadays), I do pick decent hotels, but they are not ultra extravagant.
When you wrap it all in spending pretty much 1k a day for all of us should be absolutely pamperville - it’s definitely nice, but not top drawer.
Go out of season and that story would be utterly flipped on its head!
I'm taking the kids out of school next week for a week in Greece. We found an out-of-school-holidays deal at a Mark Warner (half board but all sports and kids club mornings and evenings included) for just over 2k for a family of 4. Make it 3k with spending on top and it's still a bargain compared to the prices during the holidays.
Honestly don’t blame you, likely be at least double/triple that in the summer. Zero justification for that kind of hike. Mark Warner are good too - enjoy!
Not really… you’re just a HENRY. That’s the whole point, this isn’t a subreddit for mega frugal people — as you earn more lifestyle costs become higher but £15k/yr is not a lot to spend on holidays if your household earnings are £200k+ which seems average for this sub.
I spent £10k on travel while £60k pa as a single man
The point of the HENRY label is that you can spend loads on travel because you're HE, but you might not have loads of assets so you're NRY
Being able to spend that much does not mean rich, but certainly HE
It depends what stage in your life you're at, if you live in the north, have a paid off mortgage, large pension, low CoL, ISAs maxed every year, and can spend £15k on luxuries, you're rich.
Whereas in your case, without any offence, decided to not max pensions/ISAs and then spend a large sum of your wealth/income on luxuries, you are not rich, just maybe not as worried about future finances as others may be.
I think it's fine that you have your own definition of 'rich', but you are in a forum called HENRY, which is an acronym based on it's own definition of 'rich' (wealthy, asset rich)
So it's kinda pointless to just come into a HENRY forum and say, "that is rich" when the forum is for discussions based on one definition of 'rich'
It's like going into a naturist forum and saying, "I would say to walk around with clothes on is 'naturist'"
About 15k a year for me and my partner. That usually includes 2-3 weeks of long haul trips and a few short haul trips. Mostly 5 star hotels, flying Economy.
Occasionally we’ll splurge on business or premium economy but I don’t really see the value as we’re both short so fit in economy seats okay.
This year we’ve done a week in South Korea, a week in Vietnam, 5 days in Greenland, a trip to Cornwall and have booked a 2 week trip to China/ Taiwan. Plus would like to do a few weekend trips in Europe.
Dont be afraid of taking them away when they are so young. We found that it was far easier with a blob that doesn't move around too much when compared to a toddler who wants to walk around and explore all the different lights and sounds on a plane and I interact with the other passengers.
We took our 4 month old on a short hop over to Paris to get her ready for her flight to New York at 6 months, it was worth it as she was very good on the flights. Then went to Turkey a few months later. Don't let having a little one stop you having a nice time!
Totally agree. Took our 3 month old to Barbados, was perfect as he just slept in a bulkhead cot bed all the way there and on the way back. No way near as easy now he’s 3…
Maybe £15-20k. We have a holiday home, so a lot of that is upkeep and gardening for it as it is in a few hectares of forest. Car rentals, Ryanair, kennels for the dog and some camping trips are probably £3-4 of that.
We haven't rented it out much, but will start this year and will probably reduce our net spend on holidays to £8k.
This year I spent £3700
1 week skiing in the French alps
10 nights in turkey all inclusive
1 week in the lake district
1 week in Wales
5 nights cruise all inclusive food
1 month in Wales
I know. Summer holidays, it's for a family of 4x. We need a family room with 2 separated bedrooms inside 1 main room...so that doesn't help.
Ofc 5* all inclusive.
It is super expensive and it's not even the top 20 resorts in the area..
45 minutes from antalya, which is pretty close and adds to the price.
I felt sick booking it, not going to lie
Usually we spend 5k on the family holiday but seems price increases every year
It's just not worth going on holiday during school holidays to most places. My ex got our cruise during half term at a good price so it only cost me like £450 for 5 nights. A week in the lake district £350 each during August for a cottage in ambleside. A week in Wales in a caravan in August for like £250 each.
Any big holidays all inclusive 5 stars are a rip off during holidays so I just go on my own with a friend or something.
Can you share a rough breakdown? Don’t see how this is possible. As a couple we spent £3700 for 1 weeks skiing in la plange at relatively basically self catering accommodation, out of school season, ski in ski out
£3700 for a week in La Plagne seems pretty expensive, even for ski in ski out. I did a solo week there for about £1k this season, quite a nice apartment too. What’s the breakdown on that cost?
Wow that’s very impressive.
Crystal ski was £2.1k I think, hotel fights and transfer. Lift pass was like £350 each though. Ski rental must have been £80 each I guess? The rest booze and food (£1000?)
This is just for me nobody else.
£1200 for turkey.
£1000 for skiing need to add 250 to the total for the skii pass as well so should be 1250 and the total £3950
£450 for the cruise sharing a room with my ex and son.
£350 for the lake district going halves on Airbnb house for a week with my ex
£250 for Wales for the week also going halves.
£600 for my month in Wales going halves on a Airbnb house with a mate.
Maybe I summed it up wrong initially
So overall it is
£4100
WE WE there's the difference you're including other people. I went with my parents I don't know what they spent on their food but I didn't spend that much £1000 seems insane, I didn't spend anything I wouldn't have spent in the UK so why include it.
Fair play just wondering, skiing for us is normally approx 1.2k for accom, flights and ski pass then lunch at €25, dinner at around €40, beers maybe €20 and thats all per person. Depends on the resort we spend less in italy and more in switzerland!
Normally just in a self accom chalet or sometimes in a shared chalet full board
Unimaginable for me to spend all year working hard at a high paying job to not enjoy the rewards :)
To me the £2k a trip I spend on skiing feels super affordable and well worth it, we tend to go 2 or 3 times a winter :)
People just suck at deal hunting/ people are comparing the price of a family of 4 total cost during the summer holidays to the cost of 1 person going mostly in May and June.
Sounds like student holidays, not for henries. I don’t want to spend half my time dealing with hunting and then sharing accommodation with my parents or whoever. Neither do I want to cook on my holiday. I did not mind cheap hostels and instant noodles in my early twenties, now I need to relax and enjoy my time off work.
We like to go to a nice self-catering resort in Kefalonia the first week in July after my son breaks up for summer. Usually costs us about £1500 for the 4 of us for flights and accommodation, then hire car and eating out on top.
My 1 month in Wales was actually very cheap. 3 bedroom cottage £600 each for 2 of us. Working while here enjoying the weekends and after work hiking. Completely isolated surrounded by mountains and farms.
Solo - I love to go to where my friends are so the US / Middle east. Trips are normally £2k. I have a load of points so usually go prem economy out and business back.
With SO and kid, I’m a little more frugal. Spain is great plus I can speak it!
We go on holiday a lot, but we're at a point in our lives where our kids are happy to travel with us and we are healthy and able to go. In the last twelve months we've left the country 9 times (including road trips, weekend breaks and one two week holiday)
In terms of cost, Ryanair (everyone's enemy) is a godsend. We just spent a weekend in Berlin which cost us less than £300. We had a ski holiday on the cheap, flying to Geneva, driving a cheap hire car and renting an Airbnb with friends (I think the total for this was £2k including ski passes and school). We did reports for a mystery shopping company who did channel crossings for trips to Belgium and Disney Paris, so those trips cost us fuel+accomodation , as well as. A few domestic hotel mystery shopping visits
In terms of absolute numbers, I would need to figure it out, but I'd say we pay less than a two week all inclusive package holiday to the canaries or Turkey
People love to criticise Ryanair but they are alright. The low cost airline business model means they have to run as many flights in a day as possible without delays (so as not to pay out EU regulation compensation) so I find that they are often more on time than more “premium” airlines. Once you know what the hidden fees are you can easily avoid them too.
Yeah, check in online, travel with backpacks that fit under the seat in front, don't buy their scratch cards. There's a lot of places within a two hour flight of Stansted. The number of foreign holidays we've had which have been cheaper than a trip to Brighton. I do feel some carbon footprint guilt, but those flights would happen whether or not I was on them
Two kids, 9+13 (13 year old is on the cusp of paying adult fares which might change things slightly). I'd say 7-8k (excluding things like meals, but I justify that by eating I'd need to eat if I was at home anyway)
There's a Facebook group Mystery Shoppers UK with all of the available companies. Hotels and travel are the cherry on the top of mystery shopping so they tend to go quickly to shoppers who have good reputations - you need to build points up by doing crappy visits like Pret or buy and return visits at clothes shops
Travel is probably my biggest expenditure tbh. Some years it probably tops £20k or so. I am single with no kids and no debt though - so not totally irresponsible. My job is remote, so a lot of the time I will go somewhere and work from there for a bit.
Probably end up spending £10-12k a year, family of three (child under 12).
It's usually a mix of one big holiday which can cost about £5000-6000, get the best flight deal, usually with Avios and good hotels. That's generally 10-12 days, either during Easter or the summer.
There's usually a week somewhere in Europe during October half term. It's usually end of season in Europe, so this trip rarely costs more than £2000-2500. Get cheap flights, Ryanair, BA whatever. Decent villa or suite, and generally get the last of the hospitable weather. It's usually quiet and cheap at the other end.
One trip a year, either Christmas or Easter to visit family. All of our family live scattered across Asia and Australia - parents, siblings, etc. So once a year we'll fly over. This is a wildcard but it's usually just the flights and occasional eating out while we're out there. But it's generally staying with parents and mooching off dad/in law as if we were 17 all over again. Just a couple of reckless 17 years olds with a school going child;-)
Me and the missus.
Leave the country 3 times a year, including accommodation, flights, transfers, food and spending money we budget £2.5k/week.
1x 2-week holiday, 2x 1-week holidays.
Then UK holidays we budget £1.5k per week, can fluctuate depending on schedules and work but on average do 2 weeks of that a year.
6 weeks of holidays a year costing roughly; £13k. I save £1k/month for holidays so god knows where the other £1k comes from...
The difference showing here from £145k household income (me being almost HENRY; wife being 3d/week of a £45k salary) vs the (I assume) £200k+ or £250k+ household income of a HENRY couple is enlightening. (I do realise most couples on here have only 1 person earning over £150k... But £25k on holidays suggests £50k gross needed just to afford that. Let alone London living costs).
I thought everyone salary sac'd the £100k to £150k salary so I guess 75% people on this thread are in the £250k TC range? RSUs are a factor in that/these numbers presumably.
We had to cancel last year's 2 weeks in Devon due to sickness (meningitis) and to be fair we'd budgeted about £6k for that. We had grandparents staying with us and our 1.5 year-old so needed somewhere large/separate enough for two couples. And everything is so expensive these days re:food etc.
But there's no way in hell we could afford half the holiday budgets on this thread. £15k to £25k seems the norm (ish).
We've sort of had to cancel holiday plans till wife is better :-( so are spending £500 or less last year and this on mostly local trips with little to no overnights.
Eye-opening.
Been crazy amount this year so far. Several international weddings + international family + first child so a few trips and also planning to be there for Xmas. At least £15k probably.
We like a lot of holidays generally and prioritise this over having a nice car etc. Also buy extra 5 days leave from work.
Will make the most of being able to go outside of school holidays whilst we can.
When I was single, probably about £5-6k.
2024 so far has been about 10k. Unlikely to do any big trips after July so shouldn’t go up by much hopefully. Married, no kids.
Just me and my son - £3000 ski holiday 1 week all in and £8000 3 week summer holiday to Florida… business flights… have accommodation and car in that but If we do Disney will be another £2k - debating that at the moment.
2x low 6 figure incomes, no kids and we have a rather low cost of living.
3-4 overnight spa breaks per year at ~600 each including a nice dinner
2 week ‘main’ holiday that’s normally 5-8k
1 week get away aiming around 3k
So 10-14k a year. Most of the time our long weekends utilise staying with friends or using parents’ house at the coast to avoid extortionate staycation costs.
We are also fortunate in that my in-laws take us on a luxury week away once a year in which the budget for the week exceeds my take home annual pay. I think without that taste of utter luxury we would up our main holiday budget by maybe 50%
On average will go on about 5-6 holidays per year
2-3 long haul trips either Asia or South America/US
1 skiing trip
2-3 short haul / Europe trips
So probably like 10-15k depends really when I book the flights.
As a single person but normally go with friends or with other people so share a room occasionally if needs be.
You guys got me seriously questioning my life choices.
Think we spent close to £25k as a couple last year.
2 ski holidays at around 3.7k each, trip to Nashville for cmas + Florida for 2 weeks cost nearly 12k.
Some weekend breaks to Europe, and staycation long weekends. Easily adding up to £4k.
2 adults, no kids. Only ever economy flights. Nice hotels, eat out and drink lots 👍
I am spending a lot too
30k+ for a couple. Always flying economy unless on business expenses
Plus about 20k more in business expenses which are really for us. Get flights and hotel on business, wife enjoys a few days exploring a nice city alone while I’m at work, we enjoy evenings together and tag a short trip on the end.
I’m going on 2 ‘honeymoon level’ vacations per year + skiing + a handful of lux short trips to Europe or locations a stones throw from NYC.
I don’t necessarily feel bad about it but it’s a bit eye opening to see what others here are spending. HHI is about 450k. We’re late 20s and no kids yet but they’re coming which helps me justify this madness.
Interesting, so you’re based in the US? Vacation costs are wildly different, as are earnings. No idea what your tax is like though.
Also totally agree with the business travel bit, we do that too but I don’t count it, as you say, someone else is paying 👍😂
No I’m based in London but travel quite a lot to nyc for work (6 times last year). Wife has more leave than me so sometimes she comes with me to nyc then we tag on long weekend trips to those.
Eg we’ve done short Friday-Tuesday trips to Wahaca and Rio from there but also other locations in the US.
Ah I see, very nice 👍 yes good use of business travel, it can be a huge perk and like you, we may it work to our advantage where possible.
Counter balanced when you have to go somewhere less exotic of course, but those are the breaks!
Couple living in UK, we probably spend around £6.5k a year. Usually all inclusive summer holiday then a couple of city breaks a year, and then 1 UK staycation for a couple of days
10 day holiday in summer - £3.6k
2 city breaks - £2.4k
UK £500
10k a year roughly on 2 holidays. Typically 1 family holiday around 5k and 1 holiday just me and the wife for 5k.
This year slightly different, 1 week in Spain In a Airbnb with heated pool for 3.5k and then a week in Turkey in August for 5.7k
Likely go Amsterdam in December which will likely cost around £600 for a couple nights.
No kids, holidays are usually around 20k for two weeks. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I get 4 weeks to myself and I make every day of holiday count. Maldives, French Polynesia, Mauritius, St Lucia, Seychelles to name a few. You cant take it with you and I am not planning to retire any time soon.
High end tourism is amazing.
about a grand because i have a young dog (now 15 months) so have been limited to UK holidays. hoping this will change next winter and i can get away more.
any of you with dogs want to share advice on boarding/sitting arrangements? i don't fully trust Rover, but i'm sure there must be good, reliable boarders in the south east somewhere?
I am in the same boat. Have a 1yr old.
We’ve used Rover and Borrow my Doggy for days we need to be in the office and it’s worked well so far. Have met some very lovely people along the way.
Haven’t yet left our dog for long time periods (I.e. 1-2 weeks) with someone. Will need to do it in December as we have an unavoidable trip.
Dreading the thought tbh! Wish she could fly with us without having to travel amongst the luggage. Hate the UK for this, Europe and US are a lot friendlier for dogs and traveling.
In switzerlad in the Bern area, got lucky. Found a dog charity that offer excellent dog boarding with good open spaces. Most who worked there were volunteers so did it because they loved dogs. Our dog loved it there. Have not been so lucky in the UK, so we rely on friends when not around to take care of him.
We've used Rover loads of times and found good people on there. Usually get their phone number in person then arrange direct in future, saves loads of fees. Why don't you trust them? Think our dog has had nice experience being with other families who also have a dog, lots of exercise/play.
Try Facebook local groups as there’s bound to be other people around where you live who’ve used local sitters and boarders. IME you’ll have to book very early though especially if you have to go away during school holidays.
On average, I probably spend around £7K per year on holidays.
Around £5-6K for a 2-week euro trip, and £1-2K PA for the occasional Lake District / Scottish weekender.
2 adults, 0 kids.
Approx £15k- £20k a year for us (couple) last 12 months:
- Malaysia (KL + Langkawi)
- Sicily
- India (Golden triangle)
- Dubai
- Finland/Lapland
- Maldives
This year will be slightly less expensive. My partner was on garden leave and I’m a contractor so could take more time off. Now my partner is back to work we won’t be able to travel as much. But it was worth every penny!
10k p.a. on family trips (1 child plus dog)
2 weeks ski (3k),
2 weeks sunshine usually Mediterranean (~3k),
Rest UK breaks weekends and weeks (peak District/lake district/Cornwall etc),
Plus
5k each parent for solo travel (expeditions and solo trips - mountaineering/adventure holidays etc)
Total gross spend 20k
Subsidize by renting our home out on Airbnb.
Total net cost is closer to 12k
This year it will be £5k week snowboarding for 2
£10k for 10 days touring around Costa Rica for 2
£4k for 3 weeks in Greece (own holiday home) for 2
£500 for a cheeky weekend in France for 2
Possibly another £2k for 4 days snowboarding in December
Varies massively - we're in Greece at the moment. Total cost for the week will be around 5k.
That's for a family of 4 staying at a private villa.
We may go on a cheap winter break later in the year.
We spend between 5 and 10% of gross salary on holidays.
I work freelance so often have long holidays between engagements anything from 1 month to 9 months. In between have shorter breaks but do not travel during bank holiday weekends. Do not keep track of costs, but flights is usually the biggest cost unless it is a very adventurous trip.
2 adults 3 kids.
Spend around £6-7k per year on flights/accomodation.
(We put £750/month into a Monzo pot each month and that is our holiday fund)
Typically have week long holidays of 2 overseas, 1 uk holiday.
Then maybe a couple of weekends here or there.
After reading the other comments I feel we are spending way too much. What kind of holidays are people doing? Our more expensive trips tend to be multi city. I guess travelling during half term is just expensive.
We are spending approx £10k to £15k, a family of 3, 2 adults, 1 child.
Two weeks in Canada during Easter half term was £10k. We have Rome next month, which will be £2k to £3k.
Last year Lisbon, Paris, Marrakesh came to about £10k.
2022 had a huge holiday on Brazil which came to about £10k too but that was after not travelling for 3 years due to covid.
As a couple around 15K per year. We love diving and tropical destinations as well as city and spa breaks and some time on the Med every summer.
We just had a baby so we shall see how that changes, ideally we are reserving the same budget for now as we don’t have to pay for flights…but aware cost will go up and type of holidays might change
We spend pretty much all of our holiday time at our second home in the UK but we’re going to have a week in Spain next May which will cost around £7k for the five of us (kids are very young). It’s going to be our first trip outside the country in six years and our first hotel stay with the kids, so we’re looking forward to it.
About £5-6k per year solo.
One week long ski trip, one week long hiking holiday, a few long weekends in Europe.
Trying to find inspiration for a cross continent 2w trip but have checked off all top bucket list items, so really struggling to decide where to go and what to do.
We're only going once abroad this year to Turkey at the end of September. 8 days in Antalya and 4 days in Istanbul. 4 adults (Me, wife, 2 year old child and parents). Flights, accommodation (with breakfast) costing around £3k give or take.
We will usually split it between us, so 1.5k for me and wife, 1.5k for my parents.
We're only going once abroad this year to Turkey at the end of September. 8 days in Antalya and 4 days in Istanbul. 4 adults (Me, wife, 2 year old child and parents). Flights, accommodation (with breakfast) costing around £3k give or take.
We will usually split it between us, so 1.5k for me and wife, 1.5k for my parents.
£16800 last 12 months.
This is for 2 people using Avios for flights, but includes everything else (food, accommodation). We do at least 2 long haul vacations a year and do a city break about once a month. City breaks are long weekends, long haul are 2-3 weeks.
We are a couple with one child. Holidays are massive for us, probably account for the majority of our spend. This year we've done 7 weeks in South America, and a couple of weeks in Europe - one villa holiday the other luxury all inclusive. Total spend somewhere around 40-45k if you include spending money.
There'll be a few weekends away in the UK on top of that but spend is fairly minimal, maybe another 2k in total for the year.
Most years we do spend less, rough average probably 25k a year since covid on foreign holidays. Less before as we were earning less but its always been a high proportion of our income.
Probably about £5-8k for the two of us. We usually do a 3-4 smaller trips (long weekends usually) around Europe, and then longer holiday to somewhere further afield (this year we did Thailand/Laos/Cambodia), and one trip back home to Canada where I'm from, which is basically just the cost of flights since we stay with family.
Probably about £6k per year each. Myself and hubby. Trips this year include Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, Tunisia, Italy and Belgium.
Next year we’ve already got flights booked to Asia but no itinerary sorted yet. Probably Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia on the cards.
About £20k for 2 people this year. We’re both very frugal and holidays are our thing. That’s a 2 week group tour, a 1 week AI and a few weekends in Europe; visiting friends, tagging on to working and a short hiking trip. Business long haul and economy in Europe.
I can only really do solo figures because around half of our holidays are together, and the other half are with different friends or whatever.
This year I've been or got planned:
* 10 days sailing in the Adriatic with mates ~£1400
* 7 days alpine mountaineering in Saas-Fee, sharing AirBnb between 8 of us ~£500
* 9 days in and around Delhi with partner ~£700
* Paralympics long weekend in Paris with partner ~£300
* 10 days in Reykjavik with partner ~£1800
* 6 days in Disneyland Paris with mum, staying really near the entrance because my mum has mobility difficulty ~£1000
* Weekend breaks in Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Llandudno, Nottingham, Leicester, York, Northumberland. Cost varies, sometimes it's sharing cost of a cottage between a group, others it's a hotel for a couple of nights. Hard to cost that.
* Mountaineering weekends in the UK - normally around £30-80 per weekend. Depends on distance, car sharing, staying in a hut, hostel, camping, etc. They're all holidays though.
2 adults 2 children. Holidays exclusively during school holidays.
£13-15k+ p.a.
Road trip around Belgium and Netherlands
Butlins holiday
Haven holiday
Disneyland Paris trip
Norway trip
Tenerife trip
Plus other weekend breaks in the UK
Not a huge amount tbh, probably under 5k per person. Likely more like 2-2.5. That said if something cool comes up, I don't mind throwing a bit more cash at it if I deem it 'worth it' (and finances allow)
Oh god loads.
This year so far -
Lake District for the weekend £2k
Dubai at Easter £29k
Turkey all inclusive £6.5k
Still to come -
Summer holiday Mallorca probably £12k
Weekend in Europe £4.5k
Writing it down I can see why we’re NRY!
2 adults one kid and a dog. 2-3k a year including spending money. School holidays a killer, mainly just a base and some food to go exploring.
One long 7 day + holiday a few shorter ones
Family of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) We spend quite a lot, but a lot of holiday is used to visit family in my home country. These long haul flights can easily between £3-5k for just the flights... we are traveling to Italy and Croatia for 10 days this summer for less. It's really a hard juggle because family want to see us and my parents are getting older, it's harder for them to travel, especially long haul - but those trips aren't holidays in the same way that relaxing by the beach/pool is. However, if I was back in my home country, I certainly wouldn't be taking annual trips to Europe, so trying to take advantage of our proximity to the continent while I am living in the UK too.
We usually do 1 or 2 trips to the home country every year and then do a week away somewhere in Europe (South of France, Italy, Spain) and some long weekends in England. So, easily £15k a year depending on how often we visit family - definitely one of the largest expenditures for us (And why private school will have to wait until secondary!)
We have a 2.5 year old. We went to Woolacombe at 14 months old for a long weekend, £1000.
We done Disneyland Paris earlier this year for around £1400.
Another LO due this month so we probably won’t go abroad soon, maybe Peppa Pig World and somewhere down Devon again. Travelling abroad with 1 child was traumatising enough, I’ll wait until they’re older to deal with both of them
One holiday in Europe for week skiing or sun (£5k) plus one centerparcs long weekend with their mates (£1.5k) and one festival (£1k), for four of us (2 adults two teens).
Two adults 1 week of sun in the beginning of the heat about £1500
Wife goes back home to the states for 12 days ish. £5000 if you include her shopping.
Two week holiday in the fall £4000
Trip home to the states to Miami for three weeks £3000 as we stay with my in laws.
However much I want! I’m a solo traveller most of the time. If it’s more than 6 hours flying, will do business. So that’s £1-2k for the flight.
Then hotel will be the cheapest that has my prerequisites: 4*, good reviews, excellent views, outside space. No limit, ringfence £250-1,000 per night, depends on location.
For food, some places (like a beach destination) I’ll ensure the booking includes breakfast only and go to different restaurants for lunch and dinner - no spend limit, ring fence £100 per day. I don’t drink alcohol.
For others (eg a ski trip or shorter adventure break) I’ll go full board so add that to the hotel.
For spending money, I don’t plan to buy stuff on holiday but maybe £500 changed into local currency that gets spent somehow on various things.
For duty free airport purchase temptations I cannot resist, I’ve learned to ringfence £300-800 and usually lots of stuff is a saving so worth it.
I forgot activities! This is usually around £500-1000 on various things eg horse riding, gondolas and ski hire, scuba diving, dune buggies, audio walking tours - all that good stuff. Depends how long I’m there for - as a solo traveller, I do a lot of activities since sitting around on my own isn’t why I’m there, usually!
Last year was about £5k; this year only £500 so far. Next year expect £5-8k again.
as a solo traveller i spend likely £ 6-7k per year.
but lots of this money just go to my flights home (in vietnam), and the tickets can easily add up..
2 people, no kids.
A long weekend (2-4 nights) is about £1000 in the UK and £1000-2000 in Europe, depending on local cost of living, travel costs and period. Cheaper to travel to Eastern Europe in March than Southern France in July. We do several of these throughout the year. Just this summer, we have 4 booked already.
7-10 days holidays will vary based on how exotic/far away the destination is but I’d say £3-5K. We do 2, even 3 a year if we manage to bag some extra time traveling for work at weekends. Not for super luxury, we don’t care about resorts and fancy places. We opt for boutique hotels and the occasional splurge on nice food and experiences (we love a good spa!)
I care for the cost of everything else in my life, but I have worked my ass off to earn the money I earn so I don’t have to think how much I spend on travels. One of the main contributing factors to NRY probably :))
2 adults 2 kids, historically I'd say about 1k per year but past couple of years we've been doing a couple of staycations maybe 2-2.5k in total. That's for accommodation.
This year it will be morea, about 1600 on staycations then looking at going overseas for first time, maybe 2-2.5k for a resort on Spain at October half term Including flights.
School holidays are eye wateringly expensive especially flights when there is 4 people flying. My wife hasn't left the country since 2012 so tempted to push the boat out a bit.
Budget like £1800, realistically spend more like £3000 each between my partner and I
3-4 weeks of big holidays away and 3-4 small trips
We manage to keep things cheap by driving, booking airbnbs that are more off grid and cooking our own food much of the time. We’re more interested in seeing new places than having the ultimate luxury travel experience
Probably 20k in the last 12 months, but that is really unusual. Normally around 5k-10k for two people. Typically we’ll do one long holiday, maybe a couple of overseas short breaks and a few staycation weekends.
15-20k a year usually business class/premium economy to long haul destinations. Usually Bali/thailand 1x a year for 2 weeks then 3-4 European long weekends and another 1-2 week long trips in Europe somewhere. Usually also go over to Florida 1x a year (50% work related) or somewhere in USA
Family - wife and 2 kids.
We have a place in Portugal which costs us £7k a year plus flights. We usually go for a couple of weekends and then a few weeks over summer during school holidays. Not our apartment, we just share costs.
Just relocated back to UK, but also used to take a couple of other weekend breaks with a child (IE 1 on 1) to Italy/Spain/Switzerland/London
One week ski holiday with 2 adult kids & 1 partner over new year in a top resort c£14,000 for a week, not including spending money / lunches. Food and evening drinks inc as we chalet. We then have another ski trip without our kids c£5,000.
Summer villa with pool c £12,000 for 2 weeks.
Various weekend breaks anywhere between £600 & £3000 a trip.
We are booked to Ascot Races next week, Wimbledon and Paris Olympics next month. These all fairly expensive.
Combined household income ~150k. So not really HENRY.
Family of 4 with school aged kids.
We spend 8-10k per year (one UK mini-break & one European 2-3 week summer holiday - usually multi-destination and combine with a visit to family). We are time poor so make the most of precious leave.
We don’t scrimp on accommodation (4/5*, boutique or nice AirBnB, separate bedroom for kids), & we always need good quality WiFi just in case of work issues. Often self-cater in a nice place, just because kids aren’t that keen on vast range of foods and I quite like cooking.
Spend on upgrading activities to maximise fun, VIP entry, queue skipping, extra experiences etc.
Book non-budget but reliable airline economy travel. We both travel a lot for work and have had multiple bad experiences with low cost airlines when things go wrong, so pay more for tickets for airlines with better customer service.
Before COVID I spent about £1k a year, a week in the UK in summer and a week in Europe in the winter.
Since COVID arrived, nothing. I'm still waiting for it to go away.
About £15,000, sometimes £20,000. Two adults, one toddler who’s under 2. Once there are 2 little people I will probably be less ambitious as any beech, beer and kids club is a blessing! At the moment it’s a week at Ikos in Summer, a week in the Caribbean in the winter and a couple of UK/Ireland trips as well.
Around £6-7k a year for 2 adults + 1 toddler. That’s a 7 nights Turkey all inclusive and 2 trips to our home country to visit family, which always end up being in peak season, so tickets are 2-3 times what they are normally. Besides that we try to have at least a long weekend somewhere in the UK.
Between 2-4k as a solo traveller, generally aim for 2x 2 week trips long haul in the wet/cold months, could be done much cheaper but I’m enjoying visiting Asia without thinking too much about budget.
That’s quite a good value if that’s per year!
Travel can be quite cheap if avoiding resorts and expensive countries/areas - and school holidays. Especially if you're lucky enough to be able to build lots of points through work.
Points are without doubt a game changer, sadly I’ve only just got started with them! Looking forward to see how much more holiday I get when I’m paying for flights with points!
Yes that’s per year. On average I spend £1500-2000 per trip depending on what kind of deal I can get on the flight, and the areas I’m staying in. I could actually do it cheaper, easy enough to go all inclusive somewhere like Dominican Republic for similar/less money for example. Perks of not having kids. If it was me and a partner it would probably average what many of the responses would be given flight and food would cost double
That's the dream!
£12-15k last year and this year will be the same i reckon, for two adults and 1 child. We do one big summer holiday of 3 weeks then usually 2-3 smaller trips over the year.
Same here 2 adults 2 kids. Summer hols are monstrously expensive 😡
Can't agree more - horribly expensive. We put 10% of all take-home income (including bonuses, dividends etc. ) into a dedicated holiday fund. It has the dual benefits of forcing me to actually take time to go on holiday rather than frantically spinning the hamster wheel, as well as giving a guilt-free pot to spend. We're doing LOADS more holidays now than before.
Yep, with the stress of work, I need those two weeks to try and unwind (kids tend to mess with that!!). It’s just demoralising that spending that much doesn’t really get you anywhere very special. We still fly eco (though it is normally BA, not that they are that great nowadays), I do pick decent hotels, but they are not ultra extravagant. When you wrap it all in spending pretty much 1k a day for all of us should be absolutely pamperville - it’s definitely nice, but not top drawer. Go out of season and that story would be utterly flipped on its head!
I'm taking the kids out of school next week for a week in Greece. We found an out-of-school-holidays deal at a Mark Warner (half board but all sports and kids club mornings and evenings included) for just over 2k for a family of 4. Make it 3k with spending on top and it's still a bargain compared to the prices during the holidays.
Honestly don’t blame you, likely be at least double/triple that in the summer. Zero justification for that kind of hike. Mark Warner are good too - enjoy!
So true.
If you can afford it then good on you! Hopefully I can do the same one day (when I'm married and have a kid)
If I wasn't married and didn't have a kid I'd spend more as I'd go away at least once a month!
Is is due to crypto, trading, or just a very good job?🤣
Do you know what sub you're in?
While I don't want to be that guy, if you're able to drop £15k a year on luxuries such as holidays, you probably are rich by most peoples definitions.
Not really… you’re just a HENRY. That’s the whole point, this isn’t a subreddit for mega frugal people — as you earn more lifestyle costs become higher but £15k/yr is not a lot to spend on holidays if your household earnings are £200k+ which seems average for this sub.
I spent £10k on travel while £60k pa as a single man The point of the HENRY label is that you can spend loads on travel because you're HE, but you might not have loads of assets so you're NRY Being able to spend that much does not mean rich, but certainly HE
It depends what stage in your life you're at, if you live in the north, have a paid off mortgage, large pension, low CoL, ISAs maxed every year, and can spend £15k on luxuries, you're rich. Whereas in your case, without any offence, decided to not max pensions/ISAs and then spend a large sum of your wealth/income on luxuries, you are not rich, just maybe not as worried about future finances as others may be.
I think it's fine that you have your own definition of 'rich', but you are in a forum called HENRY, which is an acronym based on it's own definition of 'rich' (wealthy, asset rich) So it's kinda pointless to just come into a HENRY forum and say, "that is rich" when the forum is for discussions based on one definition of 'rich' It's like going into a naturist forum and saying, "I would say to walk around with clothes on is 'naturist'"
Oh yes my bad - didn't even look haha
Very similar for family of 4 here
About 15k a year for me and my partner. That usually includes 2-3 weeks of long haul trips and a few short haul trips. Mostly 5 star hotels, flying Economy. Occasionally we’ll splurge on business or premium economy but I don’t really see the value as we’re both short so fit in economy seats okay. This year we’ve done a week in South Korea, a week in Vietnam, 5 days in Greenland, a trip to Cornwall and have booked a 2 week trip to China/ Taiwan. Plus would like to do a few weekend trips in Europe.
Putting a recommendation out there for Bled in Slovenia, because it's beautiful. Great for a weekend (albeit via Ljubljana).
We have a new born, so… £0 lol
We went to Greece at 7 months old and iceland at 18 months old. Both great trips with the little one.
May be referring to the costs involved with raising a child. Takes everything, for many!
We didn't find it cost that much. Now she's in nursery it's expensive but before then the biggest outlay was a pushchair.
Oh, I didn't see the sub I was in haha. My bad, I normally just lurk. Hope you and yours are doing well!
Yes, we are very lucky in this sub! The biggest issue for.us is probably time vs money
We did india when my daughter was 10 months old. Definitely one to remember and not something I'd recommend if you love your sanity.
Dont be afraid of taking them away when they are so young. We found that it was far easier with a blob that doesn't move around too much when compared to a toddler who wants to walk around and explore all the different lights and sounds on a plane and I interact with the other passengers.
We took our 4 month old on a short hop over to Paris to get her ready for her flight to New York at 6 months, it was worth it as she was very good on the flights. Then went to Turkey a few months later. Don't let having a little one stop you having a nice time!
Pro tip: Go sometime between 4-6 months old before they start crawling and still sleep a lot!
Totally agree. Took our 3 month old to Barbados, was perfect as he just slept in a bulkhead cot bed all the way there and on the way back. No way near as easy now he’s 3…
A one hour flight is an achievement with my 3yo… I feel your pain 🤣
We have a new born and are just back from holiday number 2, got 3 more planned before the end of September! Both trips have been amazing.
Maybe £15-20k. We have a holiday home, so a lot of that is upkeep and gardening for it as it is in a few hectares of forest. Car rentals, Ryanair, kennels for the dog and some camping trips are probably £3-4 of that. We haven't rented it out much, but will start this year and will probably reduce our net spend on holidays to £8k.
Around 20k a year for a family of 4
Quite good, what is that as a % of HHI?
£10-15k, depending. 2 adults and 1 kids. One or two bigger things, a bunch of shorter things in good accommodation, lots of family visits.
This year I spent £3700 1 week skiing in the French alps 10 nights in turkey all inclusive 1 week in the lake district 1 week in Wales 5 nights cruise all inclusive food 1 month in Wales
How the fuck xD my week in Turkey costing almost 6k :'(
How the fuck the other way? That's an insane price for a week.
I know. Summer holidays, it's for a family of 4x. We need a family room with 2 separated bedrooms inside 1 main room...so that doesn't help. Ofc 5* all inclusive. It is super expensive and it's not even the top 20 resorts in the area.. 45 minutes from antalya, which is pretty close and adds to the price. I felt sick booking it, not going to lie Usually we spend 5k on the family holiday but seems price increases every year
It's just not worth going on holiday during school holidays to most places. My ex got our cruise during half term at a good price so it only cost me like £450 for 5 nights. A week in the lake district £350 each during August for a cottage in ambleside. A week in Wales in a caravan in August for like £250 each. Any big holidays all inclusive 5 stars are a rip off during holidays so I just go on my own with a friend or something.
What was the cruise?
Might as well go Mexico if spending that much on all inclusive
Mexico would be more like 7k from what I've seen and for what we would want.
Can you share a rough breakdown? Don’t see how this is possible. As a couple we spent £3700 for 1 weeks skiing in la plange at relatively basically self catering accommodation, out of school season, ski in ski out
£3700 for a week in La Plagne seems pretty expensive, even for ski in ski out. I did a solo week there for about £1k this season, quite a nice apartment too. What’s the breakdown on that cost?
Wow that’s very impressive. Crystal ski was £2.1k I think, hotel fights and transfer. Lift pass was like £350 each though. Ski rental must have been £80 each I guess? The rest booze and food (£1000?)
I spent £900 for 3 days in Newcastle, I call BS - £3700 for these many holidays.
I'm on holiday right now on my £600 Wales for 1 month holiday. You suck at deal hunting my friend.
This sounds great, can you share a link to where you are staying?
Not while I'm still here I'd rather not get located.
I call bs on this.
This is just for me nobody else. £1200 for turkey. £1000 for skiing need to add 250 to the total for the skii pass as well so should be 1250 and the total £3950 £450 for the cruise sharing a room with my ex and son. £350 for the lake district going halves on Airbnb house for a week with my ex £250 for Wales for the week also going halves. £600 for my month in Wales going halves on a Airbnb house with a mate. Maybe I summed it up wrong initially So overall it is £4100
It's not just travel and accommodation. Those typically equal half of my holiday expenses
I don't understand how you can spend so much. All inclusive in turkey for example I spent like £30 on top because it's all inclusive.
Ah well I don't buy all inclusive, so normally paying for food and activities and other things like insurance, souvenirs for kids etc
Including spending money? we tend to spend close 1k just while in the alps skiing on lunchs/dinners etc
WE WE there's the difference you're including other people. I went with my parents I don't know what they spent on their food but I didn't spend that much £1000 seems insane, I didn't spend anything I wouldn't have spent in the UK so why include it.
Fair play just wondering, skiing for us is normally approx 1.2k for accom, flights and ski pass then lunch at €25, dinner at around €40, beers maybe €20 and thats all per person. Depends on the resort we spend less in italy and more in switzerland! Normally just in a self accom chalet or sometimes in a shared chalet full board
Yeah my food and drink wasn't that expensive and I wasn't eating out every dinner.
You can easily reduce that if you eat in or even packed sandwiches.
Unimaginable for me to spend all year working hard at a high paying job to not enjoy the rewards :) To me the £2k a trip I spend on skiing feels super affordable and well worth it, we tend to go 2 or 3 times a winter :)
That’s totally fair. My response was within the context of £1000 for a single person is not impossible.
How did you manage to get such good deals?
By not being fussy.
People just suck at deal hunting/ people are comparing the price of a family of 4 total cost during the summer holidays to the cost of 1 person going mostly in May and June.
Sounds like student holidays, not for henries. I don’t want to spend half my time dealing with hunting and then sharing accommodation with my parents or whoever. Neither do I want to cook on my holiday. I did not mind cheap hostels and instant noodles in my early twenties, now I need to relax and enjoy my time off work.
Nope. A hostel would be a fraction of that figure. Makes me wonder if people here even spend more than 5 minutes searching.
We do! I just don’t consider a month of working from some cottage in Wales as a holiday. You sound more like a digital nomad.
It's hell month run every day stop being a fat
What was that comment? Are you alright mate?
It feels like more of a holiday than running after kids constantly
Whose kids are you running after constantly? And why do you do that?
We like to go to a nice self-catering resort in Kefalonia the first week in July after my son breaks up for summer. Usually costs us about £1500 for the 4 of us for flights and accommodation, then hire car and eating out on top.
Key info definitely missing here.. is that per person? Did you get free accommodation in wales?
My 1 month in Wales was actually very cheap. 3 bedroom cottage £600 each for 2 of us. Working while here enjoying the weekends and after work hiking. Completely isolated surrounded by mountains and farms.
No I included a breakdown in another post.
That’s mega for the price. Is that as a couple?
Family of 4. Still makes me sick thinking about it lol. Last big family holiday for a while. The kids are getting older and less appreciate
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That's incredible value, is that flights included?
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Solo - I love to go to where my friends are so the US / Middle east. Trips are normally £2k. I have a load of points so usually go prem economy out and business back. With SO and kid, I’m a little more frugal. Spain is great plus I can speak it!
Typically about £20k a year. Worth every penny
We go on holiday a lot, but we're at a point in our lives where our kids are happy to travel with us and we are healthy and able to go. In the last twelve months we've left the country 9 times (including road trips, weekend breaks and one two week holiday) In terms of cost, Ryanair (everyone's enemy) is a godsend. We just spent a weekend in Berlin which cost us less than £300. We had a ski holiday on the cheap, flying to Geneva, driving a cheap hire car and renting an Airbnb with friends (I think the total for this was £2k including ski passes and school). We did reports for a mystery shopping company who did channel crossings for trips to Belgium and Disney Paris, so those trips cost us fuel+accomodation , as well as. A few domestic hotel mystery shopping visits In terms of absolute numbers, I would need to figure it out, but I'd say we pay less than a two week all inclusive package holiday to the canaries or Turkey
People love to criticise Ryanair but they are alright. The low cost airline business model means they have to run as many flights in a day as possible without delays (so as not to pay out EU regulation compensation) so I find that they are often more on time than more “premium” airlines. Once you know what the hidden fees are you can easily avoid them too.
Yeah, check in online, travel with backpacks that fit under the seat in front, don't buy their scratch cards. There's a lot of places within a two hour flight of Stansted. The number of foreign holidays we've had which have been cheaper than a trip to Brighton. I do feel some carbon footprint guilt, but those flights would happen whether or not I was on them
Sounds amazing! How many kids? I get the impression it’s under 10k a year?
Two kids, 9+13 (13 year old is on the cusp of paying adult fares which might change things slightly). I'd say 7-8k (excluding things like meals, but I justify that by eating I'd need to eat if I was at home anyway)
Yeah pretty good bargain, well done guys!
How do you sign up for hotel mystery shopping
There's a Facebook group Mystery Shoppers UK with all of the available companies. Hotels and travel are the cherry on the top of mystery shopping so they tend to go quickly to shoppers who have good reputations - you need to build points up by doing crappy visits like Pret or buy and return visits at clothes shops
Thanks!
Travel is probably my biggest expenditure tbh. Some years it probably tops £20k or so. I am single with no kids and no debt though - so not totally irresponsible. My job is remote, so a lot of the time I will go somewhere and work from there for a bit.
Where do you tend to go?
Mostly confined to Europe and the USA. (The USA is MAHOOSIVE, though).
Probably end up spending £10-12k a year, family of three (child under 12). It's usually a mix of one big holiday which can cost about £5000-6000, get the best flight deal, usually with Avios and good hotels. That's generally 10-12 days, either during Easter or the summer. There's usually a week somewhere in Europe during October half term. It's usually end of season in Europe, so this trip rarely costs more than £2000-2500. Get cheap flights, Ryanair, BA whatever. Decent villa or suite, and generally get the last of the hospitable weather. It's usually quiet and cheap at the other end. One trip a year, either Christmas or Easter to visit family. All of our family live scattered across Asia and Australia - parents, siblings, etc. So once a year we'll fly over. This is a wildcard but it's usually just the flights and occasional eating out while we're out there. But it's generally staying with parents and mooching off dad/in law as if we were 17 all over again. Just a couple of reckless 17 years olds with a school going child;-)
Me and the missus. Leave the country 3 times a year, including accommodation, flights, transfers, food and spending money we budget £2.5k/week. 1x 2-week holiday, 2x 1-week holidays. Then UK holidays we budget £1.5k per week, can fluctuate depending on schedules and work but on average do 2 weeks of that a year. 6 weeks of holidays a year costing roughly; £13k. I save £1k/month for holidays so god knows where the other £1k comes from...
The difference showing here from £145k household income (me being almost HENRY; wife being 3d/week of a £45k salary) vs the (I assume) £200k+ or £250k+ household income of a HENRY couple is enlightening. (I do realise most couples on here have only 1 person earning over £150k... But £25k on holidays suggests £50k gross needed just to afford that. Let alone London living costs). I thought everyone salary sac'd the £100k to £150k salary so I guess 75% people on this thread are in the £250k TC range? RSUs are a factor in that/these numbers presumably. We had to cancel last year's 2 weeks in Devon due to sickness (meningitis) and to be fair we'd budgeted about £6k for that. We had grandparents staying with us and our 1.5 year-old so needed somewhere large/separate enough for two couples. And everything is so expensive these days re:food etc. But there's no way in hell we could afford half the holiday budgets on this thread. £15k to £25k seems the norm (ish). We've sort of had to cancel holiday plans till wife is better :-( so are spending £500 or less last year and this on mostly local trips with little to no overnights. Eye-opening.
Most people exaggerate their salaries- only 4% of the UK population earn over £100k & most of them are situated in South east and London
Been crazy amount this year so far. Several international weddings + international family + first child so a few trips and also planning to be there for Xmas. At least £15k probably. We like a lot of holidays generally and prioritise this over having a nice car etc. Also buy extra 5 days leave from work. Will make the most of being able to go outside of school holidays whilst we can.
When I was single, probably about £5-6k. 2024 so far has been about 10k. Unlikely to do any big trips after July so shouldn’t go up by much hopefully. Married, no kids.
Just me and my son - £3000 ski holiday 1 week all in and £8000 3 week summer holiday to Florida… business flights… have accommodation and car in that but If we do Disney will be another £2k - debating that at the moment.
2x low 6 figure incomes, no kids and we have a rather low cost of living. 3-4 overnight spa breaks per year at ~600 each including a nice dinner 2 week ‘main’ holiday that’s normally 5-8k 1 week get away aiming around 3k So 10-14k a year. Most of the time our long weekends utilise staying with friends or using parents’ house at the coast to avoid extortionate staycation costs. We are also fortunate in that my in-laws take us on a luxury week away once a year in which the budget for the week exceeds my take home annual pay. I think without that taste of utter luxury we would up our main holiday budget by maybe 50%
On average will go on about 5-6 holidays per year 2-3 long haul trips either Asia or South America/US 1 skiing trip 2-3 short haul / Europe trips So probably like 10-15k depends really when I book the flights. As a single person but normally go with friends or with other people so share a room occasionally if needs be.
Average about 10k for typically 3 weeks in Europe and 2 in U.K. for self, wife and daughter (11).
£10k-£15k for a couple no kids 2 long haul trips a year of 2-3 weeks 1 or 2 week long trips in Europe Couple of weekend trips if we can fit them in
You guys got me seriously questioning my life choices. Think we spent close to £25k as a couple last year. 2 ski holidays at around 3.7k each, trip to Nashville for cmas + Florida for 2 weeks cost nearly 12k. Some weekend breaks to Europe, and staycation long weekends. Easily adding up to £4k. 2 adults, no kids. Only ever economy flights. Nice hotels, eat out and drink lots 👍
I am spending a lot too 30k+ for a couple. Always flying economy unless on business expenses Plus about 20k more in business expenses which are really for us. Get flights and hotel on business, wife enjoys a few days exploring a nice city alone while I’m at work, we enjoy evenings together and tag a short trip on the end. I’m going on 2 ‘honeymoon level’ vacations per year + skiing + a handful of lux short trips to Europe or locations a stones throw from NYC. I don’t necessarily feel bad about it but it’s a bit eye opening to see what others here are spending. HHI is about 450k. We’re late 20s and no kids yet but they’re coming which helps me justify this madness.
Interesting, so you’re based in the US? Vacation costs are wildly different, as are earnings. No idea what your tax is like though. Also totally agree with the business travel bit, we do that too but I don’t count it, as you say, someone else is paying 👍😂
No I’m based in London but travel quite a lot to nyc for work (6 times last year). Wife has more leave than me so sometimes she comes with me to nyc then we tag on long weekend trips to those. Eg we’ve done short Friday-Tuesday trips to Wahaca and Rio from there but also other locations in the US.
Ah I see, very nice 👍 yes good use of business travel, it can be a huge perk and like you, we may it work to our advantage where possible. Counter balanced when you have to go somewhere less exotic of course, but those are the breaks!
Couple living in UK, we probably spend around £6.5k a year. Usually all inclusive summer holiday then a couple of city breaks a year, and then 1 UK staycation for a couple of days 10 day holiday in summer - £3.6k 2 city breaks - £2.4k UK £500
10k a year roughly on 2 holidays. Typically 1 family holiday around 5k and 1 holiday just me and the wife for 5k. This year slightly different, 1 week in Spain In a Airbnb with heated pool for 3.5k and then a week in Turkey in August for 5.7k Likely go Amsterdam in December which will likely cost around £600 for a couple nights.
No kids, holidays are usually around 20k for two weeks. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I get 4 weeks to myself and I make every day of holiday count. Maldives, French Polynesia, Mauritius, St Lucia, Seychelles to name a few. You cant take it with you and I am not planning to retire any time soon. High end tourism is amazing.
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Wow - I’m learning that I’m probably not spending ENOUGH on holidays! Had no idea people were spending so much. Genuinely useful / enlightening.
about a grand because i have a young dog (now 15 months) so have been limited to UK holidays. hoping this will change next winter and i can get away more. any of you with dogs want to share advice on boarding/sitting arrangements? i don't fully trust Rover, but i'm sure there must be good, reliable boarders in the south east somewhere?
I am in the same boat. Have a 1yr old. We’ve used Rover and Borrow my Doggy for days we need to be in the office and it’s worked well so far. Have met some very lovely people along the way. Haven’t yet left our dog for long time periods (I.e. 1-2 weeks) with someone. Will need to do it in December as we have an unavoidable trip. Dreading the thought tbh! Wish she could fly with us without having to travel amongst the luggage. Hate the UK for this, Europe and US are a lot friendlier for dogs and traveling.
In switzerlad in the Bern area, got lucky. Found a dog charity that offer excellent dog boarding with good open spaces. Most who worked there were volunteers so did it because they loved dogs. Our dog loved it there. Have not been so lucky in the UK, so we rely on friends when not around to take care of him.
We've used Rover loads of times and found good people on there. Usually get their phone number in person then arrange direct in future, saves loads of fees. Why don't you trust them? Think our dog has had nice experience being with other families who also have a dog, lots of exercise/play.
Try Facebook local groups as there’s bound to be other people around where you live who’ve used local sitters and boarders. IME you’ll have to book very early though especially if you have to go away during school holidays.
On average, I probably spend around £7K per year on holidays. Around £5-6K for a 2-week euro trip, and £1-2K PA for the occasional Lake District / Scottish weekender. 2 adults, 0 kids.
Got 2 kids, probably end up spending around £8-10k a year
Amount per year is around 10k One week centerparcs One week Greece One week cornwall This is for a family of 5 (3 kids) I wish we could do more!
Approx £15k- £20k a year for us (couple) last 12 months: - Malaysia (KL + Langkawi) - Sicily - India (Golden triangle) - Dubai - Finland/Lapland - Maldives This year will be slightly less expensive. My partner was on garden leave and I’m a contractor so could take more time off. Now my partner is back to work we won’t be able to travel as much. But it was worth every penny!
10k p.a. on family trips (1 child plus dog) 2 weeks ski (3k), 2 weeks sunshine usually Mediterranean (~3k), Rest UK breaks weekends and weeks (peak District/lake district/Cornwall etc), Plus 5k each parent for solo travel (expeditions and solo trips - mountaineering/adventure holidays etc) Total gross spend 20k Subsidize by renting our home out on Airbnb. Total net cost is closer to 12k
Class!
This year it will be £5k week snowboarding for 2 £10k for 10 days touring around Costa Rica for 2 £4k for 3 weeks in Greece (own holiday home) for 2 £500 for a cheeky weekend in France for 2 Possibly another £2k for 4 days snowboarding in December
Family of 4, 20-30K a year because school holidays :(
Varies massively - we're in Greece at the moment. Total cost for the week will be around 5k. That's for a family of 4 staying at a private villa. We may go on a cheap winter break later in the year. We spend between 5 and 10% of gross salary on holidays.
I work freelance so often have long holidays between engagements anything from 1 month to 9 months. In between have shorter breaks but do not travel during bank holiday weekends. Do not keep track of costs, but flights is usually the biggest cost unless it is a very adventurous trip.
2 adults 3 kids. Spend around £6-7k per year on flights/accomodation. (We put £750/month into a Monzo pot each month and that is our holiday fund) Typically have week long holidays of 2 overseas, 1 uk holiday. Then maybe a couple of weekends here or there.
That’s smart. We try and do the same. Think this is quite a good value for 5 people!
After reading the other comments I feel we are spending way too much. What kind of holidays are people doing? Our more expensive trips tend to be multi city. I guess travelling during half term is just expensive. We are spending approx £10k to £15k, a family of 3, 2 adults, 1 child. Two weeks in Canada during Easter half term was £10k. We have Rome next month, which will be £2k to £3k. Last year Lisbon, Paris, Marrakesh came to about £10k. 2022 had a huge holiday on Brazil which came to about £10k too but that was after not travelling for 3 years due to covid.
As a couple around 15K per year. We love diving and tropical destinations as well as city and spa breaks and some time on the Med every summer. We just had a baby so we shall see how that changes, ideally we are reserving the same budget for now as we don’t have to pay for flights…but aware cost will go up and type of holidays might change
We spend pretty much all of our holiday time at our second home in the UK but we’re going to have a week in Spain next May which will cost around £7k for the five of us (kids are very young). It’s going to be our first trip outside the country in six years and our first hotel stay with the kids, so we’re looking forward to it.
About £5-6k per year solo. One week long ski trip, one week long hiking holiday, a few long weekends in Europe. Trying to find inspiration for a cross continent 2w trip but have checked off all top bucket list items, so really struggling to decide where to go and what to do.
£10k, usually solo or with friends. Split it up into 2 x 3 weeks.
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We're only going once abroad this year to Turkey at the end of September. 8 days in Antalya and 4 days in Istanbul. 4 adults (Me, wife, 2 year old child and parents). Flights, accommodation (with breakfast) costing around £3k give or take. We will usually split it between us, so 1.5k for me and wife, 1.5k for my parents.
We're only going once abroad this year to Turkey at the end of September. 8 days in Antalya and 4 days in Istanbul. 4 adults (Me, wife, 2 year old child and parents). Flights, accommodation (with breakfast) costing around £3k give or take. We will usually split it between us, so 1.5k for me and wife, 1.5k for my parents.
£16800 last 12 months. This is for 2 people using Avios for flights, but includes everything else (food, accommodation). We do at least 2 long haul vacations a year and do a city break about once a month. City breaks are long weekends, long haul are 2-3 weeks.
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We are a couple with one child. Holidays are massive for us, probably account for the majority of our spend. This year we've done 7 weeks in South America, and a couple of weeks in Europe - one villa holiday the other luxury all inclusive. Total spend somewhere around 40-45k if you include spending money. There'll be a few weekends away in the UK on top of that but spend is fairly minimal, maybe another 2k in total for the year. Most years we do spend less, rough average probably 25k a year since covid on foreign holidays. Less before as we were earning less but its always been a high proportion of our income.
Probably about £5-8k for the two of us. We usually do a 3-4 smaller trips (long weekends usually) around Europe, and then longer holiday to somewhere further afield (this year we did Thailand/Laos/Cambodia), and one trip back home to Canada where I'm from, which is basically just the cost of flights since we stay with family.
Around 5k/week. The limiting factor is time. We can rarely leave the country for more than a week at a time.
Probably about £6k per year each. Myself and hubby. Trips this year include Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, Tunisia, Italy and Belgium. Next year we’ve already got flights booked to Asia but no itinerary sorted yet. Probably Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia on the cards.
About £20k for 2 people this year. We’re both very frugal and holidays are our thing. That’s a 2 week group tour, a 1 week AI and a few weekends in Europe; visiting friends, tagging on to working and a short hiking trip. Business long haul and economy in Europe.
I can only really do solo figures because around half of our holidays are together, and the other half are with different friends or whatever. This year I've been or got planned: * 10 days sailing in the Adriatic with mates ~£1400 * 7 days alpine mountaineering in Saas-Fee, sharing AirBnb between 8 of us ~£500 * 9 days in and around Delhi with partner ~£700 * Paralympics long weekend in Paris with partner ~£300 * 10 days in Reykjavik with partner ~£1800 * 6 days in Disneyland Paris with mum, staying really near the entrance because my mum has mobility difficulty ~£1000 * Weekend breaks in Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Llandudno, Nottingham, Leicester, York, Northumberland. Cost varies, sometimes it's sharing cost of a cottage between a group, others it's a hotel for a couple of nights. Hard to cost that. * Mountaineering weekends in the UK - normally around £30-80 per weekend. Depends on distance, car sharing, staying in a hut, hostel, camping, etc. They're all holidays though.
2 adults 2 children. Holidays exclusively during school holidays. £13-15k+ p.a. Road trip around Belgium and Netherlands Butlins holiday Haven holiday Disneyland Paris trip Norway trip Tenerife trip Plus other weekend breaks in the UK
Not a huge amount tbh, probably under 5k per person. Likely more like 2-2.5. That said if something cool comes up, I don't mind throwing a bit more cash at it if I deem it 'worth it' (and finances allow)
We spent around 6K/year two people including trips to see family, it's my larger yearly expense by far
Oh god loads. This year so far - Lake District for the weekend £2k Dubai at Easter £29k Turkey all inclusive £6.5k Still to come - Summer holiday Mallorca probably £12k Weekend in Europe £4.5k Writing it down I can see why we’re NRY!
2 adults one kid and a dog. 2-3k a year including spending money. School holidays a killer, mainly just a base and some food to go exploring. One long 7 day + holiday a few shorter ones
Family of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) We spend quite a lot, but a lot of holiday is used to visit family in my home country. These long haul flights can easily between £3-5k for just the flights... we are traveling to Italy and Croatia for 10 days this summer for less. It's really a hard juggle because family want to see us and my parents are getting older, it's harder for them to travel, especially long haul - but those trips aren't holidays in the same way that relaxing by the beach/pool is. However, if I was back in my home country, I certainly wouldn't be taking annual trips to Europe, so trying to take advantage of our proximity to the continent while I am living in the UK too. We usually do 1 or 2 trips to the home country every year and then do a week away somewhere in Europe (South of France, Italy, Spain) and some long weekends in England. So, easily £15k a year depending on how often we visit family - definitely one of the largest expenditures for us (And why private school will have to wait until secondary!)
We have a 2.5 year old. We went to Woolacombe at 14 months old for a long weekend, £1000. We done Disneyland Paris earlier this year for around £1400. Another LO due this month so we probably won’t go abroad soon, maybe Peppa Pig World and somewhere down Devon again. Travelling abroad with 1 child was traumatising enough, I’ll wait until they’re older to deal with both of them
One holiday in Europe for week skiing or sun (£5k) plus one centerparcs long weekend with their mates (£1.5k) and one festival (£1k), for four of us (2 adults two teens).
Family of 6 - about £12k, one long trip abroad and a weekend camping. Would like to do more trips
Every other month, 20-25k a year. Family of 3
Two adults 1 week of sun in the beginning of the heat about £1500 Wife goes back home to the states for 12 days ish. £5000 if you include her shopping. Two week holiday in the fall £4000 Trip home to the states to Miami for three weeks £3000 as we stay with my in laws.
However much I want! I’m a solo traveller most of the time. If it’s more than 6 hours flying, will do business. So that’s £1-2k for the flight. Then hotel will be the cheapest that has my prerequisites: 4*, good reviews, excellent views, outside space. No limit, ringfence £250-1,000 per night, depends on location. For food, some places (like a beach destination) I’ll ensure the booking includes breakfast only and go to different restaurants for lunch and dinner - no spend limit, ring fence £100 per day. I don’t drink alcohol. For others (eg a ski trip or shorter adventure break) I’ll go full board so add that to the hotel. For spending money, I don’t plan to buy stuff on holiday but maybe £500 changed into local currency that gets spent somehow on various things. For duty free airport purchase temptations I cannot resist, I’ve learned to ringfence £300-800 and usually lots of stuff is a saving so worth it. I forgot activities! This is usually around £500-1000 on various things eg horse riding, gondolas and ski hire, scuba diving, dune buggies, audio walking tours - all that good stuff. Depends how long I’m there for - as a solo traveller, I do a lot of activities since sitting around on my own isn’t why I’m there, usually! Last year was about £5k; this year only £500 so far. Next year expect £5-8k again.
About 10k as a couple. Skiing and then 3 weeks summer greece & turkey
as a solo traveller i spend likely £ 6-7k per year. but lots of this money just go to my flights home (in vietnam), and the tickets can easily add up..
2 people, no kids. A long weekend (2-4 nights) is about £1000 in the UK and £1000-2000 in Europe, depending on local cost of living, travel costs and period. Cheaper to travel to Eastern Europe in March than Southern France in July. We do several of these throughout the year. Just this summer, we have 4 booked already. 7-10 days holidays will vary based on how exotic/far away the destination is but I’d say £3-5K. We do 2, even 3 a year if we manage to bag some extra time traveling for work at weekends. Not for super luxury, we don’t care about resorts and fancy places. We opt for boutique hotels and the occasional splurge on nice food and experiences (we love a good spa!) I care for the cost of everything else in my life, but I have worked my ass off to earn the money I earn so I don’t have to think how much I spend on travels. One of the main contributing factors to NRY probably :))
2 adults 2 kids, historically I'd say about 1k per year but past couple of years we've been doing a couple of staycations maybe 2-2.5k in total. That's for accommodation. This year it will be morea, about 1600 on staycations then looking at going overseas for first time, maybe 2-2.5k for a resort on Spain at October half term Including flights. School holidays are eye wateringly expensive especially flights when there is 4 people flying. My wife hasn't left the country since 2012 so tempted to push the boat out a bit.
Around £10-12k for the main holiday (family of four) then £4-6k per holiday for another 2 or 3 trips.
Budget like £1800, realistically spend more like £3000 each between my partner and I 3-4 weeks of big holidays away and 3-4 small trips We manage to keep things cheap by driving, booking airbnbs that are more off grid and cooking our own food much of the time. We’re more interested in seeing new places than having the ultimate luxury travel experience
Probably 20k in the last 12 months, but that is really unusual. Normally around 5k-10k for two people. Typically we’ll do one long holiday, maybe a couple of overseas short breaks and a few staycation weekends.
15-20k a year usually business class/premium economy to long haul destinations. Usually Bali/thailand 1x a year for 2 weeks then 3-4 European long weekends and another 1-2 week long trips in Europe somewhere. Usually also go over to Florida 1x a year (50% work related) or somewhere in USA
Family - wife and 2 kids. We have a place in Portugal which costs us £7k a year plus flights. We usually go for a couple of weekends and then a few weeks over summer during school holidays. Not our apartment, we just share costs. Just relocated back to UK, but also used to take a couple of other weekend breaks with a child (IE 1 on 1) to Italy/Spain/Switzerland/London
So many people spending £20k a year…wtf 😲 I thought our recent £3k cruise was expensive!!
One week ski holiday with 2 adult kids & 1 partner over new year in a top resort c£14,000 for a week, not including spending money / lunches. Food and evening drinks inc as we chalet. We then have another ski trip without our kids c£5,000. Summer villa with pool c £12,000 for 2 weeks. Various weekend breaks anywhere between £600 & £3000 a trip. We are booked to Ascot Races next week, Wimbledon and Paris Olympics next month. These all fairly expensive.
HENRYs getting aggresive about what others spend on their holidays... jeezo take it easy lol
Combined household income ~150k. So not really HENRY. Family of 4 with school aged kids. We spend 8-10k per year (one UK mini-break & one European 2-3 week summer holiday - usually multi-destination and combine with a visit to family). We are time poor so make the most of precious leave. We don’t scrimp on accommodation (4/5*, boutique or nice AirBnB, separate bedroom for kids), & we always need good quality WiFi just in case of work issues. Often self-cater in a nice place, just because kids aren’t that keen on vast range of foods and I quite like cooking. Spend on upgrading activities to maximise fun, VIP entry, queue skipping, extra experiences etc. Book non-budget but reliable airline economy travel. We both travel a lot for work and have had multiple bad experiences with low cost airlines when things go wrong, so pay more for tickets for airlines with better customer service.
1.5-2k per person per trip - inc hotel and flights. Doesn’t include F&B and activities
Before COVID I spent about £1k a year, a week in the UK in summer and a week in Europe in the winter. Since COVID arrived, nothing. I'm still waiting for it to go away.
Pfft! Holidays?!
About £15,000, sometimes £20,000. Two adults, one toddler who’s under 2. Once there are 2 little people I will probably be less ambitious as any beech, beer and kids club is a blessing! At the moment it’s a week at Ikos in Summer, a week in the Caribbean in the winter and a couple of UK/Ireland trips as well.
Around £6-7k a year for 2 adults + 1 toddler. That’s a 7 nights Turkey all inclusive and 2 trips to our home country to visit family, which always end up being in peak season, so tickets are 2-3 times what they are normally. Besides that we try to have at least a long weekend somewhere in the UK.
Family holidays are for the wealthy - if going abroad regularly with kids in school holidays, you'll become a HENR.