How often for international travel as a family
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| How often do you and your family travel overseas? What do you do to afford it or do you all have a high income? |
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We have family in Europe and try to go every 2-3 years. Other years we might visit Canada or the Caribbean, but nothing uber-luxurious. I love traveling and I’m willing to spend while my child is young-ish and still wants to be around us.
HHI is $250K, we have one child and a low mortgage. Mostly we pay OOP; occasionally we use points to pay for flights and hotels. Last year we went to Europe for a month, and flights, trains, and accommodations were $10K all in. |
Anonymous
| Once a year to Europe and once a year to somewhere further like asia |
Anonymous
I get a 75k bonus annually plus 100k of stock grants annually on top of our 550k hhi |
Anonymous
| We go once or twice a year for about 8 days, no family, just tourists. HHI $500K, but we also find really good deals and plan for these trips so we are big savers. |
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At least once a year to Europe and then a cruise or other big vacation.
Last year, we went to Europe twice and also the Caribbean and a Alaska cruise. But, we got an amazing deal on the cruise and the Caribbean was for DH's work. Because last year was a big year, we're just trip to Asia this summer (although trying to convince DH to do something else at December break). I'm a consultant and DH works for himself. But, we also afford it by staying cheaply in some places like in family hostels, not eating out a lot while traveling, etc. |
Anonymous
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Family in Europe and Asia. 2 kids.
We go to Europe once every 2 years, and sadly, we haven't been able to go to Asia in more than 5 years. We do not travel all the time, like many of our acquaintances do. Different budgets! |
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Totally depends what we are doing. Last year we did 2 week long Europe trips. This year we are doing a 3 week long Australia /NZ trip.
In general we try to do a Caribbean type vacation each year too, though for the past few years we've just done Puerto Rico with friends and their kids. I'm a nurse, DH is a software developer with a very flexible schedule. We only have one kid so that keeps costs down and we aren't super picky about hotels. |
Anonymous
| We haven’t been yet, planning to next year. HHI around $165K but was lower. 1 teacher so have to travel at peak times. |
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Current HHI of $300k
Kids are 13 and 14 and have traveled internationally twice - plus once to Canada. We’ll probably try to get two more international trips in before they go to college. We did Costa Rica when they were little and our HHI was closer to $150k which was a stretch and big trip for us at the time, and we went to Europe more recently. Love to travel, as do kids, but do more local/US adventures because easier to pull off while keeping costs down. |
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That's about our HHI. Where did you to in Europe? |
Anonymous
| HHI 1m. We go international for winter break (Caribbean), overseas for SB (private school gets two weeks) and two times in the summer (June and August). My incredibly wealthy in laws are complete opposite and think we’re borderline insane so I think international travel is both the budget and the personality for it. |
Anonymous
| Never. We can afford it, just have no desire to travel on long flights with kids. Probably will start exploring Europe soon though. |
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Usually 2 times a year but sometimes 3 depending on what we want to do. We usually go to the Caribbean for Spring break and then often to Europe or Canada (love the Canadian Rockies and NW in particular) in the summer.
Our kids also get a week for President's day. Often we go skiing but sometimes we'll travel out of the country. We've gone to Belize and Costa Rica then and the weather was beautiful - sunny and dry. Next year we are going to Panama (Boca del Toro) at that time. We travel domestically too though - skiing out west, various national parks, California many times. Did Disney a bunch of times. Just depends on what we're feeling. We take 5 week long vacations and one short break for fall break. |
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We go once a year. It's a priority for us that we sacrifice for. We are a middle income family. To be fair, we started to travel more when our youngest was 6 or so, but that's also when we had a bit more money. So, basically, when we had a combined income of 100K, we didn't travel internationally. When it went up to 150K we started to travel internationally as a family.
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