Average cost for spring break vacation

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That's a great deal for spring break. We are doing 5 days in Cayman. The hotel is partially paid on points and we're still going to be spending $5500 for a family of 4.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so expensive and yet travel is not slowing down. Aside from the UMC, how are people affording all these vacations? Are we going to go back to vacations being traveling to grandma's or are people going into debt?

We alternate between really inexpensive trips (e.g., camping at state campgrounds) with expensive international trips. I think it probably works out to what others spend for an annual average vacation, but we don't spend equally on all travel. Some is splurgier than others.

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I think we used to spend 5-10k but now it is 10-20. We went to Asia last year and flights alone were over 10k. This year we are also looking at over 10k for just flights for our family of 5.

We spent 20k for winter break too.

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$7k, 2 weeks in Hawaii. We're burning a ton of reward points on hotel, flight and rental car to make it happen.

[Anonymous]

$8-10k for a family of 4– flights alone were almost $4k of that, hotel is like $3.5k.

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Is that for just two people, OP?

We spent about $3500 just to go to Miami last year for 5 days - family of four, though.

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Spring break Madrid: 1 adult, 2 kids flight & lodging 1 week= $2,500.

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For a domestic trip, my budget is no more than $300-$400pp on round trip airfare and $300 is the goal on hotels. Sometimes its way less, under $200, but sometimes we splurge for location. Our two nights at the Grand Canyon will be just over $400/night. We also churn travel credit cards and use the points whenever possible.

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Not sure where we’re headed yet (me and kid), but I’m budgeting a max if $4k-$5k for our spring break trip, which I may bump to early summer depending on which has better pricing.

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Anonymous wrote:For those who spend over 10k, do you also take another big vacation in summer? Fascinating hearing what people spend.

Usually we also go to Rehoboth which costs about $10k for the week. Sometimes we will go for a week at Christmas which is about $15,000.

What would you spend this kind of money for rehoboth?!

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Anonymous wrote:Family of four to Japan for two weeks. Airfare is around $4500. Hotels are around $2600. No idea how much more we'll spend while there. It's a bucket list trip and we don't have a budget.

How did you manage to book hotels for two weeks for only 2600 dollars? I just booked for 11 nights, and our total is $8K.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of four to Japan for two weeks. Airfare is around $4500. Hotels are around $2600. No idea how much more we'll spend while there. It's a bucket list trip and we don't have a budget.

How did you manage to book hotels for two weeks for only 2600 dollars? I just booked for 11 nights, and our total is $8K.

It's partly b/c we booked months ago. The Mimaru hotel we booked in Kyoto for $1600 for six nights is now $2500 for the same room. Also, we have a free place to stay in Tokyo.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of four to Japan for two weeks. Airfare is around $4500. Hotels are around $2600. No idea how much more we'll spend while there. It's a bucket list trip and we don't have a budget.

How did you manage to book hotels for two weeks for only 2600 dollars? I just booked for 11 nights, and our total is $8K.

It's partly b/c we booked months ago. The Mimaru hotel we booked in Kyoto for $1600 for six nights is now $2500 for the same room. Also, we have a free place to stay in Tokyo.

how did you get airfare to Tokyo for 1K a person?

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Anonymous wrote:Family of four to Japan for two weeks. Airfare is around $4500. Hotels are around $2600. No idea how much more we'll spend while there. It's a bucket list trip and we don't have a budget.

How did you manage to book hotels for two weeks for only 2600 dollars? I just booked for 11 nights, and our total is $8K.

It's partly b/c we booked months ago. The Mimaru hotel we booked in Kyoto for $1600 for six nights is now $2500 for the same room. Also, we have a free place to stay in Tokyo.

how did you get airfare to Tokyo for 1K a person?

It's from Chicago on ANA in economy: ORD-HND-KIX, NRT-ORD. Purchased last summer. The transatlantic legs are nonstop. We arrive in HND around 9pm JST and sleep at an airport hotel before flying to KIX at 1pm the following day. So it's not ideal - we lose that first full day just flying to KIX and getting the train to Kyoto. But we'll probably be a mess anyway. Our airport hotel has a rooftop onsen and a breakfast buffet, so it should at least be a comfortable place to chill for 12 hours.

Regarding pricing, adding that KIX flight actually lowered the price. I messed around with our dates and destinations a bunch before finding this combination. (It likely would be more pleasant to take the bullet train from Tokyo directly to Kyoto, but significantly more costly.) Also, we're leaving Chicago on a Wednesday and returning on a Friday (silver lining: full weekend to recover before returning to school), so flying those days of the week also lowered the cost.

We paid nearly as much to get to Cancun on mediocre flights for winter break - and that's a 3-hour flight for us. It was painful paying that much. So yeah, Japan seems quite reasonable in comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:I spend about 10-12 grand for two.

Same here. But it’s a trip of a lifetime destination