Family of 5 Travel Budget

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 (but often bring our ap so 6), hhi 900-1.2m, we spend most weekends at our second home in winter to ski, and a lot of the summer there as well. We also take 3-4 other vacations in normal times, plus 1-2 trips to see family. I think we probably spend @$50-100k/year on travel depending on the year. That’s not for first class and 5* hotels, that is just what it costs. We usually do europe at least once a year (haven’t been since 2019) and often rent a house and just stay for 3-4 weeks, doing day trips. Hoping we can resume that this summer especially since working remotely is accepted as a norm now. Big expensive trips in the past was @$25k for taking extended family to Disney for Christmas week, Hawaii for 9 days in Feb (rented a house with pool in one place, stayed in a resort just a couple of nights), dh and I try to take one nice trip a year just us. Jade Mountain was probably our fanciest, we’ve also done long weekends in various places in the US and Europe.

Good grief.
Sounds like you spend most of your income.
Second home, $125K annual travel. Even 1.2M won't stretch that far.
Our income is similar, and we don't do half what you do. And we don't own a second home. We're frugal I guess, but college and retirement funds are paid up. That's just us. We're not materialistic, and we don't care about staying in fancy hotels/resorts. Just do stuff we enjoy like museums, galleries, theater, dance, music events in large cities, outdoor events, hiking (no camping I hate camping) in beautiful places. We don't travel to Europe often. I guess we're homebodies.

We don’t, but you sound like a judgmental homebody. We have a net worth of @$10M and save a ton every year. We aren’t materialistic either, we value experiences and we have family and friends in Europe who we want to visit.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 (but often bring our ap so 6), hhi 900-1.2m, we spend most weekends at our second home in winter to ski, and a lot of the summer there as well. We also take 3-4 other vacations in normal times, plus 1-2 trips to see family. I think we probably spend @$50-100k/year on travel depending on the year. That’s not for first class and 5* hotels, that is just what it costs. We usually do europe at least once a year (haven’t been since 2019) and often rent a house and just stay for 3-4 weeks, doing day trips. Hoping we can resume that this summer especially since working remotely is accepted as a norm now. Big expensive trips in the past was @$25k for taking extended family to Disney for Christmas week, Hawaii for 9 days in Feb (rented a house with pool in one place, stayed in a resort just a couple of nights), dh and I try to take one nice trip a year just us. Jade Mountain was probably our fanciest, we’ve also done long weekends in various places in the US and Europe.

Good grief.
Sounds like you spend most of your income.
Second home, $125K annual travel. Even 1.2M won't stretch that far.
Our income is similar, and we don't do half what you do. And we don't own a second home. We're frugal I guess, but college and retirement funds are paid up. That's just us. We're not materialistic, and we don't care about staying in fancy hotels/resorts. Just do stuff we enjoy like museums, galleries, theater, dance, music events in large cities, outdoor events, hiking (no camping I hate camping) in beautiful places. We don't travel to Europe often. I guess we're homebodies.

We don’t, but you sound like a judgmental homebody. We have a net worth of @$10M and save a ton every year. We aren’t materialistic either, we value experiences and we have family and friends in Europe who we want to visit.

+1. That person sounded ridiculous. Much better to spend money on cultural pursuits than the Delaware shore, like so many in the DMV. It never ceases to shock me that people spend so much money to visit mediocre destinations. What a waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 here.
Our trip from this school year will be
- 1 week west to visit family; we get an Airbnb so we don’t have to cram in anyone house
- 5 day Caribbean trip
- 1 week California over winter break
- 1 week Hawaii for spring break
- 2 weeks Europe over the summer

Plus 2 girls trips (4 days each) for me with friends (no kids)
5 weeks vacation and I travel for 4 of them.
Not including food and activities on trips, probably $35k at least; I don’t typically budget or total the cost; I just pay for each trip as we go.
HHI $650; travel is the thing we love, so we spend less on other things that don’t matter to me

Wow! How do you make so much money but get so much leave!

DH makes a little more than that and never has to be in an office. Really he just needs to be able to respond to calls/emails within 24hrs. He makes his own schedule and maybe travels for work 2-3 times a year. We pretty much travel whenever we want. Know plenty of people in the same boat.

I know only one person "in the same boat." He's a partner in a San Francisco law firm. Travels about 3 months a year.

What profession(s) OP? What part of the country?

PP here, DH is a product rep, basically sales. Live in the DC area during school year when not traveling. SC beach in summer./holidays.

Yeah sales never really has an “office” they either were visiting clients or working wherever on details of a deal. But in some ways he is never on vacation because of a client needs him, he needs to be there? But sales explains the high salary high flexibility. Just don’t miss your numbers, right?

It’s not that type of sales gig. He is an independent rep in a much field. He brings clients to the manufacturers, gets a commission. He doesn’t need to do “on demand” face time with clients. It is more a relationship type sale than a traditional b2c transaction. There are no quotas or numbers to hit.

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Sounds like you all have a nice, reasonable vacation budget based upon your household income. Enjoy!

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 (but often bring our ap so 6), hhi 900-1.2m, we spend most weekends at our second home in winter to ski, and a lot of the summer there as well. We also take 3-4 other vacations in normal times, plus 1-2 trips to see family. I think we probably spend @$50-100k/year on travel depending on the year. That’s not for first class and 5* hotels, that is just what it costs. We usually do europe at least once a year (haven’t been since 2019) and often rent a house and just stay for 3-4 weeks, doing day trips. Hoping we can resume that this summer especially since working remotely is accepted as a norm now. Big expensive trips in the past was @$25k for taking extended family to Disney for Christmas week, Hawaii for 9 days in Feb (rented a house with pool in one place, stayed in a resort just a couple of nights), dh and I try to take one nice trip a year just us. Jade Mountain was probably our fanciest, we’ve also done long weekends in various places in the US and Europe.

Do you mind sharing where your vacation home is that you ski from?

We live in NYC so our vacation home is in NW Connecticut.

Thanks for replying. I was hoping to learn more about easy-to-drive-to ski homes but that location won’t work for us!

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Our family of 4 with similar income probably spends a similar amount, though I have not tracked. Some trips to see family. A trip to Europe. Maybe an off season trip to the Caribbean. Long weekends for local skiing or NYC. It seems reasonable to me. (And our kids are in public school and we have one car, which we bought with cash, so no car payment, no debt besides the mortgage.)

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 here.
Our trip from this school year will be
- 1 week west to visit family; we get an Airbnb so we don’t have to cram in anyone house
- 5 day Caribbean trip
- 1 week California over winter break
- 1 week Hawaii for spring break
- 2 weeks Europe over the summer

Plus 2 girls trips (4 days each) for me with friends (no kids)
5 weeks vacation and I travel for 4 of them.
Not including food and activities on trips, probably $35k at least; I don’t typically budget or total the cost; I just pay for each trip as we go.
HHI $650; travel is the thing we love, so we spend less on other things that don’t matter to me

Wow! How do you make so much money but get so much leave!

DH makes a little more than that and never has to be in an office. Really he just needs to be able to respond to calls/emails within 24hrs. He makes his own schedule and maybe travels for work 2-3 times a year. We pretty much travel whenever we want. Know plenty of people in the same boat.

I know only one person "in the same boat." He's a partner in a San Francisco law firm. Travels about 3 months a year.

What profession(s) OP? What part of the country?

PP here, DH is a product rep, basically sales. Live in the DC area during school year when not traveling. SC beach in summer./holidays.

Yeah sales never really has an “office” they either were visiting clients or working wherever on details of a deal. But in some ways he is never on vacation because of a client needs him, he needs to be there? But sales explains the high salary high flexibility. Just don’t miss your numbers, right?

It’s not that type of sales gig. He is an independent rep in a much field. He brings clients to the manufacturers, gets a commission. He doesn’t need to do “on demand” face time with clients. It is more a relationship type sale than a traditional b2c transaction. There are no quotas or numbers to hit.

I’m always amazed about all the lucrative jobs that I literally have no idea about. I’m still not sure what this is, how did he find it?

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 here.
Our trip from this school year will be
- 1 week west to visit family; we get an Airbnb so we don’t have to cram in anyone house
- 5 day Caribbean trip
- 1 week California over winter break
- 1 week Hawaii for spring break
- 2 weeks Europe over the summer

Plus 2 girls trips (4 days each) for me with friends (no kids)
5 weeks vacation and I travel for 4 of them.
Not including food and activities on trips, probably $35k at least; I don’t typically budget or total the cost; I just pay for each trip as we go.
HHI $650; travel is the thing we love, so we spend less on other things that don’t matter to me

Wow! How do you make so much money but get so much leave!

DH makes a little more than that and never has to be in an office. Really he just needs to be able to respond to calls/emails within 24hrs. He makes his own schedule and maybe travels for work 2-3 times a year. We pretty much travel whenever we want. Know plenty of people in the same boat.

I know only one person "in the same boat." He's a partner in a San Francisco law firm. Travels about 3 months a year.

What profession(s) OP? What part of the country?

PP here, DH is a product rep, basically sales. Live in the DC area during school year when not traveling. SC beach in summer./holidays.

Yeah sales never really has an “office” they either were visiting clients or working wherever on details of a deal. But in some ways he is never on vacation because of a client needs him, he needs to be there? But sales explains the high salary high flexibility. Just don’t miss your numbers, right?

It’s not that type of sales gig. He is an independent rep in a much field. He brings clients to the manufacturers, gets a commission. He doesn’t need to do “on demand” face time with clients. It is more a relationship type sale than a traditional b2c transaction. There are no quotas or numbers to hit.

But he’s basically working for himself bringing client to a manufacture (like medical?) so yeah no leave in that type of arrangement.