What is your travel budget and plan for 2025?
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OP here - Galapagos is bucket list for us - did you use a tour operator? Anguilla is a recent find for us and we love it (just been twice so far) - how do you use Marriott points there? |
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Op, get a grip. How could they stay on this figure? Did you just fall off the turnip truck? |
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OP here - we haven't been to great wolf yet - what's your experience like? can you say more about where in maine and vt - we've been to maine twice and love it |
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January: Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland for 3 weeks.
April: Belize for 10 days June: Australia and New Zealand for 3 weeks That’s all I got so far. No idea of costs. |
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We’re planning on 7-10 days in Greece this summer (depending on how much time DH can take). No set budget; it’ll end up being primarily whatever airfare for 3 costs as most of our lodging is free since we’ll stay at my ILs condo and just do 1 or 2 nights for side trips.
We’ll also likely have at least one trip to an admitted students day for DC but since we’re still waiting on decisions, I have no idea where or how many yet. |
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Where do you stay in Anguilla? |
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Visit in laws in Newport Beach 3 weeks
- Use points for flight, free accomodations and use their car, we will definitely do some tourist activities like Disneyland one day and Legoland one day, surf lessons for the kids, the aquariums etc Stay in our second home in Steamboat Springs - 14 nights Christmas break ski trip - 21 days summer - 7 nights spring break skiing $2200 epic ski pass for 4 people - use points for flights Will pay for activities like rafting, horseback riding, etc in summer. Own skis, sleds, ice skates. - Napa 4 night couples trip use miles for flights $1000 for hotel after using points for part of the trip - European Trip over Thanksgiving $10k to Scotland for 4, outside of the season so pretty reasonable, 9 nights |
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We are going to ME for a family wedding, but spending 4 nights in Acadia and making a week out of it. This time I paid $1,909.75 for 5 flights already, and I am paying $3K for a VRBO in Acadia for 4 nights (then separately paying 3 nights in a hotel, but I am not considering that part of my travel budget - that's part of my family events budget). I think for the purposes of this post here, I only budgeted $3K for the trip because that's the only portion I was considering a vacation. We have a 4th grader so our national park pass is free this year. Usually when we stay in a house rental, we eat 2 meals a day with groceries in the house and go out for one meal. We also went to Acadia in 2017, and we drove that time and I paid $3K for the house rental for a week. This is my past post if you want to read it: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/644562.page For Iceland, I bought our plane tix for $400/each already, and I believe I am budgeting $7K for the whole trip. I did the google flights explore feature to pick the trip, and with flights for $400, I picked Iceland. Actually only 3 of us are going - the younger 2 will be at camp. I believe I could have done it cheaper on my own, but I decided to have a travel agent plan it. Lapland - Rovaniemi and Levi. What about you? |
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We’re a family of 5 doing a winter trip to NYC soon (train fare and hotels are really cheap right now, so can probably keep it under $2,500 for a 2-3 night getaway).
Disney for Spring Break (about $5-7k). Visiting a national park for summer break (another $5-7k depending on where we decide to go e.g. airfare, lodging can vary a bit). That is as far as we’ve gotten. We’ll probably add something else in and spend about 20k this year on travel. |
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| NYC for a family event on dh's side, France this summer to see family on my side. Then I'd like to go to Nantucket or Maine with just dh at end of summer. |
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PP here. Costa rica has a wide range of accomodations and we are definitely more midrange travelers who prefer to travel more, but dont care about high end hotel rooms, etc (usually like air bnbs or simple accommodations). Flights were c. 500/person; not renting a car this time, but we are staying 4 nights around la fortuna in an air bnb (160/night); we are doing one semi-package that includes one night in Tortuguero and one night rafting/tented camp which is 300 pp (includes most meals, transportation from arenal and will drop off near airport in san jose for our next destination, rafting, guided canal tour); then we are flying to /from the osa peninsula (our biggest expense flights at 1200 total for the flights), but staying in a very modest cabinas (still have killer views of the ocean). flights 3200 (to/from costa rica and the drake bay flights) arenal lodging 700 (air bnb) rafting/tortuguero 1200 (package with most expenses) drake bay lodging (700) so 5800 for those costs leaving us +- 4 k for food, additional transport, activities. |
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I don't have anything planned yet, but we also don't really budget lol. I get 5wks vacation, DH will get his 3rd week in April. So we are waiting until at least then before we book anything.
We normally don't pre-plan anything, but go where the flight deals take us, which helps save. Going to creep on everyone elses plans and see if I get any inspiration. |
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Not really budgeting that much for Pittsburgh. I think we’ll stay well under 1k. Splitting an Airbnb with friends for two nights was $300. Don’t see us spending that much on food/any activities. We’re driving there. Acadia - I’d say definitely under 4K, probably around 3k if it’d have to guess now. We’re staying at an Airbnb with family. Our share is $1,800. We are planning to drive and will most likely use points to stop overnight somewhere on the way. Our Airbnb has a kitchen so we’ll be doing a decent amount of eating in. |
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We are doing 14 days in Costa Rica (2 adults, 2 teens) for probably about $14,000. We did splurge on one accommodation but a lot of it was activities...fishing, guided hikes, snorkeling trip...all for 4 people. This is by far the most we've ever spent. But we won't likely be back so want to make the most of it. We went to Pacific Mexico a couple years ago and spent about $5k for a similar length of time! Generally we spend about $4k to $6k on a week renting a vrbo at a US beach location.
Other than that we do some local ski weekends in New England...cheap hotels but the food adds up there. |