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[quote=Anonymous]Family of 5 here.  Travel with 5 is super expensive because you need a big rental car, and two hotel rooms or a suite.  I don’t think you can do the “big” vacation for 10K.  We’re fairly frugal and those typically run more like 15K for us.  Our trip to London that got scratched due to covid, the flights over spring break were going to be 7K for the five of us with taxes and everything (cheapest direct flights) plus another 4K for the vrbo and that’s before we paid for activities or food/.  Our California trip before the pandemic was $12,500 without food, although that included 2 days at disney and one expensive activity at a national park, so probably could have kept it just under 10K before food but skipping those—but I think at least a couple of the flights were free.   Try to actually cost it out and see.

On the other hand, the Xmas trip sounds high, if you are staying with family.  We can usually get tickets cheaper than $600/pp to our family out west—we buy SWA the day the flights open usually and will adjust flight days based on price.  The beach week might also be a smidge high but there’s a crazy amount of price variation in beach rentals.

If your kids are little, all those ski vacations seem like a lot but I guess if it’s important to you, then it’s worth it.  I didn’t learn to ski until I was a teenager so all the people that think it’s really important their kids learn to ski at 4 always surprise me.  It’s not like we live in Switzerland.  I don’t think it’s an important life skill like swimming and isn’t even really an important social skill unless you are in the widely wealthy set that all seem to have houses in aspen or whatever.  You could also just do day trips to liberty and not have to pay for overnight—that’s what most people O know do.  I don’t really know any middle class families that take multiple ski trips a year where they stay overnight.[/quote]

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