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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A typical vacation not at a relatives house not camping costs about $1000/day. You could budget and get by with $3700 for a week. That’s going somewhere like Disney or cruise — MC vacation. [/quote]

Maybe in your universe. If you fly, stay at expensive hotels and eat out 3 meals a day plus do only paid activities.[/quote]
[b]I can tell you haven’t been on vacation lately. I’m not talking about driving to the beach.[/b] But you do you. [/quote]

DRIVING TO THE BEACH IS A MIDDLE CLASS VACATION.

Flying to a more exotic locale, and eating out for most lunches/dinners, is a UMC vacation.

Spending 1k a DAY for vacation is ridiculous.  2 summers ago we went to Switzerland for a week- we did not have miles/ CC points for the flights, so the flights for our family of 4 were 3.5k.  Then we spent about another 1.5k on lodging for the week.  We ate cheaply, and did mostly hiking/ outdoors type activities that did not have a high price point.  We still kept total costs to under 6k.  So that's under 1k a day for a European vacation to an expensive country, including airfare costs that were not offset by anything.  [/quote]

As a complete side-note - hiking vacation in Switzerland is on my bucket list!  Where did you stay?  (Stats:  single mom to 1 kid, high child-care costs, HHI of 145k, can probably save for a flying vacation every other year.)[/quote]

Grindelwald!  It was low key and relaxing! We really didn't do much besides hang out/ hike/ picnic.  Highly recommend! [/quote]

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