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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is eye opening considering how many people on DCUM act like it’s super pitiful if your annual vacations are to places like Rehoboth and Orlando. I also don’t understand how people are spending this little. We are going to Key West for Spring Break and staying in 1 hotel room at a mid-level full service chain (Marriott, Hilton). Our flights and hotel alone are $6-7k once you factor in checking 1 big suitcase for all 4 of us, Uber to/from airport, resort fees and taxes, etc. It’s easily a $10k trip with a car rental, meals out, and excursions like renting kayaks and swimming with dolphins. And it seems like we always stay at really dumpy hotels compared to other families we know in a similar income bracket! We’re traveling to a wedding on the West coast this summer and will tack on a national park trip afterwards. I’m sure the whole thing will cost $20k and we’ll be gone 2-2.5 weeks. A trip to Europe or South America would be equally costly. [/quote] I like Rehoboth and Orlando, FYI. I am not a travel snob! I think those hotel rooms add up - especially at a popular time at spring break. Lately, I like to stay at VRBOs lately for more room and often lower cost. But as I mentioned, we are in the income bracket stated in the OP, and once we went to Aruba and stayed in a house rental by owner near the Marriott there. We went to the beach near the Marriott and saw all the guests there, and I thought to myself - I could not justify the price of this hotel - does really everyone here make that much more than us that they're willing to drop that much on this hotel?! LOL. That said - I like to travel often and I could spend more on ONE trip if I took fewer trips. I guess everyone is different - we are saving for college and retirement and pay for our vacations in cash. Maybe others put it on credit and aren't saving. Who knows.[/quote] Disney used to be super cheap and easy so we went a bunch of times. I would not go to Orlando during spring break. [/quote] I'm the person you're responding to. We went Universal during Spring Break 2023 and stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel. It wasn't cheap but we had a great time. Fortunately I paid for that trip before I started budgeting :-P Or unfortunately, maybe these trips are why I had to start budgeting... hahaha.[/quote] It's not worth it for spring break. We used to pull our kids out of school to go to Disney when they were in Elementary School (or younger). We'd also use the military discounts and use the Southwest Credit Card people recommended here years ago so we could go for a few thousand and stay 10-12 days or do a cruise and Disney (one year) and it wasn't as much as people here say it is). Now we have tons of miles saved up not traveling so when we do travel again, it will be affordable. [/quote]
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