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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). [b]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. [/b]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 don't see how you're paying this much. $2k tops on tickets and $2500 for mid-level hotel.

There's no reason a trip to Europe or South America needs to be $20k, particularly if you just spend a little bit of time searching for flight deals. [/quote]

Yea, PP is an idiot for spending that much. We’re going to Europe for 10 days at spring break for about $6k and she’s spending $7k on Key West? Why would all four need to check a bag, for example? We usually check one large bag for our family of four and take some carry ons. Use points for some hotels, find deals for flights. Etc. We fly to Europe every year.[/quote]

Want to tell us where you've gone - and how much around flights and lodging have cost? Where you stayed etc?  I would be happy for ideas and tips!  We are family of 5 - 2 adults and 3 kids.[/quote]

We’re going to Portugal this year. Flights about $3600 for four (on TAP Portugal which isn’t great btw). Car rental about $400. We have most of the accommodation paid on chase Sapphire reserve points, but spending about $750 for one Airbnb rental. Tbh there were great prices for places to stay without points / looking mostly for apartments/guest houses or suites. Trains are also inexpensive, so a car might not be necessary. Breakfast is included in most of the places we are staying and we also have kitchens at the two places we are staying the longest. Though will likely eat out quite a bit. Most activities and sights are not expensive. I don’t count our usual food and entertainment budget (what we’d spend if we were at home) as part of the vacation budget and it seems Portugal might cost less overall than we spend at home some weeks.

Have also flown to Europe via Iceland in Iceland air for bargain flight prices (stop over in Iceland is fun too, though Iceland is very expensive, particularly for food). Last year that cost less than $3k for flights for four. Don’t fly Saturday to Saturday for the best prices. In the summer we tend to go mid week to mid week and book as far in advance as possible. [/quote]

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