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[quote=Anonymous]I travel a lot and I am rich, as in I make a high salary. But I traveled internationally in college, after college when I was making $44k, and during law school too. It’s obviously easier to travel when you make a lot of money, but you don’t have to. My standard of travel hasn't changed all that much since then. The prices of itineraries (especially flights and hotels) I tend to see here are usually expensive because it’s luxury travel or because it’s a family with kids tied to traveling at peak times because of school schedules.

But if we’re talking about prices for 1-2 adults not bound to school/peak travel schedules, an economy ticket to Europe is $500ish or less. I frequently subsidize this with credit card points, so sometimes just pay the taxes ($200 or so). I generally don’t stay at luxury hotels or corporate chain hotels - you can find perfectly nice boutique/independent hotels that are safe, clean, and in a central area in European cities for $150ish per night. I somewhat recently learned about the Chase/Hyatt points transfer (basically that Hyatts tend to be pretty cheap with points and don’t do dynamic pricing), so I’ll periodically do that. And then food/activities, for which you can go as high or low as you want.

I can actually frequently do a trip like this for cheaper than an equivalent time in a US city. Like, depending on extras/add-ons, under $2k for 2 people. Which is not that expensive.

If you’re asking how people are taking vacations where they’re flying business and staying at the Rosewood, that’s just having an insane amount of money. I’m in biglaw and still wouldn’t feel good blowing $40k+ on a vacation.

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