For the two of us, 15K

HHI: $250-300k; married with one child

We usually spend between $7k-12k on travel.

We spend around 30k per year and we also tag along to DH's conferences if they are in a good location (CA, AZ or FL).

Hi: $580,00

2 teens

$30,000 to $40,000 a year. 2 big trips and several weekend getaways.

$8-9k/year. HHI: $235k

That includes:
Spring break: $4,000
2 weeks beach $3,500
Weekend trips to friend's house on bay: $200/trip
Week a friend's lake house: $500.

Anonymous wrote:-$25K a year to own a beach house; 2-4 weeks each summer plus all weekends.
-$10K on an international trip for spring break.
-$2K on odds and ends like a few weekends of local skiing.
HHI $390K; 3 school aged kids.

Close to 40K per year on vacations with HHI of ~400K? How retirement and college savings look? Seems like a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost nothing. We don't have enough vacation days to cover vacations, school closings, sick days, plus visiting family. (Also have small children, definitely was not the case pre-small children!)

Visiting my parents costs us a couple tanks of gas and some food on the road. Visiting his will now cost 4 plane tickets and a rental car. We haven't done it since we had a 2nd kid though H and our oldest are going this summer so we can avoid the car rental thing and just cover the 2 plane tickets, airport food, and food/tickets to whatever they do out there.

Same, except we put all of our extra income into fertility treatments because we've been trying for two years to have a second child.

I'm sorry. I'm the previous poster with 3 kids. We went through this period of life as well as we had to do IVF for our 3 kids (two pregnancies). We scrimped and saved every dollar. I hope you're out of this phase soon and able to vacation again.

Thank you so much. Don't mean to derail the thread. I do long for vacations, but if we can get our rainbow baby out of this, I'll have no regrets.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost nothing. We don't have enough vacation days to cover vacations, school closings, sick days, plus visiting family. (Also have small children, definitely was not the case pre-small children!)

Visiting my parents costs us a couple tanks of gas and some food on the road. Visiting his will now cost 4 plane tickets and a rental car. We haven't done it since we had a 2nd kid though H and our oldest are going this summer so we can avoid the car rental thing and just cover the 2 plane tickets, airport food, and food/tickets to whatever they do out there.

Same, except we put all of our extra income into fertility treatments because we've been trying for two years to have a second child.

I'm sorry. I'm the previous poster with 3 kids. We went through this period of life as well as we had to do IVF for our 3 kids (two pregnancies). We scrimped and saved every dollar. I hope you're out of this phase soon and able to vacation again.

HHI $250K. 2 middle school kids

We take one big family trip in the summer for 1-2 weeks and that is usually around $8-$10K
Spring break visiting family out-of-state probably runs $2K
A couple other weekend trips throughout the year add maybe another $2-$3K

So maybe $15K total.

Anonymous wrote:Almost nothing. We don't have enough vacation days to cover vacations, school closings, sick days, plus visiting family. (Also have small children, definitely was not the case pre-small children!)

Visiting my parents costs us a couple tanks of gas and some food on the road. Visiting his will now cost 4 plane tickets and a rental car. We haven't done it since we had a 2nd kid though H and our oldest are going this summer so we can avoid the car rental thing and just cover the 2 plane tickets, airport food, and food/tickets to whatever they do out there.

Same, except we put all of our extra income into fertility treatments because we've been trying for two years to have a second child.

-$25K a year to own a beach house; 2-4 weeks each summer plus all weekends.
-$10K on an international trip for spring break.
-$2K on odds and ends like a few weekends of local skiing.
HHI $390K; 3 school aged kids.

We bring a nanny on our vacations and tack vacations on to international travel for work. We are also somewhat prissy and would not consider camping to be fun or relaxing - our vacations involve luxury hotel suites and such. We're easily spending low six figures on vacations.

This has been posted many times so if you are truly interested you might want to do a search.

We are at a high income level so we spend more. Not sure it is necessarily instructive though. Winter break ski trip was about $10k for 4 people. Going on another western ski trip in March that will be much less because airfare is free, maybe $4k. We spend much of the summer at the beach, although it's not all vacation. There isn't a rental cost but the cost of owning a house is pretty high. We drive there. Food is not much different than food here so I don't count that as a cost. We are planning a week in Europe in the fall to visit a friend. Airfare will probably be free, so maybe $5k on that trip? Plus various weekends (parents weekend at college, which requires a flight and hotel), a couple of ski weekends, DH is coming with me to FL for a work trip in March, etc. I travel a lot for work so sometimes add a weekend trip if it's to someplace good.

Almost nothing. We don't have enough vacation days to cover vacations, school closings, sick days, plus visiting family. (Also have small children, definitely was not the case pre-small children!)

Visiting my parents costs us a couple tanks of gas and some food on the road. Visiting his will now cost 4 plane tickets and a rental car. We haven't done it since we had a 2nd kid though H and our oldest are going this summer so we can avoid the car rental thing and just cover the 2 plane tickets, airport food, and food/tickets to whatever they do out there.

We've cut way back since having kids (ages 3 and 5). I was wondering what most other families do/spend.

We find the beach to be a good place for our kids. We haven't figured out when we'd do Disney yet. Maybe next year??

Right now we do the following:

A long weekend (4 days) in Florida in Feb/March - just costs us the plane tickets and some dinners out as we stay with my parents ($600)

A long weekend(5 days) in early summer to a local resort place - approx $1,600 plus dining.

A week beach house rental that we share with friends - $3,000 plus half the groceries for the week and a couple nights out.

What do you do?