4 weeks off, usually spend about 6K. HHI about $150K. We fly with 2 kids to visit my parents out west, rent a car, stay with them or sometimes VRBO, fly to Florida to visit friends, VRBO there, or get a good deal on a condo or hotel suite, and do the beach and nature activities that are not expensive, maybe one day at a theme park. On weekends we go out on our boat, or visit friends with lake or beach homes and we like to camp, go on waterfall hikes, go to the beach (Assateague/Chincoteague.) I only go up to NYC like once every few years. Have not tried anything further afield than California with the kids yet. Tix to Italy are like $1200 pp right now and up, it's not undoable, but we would have to blow off my family that year to go.

When our kids were little, I'd ask what the best part of the trip was and they'd say "the froot loops for breakfast and the pool" We could have been 2 miles from home and it would have been just fine (versus across the country for so much more $)

Now they are teens and they totally appreciate seeing new places and cultures, so we are traveling more. Vacation time is very important to us and we forgo other luxuries so we can travel.

Our HHI is about $300K and we spend about $15K/year on travel- This year we are going to France and Germany for 2 weeks and skiing out west for a week, so it we will probably have a higher spend (about $30K).

HHI 2.2M. We spend 50-60K per year on vacations, family of five (six when we take grandma). Travel is the one thing we spend on without regret. Otherwise pretty frugal.

We take 3 weeks of vacation. HHI 350k no debt other than mortgage. One week at beach (cheap as we stay at family home) one week in FL, (free airfare and free stay at ritz thanks to points) and one expensive trip - either Caribbean, Europe or this year a 7 day/night stay at a dude ranch in WYneith the kids that comes to 11k for the week - air fair should be free w points.

Anonymous wrote:I've been rethinking what we spend on vacations. It seems kind of ridiculous how many hotel rooms are 500 plus a night. Inn at Perry cabin was 800 and that is A LOT of money. We make around 350k, no kids, no student loans or any debt besides mortgage. I'm just not sure the high end vacations are worth it. That being said, we have done a lot of traveling in our lives and been a lot of the places we would want to visit. Don't get me wrong. I love vacation. But our ski trip last year was around 8k. That seems steep, especially for our income.

That does seem steep for skiing. We spend about that for a family of 4 at Xmas which is peak pricing, and way less when we go for spring break. We've gotten great late season deals in Vail at luxury hotels.

Little Nell sorry!)

Anonymous wrote:I've been rethinking what we spend on vacations. It seems kind of ridiculous how many hotel rooms are 500 plus a night. Inn at Perry cabin was 800 and that is A LOT of money. We make around 350k, no kids, no student loans or any debt besides mortgage. I'm just not sure the high end vacations are worth it. That being said, we have done a lot of traveling in our lives and been a lot of the places we would want to visit. Don't get me wrong. I love vacation. But our ski trip last year was around 8k. That seems steep, especially for our income.

Rent a condo instead.8 k for 2 people and I assume ski trip within USA is very expensive.You prob went to Aspen and stayed at St. Regis or Little Nail?)

I've been rethinking what we spend on vacations. It seems kind of ridiculous how many hotel rooms are 500 plus a night. Inn at Perry cabin was 800 and that is A LOT of money. We make around 350k, no kids, no student loans or any debt besides mortgage. I'm just not sure the high end vacations are worth it. That being said, we have done a lot of traveling in our lives and been a lot of the places we would want to visit. Don't get me wrong. I love vacation. But our ski trip last year was around 8k. That seems steep, especially for our income.

PP again
We spend $10K on our main vacation--generally a week in a European country.
Airfare is $5K for our family of 5 plus about $5K for airfare.
Next year we're going to Thailand and it will cost about the same but we'll stay 2 weeks (taking the kids out of school for week 2).
We generally rent a small apartment and eat breakfasts in the apartments, each a large lunch out (cheaper) and then grab something quick and cheap for dinner. It's expensive to feed a family of 5 in most European cities--you can easily spend $150 just for sandwiches and soda/coffee (i.e. non-alcoholic drinks) at a cafe in places like London and Copenhagen.

$335K
We take 3 different week-long vacations per year (spring break and 2 weeks in the summer) and spend about $20K-25k/year.

Anonymous wrote:HHI of $190K. We spend about $3k for a week away every other year. But, in DCUM terms, we're poors.

HHI 120. We skipped a trip last year and this year trying to keep it under 2500. Poor right there with you, but I guarentee you our kids find our trips just as memorable as more elaborate ones.