Wow, $3,500 for a spring break vacation sounds quite reasonable, especially for a Caribbean getaway! You go! It's great to hear you can enjoy such a wonderful trip without breaking the bank.

Speaking of vacations, my partner and I decided to go a bit extravagant this year. We're spending $65,000 for a private yacht experience in the Caribbean with another family. It's personalized services, gourmet meals prepared by a private chef, and island-hopping at our leisure. It's definitely a splurge, but we thought, why not celebrate life in grand style? Anyway, enjoy your Airbnb stay; the Caribbean is always a nice choice, no matter how you experience it!

Family of four to Japan for two weeks. Airfare is around $4500. Hotels are around $2600. No idea how much more we'll spend while there. It's a bucket list trip and we don't have a budget.

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Anonymous wrote:We're going to spend less than $1000 camping. $250 for the campsite, $750 for gas, food, fun outings.

Where on Earth is a $250 camping space?? We camp all over and I think the most expensive spot I’ve ever been was maybe $50 per night and that was so much. Usually it’s $10-30.

Pp is discussing the cost of the whole trip, not per night. So the campsite is $250 FOR THE WHOLE TRIP.

Anonymous wrote:We're going to spend less than $1000 camping. $250 for the campsite, $750 for gas, food, fun outings.

Where on Earth is a $250 camping space?? We camp all over and I think the most expensive spot I’ve ever been was maybe $50 per night and that was so much. Usually it’s $10-30.

We’re spending somewhere between 6-7k for a FL trip with a couple days at Disney and then a few nights at the beach.

This is the first year our kids are old enough where we want to take a spring break trip for more than a quick road trip (3 kids ages 3-9). It was COVID and then the baby/toddler years with our last one. Going forward I could easily see spending 5-8k on avg as we start going nicer places. I’d really love to do Costa Rica one year.

We are planning to spend about $10k for California, flights were really expensive for our dates/times/direct. We need two rooms (hotel or Airbnb) which also increases the cost.

10 years ago I feel like it would have been 1/3 the price...

We’re going to Europe for ten nights. Flights $4k (most expensive we’ve ever paid, unfortunately), car rental $500, accommodation total of $750 (rest on points). Expect we’ll spend about $6k total, (not including what we’d usually spend on food and activities if we were at home)

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Anonymous wrote:It's so expensive and yet travel is not slowing down. Aside from the UMC, how are people affording all these vacations? Are we going to go back to vacations being traveling to grandma's or are people going into debt?

definitely about income level but also about priorities. We spend around $20-25K/year on travel - spring break ski trip, 2 week summer vacation and various weekends away. Also contribute aggressively to 401k and college funds. While we spend what seems like a lot on travel we don't drive fancy cars, don't have a cleaners and haven't done any major home renovations over 10K/project. I'd love a new kitchen/big renovation but would rather travel. So no going into debt here.

We are exactly the same.

How many traveling?

We are spending about $5,000 for spring break this year - staying in a VRBO condo at the beach in Florida and driving there from the Chicago area. The $5,000 covers the condo, gas, hotels on the way and some misc spending money - we'll eat most meals in. The condo we're renting is ground floor and walk out to beach, and I could have saved a little money by staying further away, but otherwise this is about as cheap as I could get this year (and the condo is tiny). Our spring break is always the last week of March and it's hard to find any inexpensive flights that week.

We normally do a beach trip for spring break, a week at a lake in Michigan in the summer, and a visit to family either right after school gets out or over winter break. We splurge on a bigger trip every few years but can't do big trips every year.

Anonymous wrote:It's so expensive and yet travel is not slowing down. Aside from the UMC, how are people affording all these vacations? Are we going to go back to vacations being traveling to grandma's or are people going into debt?

definitely about income level but also about priorities. We spend around $20-25K/year on travel - spring break ski trip, 2 week summer vacation and various weekends away. Also contribute aggressively to 401k and college funds. While we spend what seems like a lot on travel we don't drive fancy cars, don't have a cleaners and haven't done any major home renovations over 10K/project. I'd love a new kitchen/big renovation but would rather travel. So no going into debt here.

Anonymous wrote:It's so expensive and yet travel is not slowing down. Aside from the UMC, how are people affording all these vacations? Are we going to go back to vacations being traveling to grandma's or are people going into debt?

Points hacking with credit cards (check out travel hacking mom and 10x travel). Also home exchanges. Booking super far in advance and always scouring for flight deals (Matt's Going, Jack's Flight Club). I have paid around $600 or less for all tickets to Europe, including Greece last July. It also helps to take a few extra days off school for cheaper flights during spring break, Sat-Sun is just always the most expensive time. We travel a lot but only spend a few grand per year on flights and hotels.

OP- yeah we can’t stay in fancy resort rooms mainly because our trip budget only allows us to share a room and but that’s not fun with two bigger kids and only one bathroom to share. I’d love to be able to get two rooms but that’s where we have to just do airbnb or reveal vacation instead. The beach places would be about $1k a night or more for two rooms for the week, not including meals.

We were a well off family when I was growing up and traveled more than my friends did and we still only had I shared hotel room with my parents unless my dad’s company paid.

Yeah OP - that's good

I couldn't make anything work for less than $1200/night either as another PP said. I gave up. We'll prob do NYC by train. Stay in a hotel Lower E Side about $400/per night x4 nights. It'll still cost us about the same after you tack on the activities. Maybe we will drive v pay for train/bus tix though. That's about the cheapest I could come up with for about 5 days.

Even with miles for flights, the destinations you want to do in the places you want to be at and if you have kids - so multiple rooms = pricey. We do a lot of Airbnb stays but it still adds up

It's so expensive and yet travel is not slowing down. Aside from the UMC, how are people affording all these vacations? Are we going to go back to vacations being traveling to grandma's or are people going into debt?