Anonymous
Post 02/14/2026 16:10     Subject: Re:How much for a true luxury vacation?
Anonymous wrote:
Even someone aiming for luxury would probably be very happy with Emirates lie flat business for $5k/person roundtrip to BOM. Just saved you $20k for 2 people.


“Aiming” for luxury is another topic. OP is asking about “true” luxury.

Even so I stand by my comment. Aiming for luxury is somewhere between premium economy and luxury. It’s debatable where, but we are not in ridiculous territory.


This is the issue with wealth / luxury travel - it’s got a ridiculously long tail or gulf or whatever you want to call it between how the top 1% travels vs the top .01% and so on. Is your $50K vacation not lux because someone else drops $250K to fly private to the same resort you’re at? And is taking a private jet to the resort not lux since Bezos is offshore on his $1B yacht?

There’s such a difference between how someone who makes $1M/year travels vs someone worth $50M vs $500M vs $1B or whatever. Just enjoy what you can afford / want to spend on and don’t sweat what’s truly luxury or not because there’s always a way to spend more when it comes to luxury travel.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2026 16:03     Subject: Re:How much for a true luxury vacation?

Even someone aiming for luxury would probably be very happy with Emirates lie flat business for $5k/person roundtrip to BOM. Just saved you $20k for 2 people.


“Aiming” for luxury is another topic. OP is asking about “true” luxury.

Even so I stand by my comment. Aiming for luxury is somewhere between premium economy and luxury. It’s debatable where, but we are not in ridiculous territory.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2026 15:24     Subject: How much for a true luxury vacation?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For those that said $40K, what does that vacation look like? I'm genuinely curious and want to live vicariously through, not judging.


40k is luxury in India. 40k Hawaii is premium economy.


This is ridiculous. India is a lot less than this. $40k for a family of 4 would be one of those "palace on wheels" trains. Which, sure, that could be an interesting experience, but you can stay at the nicest hotels in India with intracontinental flights for much less. (My family of 4 has done it for closer to $10k -- but that was pre-covid so assume hotels and flights cost twice that now, your trip is $20k.)



2 First Class tickets from IAD to Mumbai exceeds 30k. That leaves 10k in luxury buget. Not ridiculous.


My husband and I stayed at the Four Seasons in Maui (the hotel where the first White Lotus was shot) for a week last year. With all food and flights and car rental and our trip was around $20k. Our room was definitely big enough for kids. Sure we didn't have a $7k a night suite but we had a very nice room with a lanai and an ocean view. Even more beautiful than the Four Seasons is the Hotel Wailea -- everything about that hotel is more beautiful and luxurious than the Four Seasons and it also is less expensive.


The people in the 7K+ suites were luxury. You were premium economy.


Even someone aiming for luxury would probably be very happy with Emirates lie flat business for $5k/person roundtrip to BOM. Just saved you $20k for 2 people.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2026 14:49     Subject: How much for a true luxury vacation?
Anonymous wrote:Go read the fat travel subreddit for some data points.


This. There’s everything from people dropping millions for a week on a super-yacht to people spending $250K on a super lux safari during peak season to $100K F1 trips.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2026 13:09     Subject: How much for a true luxury vacation?
As they say…”if you have to ask…”

But seriously, crowdsourcing luxury doesn’t seem like a good idea. Luxury is different to everybody. If you usually stay in a Red Roof Inn, a Hampton Zinn would seem like luxury. Ritz and Four Seasons is luxury to most, but a private Tuscan villa with your own chef would be luxury to an uber-wealthy person.