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Post 01/13/2026 11:27     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Have only booked hotel so far. It's about $1100 per night pre tax for 7 nights. Haven't booked flights yet, but they will probably be $6-$700 per person. Family of 4. Car will be about $1000. Florida.


You’re spending 1100 a night to stay in Florida!?


Not that PP but we are paying like 1800 a night for a beachfront room in key largo. I’m not posirve we’re going to do this but I booked it many many months ago as a placeholder. If you want to be right on beach with beachfront room, it’s expensive. We stayed at this hotel during the pandemic and liked it so I admit I didn’t shop around a lot.


Please tell me this is a rage bait. Who in their right mind spends that much to go to Florida over spring break? You could go to someplace nicer and with better weather for that price.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 11:24     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
We are going cheap on Spring Break this year- around $3,000 for a week in the Smokey Mountains.

I rented a cabin for the week for $1,600. We will spend most days hiking and most evenings relaxing in the cabin hot tub. Maybe another $1,000 on food/activities? Plus the National Park parking pass and gas should put us right around $3k.

Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 11:15     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
Ritz in Dorado Puerto Rico has lovely grounds but the beach isn’t great. I have no clue why anyone would choose to shell out so much for a nice resort with a crummy beach that is pretty far from places most tourists would want to visit: Old San Juan and El Yunque.

Ritz Grand Cayman has a great beach insofar as the gorgeous water that is very swimmable. But the resort is too crowded and the hundreds of lounge chairs on the beach was beyond what I’m willing to tolerate. Having said that, Grand Cayman offers a far better beach vacation than Puerto Rico. (Westin and Kimpton are cheaper and better than the Ritz imho.)

For Grand Cayman, most families opt for a condo on Seven Mile Beach.

Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 10:49     Subject: Re:How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
Anonymous wrote:We’re traveling with our two kids from IAD to SYD over spring break: March 14-21. Four round-trip tickets in United Polaris Business class IAD-SFO-SYD is $4,750 + 320 PlusPoints. DH is Global Services and has access to special PlusPoints inventory and reduced airfare cost.

Then, we’re staying at the Park Hyatt in Sydney for five nights with two rooms. One is the 3853 sqft Sydney Suite with two bedrooms, outdoor terrace, gourmet kitchen, fireplace, sauna, and steam room. The other is an 807 sqft premium king room with opera house view. This is costing us 410K Hyatt Points plus one Suite Upgrade Certificate. DH is lifetime globalist with Hyatt and knows the Park Hyatt Sydney management personally. They always upgrade him to the best speciality suite.

For food, excursions, transportation, and entertainment, we’re budgeting $1000 per night = $5000.

So, we’re looking at about $10K cash + 410K Hyatt Points + 1 Hyatt suite upgrade certificate + 320 United PlusPoints for a 4-person spring break to Australia on a very first class and premium vacation. Blows my mind to hear that people are spending $20K+ for vacations. We could travel to the moon and back for that much!! Must be all the BigLaw pigeons.


It blows my kid that you are flying to Australia for a week and your Business class flights are not that much more than my coach tickets to tampa last spring break.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 19:21     Subject: Re:How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
We’re traveling with our two kids from IAD to SYD over spring break: March 14-21. Four round-trip tickets in United Polaris Business class IAD-SFO-SYD is $4,750 + 320 PlusPoints. DH is Global Services and has access to special PlusPoints inventory and reduced airfare cost.

Then, we’re staying at the Park Hyatt in Sydney for five nights with two rooms. One is the 3853 sqft Sydney Suite with two bedrooms, outdoor terrace, gourmet kitchen, fireplace, sauna, and steam room. The other is an 807 sqft premium king room with opera house view. This is costing us 410K Hyatt Points plus one Suite Upgrade Certificate. DH is lifetime globalist with Hyatt and knows the Park Hyatt Sydney management personally. They always upgrade him to the best speciality suite.

For food, excursions, transportation, and entertainment, we’re budgeting $1000 per night = $5000.

So, we’re looking at about $10K cash + 410K Hyatt Points + 1 Hyatt suite upgrade certificate + 320 United PlusPoints for a 4-person spring break to Australia on a very first class and premium vacation. Blows my mind to hear that people are spending $20K+ for vacations. We could travel to the moon and back for that much!! Must be all the BigLaw pigeons.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:14     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Have only booked hotel so far. It's about $1100 per night pre tax for 7 nights. Haven't booked flights yet, but they will probably be $6-$700 per person. Family of 4. Car will be about $1000. Florida.


You’re spending 1100 a night to stay in Florida!?


Not that PP but we are paying like 1800 a night for a beachfront room in key largo. I’m not posirve we’re going to do this but I booked it many many months ago as a placeholder. If you want to be right on beach with beachfront room, it’s expensive. We stayed at this hotel during the pandemic and liked it so I admit I didn’t shop around a lot.


That’s crazy.


DP here. It is crazy that luxury beachfront hotels cost that now, true. But whether you pay it in Florida, Hawaii, or the Caribbean is just personal preference. Some people prefer the shorter flight, and not leaving the US. Don’t need passports or international health insurance. Our Grand Cayman hotel was booked on points but if we paid cash it was over $2k/night that week.


Which Grand Cayman resort? The Ritz was asking for 126k points per night, which is way too many points to burn. The Kimpton is 70k per night, but you get a room that's too small for my taste with kids.


It is the Kimpton. We have a confirmable suite upgrade we are going to try to apply, but if not we will just make do with the 2 Queens. We have two teen daughters, so the main issue is the bathroom, not the sleeping and the suite won't really help with that.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:17     Subject: Re:How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
We are at 325k HHI

Flights to London on points. Lodging about 4K for 9 days
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:01     Subject: Re:How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
Japan, flights were 1500 each RT, hotels are about 3k for the week for mid-upper tier (not luxury but nice).
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:00     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Around $33k for Ritz Dorado week before Easter. Don't have flights yet, but probably won't fly private.


That's such a lovely property. I didn't love the beach there, but everything else is truly top notch.


Do you think it's worth the price?


For the Ritz in Cayman? Depends on the room type but for a standard room or similar, no.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 16:58     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Around $33k for Ritz Dorado week before Easter. Don't have flights yet, but probably won't fly private.


That's such a lovely property. I didn't love the beach there, but everything else is truly top notch.


Do you think it's worth the price?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:40     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Have only booked hotel so far. It's about $1100 per night pre tax for 7 nights. Haven't booked flights yet, but they will probably be $6-$700 per person. Family of 4. Car will be about $1000. Florida.


You’re spending 1100 a night to stay in Florida!?


Not that PP but we are paying like 1800 a night for a beachfront room in key largo. I’m not posirve we’re going to do this but I booked it many many months ago as a placeholder. If you want to be right on beach with beachfront room, it’s expensive. We stayed at this hotel during the pandemic and liked it so I admit I didn’t shop around a lot.


That’s crazy.


DP here. It is crazy that luxury beachfront hotels cost that now, true. But whether you pay it in Florida, Hawaii, or the Caribbean is just personal preference. Some people prefer the shorter flight, and not leaving the US. Don’t need passports or international health insurance. Our Grand Cayman hotel was booked on points but if we paid cash it was over $2k/night that week.


I think this is just the going rate for a higher end hotel on popular weeks now. Luxury like ritz is thousands a night a then thousands for food.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:14     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Have only booked hotel so far. It's about $1100 per night pre tax for 7 nights. Haven't booked flights yet, but they will probably be $6-$700 per person. Family of 4. Car will be about $1000. Florida.


You’re spending 1100 a night to stay in Florida!?


Not that PP but we are paying like 1800 a night for a beachfront room in key largo. I’m not posirve we’re going to do this but I booked it many many months ago as a placeholder. If you want to be right on beach with beachfront room, it’s expensive. We stayed at this hotel during the pandemic and liked it so I admit I didn’t shop around a lot.


That’s crazy.


DP here. It is crazy that luxury beachfront hotels cost that now, true. But whether you pay it in Florida, Hawaii, or the Caribbean is just personal preference. Some people prefer the shorter flight, and not leaving the US. Don’t need passports or international health insurance. Our Grand Cayman hotel was booked on points but if we paid cash it was over $2k/night that week.


Which Grand Cayman resort? The Ritz was asking for 126k points per night, which is way too many points to burn. The Kimpton is 70k per night, but you get a room that's too small for my taste with kids.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:51     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
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Anonymous wrote:Belize for 3
Flights 4500$ each. Very expensive. This is just economy ticket.

Diving for 2 total 12 dives each plus 8 nights accommodation for 3 total $6000




You paid $4500 for each ticket to Belize?? That seems….high for an economy ticket.


Sorry my bad, it was 1500$ each, so $4500total. But still I think it’s very expensive because it’s spring break.we booked October 2025.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:35     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
Nothing. Spend what you want.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:32     Subject: How much are you spending on flights and hotels for spring break?
Anonymous wrote:Around $33k for Ritz Dorado week before Easter. Don't have flights yet, but probably won't fly private.


That's such a lovely property. I didn't love the beach there, but everything else is truly top notch.