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£7000 for 2 weeks away just can’t justify that, anybody else thinking the same?
Depends. What am I getting for my 7 grand?
return flights with diving equipment to Malta - £120
beachfront hotel with 2 pools (1 in and 1 out), breakfast, balcony and sea views £15 /night (decent reviews on tripadvisor). Add in a weeks diving and barely cracking £400.
£7k for 2 weeks must be awesome
For £7000 i would expect a fantastic holiday (C&H included).
It amazes me how much people are willing to pay for package holidays. We have booked a villa this year and even including flights it is still cheaper than some 2 star apartments.
Centerparks off-season?
How many, where, what rating and when?
anybody else thinking the same?
Nope, wouldn't consider it in the first place. 🙂
All inclusive coke and hookers?
It's kinda the going rate for a posh place, tbh...
family of 4, 2 weeks at a Royalton in the Dom Rep..not much change from £6k..
However, Royalton are AMAZING resorts 🙂 Top shelf booze all included...some of the best food (restaurant and buffet) I've had...
Lurvely!
DrP
We drove to the Alps then Tuscany in the School Holidays last year. Accommodation was a grand a week, so not too cheap, but, needless to say, I got plenty of change from £7,000!!
That's my holiday budget for about 20 years.
It's kinda the going rate for a posh place, tbh...
Even for a not that posh place. A Nielson beachclub in Greece in early August will cost you 6k for a family of 4. No coke or hookers included. Price doubles during school hols. Oh and that's for ONE week 🙂
come on OP, provide some more details, surely you're not saying there are no holidays under 7k?
Alternatively, it'd be quite easy to blow £7k for a family of 4 skiing at half term.
Congratulations OP - you have discovered the limits of your acceptable leisure spending. Other options are available.
I'm a teacher type so have a lifetime of high season prices to look forward to. Our all up limit is £1K per adult max for a holiday. Soooo many perfectly acceptable options within that budget. It's just about living within your means.
This was for 2 adults 2 children,4-5 star all inclusive somewhere in the sun, seems to be 2 grand more than last year for same thing.
TBH that’s about the going rate for a family of 4 for a “all inclusive” in Bulgaria with awful flights (Gatwick at some ungodly hour) staying in ‘Sunny Beach’ which is like Blackpool only without the class.
I’ve given up on package holidays, they’re always ghastly (the only time I use that word) and I have to assume the people who do that sort of thing (twice) are crazy.
TBH, I know it’s a bit of an in-joke here, but Centre Parcs Europe is pretty good if you’ve got kids to keep happy, it’s an awful lot cheaper than CP UK including getting there and fairly relaxed away from the pool anyway.
Not to mention Morzine / Les Gets is a great family hol for buttons compared to some Costa hellhole in Spain and it’s only by chance there’s actually something for people to don’t like laying on their arse by the pool / beach all day.
This was for 2 adults 2 children,4-5 star all inclusive somewhere in the sun, seems to be 2 grand more than last year for same thing.
It sounds at the upper end of what I would guess it would cost, but doesnt sounds entirely unexpected. I would guess £5k to £7k for a 4/5 star all inclusive in the school summer holidays for a family of 4
I've never paid that much for a holiday though, but then I dont try and go 4/5 star all inclusive.
Have a look at finding a private villa/aprtment and booking the flights etc seperately, would expect the overall costs will be loads less.
OP, welcome to family holidays during the school breaks 🙂
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Ain’t that the truth, TBH that sort of money was for a “once in a childhood” fly-drive to see Mickey in Florida not long ago, I dread to think what that would cost now.
Camping is cheaper
Camping isn't always cheaper for a family.
We're doing 10 days in Polish Tatra's, Easy Jet out direct, s/c accomodation, hire car etc for 5 of us. So far it's costing £1200.
Camping **** that.
I just looked up prices for school holidays 2018, nice spanish villa, private pool, air con, wifi, english tv
Flights 20 jul manchester - alicante return 3 aug 200 gbp x 4 = 800 gbp
Villa 1500 gbp pw x 2 = 3000 gbp
Car hire pug 208 450 gbp
So 4250 for 2 peak weeks for family of 4
Food and drink brings you up to 5k
£7k is my rent for 18months....
Seems a lot for 2 week holiday
This was for 2 adults 2 children,4-5 star all inclusive somewhere in the sun, seems to be 2 grand more than last year for same thing
It's way beyond anything I would spend even if I could sort of afford it. Last holiday I took with my kids was 18mnts ago to Lake Garda in July.
4 easyjet flights to Venice £450
Apartment found on booking.com £600
Car hire £120
Parking at Bristol airport £50
So about £1,200. I know it's not all inclusive (sends me cold) so I spend about another £1000. Absolutely fantastic time another nearly £5000 wouldn't have brought me a seconds more enjoyment.
Actually I’ve just found a fly-drive-hotel deal with TUI in the last week of July for £4K for 2 weeks. I’m sure you could add a grand to upgrade the car and digs but still.
So 4250 for 2 peak weeks for family of 4
Just did this for ourselves, 10 days all inclusive on a balaeric island. Anywhere between £3.7k (3 star, bus to the beach) to £4.7k (4 star, on the beach) seems about right. Majorca looked cheaper but those hotels had up to 2 hr transfers and on rocky beaches. Dare I say it but the standard ofnthe company around you is reflected in the price also.
Seems about £500 more than last year on average.
Although ive no issue with all inclusive as with two you kids and both active working parents I feel we deserve to do F all for 10 days in the Sun after our eforts for as long as we can afford it. AI allows drinks and ice creams plus easy eating for the kids not to be a worry as well - its just an easier life for all. However, we all like to get out a bit to see places so we will do several trips in that time.
This was for 2 adults 2 children,4-5 star all inclusive somewhere in the sun, seems to be 2 grand more than last year for same thing
Well do something cheaper, it's the simple solution or realise that your £ is worth less and prices go up in other places.
Food and drink brings you up to 5k
Be cheaper if you ate at that Chinese buffet down the road from your place though Neil, if it's still there. 😉
Essel - its the wok buffet and yes it is, ashamed to say i have never been. I was once told how the prices remain so cheap and it put me off for life. You still busing the oldies about?
£6 - £7k seems to be about the going rate for a family of 4 for a fortnight.
The place we usually go to on Lake Garda, 4 star half board, is around £6k and even with the half board I know we'd spend at least another £1500.
I'm seriously considering giving the summer holiday a miss this year. Married to a teacher with two kids in school so peak season prices. I can't persuade my wife to go for a villa as she says she would just end up cooking and cleaning in another country.
Lad at work is paying 15k to take his family of four to Disney in Florida then another week touring about. Bonkers.
Our family of four will be off to Centre Parcs mid week before the holidays for £300.
4-5k is a lot of money in a family budget but i get so many panicky calls mid summer school holidays desperate to book something. Sad really as the weather is the same in june and the prices half of july, best deals are the last 2 weeks of june, hot, quiet, and better value.
We're off to Orlando for a couple of weeks in early July (pulling the kids out 1 week early when they seem to be sat watching DVDs) plus Leicester finishes a week before anyone else.
The spreadsheet is showing 5.4k for flights (Virgin, reasonable times), Car (large), Villa (private pool 20 mins from the parks) and Park Tickets (Disney, KSC, gatorland etc but NOT Universal nor Seaworld).
We'll eat in budget friendly places and get a load of groceries in to keep the costs down whilst we're there.
Feels like quite a lot of money but seeing the above i don't feel quite so ridiculous now.
Missing the last week of school is going to get a lot more common if thousands of quid are involved.
Teachers shouldn't mind much really, I can't remember my lot being taught much in the last week, and as we're frequently being told, they shouldn't just be a childcare service, which is what they effectively are from early July onwards.
Lad at work is paying 15k to take his family of four to Disney in Florida then another week touring about. Bonkers.
Ironic isn't it - I'd happily pay £15K not to have to go to Disney in Florida.
Surrounded by a peado in a Mickey Mouse suit, plastic attractions, fast food coming out of every orifice, a truck load of over excited kids and a bunch of Trump voters - shudder.
Watched an interesting Angela Rippon programme yesterday, about why the all inclusive have shot up in price, and could be ended very soon.
Basically - and almost exclusive to the UK - theres a series of scams that actually will get you your money back or more if you claim you had food poisoning, via dodgy lawyers and a legal loophole. This manifests itself back to the Hotels who pay their insurance companies for the privilege, and now are starting to pay qualified 3rd party "Hotel Inspectors" to obtain a defence. They use all inclusives as its easier to prove you are in the hotel an no where else. Apparently this practise cost the Spanish/Balaeric hotels €88m in 2016.
Therefore, if you are booking a holiday from the Uk or are British, expect to pay more thanks to some selfish idiots saying yes to the scamming "touts". They are keen to advertise a 9-15 month Jail term and financial penalty can be had if fraud is proven.
Ours will come in for around £2k for a family of 4. Camping in France. Been a few years on the bounce now and it is a great holiday. The kids love it, we love it and so cheap and the campsites are great with fantastic facilities. We were bought a weeks holiday to Tenerife last October from a family member who came Into a bit of cash and it was near as damn it £4k. Nice hotel, nice place had a great time, but It wasn't worth £4k for a week - four times the price of what we pay in France. Also cemented my opinion that those hotel based package type holidays are my idea of hell.
We're saving to take the kids on a big holiday when they're older, one last big family holiday when just before they get to the age when they decide they no longer want to holiday with their parents. The west coast US, Aussie, NZ, SE Asia, something like that, so any savings we can make on these holidays will come in handy to fund something a bit more special and something they'll remember.