How much did your holiday cost?

[london75]

The way I see it, I earn a good salary and as has been said in other threads, I could get a car or go for 44 days to Orlando with my children and wife.

I know which one I'll remember in 20 years.

And I saw you'd deleted your post Amy and saw it before it went. Don't know why you deleted it as it's nothing to be ashamed of. If you've got it, enjoy it.

Also, I factor in the fact that 2 good quality suits costing $500 in total over there would cost me £1000 over here so I save money really!!! Honest

 

[wideeyes]

This is the worst one:

DLRP 2009:

Eurostar (leisure select) for 2 adults with discount: £200

3 nights DLH (only paid for 2 as there was a free night offer): £980

Half Board Premium: £240

I don't remember what we spent, say £200 as I bought a lot of wedding stuff and pins!

Total £1620 - that's for 3 nights during the absolute cheapest season with discounts on travel and hotel.... Wouldn't change it for the world though, what a Disney nut I am!

I don't think I will post my worse one at DLH.

 

[Natasha&Matt]

as you will see from my deleted post earlier - I did this 'fun' exercise last night, and felt so physically sick at how much I had spent that I had to remove it!!! I have learned a valuable lesson - do this exercise BEFORE you commit to buying, not 12 months later when it is mostly all spent!!

Lol i just added our 3 Disney holidays for the past 3 years up and we could of put a deposit down on a Flat with it LOL!

 

[Kath2003]

2 adults; 9 nights; Easter holidays

Flights: £680
Accommodation: £380
Food: £400
Tickets: £140
Spending money: £300

Total = £1900

 

[burt]

Just did a rough calculation on ours for this august 2 adults 3 kids ( 2 kids classed as adults) and it me

Waynes fault - did the cheap buisness class flights last year and got spoiled so did the same this year but not such a bargain!!

 

[disneydaft]

Flights Thomas Cook GLA - SFB £1065
10 Nights Saratoga Springs inc 14 day tickets/10 day food £1400
Transfers Taxis etc £100
Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport £75

Universal Tickets & I drive Hotel 4 Nights(estimated) £300

Total £2940
Spends £1000 ish

For 2 Adults and a 9 month old Sep 2010

 

[2Tiggies]

Well since I have had the cheek to post on this thread a couple of days ago, it is only right to bring something to the party

Here is last year's and this year's (I love you guys but I'm not climbing into the loft to look for old invoices any further back ....)

Easter 2009

1 adult and 1 child (7) - single sups bring it up to almost exactly 2 adult prices

Thomas Cook Signature package to include:
14 nights All Star Music
Flights with VA MAN-MCO
14 day ultimate tix (1 adult and 1 child)

Package price: £2129

Additional costs:
Flights from Edinburgh to Manchester and back £240
1 night at Radisson SAS MAN airport business class room: £155
Dinner at hotel: £25
PE upgrades: £300
Spending money: £2000
Upgrades on return $300

TOTAL: Just touching £5000


October 2010

Same party 1 adult, 1 child aged 8, but this time charged as 2 full adults

Disney UK flight inclusive package

14 nights POFQ with free QSDP and 2x adult ultimate tickets @ £1780
VA flights direct GLA - MCO @ £1230

Spending money £2000

Sub Total: ££5010

Still to add: Travel insurance, Glasgow airport hotel, airport lounge

For the record: won't book flight inclusive again as DIY can get DD child priced flights and supplements ....

 

[Soprano]

This thread has inspired me NOT to total up my cost for May trip!

 

[Howellsy]

Here's mine and DGF's September 2009 trip (roughly)

Flights:
Virgin Economy £750

Accommodation, Disney Tickets and DP:
2 weeks at Pop Century with 14 day Ultimates and Regular DP £1501

Extras:
2 x Universal 2 Day 2 Park Pass £150

Total:
£2400

 

[Portugal1000]

2 Adults and 1 child

11th August 2009 for 17 nights

Flights £1500 Miles and Money

SSR with free dining and ticket £2250. Minus £500 as we sold tickets because we still had AP's from previous December so total £1750

Car £350

Spending £1500

Also had AP's from December for Seaworld/Aquatica and Busch

Total £5100

28th Nov 2009 for 14 Nights

Flights £500 Used Miles

Bonnet Creek £975

Spending £1500

Car £250

Stuill had AP's for Disney/Seaworld/Aquatica and Busch

Total £3225

Total for 2009 £8325

First time I have added it up!

Was going do the same again this year but decided to just go in December and then August next year for husbands 50th.

 

[amystevekai&bump]

The way I see it, I earn a good salary and as has been said in other threads, I could get a car or go for 44 days to Orlando with my children and wife.

I know which one I'll remember in 20 years.

And I saw you'd deleted your post Amy and saw it before it went. Don't know why you deleted it as it's nothing to be ashamed of. If you've got it, enjoy it.

Also, I factor in the fact that 2 good quality suits costing $500 in total over there would cost me £1000 over here so I save money really!!! Honest

You are totally right, and to be honest we don't DO anything except look forward to our holidays and save and plan for them - so no one should feel guilty about how they spend their money - I just feel bad that as the person supposedly in charge of the budget, I hadn't a clue how much I had actually spent this year - and although I knew it was alot, even I didn't realise it was that much!!!

Lol i just added our 3 Disney holidays for the past 3 years up and we could of put a deposit down on a Flat with it LOL!

Scary isn't it - but then I guess if I had the money sat in front of me right now - I would still want to do it all over again!!

This thread has inspired me NOT to total up my cost for May trip!

Very wise move - although it has taught me to do this PRIOR to booking my next trip - not AFTER!!!!

 

[fuse04]

This year we decided on a cheap trip this year for 18 days in August, having checked my spreadsheet funny how things never really work out lol

2 Adults and I child (12)
BA Flights (3 adults) £2085
1 Bed villa OKW, Free DDP and Tickets £3,000
1 night HRH £220
3 x 7 day passes to Universal £200
BB at Hilton night before flight £87
Spends £900

So I guess about £6,500 less cashback

2009 was 19 days May/June
2 Adults 1Child
Flights £1,150 + £250
(lost deposit on prev flights booking but saved £700 )
5 nights VWL pool view £325
4 nights HRH £645 garden view (less £60 profilt on refunded deposit)
10 Nights AKV Savannah £780
3 x 1 week passes universal £200
3 x 21 day ultimate tickets £600
3 x Worlds of Discover Tickets £420
Budgeted Food and spending £2,500 (didn't check how much we did spend)

Total Approx £6,800

It seems to add up over the years

 

[joolz1910]

Seeing as I started all this, I suppose I should 'come clean' about how much I have spent at DLP.

DLP jan 2005, 3 nights
3 adults, 1 child, 1 infant
2 rooms at the Santa Fe
Flights from BHX
Transfers
Booked as a package: £744

DLP Jan 2009, 3 nights
2 adults, 2 children, 1 infant
1 room, DLH
Half board
Flights from BHX
Transfers
Booked as package: £1300 (approx)
Spends - only £200 ish!

I've calculated 2 weeks at WDW to be in the region of £6000 without spends.

 

[2Tiggies]

Very wise move - although it has taught me to do this PRIOR to booking my next trip - not AFTER!!!!

I do add it up first. Trouble is, booking a year or more in advance, little Add-Ons creep in over the span of the countdown It gets to a point where instead of looking at the actual cost of something, I see it relative to the overall cost of the holiday. So where a little extra like a nice airport hotel and good dinner there, which i would normally think is a lot of money for one night, all becomes just a small percentage of the overall cost - and that is where it adds up! I would think carefully before dishing out £100 for something in everyday life - yet when it's part of a multi-k £££ trip, it's almost like it doesn't count ...

 

[ScotScroogeMcDuck]

2 Adults for 8 nights:

Cost of:
Premium Economy+ Car Hire: £1,800
accommodation (Boardwalk) + tickets: £1,900
spending money(inc meals): £1,450

Total £5,150

In our defence it was our honeymoon!

 

[amystevekai&bump]

I do add it up first. Trouble is, booking a year or more in advance, little Add-Ons creep in over the span of the countdown It gets to a point where instead of looking at the actual cost of something, I see it relative to the overall cost of the holiday. So where a little extra like a nice airport hotel and good dinner there, which i would normally think is a lot of money for one night, all becomes just a small percentage of the overall cost - and that is where it adds up! I would think carefully before dishing out £100 for something in everyday life - yet when it's part of a multi-k £££ trip, it's almost like it doesn't count ...

You are so right!!!

I think planning for so long and spacing everything out so much (we started booking our Dec 2010 trip back in Oct 2008 when the cruise prices were first released) makes me forget how much I have spent, and then because I have put deposits down so long ago, I stop figuring those into the costings and just look at the balances I have left to pay - then before I know it - wow I've spent a fortune!!!

But at home, I never spend £100 on something before thinking it over (and over!) - but for Florida - well it appears my way is 'no expense spared'!!

 

[torsie24]

We're he total same guys, especially for this wedding.

I will be the first to admit that if you combine the prices of the honeymoon + wedding it is a ridiculous and absurd amount of money to be spending.

BUT, my parents have the money saved for my wedding (well, it was what was left from my university fund). I doubt if I had a small wedding they'd give us the remainder, so I may as well budget to what's in the savings account!

As for our honeymoon, this is the one time I have the excuse to stay in the GF Main Building so I'm doing it! (And we get 30% wedding discount so although it's a proposterous price at least it;s not as bad as normal!)

But I know when we are living it, and remembering it we won't regret spending what we have, and we now couldn't dream of any other type of wedding for us.

It is about investing in your life and happiness, and once you are taking kids then it's even more wonderful.

 

[jmagla]

3 Adults (17 year old son) and 1 child (7 year old son)
August 2010, Aug 15th - Sept 3rd, 19 nights:

Flights - £2400 - Virgin MAN-MCO (miles plus money)
Old Key West - £2100 - 13 nights including tickets and DDP
Hard Rock Hotel - £500 - 5 nights
Holiday Inn Lake Beuna Vista - £60 -1 night
Universal 7 day tickets - £250
Hire car - £428 - 20 days Dollar 7 seater mini van incl insurance/tank of petrol
Spending money - £2700 ($4500) - Purchased in advance at CCE average rate $1.7 to the £, may or may not spend it all?, no further spend on CC.

Total cost £8400

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

We last went in September 2008, and it was me the wife and our daughter, but I also took her boyfriend. At the time, she had just finished A Levels, and was 18 and Dan her boyfriend was 20.

I told them both that this would be the last holiday I would pay for them both, so we went for 2 weeks, and the cost was as follows; I asked the kids to pay for they Disney tickets and Sea World etc, which was 300 each and I would take are of the rest. A good deal all round I thought.

Flight * 4 Virgin Economy = 2135
Car Hire = 292
2 rooms at Pop Century = 1176
4 * 14 day Dis ticket = 700
4 * Universal ticket (2 day?) = 276
4 * Sea world 1 day tickets = 180
2 * Gatwick Hotel Rooms = 318
4 * Coach tkts to Gatwick airport = 154
4 * Kennedy Space Centre tkts = 100
4 * MNSSHP = 114

Finally £1623 in spending money, you would be surprised how much it costs to feed 4 adults .....

Total cost ............. £7068

Last year we did not go on a big holiday, and when I left Florida after 7 visit I thought thats enough now, I love it but time to move on and do something else, so this year me and the wife and doing a 3 week trans Canada tour, with the Rocky Mountaineer train, with no kids, so this will be very different for us ....

Although I now want to go back to Disney again .................

 

[shamusgirl]

for a 2 week trip ours was

1,200

that included a hotel on international drive transferes all park tickets