What percentage of income do you spend on vacation?

[rewok]

In the last few years, we've spend about 10% of gross, which amount to around 16% of net (after income tax and retirement savings taken out). This pays for 2 or 3 vacations a year for 2 adults. I love to travel, see places & people, or just lay around on a beach sipping drinks, so we try to do a bit of each every year. DH, well... he loves me! So he just gets on board with my plan (as long as we ca afford the few luxuries he want).

 

[a1tinkfans]

I have never figured this out. I generally fund the vacations for our family....the dh is the "saver"
last year we spent 22 days on vacation..it was worth every penny, vacations are pretty important to me/us.
This year (rolling from late last year) business is really down, costs are really UP and I am seriously considering no vacation and just socking it all away..(well maybe a "quick trip down to disney )..we have some pretty big plans for next year, so we'll see how it goes this year..............
I am not one to really "budget" vacations (like per day costs) , etc, but I always get a deal and feel good about the costs.......

 

[Liberty Belle]

It varies so much, it's hard to say.

We have spent as much as 10%, but some years we've spent as little as 1.5%. We don't make tons of money, so much less than 10% won't get us to WDW.

 

[mclainbarbosa]

They work out our annual budget right after the new year. They will France for two weeks in October....about 14K for that trip. And that won't include airfare as they have FF miles for that. It will include everything else including pet look after our dog.

 

[elbodans]

But remember that percentages are all subjective; our 25% as a one income blue collar family is probably less than some posters' 5%.

exactly. that's why this question is phrased as a question of percent, not dollar amount.