(still can't get my head round this)
My stepdaughter & husband, along with granddaughter have just gone off to Florida for 3 weeks. Nothing too odd about that in itself, except It's a 3 week theme park holiday, as in 3 weeks of rides. Dave loves the rides.
As far as I know theyr'e in theme park hotels with upgrades (whatever they are) & Fast track passes for the rides. All inclusive.
20K + 5K spendies.
Is that a lot, in the grand scheme of things? Cos that would get me an awesome amount of holidays that would suit me & Mrs Egf!
Oh yes, that's a lot
Not sure I would be happy if I was made to stay there for £25k
That is insane.
Mind you I think you would have to pay me £25K to spend 3 weeks in Florida at a theme park surrounded by all that fakness and Trump supporters. I genuinely can't think of anything worse.
Thats a third of my mortgage 😀 I don't even live in a shithole!
i wish not going on holiday meant i could pay my mortgage off in three years 😀
I did a James villa thing 2k. I thought that was too much.
That’s madness
If its all inclusive why do they need 5k for spends
All depends on their income.
For Florida that’s a lot. But then I couldn’t think of a worse holiday than you described. We have a holiday home in Florida, I think I’ve over done it and bored by it now.
We spend a lot on holidays, but tend to do a lot. This year it’s Costa Rica, staying in a nice resort but we will also be going exploring the jungle and volcanoes. Amazing wildlife that we see as potentially once in a lifetime.
Kids are only young once, if the money isn’t a problem then I guess it doesn’t matter.
That's vulgar.
The cabin we are currently staying on near the beach in Devon was £800 for the week- can’t imagine either that spend or why you’d spend it on that!
Went to Canada, heliskiing with my dad. (Twice)
It was expensive. It was great.
Kids, work, exchange rates and a less fit dad make it unlikely to happen again.
Think it was about £5k all in for a Baltic cruise last year. Someone once said to me, if you remember the experience after you've forgotten the cost, it was worth the money. It wasn't worth the money. I see a battle with Mrs Tthew in a couple of years time when she want to go again and I don't.
It was alright, I liked the places we went, but we didn't stay long enough to really get to know or appreciate them and the culture/feel of the place. Also I begrudge the fact that the cities we visited got all the inconvenience of a massive influx of tourists daily, (there were 3 other massive ships on the same route) who spend very little in the local economy.
Still, £25k makes it seem like a bloody bargain.
"Kids are only young once"
It's for the son-in-law's benefit, isn't it?
Jaysus.
I’m all for spend what the **** you want on your holiday but that’s mad.
All depends on their income.
I'm not sure it does. With all the natural wonder; all the culture and all the adrenaline experiences (some of which might involve some skill and user input rather than just sitting there like a vegetable with a thumb up your bum) available across the globe why theme parks? Why 3 weeks of theme parks? And why spunk £25K on it? Theme parks are the preserve of the world's imagination free ignorant philistines. It kettles them all in a nice compact space so grateful for small mercies I guess.
About 25 years ago I spent about £2.5K just for me. That was walking up Mt Kenya, Kilimanjaro and a few days lion watching.
That much to just do a few theme parks sounds a lot, but as I said above, does depend on what they earn.
Please allow me some willy waving.This is me right now and this view costs $30000 US a week plus 19% tax accommodation only plus another 10% for the staff. Luckily I’m not paying. My friends are here for 3 weeks.
😳, most I’ve spent is approximately £2600 for 6 months/4000+miles touring in India, £450 ish on flights, £900 ish on buying a Royal Enfield in Delhi motorcycle market which I sold for a decent profit in Anjuna Goa in the week I flew back home, best holiday ever and I even got seriously ill with dysentery for a 5 rupee samosa at Victoria terminus in Mumbai.
£25k for a holiday to Disneyland takes the piss but I guess they have the right to spend their money however they choose.
Seems dear. A few years ago I spend about 6k for 2 weeks there doing the parks. That was 2 of us.
It’s for the son-in-law’s benefit, isn’t it?
Dead right Esme. Daft thing is (?) he's 54, Gemma is 33 & Caitlyn is 14. Gemma & Caitlyn aren't even that arsed about doing the theme thing, maybe a few days, a week maybe but Dave booked it all.
They still have a decent sized mortgage, Gemma's a teacher & Dave has a decent income with some gas supply company but not megabucks. Maybe a good bonus.
What's that 'phile' where people are addicted to rollercoasters & stuff? he might have that.
most I’ve spent is approximately £2600 for 6 months/4000+miles touring in India, £450 ish on flights, £900 ish on buying a Royal Enfield in Delhi motorcycle market which I sold for a decent profit in Anjuna Goa in the week I flew back home, best holiday ever and I even got seriously ill with dysentery for a 5 rupee samosa at Victoria terminus in Mumbai.
See, that's a proper holiday!
£3300 for 2 x adults & 3 x kids to spend one night in Lapland and meet 'Santa'.
Theme parks are the preserve of the world’s imagination free ignorant philistines
**** off themeparks are great.
aslong as its only one day off season midweek and raining.
This is me right now and this view costs $30000 US a week plus 19% tax accommodation only plus another 10% for the staff.
Hedge could do with a trim.
I'm glad you cropped that willy waving photo zippy
That seems like ostentatious consumerism.
We spent £15k on our honeymoon. 4 week circumnavigation of the world in business class doesn't come cheap.
Reckon a fair chunk of that holiday price could have gone on flights if they went business class. That said, pretty sure I couldn't handle 3 weeks of Orlando resorts...
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
If I had a spare £25k I'd buy a Triumph Street Triple, a bit of luggage, and then I'd head off into Europe for a few months.
But, each to their own...
this is me right now
Fergie, is that you?
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
A bit higher than ours - Last year was a big spend year for us comparatively with 3 holidays and one to Scandinavia and two other very 'middle class' holidays (Neilson resort holiday and a National Trust cottage). Still only about about 7% though. Cheating mind as used our van for the Norway trip so a chunk of the cost of that should probably be attributed to that number too. This year it'll be back to 3% which is probably average. Only two of us mind, but limited to school holiday times through my job.
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
ooh, interesting question. I don't tot things up meticulously.
We don't have kids, so around 12 - 15% I reckon. This makes me slightly nervous. Might have to rein it in a bit soon because the car won't last forever and we want to redo the kitchen. Still, you've got to while away the years somehow.
This doesn't include random weekends away, which are probably around 1% each and which we do a couple a year.
Also yes, £25K is a huge amount for a holiday. Several years worth for us!
To me that’s nuts! That’s a round the world trip! But you know what you only live once if that’s what makes them happy and they’ve got the money happy days! Remember we ride thousands of ponds if push bike around the woods!! 😂😂
Family holiday this year we visited a pile of rubble at clachtoll, then visited the wishing tree at lochinver.
Oh and a couple of waterfalls.
Was slightly cheaper than 25k, although the beer at the shop in drumbeg was pricey
We went to Florida earlier in the year - a week in a big villa (private pool, nice quiet gated community). Then 4 days in The Hard Rock Hotel with passes to Universal. 4 of us with flights, car hire accommodation and theme park passes cost us around 7k. 1k of which was theme park entry.
It was nice. Can’t say I’d go back. 3 weeks of theme parks would drive me nuts. 4 days was more than enough.
The most we’ve spent on our hols was around 10k - 2 and a bit months on a round the world ticket (Peru, Mexico, San Fran, Hong Kong, India and Thailand). That i’d definitely do again.
Main holiday is about 3% and there's about the same spent across the year on city breaks and black stocking weekends.
£25K on a single holiday is ****ing obscene, especially for three weeks in hell. A long round the world trip would be a better use of that sort of money.
Well 25K plus 5K spending is insane for a Florida theme park. As someone else said - you couldn't pay me £25K o go to Florida theme parks for 3 weeks. Even for MrsG, holiday booker extraordinary (I write this from the balcony of our Airbnb condo overlooking Malibu beach) we couldn't spend anything like that on a single holiday. Still best holiday of the year will probably be for me the week with WhiteRoom MTB earlier this summer with my son.
3 week holiday in florida.
25k.
Definitely no money laundering or coke smuggling out of Colombia /Caribbean going on there lol!
Well 25K plus 5K spending is insane for a Florida theme park.
£20k plus £5k spends, £25k total.
So about £400 per person, per night OP?
I’ve spent a lot more than that, though for less time, with fewer people.
They are spending their money on things they like doing. If all the bills are covered, what should they spend it on instead?
Coke?
Planning on a trip to Florida in October with son 2. It will be a fraction of that cost and the rides will consist of him flying me around teh sky. My budget is 20% of your total to include the rides! (I do get a free flight though as I have a work expense to go to as well :-))
We did 12 days on a yacht in the BVI last October - that was an exception year as I'd been very busy and the girls had all done A levels and GCSEs
Total cost, inc spends, was £12k but that was for 5 people, so actually £200pp/day.
The experience, fun & memories were worth it but we're not doing much this year.
As a family of five we did 2.5 weeks in Florida in May last year for £11k all in - flights, accom, passes, car hire, airport parking, food, spends. Six days at Disney in a Disney hotel, six days on the Gulf coast in a villa w/ pool (AMI), a couple of days at Orlando/Universal (ouch) and a day/night at Kennedy. Passes were for two weeks so wouldn't have cost more to spend more time in the parks but dear god...
To counter I spend a shit load of money on a mountain bike trip a couple of weeks back but then it was Doug's BasqueMTB Ultimate trip :-).
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My parents spent £15k on a conservatory. It's about as useful.