Just checking, son in law Dave hasn’t been accidentally circumcised as he?
Disney tax tho, innit? BIL, SIL and sprog did a disney cruise for 9k for a week (may have been 10 days). Out of school holidays too!
We did Euro Disney in April for 2.4k for 4 nights Half Board; we had looked at going in the February half term when the price was 4.4k for the same thing! I said no to that.
Brexit is going to mean prices go up and up for us. I'm thinking of booking next year's euro break soon 🙁
Their money, their choice. I would spend £25k on something else.
Our holiday money get spent on kids trips - Scouts, Guides, sports, music. This years "family" holiday is a long weekend in Liverpool, but eldest will have been away from home for something like 40 nights, youngest is on for about 15.
`3k ...38 years ago visiting friends in South Africa ( 2k on flights alone ..really expensive back then ) ..3weeks travelling ..1 week in the Kruger National Park ( saw just about every animal you could think of except a Leopard )..1 week spent travelling to the other end of the country to Cape Town ( did the Cable Car ) ..and one week back up the Garden Route ..never did get to Durban ..before having to cut things short for the flight from Joburg to get back home ..landed at Heathrow with a couple of quid left..
just as well we had pre paid the fare on the National Express to get back to Newcastle ..
Some scary moments while there ..but an amazing , beautiful country ..and still the most I've spent on a holiday with the then missus ..can't imagine what it would cost now ..
My mum spent roughly that on a cruise a couple of years ago.
I think I’d rather be dangling off a rollercoaster.
Depends a bit on their income really, £25k would be a hell of a lot for me to spend on a holiday but might be loose change to someone else. A mate at work spent £12k a few years back on a family (of 4) holiday to Florida, sounded like they all had a great time (probably took him a couple of years to save up for it to). I guess for them £12k was money well spent.
Shiiiiit. For that sort of money I could spend six months living over there at a mate's rental house with all the skydiving I could ever wish for. Spending three weeks at a Disney park would drive me utterly mad.
I think the most I ever spent on a holiday was two weeks in Canada skiing. Not only did it cost a lot to get and stay there, but it made me realise I needed a divorce and that cost over 200k.
I’m sorry, but the guy sounds like a massive bell end.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
I can’t quite get my head around that, and also don’t get the £5k spending if it’s all inclusive and they’re just doing the parks, but each to their own.
I’m not that fussed by holidays frankly, and resent spending loads of money on them! We did Costa Rica for our honeymoon, which ended up about £8k I think, definitely the most I’ve spent! Was absolutely stunning though.
I think it was about £4000, 14 days Morzine, Chamonix, Maranello, Bologna, Iseo, Troyes. Was for MRs Weeksys 40th birthday as well as a holiday.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
Bother to read all the OP's posts. He is the only one of the family (him, wife, child) with any real interest in theme parks and he booked it alone. I.e. he spent circa £45K of income (assuming he is a high rate tax payer, surely you'd have to be) and is taking up three weeks of holiday time on a holiday only he really wanted. That puts him into bellendery territory for me too.
Disney tax tho, innit?
Well not really. When you compare Disney to any UK attraction like Alton Towers and how much better and bigger they do it in the States then you can see where the cost is. Typical thread...waffling on about cost with no reference to value. I wouldn't say the Florida theme park is everyone's cup of tea but at least the yanks do things properly, with no expense spared, so you can see why its so expensive. We're doing it next year for two weeks and the costs are coming in between £10k and £14k which seems about typical range for that kind of holiday. Not really my cup of tea personally, but the rest of the family want to do it and the kids are at the age where it is now or never. And it's not just about the Disney part of it, its all the other stuff too so comparing to Eurodisney isn't a fair comparison...comparing Florida Disney to Eurodisney isn't even in the same ball park. The French can't even do McDonalds properly so they've got no chance with Disneyland.
I'm consoling myself in the fact the last 5 years of holidays have come in for circa £2k doing French campsites and holidays before that in the UK and direct booking villa's and apartments in Europe were not much more expensive. We've had a great time doing those too. I can't get my head around other people who spend £6k per year on the standard fortnight to the usual Med locations in an all inclusive hotel. That's my personal idea of hell, but plenty of people love it and do it every year. Each to their own. It's a holiday at the end of the day and the most important thing is you do it as a family and its stress and hassle free.
We were lucky in that when our girls were little my dad lived in Southern California. So every other summer we’d get to go to Disneyland or Sea World or, when they were a bit bigger, Magic Mountain. That’s one day every other year, which was just about right. TWO WEEKS OF IT? No ta, but as someone has said . . .
But, each to their own…
Best holiday I ever had was 3 1/2 weeks in Nepal hiking in the Himalayas and the whole cost including flights came to £1500! That was only back in 2016 too. So that much in the OP for a holiday is insane to me, especially to a hellhole like disneyworld. If I ever had that much money I'd put it on a house deposit.
eh wrong thread :p
Not really my cup of tea personally, but the rest of the family want to do it and the kids are at the age where it is now or never. And it’s not just about the Disney part of it, its all the other stuff too so comparing to Eurodisney isn’t a fair comparison
I'm biased because it's not my cup of tea too however:-
1. You are (one of)the adult(s) in the family. It's your job to educate that there is more to life than manmade instant gratification fakery. A teenage boy's perfect idea of two weeks off without prompting would be to be locked in his room with a laptop full of porn and Katy Perry posters and toss himself off until it's covered in blisters. Then CoD and Dominos pizzas. Rinse and repeat. They can however be cajoled into appreciating there is more to life; more to see and do. Theme parks are just a laptop of porn when compared to the loving relationship and gigi gigi time the real world can provide. As an enlightened adult you need to be showing them the way not acquiescing to their uneducated desires.
2. Florida vs France. Christ, where to begin. I admit I've not done US theme parks but I did spend 9 days in Florida for a big race I was in. Yes the weather is nice, and yes the beaches are white and yes manatees are nice to watch. But......wall to wall shopping malls, traffic everywhere - no one walks ever, obese people like you have never seen, achingly try hard fake service in the restaurants, great food as long as your idea of great is obscene quantities, imported 'culture' done badly. It's like they found a beautiful lump of land with a good climate and ****ed it up in every conceivable way. When comparing to time spent in France and the opportunity to immerse in a genuine culture, speak a foreign language, visit cultural landmarks of genuine age and of global significance it comes up short in every category. Florida made me sick with its consumerism and gluttony. It is a physical manifestation of everything that is wrong with the human attitude to the planet we live on. Could not wait to leave when the race was done.
What a thread.
Back when we were 22 we spent our life savings (about 8k) on flights to NZ bought a couple of bikes in Christchurch and headed south.
Then headed north
Spent 4 months doing that .
Then went to Australia for 2 months and did similar + lots of swimming and lots of walking around/sitting around in parks.
I'm trying to put that expense into perspective and this is the best I can think of...
Better half and I have gone to Longleat CenterParcs on average once a year since 2007 (midweek, typically between March and June and not in school holidays, usually in a villa) and I would estimate we have spent under £8000 in total including travel, food and boarding for our guinea pigs.
Could be worse, he could be a proper coaster addict and dragging them around various doghole theme parks in Ohio and New Jersey so he can tick off the top ten rides in the US.
Florida is my personal idea of pure hell. The thought of three weeks there is making me sweat - but presumably there are other activities which might make your SD and GD less likely to punch a Disney Princess in the chops?
I think he most I've spent is probably about £4k for two of us to go the Canada a couple of years ago. And even that couldve been more as the GF is from Vancouver and we borrowed her mums car for a week or so.
Not my idea of a holiday, but each to their own
Just spent £200 on a few days in Yorkshire. First thing my 3 year old said to me this morning? "I don't like Yorkshire."
First thing my 3 year old said to me this morning? “I don’t like Yorkshire.”
Seems reasonable. Was it pissing down where you were as well?
I’m all for spend what the **** you want on your holiday but that seems quite a lot..
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You are (one of)the adult(s) in the family. It’s your job to educate that there is more to life than manmade instant gratification fakery.
Good Luck with that.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
Is your real name Richard Cranium? Read the post like Convert said.
Gemma loves camping & goes with a mate & the teenage girls. In spring this year she wanted a bigger tent (Dave doesn't do tents, as you can imagine, & never has) He kicked off when she said she'd seen a nice big 2nd hand tent for £200 ish because they/he had this holiday to pay for. She bought it anyway.
Dave seems nice.
Wowzers, that's more than I've spend on Holidays in my entire life.
I hate theme parks, so I doesn't appeal, but dropping £25k on 3 weeks in a plastic shopping centre seems mad to me. There's so many amazing things to experience in this world I can't imagine giving so much to ride Space Mountain 5 times in a day or whatever. Utter madness.
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!
I wonder if there is a caravan park that costs 25k for a couple of weeks Jim......... ;o)
I think this thread is more about the fact you don't like Dave 😂
First, who cares? Its his money he can do what he wants with it.
Second, wtf is this? Its starts off sounding like a 70's prawno intro then wanders into something even more irrelevant with a (perhaps two) hints at willy waving...
Gemma loves camping & goes with a mate & the teenage girls. In spring this year she wanted a bigger tent (Dave doesn’t do tents, as you can imagine, & never has) He kicked off when she said she’d seen a nice big 2nd hand tent for £200 ish because they/he had this holiday to pay for. She bought it anyway.
I think this thread is more about the fact you don’t like Dave 😂
I'm getting that vibe, yep!
Convert:
So much goodness in one post...
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)
I cal it potato sack tourism.activities where the outcome is the same regardless of whether the rider is a sentient human being or a sack of spuds. Eg bungee jumping, white water rafting in an oar rig, roller coasters etc
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.
True dat
We spent around three grand all in for a week for four to Finale last year and that seemed well excessive.
Went to Cyprus this June for 4k and had enough after 3 days.
I like rides so would not mind doing Florida but I can't justify it.
Would rather go Asia.
3 of us went to Florida 4 years ago. 7k for 2 weeks, Disney, Kennedy and fort Lauderdale. That's spending money included. Took 5 years to save up for.
Family summer hols cost approx 4k. I save for 3 years each time and an 3 years in advance, so have a hol budget each year. Last 2 years, Inc now have been eurocamp. Approx £1.5k for hol, rest is spending money, fuel etc.
Safe to say Dave is at the other end of the holiday spectrum to me, that sounds like Hell on Earth. But you know, other people buy £25k+ cars, and they probably don't benefit the rest of the family that much. Their money, etc.
That does seem quite a lot!
We don't go for big fancy holidays, certainly not since being a family and before that it was limited to ski holidays and the like that ate into the cash. Family holidays have still been a decent whack but only a handful of £k - continual bike tour type holidays.
Having said that we're (2 of us) off to a family reunion in a couple of months to hook up with my South Pacific cousins. Not willy waving but cost will not be cheap. We nearly didn't commit because my mum was poorly - that's no longer an issue so kind of free to do what we want.
No matter where you go or how much you spend its time away with your family, ****ing enjoy it for what it is.
First, who cares? Its his money he can do what he wants with it.
well OP had just described how Dave was happy to spunk £25'000 draggin the family round plastic fantastic roller-coaster land but kicked off at £200 on a tent for everyone else....
Personally, £25000 would be about enough to make me go to Florida for 3 weeks.
£25000 would also pay for our 6-week trip to NZ, our 3 months in Nepal and have enough left over for the camper van, but each to their own eh.
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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.
Sounds ace, who did you book it through? Any more details?
Spent a month backpacking round Peru, hiked Inca trail, flew over nazca lines, stayed on lake titicata, swam in volcanic pools, stayed in some dirt cheap & a couple of luxurious places, drank a lot of coca leaf tea ... was our honeymoon 10 years ago now,
We did it all for about £6000 for both of us.
With kids now , we just did 2 weeks at eurocamp in France everyday on the beach pretty much, kids never get bored of bodyboarding & sandcastles!, about 2k all in.
I know everyone's different and with kids we couldn't do the same as our honeymoon but 25k for 3 weeks in Disneyland !!!! Fk that !
I'm just waiting for the thread when Gemma comes home early from work one day and unexpectedly finds Dave prancing about the house wearing nothing but huge yellow shoes, tiny red shorts, pair of white gloves and a pair of false ears and has to try and explain why George from next door is dressed as a sailor, but only from the waist up.
#awkward
Wondering myself on this I've added up everything I've ever personally spent on holidays (I do a spreadsheet before each one) and I've got to £12500 that's 29 weeks of holidays (including a fair bit of traveling last year) 15 of which are 2 people and also includes 7 weeks of skiing.
I'd say I'm a fairly economic traveler
Sounds ace, who did you book it through? Any more details?
I realise it wasn't my comment, but we just booked Costa Rica independently - did a few nights near the Arenal volcano (in the Lodge within the park grounds), a few in Monteverde cloud forest, a week by the beach in a posh all inclusive (easily the worst part of the holiday) book ended by a night near San Jose (which is a bit of a dump) in nice hotels. It was stunning. You couldn't fly direct when we went, so you had to change in Madrid, BA now fly direct which makes it even more accessible. Want to go back when mini-njee20 is big enough to appreciate it. Won't spend £25k though.
well OP had just described how Dave was happy to spunk £25’000 draggin the family round plastic fantastic roller-coaster land but kicked off at £200 on a tent for everyone else….
We have the OP saying that only 'Dave' is overly fussed about theme parks, not that they're all loathed to go and are being taken to Florida against their will. If he's genuinely spent £25k they don't have (by virtue of their not then being able to afford a £200 tent) then I concede he's a bell end. If he's said "My bonus is paying for this epic holiday, and it's what I want to do, but we can go camping next year", and she's said "well it's a lot of money, but I'm sure it'll be nice", then less so.
They should have spent the cash on something a bit more ethical, really.
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