How much will you be spending on travel next year?

Kerry25x

Just curious really what other people are happy to spend on travel!

For myself, I'm hoping to cut down on my holiday spending in 2023 although I still plan to travel. Traditionally I've always been happy to throw a lot of money on trips telling myself it was money well spent but after taking a closer look at my finances and getting some new goals, I want to cut back a lot.

I have a trip to Mauritius in March that's been booked since last summer that cost a fair whack but will be trying to keep things low cost for the rest of the year with one Ryanair and Airbnb type trip to Europe.

Dial Hard

A good few grand. Hoping to go skiing in February, which is never cheap, then we've two weeks in Cancun in July. Will hopefully get a few city breaks in at some stage too. I've only myself to pay for, though, so it could be a lot worse!

endofrainbow

Are we showing off now???

Kerry25x

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120037579#Comment_120037579

If you can do all that on a few grand then fair play to you!

Ubbquittious

I have spent just over 100 quid on 3 flights for next year. I will have to spend that much again on hostels.

Though I really want to visit Greenland or another expensive far off place and I won't get off so lightly with that one

elperello

5/6 k

About 3k committed rest to be decided.

Thinking about it this is fairly useless information and I'm sure nobody really cares. 🙂

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120038058#Comment_120038058

People gauging to what extent the Tiger is roaring

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120038239#Comment_120038239

By this stage the poor oul tiger is toothless and bedraggled if he is roaring at all it's roaring for his mother's people he is.

Count Dracula

I want to explore Switzerland for a couple of weeks. i want to spend time in Zurich, Geneva and Lucerne. I want to visit the Eiger, play Tennis on clay, drink some Swiss beer. I want to practice my exquisite German and see how it compares to their raw Swiss dialect. I have never been there before and I would hate to think I am missing out. I am told that outside of the delectable scenery, fantastic standard of living, late closing times, legal brothels, money laundering and white washing of global environmental crimes... that the people are cliquey, racist and frequently unhelpful and ignorant to foreigners, I should fit in nicely?

I may have to firm these numbers up but I am estimating

flight - Circa 300 for july. Hotels circa 200 per night. Beer 50 per day, food 100 per day, hookers conservatively estimating a weekly allowance of 1000, I am told that they are pricey and sessions are long and sumptuous. I am considering hiring a car, probably 100 per day or something like it in July, I am considering a golf GTI convertible, possibly white ,or, if not, I am going for dark green. I must get ahead on that in the next few weeks. The only outdoor pursuits I am considering would be waterskiing on lake Geneva, but only if it gives me the opportunity to show off and impress any naive young women in their 20's who seem impressed by that crap and are likely to dump their friends for a day to make a vain attempt at freeloading me. I will probably leave her asleep the next morning with a note saying I am an international crime lord and that I have hacked her phone and that if she contacts the police I will be forced to release the ungratifying images of her trombone on to the dark web. It should be an entertaining part of the week.

Either that or cave painting in Peru... again. It rained last time and all, totally underrated way to spend a few weeks.

I would also like to visit Moscow, which I am told is an unfriendly toilet, with an awful, almost inconsumable, local diet? Seemingly you can order dishes of soup with a raw egg peppered with dried olive seed floating on top. Or garlic flavored meringue? On second thoughts I might give Moscow a fleeting 2 night fly in, possibly from Geneva if the weather turns sour, which the locals are famed for, along with dancing at weddings dressed in white fairy costumes. It should be interesting, in fact if I see any weddings on my travels I might ask if that is actually a thing or was a former colleague not being totally honest with me.

Finally, I would like to attend an original Turkish bath and get a full body scrub from one of those huge 20 stone gargantuan Turkish middle aged men, who basically scrub you senseless for an hour with natural procured organic soaps and salts and sea sponge. They intensely scrub your entire body, almost like a personal massage and then rinse you clean with buckets of ice cold water. Definitely on the to do list in 2023.

May your own travels and adventure bring you great experiences, contentment and joy.

Spanish Eyes

Don't know, I spend as I go and wherever the mood takes me. Differs from year to year.

Am thinking of a train trip to Sarajevo via other (not decided) former Soviet countries around it. But will probably settle for something more accessible in the long run. Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest maybe? Trieste and Slovenia? Netherlands looks great, not Amsterdam been there. Belgium to see the Menin Gate/Ypres and Paschendaele. Things like that.

Sometimes the plotting and planning is better than the real thing!

Europe only, no long hauls for me anymore, been there done that, getting too old for those long journeys now. So Europe may turn out to be an economical choice hopefully!

HeavyLift

Not sure, but it will be less than last year. The freedom post covid and the itch to get away with the family ensured a fair whack of money was spent on trips to Mallorca, The Algarve, Manchester and London.

Will keep an eye out for deals, but with the cost of everything rising (wages, fuel and consumables), have we seen the death of a good deal?

Sunrise_Sunset

Spent over 11k in 2022. Even though I could tell at the time that everything was more expensive than before, I was still shocked when I added up. That's probably about double what we've ever spent before. Family of four, 1 x 10 day sun hol at a resort, 1 x 4 day break to an (expensive) EU city, and 1 weekend within Ireland.

Not sure yet what we'll do in 2023 but hoping to keep it at around 5/6k, so that probably means 1 x week/10 days away. Keeping it simple. Bills will be higher, and would prefer to save some disposable income.

ted1

Define travel !! We get away quite alot as I clock up airmiles with work and wifey tags along as the item is covered or il book a place on AirBnB for the month and after a week the family follows over.

i plan to go to all off Irelands rugby World Cup matches this year along with the misses

this year we did 5 days i birratz/San Sebastian as a family

3 nights In kilronan castle just the wife

3 nights in Kilkenny as a family

5 nights in Amsterdam as a couple

6 nights in Dubai as a family

bassy

Some nuts in here must have more money than sense and definitely repeat offenders

Strumms

I’ve nothing booked but the ‘plan’…

Canaries in late March or early April for a week..prob book this week…

Usual South of France in mid August for 6 days…

A location TBD around late October… might return to the Canaries…

reconnected with an old acquaintance who is an experienced travel agent recently, my cousin just booked a cruise with her and she is still looking after us my cousin was delighted with the help, expertise, experience and advice and….especially the price…. Considering it was an established operation but she’s brilliant… guess 7-8 grand individually…

scudzilla

Spent 2.2k on a 10 day holibob to Tenerife in April, although 1870 of that was from compensation we received for a 23hr flight delay going out to Zante with Tui in May so delighted with that

Probably another grand on a few trips back home to Wales to see the folks over the year

fits

6.5 k so far for family of four between a five day ski trip and a 16 day camping holiday in France. That’s enough I think. We might do a couple of long weekends camping in ireland.

Happyhouse22

About 40k hopefully...

FoxForce5

Preface this with haven't had a couple holiday in 10 yrs or family holiday ever!

About 27k

20k on trip of Lifetime for family to USA (paid for precovid) so most bookings on this trip are funded by refunds or insurance compo. Hoping US inflation back down summer.

€500 on midterm break Rome 3 nighter (funded by bday present money)

6k ish to spend on trip to be decided on location pending price review in jan (funded by crypto profits from 2020)