How much do you spend on vacation?

Domestic $1000-$1500. Europe $3-5,000.

If you own a vacation home, don’t count that as a vacation for the poll as it will skew the results.

Use a budget for a vacation where you don’t already have a home for the poll.

Nothing now.

Thanks OP! Thanks a lot! You know damned well I won’t be making my trek to P’Town this summer!!

I’ll just die if I don’t get to see Dina Martina!!

These days, around $5 - 7.5k feels about right.

I'm only a budget traveler. It's a ridiculous waste of money to spend money on expensive hotels. I travel to see the sights, not the inside of a hotel.

I’d give anything to be in the beach right now but too risky.

If this doesn’t turn around in a month or so I will have to go find a beach somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

[quote]I’d give anything to be in the beach right now but too risky.

It's too much effort for you to literally draw a line in the sand?

I generally do several short trips a year instead of one or 2 longer trips, but it probably totals between 5-7k a year. More if I'm going to Europe but I tend to use miles/points for a good chunk of those trips.

We take two international vacations per year (not this year, but for the past ten years or so). Our summer trip usually runs $12-15K. The winter trip is about half that due, mostly, to cheaper hotel rates between Christmas and New Year.

Thanksgiving week at home is about $5,000, including the low-end hotel that happens to be the best in the area.

R6 types poor

I backpack and only stay in hostels. In many parts of the world I can even get a private room for $10-15/night. The flight always takes up the most of my budget, But I backpacked around Southeast Asia for one month last September and spent $1000.

R12 sex tourism?

I think that is a ridiculous poll.

Is it for one or two? R10 sounds like it’s for two. And how does a trip “home” cost $5,000 a week!! Is it another country? Did you mean $500? For $5,000, I could do a week of first class touring in Europe.

$200/night can get you a decent hotel in most places - except major cities like London, Amsterdam, Venice. Airbnb has become as expensive as hotels - in some cases even more with their ridiculous and arbitrary “fees”.

i try to keep it in the $1,000 - $2,000 range - but I have at least 3 vacations a year 😁

I stopped taking big vacations years ago and I don’t miss them.

R12, I respect that. I used to travel that way in my hippie-adjacent days in my teens through mid '20s. I could stretch 3-4k for over a half year's worth of travel, staying in backpacker hostels, volunteering, camping. I don't regret it one bit -- some of the most fun, carefree days of my life!

I either decide to do something like a vacation or not- if I decide to do it (go) I more or less don’t budget or think about cost. I just do it. I don’t think much about expenses- however I live pretty frugally- naturally. When I want it, I get it, but I don’t want much.

How long is the vacation?

I drive down to San Ysidro, leave my car at the Burger King parking lot and walk across the border to Tijuana.

Rarely spend more than a few hundred dollars.

R21, have you tried Burger King in Tijuana?

Like many posters above, I used to take several small vacations (particularly when I lived up North during the winter). You can plan those in advance and get good prices, so I would take 4 breaks from Jan-March that would cost a total of around $3,000-$3,500 for just myself.

I spent a month in Asia in Jan - that was around $8k but some of the prices in SE Asia are really cheap.

We're going to spend 4-5 weeks in July/August - probably a couple of weeks in Northern Baja California, then a week in Lake Tahoe, and a week in Napa/Sonoma, then a few days along the California coast. Mexico is cheap, so I think we'll be able to do this for under $7k for the 2 of us.

It certainly helps when you visit an inexpensive country. My last international trip was to Colombia and it was crazy how cheap the finer things (nice hotel, fine dining) were.

one doesn’t discuss money, it’s impolite and vulgar.

r9 I take one long trip a year. 2-3 weeks abroad Then i will take two extended weekends that burn a day or two of PTO. I'm the type that likes to be away long enough to forget about work. I will cut this years trip down to a single week.

[quote] We take two international vacations per year (not this year, but for the past ten years or so). Our summer trip usually runs $12-15K. The winter trip is about half that due, mostly, to cheaper hotel rates between Christmas and New Year.

[quote] Thanksgiving week at home is about $5,000, including the low-end hotel that happens to be the best in the area.

These kinds of threads are very entertaining. A class war is bubbling ...

How do you spend $5,000 on a Thanksgiving weekend at home. Why do you need a low-end hotel in the area.