re: What’s your average cost for a family vacation?

$1k a day. More kids you have, the worse the destination is. I don’t have kids so my wife and I usually go to nice places.

Interesting to read the replies here. I don't see how you could do a week long vacation with kids on anything less than $4000.

My wife and I just have a dog, and if we wanted to fly somewhere, rent a car, stay in a hotel/air bnb, and board our dog for 5-7 days I'd imagine we would be looking at a little over $2000 on accommodations alone. Depending on the venue, eating out, shows, tickets to other stuff, etc. I could see us spending $4k easy.

With kids I'd budget at least $6k. If you're going to Disney, add a few grand on top to be safe.

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We spent about $7k for three weeks in Spain

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This didn't include hotels and flights

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"we spend $7k but I also didn't include the twobargest expenses of the trip"

Thank you for the useless info

God, you are insufferable.

A lot of people use points and miles to travel. Get over yourself.

We really didn’t do vacations growing up, maybe a weekend going Biloxi beach was about it

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Those saying $5k are blowing me away. Are y’all going to Hawaii or Europe every year or something? Fuuuuuck that. I spend $2,500 at most (usually $1,500-$2,000) on most family vacations. Hell, even a Disney trip for the family costs me $3,100 but that’s so few and far between. If you’re spending $5k on a typical family vacation, you either need to invest in a vasectomy or tone down your extravagant vacations.

Or maybe I’m just a tightwad, who knows. No way am I regularly spending &5k on a family vacation every year.

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so i just looked it up. for a cheap trip to gulf shores going monday-thursday- (4 days, 3 nights)- you are going to spend more than 1k just on the condo after fees and everything and this is pretty much cheap bare bones 2br condo. lets call it 1100 total

then gas from BR to Gulf shores and back- ~500 miles @ 22mpg= ~23 gallons, lets call it 30 gallons just to be safe. Average price of gas is 4.25 so ~$110

then food for 4 for 4 days, assume you make sandwiches to eat on way there and the whole time there for lunch plus another $150 in food for the week for dinners plus beer and drinks so looking at $250 at a very minimum where you dont buy a single thing.

ice- another $50


So lets say you literally got the cheapest place you could find, went at the cheapest time, didnt leave the beach to go do any other activities, ate sandwiches on the trips and for lunch everyday you are still looking at $1500 and that is the absolute cheapest you could do a gulf shores vacation where you literally do not buy a single frickign thing and eat nothing but sandwiches and cook things like hamburgers at night and dont leave the condo.

sounds like a miserable fricking vacation imo.

personally i would rather go friday-thursday and spend 400-500 a night minimum and i would rather go down to orange beach or 30a. thats 6 nights so $2400-3k minimum. If i go to destin prolly going to be much closer to 4k just on the condo.

then im going to stop and eat along the way at decent restruants and prolly gonna go see my wifes parents in nola the night before to break up drive. So im gonna spend another 300 just on meals on the way there for a family of 5.


then im gonna be driving from lake charles so that is antoher 125 miles just to get to BR and if i go to destin instead of gulf shores thats another 80 so over 200 miles more.

then im not sitting in the fricking condo all day. we are going to go ride go karts at night, go do putt putt at night, go off shore fishing one day, prolly go play golf one day. Gonna go parasailing, gonna do the big tube etc plus we are going to go shopping. More then likely my wife is gonna spend 1k just shopping at the outlets and other shops.

all that right there is gonna add up. then you add up going to dinner 3-4 nights plus another 300-400 in other food for the week and alcohol.......yea that shite is expensive.

not sure how anyone thinks they are going to have a reasonable vacation for a family of 4 for $1500-2000. maybe if you do like i described above and are a complete and utter cheap arse who doesnt leave the condo except go to the pool and beach and eats sandwiches all day but personally i would rather not even go if i had to do that.

5k is not crazy expensive at all.

Can add another $1200-1500 if you need a rental car for the week.

Lodging is what costs. I looked around for a cabin for a week in Tennessee and it was outrageous. I'll stay an hour from Gatlinburg at my parent's house and save 4 grand.

About $3,000 every other year and in the opposite years we “vacation” at a family member’s house. Unfortunately, the family member lives near an IKEA store and outlet mall, so the actual vacations to the beach or mountains may be cheaper ??