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If people can afford it I recommend they do all they can when they are younger, you just never know how life will treat you as you age, so earn what you can and do it all while you are younger. Never had the money to do it when we were young but that doesn't make me jealous or begrudge others even if they do it on an inheritance, good luck to them I say.
Had a small inheritance ourselves recently and the jealousy of some is tragic, we've worked hard all our lives and finally had a little luck and the green eyed monster has turned many of people I thought were friends into bitter people oddly usually the ones who had much more than us previously. |
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It can be cheaper to holiday on continental Europe than to stay within Britain. Hotel prices even in provincial UK cities at weekends is ridiculous at weekends. We're lucky to have so many different countries on the continent within a couple of hours flight away.
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Working hard, not spending much on clothes and no kids. It's about choices.
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It can be cheaper to holiday on continental Europe than to stay within Britain. Hotel prices even in provincial UK cities at weekends is ridiculous at weekends. We're lucky to have so many different countries on the continent within a couple of hours flight away.
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If people can afford it I recommend they do all they can when they are younger, you just never know how life will treat you as you age, so earn what you can and do it all while you are younger. Never had the money to do it when we were young but that doesn't make me jealous or begrudge others even if they do it on an inheritance, good luck to them I say.
Had a small inheritance ourselves recently and the jealousy of some is tragic, we've worked hard all our lives and finally had a little luck and the green eyed monster has turned many of people I thought were friends into bitter people oddly usually the ones who had much more than us previously. |
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I go on five or six foreign holidays a year – usually 3 weeks in various locations, and then two or three weekend type breaks.
I won’t pretend my other half and I don’t earn a decent (but not ridiculous) salary. I would say that I spend a lot less on other things people who complain about my holidays spend regularly. For example, one guy at work ‘jokes’ about me being overpaid because I go on a lot of holidays. Yet he also always tells me I should get a better car/brags about his lease car, which costs him £200 before petrol. My car is just coming up to 12, and runs just fine. If I were to turn around to him and say ‘Wales for the holidays again? Are you sure you don’t want something better?’, I’m not sure he’d like it! I don’t get regular haircuts (maybe once a year), buy fancy shampoos, spend a lot on clothes or make up or anything like that. I’ve no problem if people prefer to spend their money on constant small luxuries on on bigger breaks like I do, but they should have the grace to accept that. Incidentally, I am going to Poland this weekend, £40 return flights, £75 each for three nights in a five star hotel – so you can travel cheap! |
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Japan has the death penalty so you can remove that from your list.
Could have Googled that one easily. Another problem with countries like Japan is that I don't really want to stuck in metal tube traveling at a few hundred miles an hour at 30000+ feet. It's not my cup of tea, but obviously unavoidable for many destinations.
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I go on five or six foreign holidays a year – usually 3 weeks in various locations, and then two or three weekend type breaks.
I won’t pretend my other half and I don’t earn a decent (but not ridiculous) salary. I would say that I spend a lot less on other things people who complain about my holidays spend regularly. For example, one guy at work ‘jokes’ about me being overpaid because I go on a lot of holidays. Yet he also always tells me I should get a better car/brags about his lease car, which costs him £200 before petrol. My car is just coming up to 12, and runs just fine. If I were to turn around to him and say ‘Wales for the holidays again? Are you sure you don’t want something better?’, I’m not sure he’d like it! I don’t get regular haircuts (maybe once a year), buy fancy shampoos, spend a lot on clothes or make up or anything like that. I’ve no problem if people prefer to spend their money on constant small luxuries on on bigger breaks like I do, but they should have the grace to accept that. Incidentally, I am going to Poland this weekend, £40 return flights, £75 each for three nights in a five star hotel – so you can travel cheap! |
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We go abroad twice a year.
Why would you need 'inherited wealth' to do that? There are a lot of deals out there, o/h and I work in law and education respectively. We have a small mortgage, nearly paid off. If we could not afford holidays in that context I'd be concerned. |
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Working hard, not spending much on clothes and no kids. It's about choices.
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I do wonder how all this foreign travel affects the environment.
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No, I have a vivid imagination.
![]() Obviously television is not a competitor for a 5 star resort stay. But take for example, the 'great' train journeys. A good experience and I've enjoyed one or two. Endless scenery, however beautiful, can get a bit boring after a while and often, unless you are in the observation car, you are only going to get a good view of one side of the train and only that, if it's a long trip, during daylight. With television, although you lose the sense of actually being there, there is a lot of added value, for example, you get to see the train crossing bridges that the passenger will never see or aerial shots. I watched a recent documentary about the train journey from China into Lhasa, Tibet. Fascinating and having watched it, I certainly don't think I'm missing out by not doing the journey myself. |
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I do wonder how all this foreign travel affects the environment.
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To be fair with one friend that's something I'm more inclined to wonder about, even if it's only to the south of Ireland for a few days she seems to be away somewhere different every time for a long weekend.
If you look at it even on minimum holiday entitlement you can have a nice time. |
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I get 20 days plus bank holidays that gives me 3 one week holidays and 5 long weekends plus bank holiday weekends usually about 8 of those.
If you look at it even on minimum holiday entitlement you can have a nice time. |
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Most of my holidays to Europe were free, as I have relatives there. On another occasion I paid £114 for a month's unlimited train travel around Europe (Inter-rail pass in 1989) and took about £400 for all other expenses. Absolute bargain was the rail pass. The two of us spent overnights in hostels, sleeping on trains and even one night in a campsite. Other than that holiday, I don't think I've spent more than £500 on a holiday.
Airbnb is another nice one. I am also able to travel out of season at the moment. When I do spend more I expect a lot of bang for my buck. I think the best bargain was 4* all inclusive in Tenerife with a private hot tub for £225 for five days (after five days airbnb in Barcelona). I am currently battling with some hen do organisers who want £300 for 3 days in Malaga - just flights and accommodation! Eugh. |
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Your glass is always half full. It's a rare thing on DS, the home of the miserable bastard.
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If I could (and had the money) ... I would. My bosses own a successful company and they go away for about 6 months of the year. They both have holiday homes, one in Portugal and one in Spain, they also do home swops and one of them goes skiing twice a year and has just come back from South Africa for three weeks. Sounds wonderful.
My friend has a lot of foreign weekends away. She went to Barcelona recently for a 4 day weekend and also Ibiza for a long weekend. She goes away about 6 times a year. However, I made a choice. After about 10yrs of going away on foreign holidays we chose to have dogs .... and I vowed never to put them in a kennel. I have stuck with that vow and I haven't been abroad in 12yrs now. |
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We still have holidays just in uk with our dogs, the cry of its their holiday too rings out whenever we feel a bit held back and we accept going some places is out of the question.
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I get 20 days plus bank holidays that gives me 3 one week holidays and 5 long weekends plus bank holiday weekends usually about 8 of those.
If you look at it even on minimum holiday entitlement you can have a nice time. Mind you this year I can see myself doing the same as last year and using very little between Christmas and March 31st so I could potentially carry over 6 days (as opposed to last year's 5, but that was because the Thursday of Easter week was in the previous year entitlement) |
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One doesn't like to generalise but when someone is affording stuff that their supposed income can't afford you'll find they are either defrauding their employers or the Benefits system or are taking part in other crimnal activity.
Foreign travel is really cheap these days, with Megabuses starting at a few pounds. You can get free accommodation by couch surfing, pet or house sitting or house swapping. Even if you pay for accommodation, it can be really cheap if you do the work beforehand finding good deals. You also get meals and board provided if you do Woofing, HelpX or WorkAway. I host people on WorkAway to get help with my garden - last year I hosted someone who spends her life travelling. Her blog just shows the photos of all the exotic destinations, but in fact she does work placements which provide room and board in all the destinations - while she was here in the UK helping me with house and garden she was organising future work placements in Indonesia and Africa, and some paid bar work beforehand in Denmark to cover the cost of her flights. Another person who came here on a WorkAway spends months in France every year in various gorgeous chateaux. He is a fantastic worker and helps them with building and maintenance, or simply house- and animal-sitting. |
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even a long-haul holidays don't have to be that expensive. you don't need an inheritance to be able to afford a couple of grand once or twice a year. the OP sounds incredibly jealous and bitter.
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I got the travel bug from inter-railing with my parents in the 90s.
Airbnb is another nice one. I am also able to travel out of season at the moment. When I do spend more I expect a lot of bang for my buck. I think the best bargain was 4* all inclusive in Tenerife with a private hot tub for £225 for five days (after five days airbnb in Barcelona). I am currently battling with some hen do organisers who want £300 for 3 days in Malaga - just flights and accommodation! Eugh. I get to do two long haul holidays each year by using Airbnb and finding the cheapest days to fly - Thursday morning is usually the cheapest so I save quite a bit by flying at off peak times. My two holidays cost less than other people spend on one week and I see far more of the places that I visit. |
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Could have Googled that one easily. Another problem with countries like Japan is that I don't really want to stuck in metal tube traveling at a few hundred miles an hour at 30000+ feet. It's not my cup of tea, but obviously unavoidable for many destinations.
