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@Freckles: That is definitely on the lower end! I was thinking about the recent flights we booked to Seattle... which were $226/pp including taxes & fees. I'm sure if we were to travel to somewhere in the east coast or hawaii $300-500/pp would be more accurate. How much are average flight costs traveling domestically within Canada?

@runnerd: We haven't done any serious traveling since we started Dave's program early in 2014. But we paid off all our debt! And now we have been able to do some cheapie trips (tagging onto DH's business trip, for example)

Travel is where we spend a good chunk of our disposable income, so we are well above the highest choice in the poll. We also have family on 3 continents, so we generally combine family visits with vacation time. This summer we are going from Europe to the US and plane tickets alone cost over $4k because we have to fly into a somewhat remote airport. Then, we also have to factor in hotels, meals, car rentals and US domestic plane tickets. Today, we just booked another trip for next month and we will likely go on a few smaller trips before the end of the year.

On actual vacations, probably between $1,000 and $1,500, aside from our honeymoon last year, which was somewhere around $3,000ish. We usually just do a one-week vacation at a beach we can drive to, and rent a condo for roughly $500 per week, then spend a couple hundred on gas/food/activities. Then maybe one weekend at an inn for our anniversary for $200ish.

That doesn't include obligatory travel (luckily our families both live relatively close-by so we don't incur expenses there) for things like weddings, etc. Last year DH's best friend had a destination wedding that had us paying to fly across the country, for example. We ended up not taking our typical beach vacation because of that, though, so I guess we still stayed in the same cost bracket of $1,000 to $1,500.

Big splurge trips just aren't in the cards for us on a yearly basis.

ETA: No real option for me in the poll since I'm not less than $1,000 but I'm not greater than $1,500, either.

@yoursilverlining: I agree, and the flights nickel and dime you for everything now too! I remember when JetBlue first launched years ago, and I was able to score a roundtrip ticket to NYC for only $99! Those were the days...

@Freckles: Yikes!! I wonder if airlines are taxed higher there, and they're having to pass on some of those costs to the customer.

I skimmed through the other responses before answering and now I don't think I will, lol. Maybe travel is much more expensive in Europe, but we definitely spend way more.

Traveling, both domestically and internationally, is a priority for us, so we probably spend more than "average."

we don't have an average per year. this year we splurged on a family vacation to Mexico (more than $3000). but it had been 2 years since we flew anywhere (where we did a cheaper trip to Cuba as we didn't have to pay for LO then, it was less than $2000). And in between those two bigger trips was a cheap weekend getaway (probably less than $500). We basically go on vacation once per year (we choose our anniversary week to go), but the where and cost vary significantly.

I definitely don't count road trips to my home town as "vacation". and we don't spend much as it is just gas and some food along the way.

For my family, travel is a priority so we budget for trips each year.

@illumina: agree. Travel in Europe is definitely more expensive than in the U.S. We fly to France a few times a year and we can never find tickets under €200 and it's about a 2hr flight. Car rentals are much more expensive and I feel like booking a decent hotel (not even a nice hotel) is high compared to US prices, especially in major cities. Anytime we do a weekend getaway, I feel like we can't do it for under 1000 just for transpiration and hotels (family of 4 but with a lap infant).

@yoursilverlining: @sunny: flights are definitely MUCH higher than they used to be! I remember the good old days of off season US-Europe tickets for $400 or less! Now you can't find them for under $700/800. I once bought a one way ticket from DC to Paris for like $245! But that was also in 2001.