The cost of a holiday ….

Johnnyweetabix

Johnnyweetabix

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Having just come back from a week in krakow (which was amazing and thanks all for tips and ideas) I was thinking that it wasnt as cheap a as I like had assumed it would be .

Our guide told us prices had pretty much doubled since Covid and 3 to 4 times over the past decade.

Prices were just a bit cheaper than say a major town but cheaper than London in my view .

Got me thinking , prices seem to be more or less parity in lots of places now , the eastern countries and cities charging more ……

So question, are there still bargain places or is this new era of holidays costing a fortune the new new ?
 
The pound being weak will make holidays seem more expensive no matter. The pound has pretty much lost a third of it value.
 
I have a couple of colleagues who like to travel (I like to live vicariously through their child free jaunts) and the only places they've mentioned being good value/cheap in comparison in the last couple of years have been Bulgaria and Morocco.
 
Portugal and Spain definitely have the ability to be cheaper ..
But you must be prepared to do your own thing once there ..
Anything ' tourist orientated ' will often be at a premium
 
We was in Bulgaria last month, as we was last August, sadly, the prices have increased by about 20% in 12 months. It's still cheaper than the UK, but nowhere close to last years prices.
 
Redpete said:
That's not actually true the pound against the euro was at its highest just before the brexit vote at around 1.32 in recent history it's now trading at 1.19 ish.so hardly weak when you consider in 2007 it was as low as 1.02.
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The pound is strong against the US$ at the moment.
 
jeff_potato said:
I have a couple of colleagues who like to travel (I like to live vicariously through their child free jaunts) and the only places they've mentioned being good value/cheap in comparison in the last couple of years have been Bulgaria and Morocco.
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We went to Marrakesh before Covid and then last year. Flights and Airbnb had literally doubled in price buying food and eating out had more than doubled. So what was a cheap holiday ended up not being cheap
 
South East Asia can still be relatively cheap if you are careful and do some research, it’s not as cheap as it was though.

I don’t think anywhere is.
 
Redpete said:
That's not actually true the pound against the euro was at its highest just before the brexit vote at around 1.32 in recent history it's now trading at 1.19 ish.so hardly weak when you consider in 2007 it was as low as 1.02.
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I was talking about the last 10 years or so, the pound was fairly steady at about 1.7, go back a little further and it was around 2.0 for a few years. Trying to ignore the transiant dips or peaks such as 2007. The pound has lost around a third of its value over around 10 years.
 
Why are we surprised that the costs have gone up. Inflation has affected the whole world. To compare, how have prices staying at home been affected. Costs of eating out have gone up, hotel prices have increased due to costs of the utilities and staff costs. Supply and demand has also had an affect, however when demand is low the business owners also have to cover their fixed costs, so all costs rise to just maintain them being there.
 
motownjunk said:
I was talking about the last 10 years or so, the pound was fairly steady at about 1.7, go back a little further and it was around 2.0 for a few years. Trying to ignore the transiant dips or peaks such as 2007. The pound has lost around a third of its value over around 10 years.
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The pound has been around its current level against the US dollar for 8 years, only very occasionally breaking 1.40 in 2018 and 2021 and for very short spells.
 
motownjunk said:
I was talking about the last 10 years or so, the pound was fairly steady at about 1.7, go back a little further and it was around 2.0 for a few years. Trying to ignore the transiant dips or peaks such as 2007. The pound has lost around a third of its value over around 10 years.
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I think it's absurd to suggest Brexit did not play a part in our perception of holiday costs as it massively dipped the GBP against the Euro

Brits just have to accept that the rest of world is more developed than it was and as thus it's more expensive, just like everything in the UK is more expensive than it was

Most Brits go on holiday to just get ***ed and lie on the beach anyway, the irony being that brexiteers prefer to holiday in 'evil' EU countries than their own supporting
their economies and not ours
 
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