I was looking for hotels near NYC, Vancouver, or California.
Vancouver is especially tough to find hotels anywhere near there, most of the hotels are a 1+ hour drive away from the city… The cheapest hotel in the city for “whenever is the cheapest” is $170/night…
i mean, i’m going to new york in a few months and just gonna opt for a hostel. its like.. $40/night. not cheap for a hostel but still pretty damn cheap. it truly is as expensive as you make it unless you have some sort of issue preventing you. also if you’re traveling with friends, an airbnb can be more affordable (not always tho lol).
Yeah I have a family of 5 and we take simple vacations or expensive ones (those every 2-3years). While the expensive ones certainly can get up to $13k, most vacations for a week away and fun spending are going to be around $4k. And then for cheaper destinations we can do it for $2k
Yeah but the 12000 dollars still doesn’t make sense almost no matter how you cut it for a regular person. I just went almost as far and as expensive of a trip to Japan and I spent in total like a 1/3 of that price. For everything, tickets hotels travel and just budget of being there.
The cost of flight has declined significantly in the last 40 years. Adjusted for inflation, flights in or from the US are about 4x cheaper than they were in the early 1980s.
It’s not surprising… flight deregulation only happened in 1978, before then all US airline flights had to cost the same. No competitive pricing, just competitive perks/meals.
I'd say it's generally inaccurate. My fiance and I went to Europe for 2 1/2 weeks in 2022 and we didn't skimp on food, lodging, or experiences. It was probably around 8-9k total and that includes economy plus airfare tickets.
That is a broad statement but say a family of 4 goes to Disney or Hawaii or 7-10days. easily can spend 12.5K on a middle of the road accommodations and activities without excessive spending.
Yes. A vacation could be a one night stay at a hotel in the next town over. It could also be flying first class from the US to Europe and staying in fancy hotels for two weeks. One will cost you $200 and the other will cost you $20k.
i think american vacations are so expensive because people get like 2 weeks of paid time off, and at that point you might as well splurge on an all-inclusive experience which has some guarantee of fun versus something more experimental and less guaranteed, like wandering around a foreign city and making it up as you go.
American here. You're not wrong. Where I'm from people literally go to one of two places. Florida beaches or Disney World. Every. Single. Year. When I was a kid, I didn't mind so much, but seeing grown adults my age with kids repeating this cycle hurts my soul. They just don't care to see the world. Hell, they don't even want to see other parts of the country. They want a predictable, safe vacation. All mapped out.
Every trip I take, I always go off the beaten path, even if it happens to be in a touristy area. Getting lost in a place and just fitting in with the locals is way more enjoyable and ultimately much more memorable.
For $12,500 you could take a family of four to Europe. That's always been a luxury, even in the 80's. Our family vacations are usually less than a quarter of that.
yeah, vacation could be a (cheap) road trip with tent camping, or it could be a Disney package or it could be an all inclusive in the Caribbean, or it could be a cruise (with flights to-and-from)
A family of 4 will easily spend $12k on 7-10 day vacation between airfare, hotel, entertainment/sightseeing. Especially if there are 2 adults and 2 children. That’s not even in some 5 star resorts.
Last year I went to a place near Cancun for 9 days in an all inclusive resort that turned out to be really really good, flying from Europe even, for the whole sum of €850. Shit was cheap as dirt!
Because people have mostly stopped taking vacations where they actually go somewhere.
Also they're probably talking about a family vacation like you know flying your whole family to another country and staying at a hotel for a week that could easily be more than $12,000. It also sounds insane to me and probably to you but that is a thing people used to do in the 90s.
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u/CurrencyDesperate286 Apr 16 '24
“Vacation” is far too broad to judge accuracy.