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xAzNPimP4LiFex
12/16/24 10:35:16 AM
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the farthest I traveled to internationally is Philippines but it still wasnt a luxury vacation. I couldnt even dream of affording those expensive hotels on my salary in:

Cebu, Palawan, Boracay, or Manila unless I was filthy rich (which isnt a majority of people, lets be honest)

yet people I know are taking luxury vacations to Japan, Bali, Hawaii, or Brazil and spending thousands on it? How the hell do people afford this?

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GrandConjuraton
12/16/24 10:36:24 AM
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Living beyond their means and going into debt.

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IceCreamOnStero
12/16/24 10:39:04 AM
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They make more

They spend less on other stuff

They're going into debt

One of these three is the answer to every kind of "how do people afford X" question


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ai123
12/16/24 10:41:21 AM
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Sometimes you can find deals, even on luxury hotels. Flights, you absolutely can, especially if you are prepared to change planes 2 or 3 times.

Sometimes people have more money than you think.

Sometimes people really prioritise travel and cut back elsewhere.

And, yes, sometimes people put it all on credit cards and worry about the cost later.

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xAzNPimP4LiFex
12/16/24 10:42:39 AM
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IceCreamOnStero posted...
They make more

They spend less on other stuff

They're going into debt

One of these three is the answer to every kind of "how do people afford X" question

I can see reason 1 or 3 being realistic

but 2 is pretty hard to pull off. We budgeted our money based on our finances and no matter what we cut. we still cant make it to those fancy vacations without credit carding the thing

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bsp77
12/16/24 10:46:00 AM
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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...
I can see reason 1 or 3 being realistic

but 2 is pretty hard to pull off. We budgeted our money based on our finances and no matter what we cut. we still cant make it to those fancy vacations without credit carding the thing
Yeah, 2 often seems impossible, at least while retaining my sanity

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saspa
12/16/24 10:47:13 AM
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I like how tc posed this question while fully admitting he's been to somewhere exotic like philippines when most of us haven't even been to missouri city! Yet you straight up left the country on an international flight, how did you afford that?

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bsp77
12/16/24 10:49:22 AM
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saspa posted...
I like how tc posed this question while fully admitting he's been to somewhere exotic like philippines when most of us haven't even been to missouri city! Yet you straight up left the country on an international flight, how did you afford that?
So what? I have been plenty of exotic places (often my dad paid) but planning vacations like that regularly is still extremely tough.

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xAzNPimP4LiFex
12/16/24 10:51:18 AM
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saspa posted...
I like how tc posed this question while fully admitting he's been to somewhere exotic like philippines when most of us haven't even been to missouri city! Yet you straight up left the country on an international flight, how did you afford that?

Philippines is not hard to afford if youre just visiting family and youre not doing any of the fancy tourist stuff and staying in the fancy hotels

Doing both of what I mentioned would cost you a lot of money

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Cuticrusader09
12/16/24 11:10:00 AM
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I mean some churn credit cards for miles & hotel points. But you have to spend a fair amount to hit the targets on the sign up bonuses.

Others have jobs that require travel. Especially good if the company lets you charge to a personal card & then reimburses you. My husband got a job like that now. Its $25-$35k in charges a year that we get credit card points on plus the miles & hotel points.

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bluezero
12/16/24 11:11:44 AM
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I have FB friends that post every single thing they do. They go on 10 vacations a year, and when they're home, they're always at concerts, sporting events, going out to eat...some people just make a lot of money.

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NoxObscuras
12/16/24 11:15:00 AM
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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...
I can see reason 1 or 3 being realistic

but 2 is pretty hard to pull off. We budgeted our money based on our finances and no matter what we cut. we still cant make it to those fancy vacations without credit carding the thing
2 isn't really hard to pull off if 1 is also true. So, they make more than you and they spend less money on other things than you do

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voldothegr8
12/16/24 11:24:02 AM
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Theyre either rich, living beyond means. won it in a contest, or saved up a budget.

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Board_hunter567
12/16/24 11:28:36 AM
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I'm more curious as to how they find the time.

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rexcrk
12/16/24 11:48:03 AM
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I want to know how anyone can afford ANY kind of vacation x___x

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Solid_Sonic
12/16/24 11:49:10 AM
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I don't really take "vacations". I go to events out of state but just going somewhere to be a tourist? Nah. I'll either do that within driving distance or not bother.

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NoxObscuras
12/16/24 11:52:15 AM
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Board_hunter567 posted...
I'm more curious as to how they find the time.
Work a job that doesn't rip you off on vacation time.

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archizzy
12/16/24 11:53:32 AM
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There is obviously a ton of variations on where you go, how long, how many people are going and so on. With that being said I know a lot of people who do a once a year trip for under 10K as a couple. I hate to sound privileged but by no means do I think you need to be rich to be able to afford 5k to 10K a year for a nice vacation which seems roughly about what these people are spending. Id say on average most of them are hitting about 5K to 8K on some pretty nice trips. Some are doing more budget friendly options.

I see people at my job that make less than I do and have more bills than I do be able to do it and its not because they are going into debt for it. Some of the younger guys just recently took trips overseas and one said he spent like $3,500. Definitely dont need to be rich to afford that.

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bsp77
12/16/24 11:54:34 AM
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Board_hunter567 posted...
I'm more curious as to how they find the time.
That part is easy. But likely need a salary job

I have like 28 days and don't know what to do with them.

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MarcoRubio
12/16/24 11:58:42 AM
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I forgot about your vacation gimmick

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Thermador446
12/16/24 12:01:00 PM
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Not having kids.
My friend travelled internationally annually before he had kids

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Board_hunter567
12/16/24 12:07:11 PM
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NoxObscuras posted...
Work a job that doesn't rip you off on vacation time.

bsp77 posted...
That part is easy. But likely need a salary job

I have like 28 days and don't know what to do with them.
It's more a matter of being able to take a week or more off without coming back to a massive backlog or your coworkers becoming overwhelmed by your absence.

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bsp77
12/16/24 12:09:58 PM
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Board_hunter567 posted...
It's more a matter of being able to take a week or more off without coming back to a massive backlog or your coworkers becoming overwhelmed by your absence.
You either have shit coworkers, or you haven't put proper backups in place.

I had my 2 week honeymoon in May, and so I had to do a LOT of planning on how everything would be covered. Admittedly a pain, but it all worked out.

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watertank
12/16/24 12:37:31 PM
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the same way they afford them domestically

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BlueAnnihilator
12/16/24 12:38:14 PM
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Thermador446 posted...
Not having kids.

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unknownhombre
12/16/24 12:39:00 PM
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IceCreamOnStero posted...
They make more

They spend less on other stuff

They're going into debt

One of these three is the answer to every kind of "how do people afford X" question

This is always the answer.

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Intro2Logic
12/16/24 12:40:13 PM
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Credit card debt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/business/disney-vacation-debt.html

Or family wealth.

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Euripides
12/16/24 12:44:14 PM
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I have (adult) kids and we've taken a big vacation each of the last three years.

Having good jobs is the first thing (easier said than done, yes, but some of us DO have good paying jobs)

Then it's a matter of priorities. We would rather do a nice big vacation once a year than, say, go out to eat 3 or 4 nights a week. We are really frugal with a lot of our day to day life so that we can afford the vacation.

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Euripides
12/16/24 12:47:30 PM
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I will add that having money/assets opens up options for cheaper debt.

Two years ago, we spent 17 days in Europe (my wife, myself, and two kids).

We paid for most of it with a Southwest Airlines card (to earn miles), then paid off that card with a Home Equity Line of Credit (which has a much lower interest rate). We then paid off the HELOC over the next 4-6 months

Is it unfair that having more money makes borrowing money cheaper? Yes, but that's how a lot of people afford things that others cannot

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Hospy
12/16/24 12:52:55 PM
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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...
I can see reason 1 or 3 being realistic

but 2 is pretty hard to pull off. We budgeted our money based on our finances and no matter what we cut. we still cant make it to those fancy vacations without credit carding the thing
You can do it if you're just more aggressive in budgeting and save over a greater period of time.
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LonelyStoner
12/16/24 12:54:17 PM
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My ex travels constantly overseas and has an insane amount of credit card debt.

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darkknight109
12/16/24 1:00:51 PM
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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...
yet people I know are taking luxury vacations to Japan, Bali, Hawaii, or Brazil and spending thousands on it? How the hell do people afford this?
A good job, mostly. I make six figures and that pays for nice vacations if you save for them.

Also, I can only speak for Japan, but it's honestly not that expensive of a trip if you want to do it on a budget. You can get airfare from North America for <$1000 if you don't mind waiting for special deals; you can get nightly accommodations for <$50 a night (capsule hotels, hostels, etc.), the trains are cheap and will take you wherever you want to go (and if you want to see a big chunk of the country, the regional JR Rail passes are still good value, even though the country-wide one is now no longer worth it; a couple hundred bucks gets you a week's access to 90+% of the trains, including the shinkansen, in one of Japan's regions), and food is not particularly expensive.

I usually splurge on my trips to Japan, but if you forced me to do it on a budget, I could probably plan a pretty good two-week trip for ~$3000 per person.

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Cuticrusader09
12/16/24 1:49:06 PM
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Euripides posted...
I have (adult) kids and we've taken a big vacation each of the last three years.

Having good jobs is the first thing (easier said than done, yes, but some of us DO have good paying jobs)

Then it's a matter of priorities. We would rather do a nice big vacation once a year than, say, go out to eat 3 or 4 nights a week. We are really frugal with a lot of our day to day life so that we can afford the vacation.

This. We rarely go out to eat. Mostly because with my kids allergies its much easier to just make food at home. We also live in a home that is like 4x less expensive than what we could afford on my husbands salary.

I like to travel and now that the kids re teens and its easier to travel with them, well be doing international trips. Went to London last summer and are going to Japan for 3 weeks this June (I dont work & my husband has no set amount of vacation time). But we are totally splurging on that trip.

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xAzNPimP4LiFex
12/16/24 7:03:30 PM
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^yeah it will definitely be much easier to travel internationally when my kids get older.

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thronedfire2
12/16/24 7:04:46 PM
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they're rich

edit: although Bali is dirt cheap compared to the others. the only expensive part of that trip is the plane tickets

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Glob
12/16/24 7:09:58 PM
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GrandConjuraton posted...
Living beyond their means and going into debt.

Either this or theyre wealthier than you are seem to be the obvious answers.
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jefffan
12/16/24 7:29:06 PM
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I just stick to multiple day trips to the Caribbean.

I have little desire to see the other continents.

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Glob
12/16/24 8:22:44 PM
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jefffan posted...
I just stick to multiple day trips to the Caribbean.

I have little desire to see the other continents.

While theres appeal in the familiar, I love going to new places too.
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PraetorXyn
12/16/24 8:35:27 PM
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I could afford it but I have no one to go with, and since I was born legally blind, traveling to a foreign country alone is pretty terrifying.

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ssjevot
12/16/24 8:39:28 PM
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If you make median income and don't have kids it wouldn't be that hard. Having kids will destroy your income and make the trip cost a lot more.

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ShineboxPhil
12/16/24 8:41:20 PM
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I make a decent amount and I always allocate a budget towards a vacation fund.
Went to Rio de Janeiro last August and next year I'm doing Istanbul

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markconig
12/16/24 8:57:52 PM
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Last year I did a solo trip to Japan for 18 days. When all was said and done, I added up all my expenses and my grand total was around 5k, with plane and hotels taking more than half of that. It helps a lot that I went by myself since I didn't have to pay for everything 2+ times over. But 5k is a reasonable amount of money for most people.

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Cuticrusader09
12/16/24 9:09:24 PM
#46:


markconig posted...
Last year I did a solo trip to Japan for 18 days. When all was said and done, I added up all my expenses and my grand total was around 5k, with plane and hotels taking more than half of that. It helps a lot that I went by myself since I didn't have to pay for everything 2+ times over. But 5k is a reasonable amount of money for most people.
I mean totally depends on what you do. Im looking to do 1 night in ryokan and have a kaiseki meal and dang is that expensive. Especially since the pricing isnt per room but per person.

Then my husband really wants to have Kobe steak in Kobe and that one meal will be $400-500 for the 4 of us.

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Glob
12/16/24 9:12:36 PM
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Cuticrusader09 posted...
I mean totally depends on what you do. Im looking to do 1 night in ryokan and have a kaiseki meal and dang is that expensive. Especially since the pricing isnt per room but per person.

Then my husband really wants to have Kobe steak in Kobe and that one meal will be $400-500 for the 4 of us.

You can certainly spend a lot wherever you go, but at that point, I feel like thats not the cost of travelling. Its something else.

If Im doing long haul flights I go first class. However, I dont feel like I can then moan about the cost of the plane ticket.
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markconig
12/16/24 9:18:00 PM
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Cuticrusader09 posted...
I mean totally depends on what you do. Im looking to do 1 night in ryokan and have a kaiseki meal and dang is that expensive. Especially since the pricing isnt per room but per person.

Then my husband really wants to have Kobe steak in Kobe and that one meal will be $400-500 for the 4 of us.

Yea when you start adding kids/family, prices go up a lot. But I was on the move everyday of the 18 days, I was constantly on a train and walking to attractions and restaurants, so I wasn't being frugal with money. It also helps that I don't drink, so I wasn't spending hundreds at bars every night.

I also did Kobe beef in Kobe (highly recommend the Kobe herb garden while your there). I went to one of the most highly rated places, but after sitting down and looking at the prices....I grabbed one of the cheapest options, the second to cheapest cut with the smallest portion, cost me around $60.

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_____Cait
12/16/24 9:22:51 PM
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Usually living at home with parents and never paying bills.
Oh i thought this was about those weird travel youtuber people.

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Ivany2008
12/16/24 9:34:47 PM
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Sometimes I wonder... I've only ever wanted 2 travel destinations. 70,000 tons of metal (Cruise ship that only plays metal music) which is beyond what I can afford at 4 grand, and a trip to Japan. Which I would have had booked for next year had I not lost my job. The worst part is that plane tickets are so ridiculously overpriced thanks to our terrible air service in my province.
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