Help!! Pre-lightbulb holiday dilemma

Ali-OK

southernscouser wrote:

Ali I genuinely feel for you on this one. That is a killer of a dliemma. :doh:

But common sense sways towards cutting your loses, if you can't defer it or maybe the last resort (no pun intended ) having a week away if they will let you! :rolleyes:

:rotfl: :T Very good...

I forgot one other thing...I stop smoking on Saturday..that's another £100 a month tops saved, so it could all be paid for and none borrowed.

Eek..the decision making gets worse! I can afford it with cash...but I want to pay my debt off first!

tomstickland

Try to align head and heart! Just think what a massive backwards step spending almost £1K per week would be relative to all the hard work going the other way.

moozie_2

Hello Ali-OK

Those pre-lightbulb choices seem to have a habit of coming back and haunting us!

I think the suggestion to look into having a one week holiday instead of two is a good one. I hope you can do it.

At the end of the day, we are all different and want different things. Personally, I am all for going for a holiday - we all need a break after all - but the cost you described seems too high to me. I am sure there are plenty of other holidays for less.

God luck in deciding and keep us posted

Ali-OK

And to steal what someone said a few days ago "I won't enjoy it anyway knowing what I could have done with the money"

Time to Zzzzz on it I think!

southernscouser

Ali-OK wrote:

:rotfl: :T Very good...

I forgot one other thing...I stop smoking on Saturday..that's another £100 a month tops saved, so it could all be paid for and none borrowed.

Eek..the decision making gets worse! I can afford it with cash...but I want to pay my debt off first!

I'm probably not the best person to ask advice from as I feel mine might be a bit biased. Alot of my debt was down to holidays. India, Turkey 3 or 4 times, Tunisia, Egypt twice, and a week at one of the best hotels in the world in Dubai! :cool: :rotfl:

The thing is I don't regret them either!

Well done on the smoking. Thats brilliant! :j :T

Ali-OK

Hi Moozie :wave:

Unfortunately a single parent with one child gets stung twice.

Once as you have to pay an adult price for the child, second, you get wolloped another surcharge for single adult occupancy :mad:

Oh and then of couse it's booked for the school holidays...add about another 30% I'd say?

I trawled everywhere on the net for a single parent deal and got nowhere.

moozie_2

Ali-OK wrote:

Hi Moozie :wave:

Unfortunately a single parent with one child gets stung twice.

Once as you have to pay an adult price for the child, second, you get wolloped another surcharge for single adult occupancy :mad:

Oh and then of couse it's booked for the school holidays...add about another 30% I'd say?

I trawled everywhere on the net for a single parent deal and got nowhere.

Oh my goodness! That's terrible! I feel really angry reading this. It's not right, is it? I am sorry I didn't realise what your circumstances were. I am sure you will make the right decision for you.

Btw, well done on the smoking too :T

Ali-OK

southernscouser wrote:

I'm probably not the best person to ask advice from as I feel mine might be a bit biased. Alot of my debt was down to holidays. India, Turkey 3 or 4 times, Tunisia, Egypt twice, and a week at one of the best hotels in the world in Dubai! :cool: :rotfl:

The thing is I don't regret them either!

Well done on the smoking. Thats brilliant! :j :T

I didn't have a "holiday habit" until littlen came along and then it became a "I need a break".

I got in debt through (a) moving up the house ladder, doing it up and moving up again (but have a fab home and love it here) and (b) down-grading my job as I just couldn't balance a snr mgmt post with family life and (c) not down-grading my spending after losing the extra £700 take home a month. :doh:

Ali-OK

moozie wrote:

Oh my goodness! That's terrible! I feel really angry reading this. It's not right, is it? I am sorry I didn't realise what your circumstances were. I am sure you will make the right decision for you.

Btw, well done on the smoking too :T

Hey, no worries - I still made the choice to book it!! Guess I started to get used to the price being at that level the last couple of years.

It does make me angry too. I could take him out of school, but I hear through the Mum's playground grapevine that the Government are going to stop it. At the mo, providing you get permission (form filling in job) it's not a problem. But then I have to fork out @ £150 a week for out of school childcare. Who wins? Not me that's for sure!

southernscouser

Ali-OK wrote:

I didn't have a "holiday habit" until littlen came along and then it became a "I need a break".

I got in debt through (a) moving up the house ladder, doing it up and moving up again (but have a fab home and love it here) and (b) down-grading my job as I just couldn't balance a snr mgmt post with family life and (c) not down-grading my spending after losing the extra £700 take home a month. :doh:

Best thing to do is sleep on it! I should have done that before I bought my last car! :rotfl: I've got nice mats though!

Let us know if you can't put the deposit to a cheaper holiday.