Holiday Booked WE Cant really afford

36square

That's good. Now you only have to discover how much you've ripped yourself off by booking so ridiculously far in advance.

duchy

36square wrote: »

That's good. Now you only have to discover how much you've ripped yourself off by booking so ridiculously far in advance.

Oh dear-green eyed monster.
At least they have people who want to go on hoiday with them-Do you ?

grogdog

dumbo wrote: »

Thanks to all of you, some really good advice here, the kids are still at high school & too young to work, but they are saving every penny they have as their spending money & both have approximately £80.00 each at the moment. My hubby & I are also saving & have accumulated about £500 so far as spending money for the trip.
Thanks for all your thoughts & suggestions, I know now that what we are doing is affordable & we are being sensible regarding spending money. We are also currently putting aside £100 per week to pay towards the £2000.00 balance.:j

go and enjoy it, from what you have said you can afford it and as someone else said "you are along time dead".

where are you going out of nosiness.:)

dumbo

grogdog wrote: »

go and enjoy it, from what you have said you can afford it and as someone else said "you are along time dead".

where are you going out of nosiness.:)

Gong to Lido de Jeslo in Italy, cant wait :j

dumbo

D.A. wrote: »

Would it not be better to use the money you're currently saving as spending money to pay off more of the balance, and thus reduce the interest charges on your credit card bill?

We had though about this but our card is 0% for payments before April 2012 & if we used the card for spending money (holiday in May) we would be charged the 18.9% rate for all transactions. So thought it would be better to take the 0% deal while it is available.

D.A.

dumbo wrote: »

We had though about this but our card is 0% for payments before April 2012 & if we used the card for spending money (holiday in May) we would be charged the 18.9% rate for all transactions. So thought it would be better to take the 0% deal while it is available.

Good thinking.

Ive_A_Horse_Outside

36square wrote: »

That's good. Now you only have to discover how much you've ripped yourself off by booking so ridiculously far in advance.

Forgive my ignorance but how do people rip themselves off by booking holidays early? Im looking to book a holiday to Thailand in Jan/Feb 2013. Is now too early to look and book? Any advice on how to get prices cheaper or best to book very last minute?