Saving for trips - How much do you budget on a monthly basis?

I put 200 a month aside for trips and rotate how many I go on. Like this year I did overseas and US plus 1 more smaller coming.
Next year I will just do a smaller on and use the extra money to do a bigger one the following year.

My wife and I put a minimum of $400 back each month for travel. It can be more depending on what we have coming up.

we just have a general savings fund that we put whatever is left in after everything else (bills, retirement, kids college, etc)

this pays for all of our fun stuff, but generally goes towards vacations mostly

sometimes its $800, sometimes its $50

i like it

That's the same thing we do typically. My wife had to ruin this year's savings though by getting pregnant again...

Some people are so selfish.

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That's the same thing we do typically. My wife had to ruin this year's savings though by getting pregnant again...

Some people are so selfish.

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same here

I'd live like a king on hAlf that for travel Year.... Kinda shocking

It really depends on the month, but we are pretty consistent with it being somewhere between $400-$800.

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I'd live like a king on hAlf that for travel Year.... Kinda shocking

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That's what I was thinking--I'd rather see new places & different things, not sleep in luxury beds and stay at (often overpriced) resorts with little meaningful contact with anyone who isn't an employee. My preferred travel style doesn't involve hostels & backpacks, but I also don't need all inclusive, 750 thread count sheets, or a butler. My view of the Amalfi Coast from a clean, sweet agriturismo room at $70 including dinner cooked by the farming family's mama was just as beautiful as the view from La Sirenuse's $500 rooms.

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But I also know that I will never be "rich" and that 10-15% of my net income I spend on vacation is really just taking an advance on comfort and security in retirement. I've made my peace with that. I'm going to see and experience the world while I'm still young enough to enjoy it. And if I wind up eating cat food in a van down by the river when I'm 80 years old, so be it.

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Agree--I'm not piling up crazy amounts of cash working 80 hrs a week, I'm living within my means and prioritizing travel in my discretionary spending. Experiences over things....I can go to Europe for two weeks on less than what some ppl spend in LSU or Saints season tickets. Been there, done that: decided I'd rather have new experiences instead of repeating the same old ones.

I’m hourly. My time varies from 44-48 a week.

So obsiiusly my biweekly checks vary some. We picked an amount that we can live on that’s about my 38 hour pay amount. Then everything over that amount goes directly to our big vacation trip fund.

We are taking our boys to Disney in September for a week and already have the cash put aside for it just by doing this method. Now we are already saving for whatever comes next.