Flora Badger is taking three teenage girls on their first holiday abroad this summer.<\/p>\n
She contacted BBC Your Voice to share her frustrations in watching holiday prices fluctuate. <\/p>\n
Flora first considered booking in April to avoid the expensive summer months, but says she held off over situation in the Middle East and fears of getting stuck abroad. <\/p>\n
She ended up booking to go to the Spanish island of Lanzarote in September.<\/p>\n
“Price was a huge, huge issue,” she says. “It’s very frustrating how much it increases in the school holidays.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day they need a treat, we’ve been saving up for it, they’ve been looking forward to it, so we’re planning on going.” <\/p>\n
The steep price rises for European holidays may have slowed but they’re still creeping up, TravelSupermarket data suggests.<\/p>\n
The cost of an average all-inclusive seven-night family stay this August to Spain is up by 4% to \u00a3155 per person. For Portugal prices are up 3%, and Greece has seen prices increase by 5%.<\/p>\n
It depends which day of the week you travel, but for seven nights a family of four could be paying up to \u00a3160 extra to go to Spain this year compared to last year, bringing the total to as much as \u00a34,340.<\/p>\n
The figures are based on online searches, made on TravelSupermarket from 18 April to 17 June, for all-inclusive, seven-night family holidays in August 2025 and 2026.<\/p>\n
While this snapshot of data reveals a general trend, costs will vary depending on exactly where a family goes and when they book.<\/p>\n
One thing Flora has been able to take advantage of though is the fact that the cost of hiring a car has dropped across all of the most searched-for destinations compared to last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flora Badger is taking three teenage girls on their first holiday abroad this summer. She contacted BBC Your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}