When you go on holiday it is very easy to get caught up in the spirit of things and lose all sense of keeping a reign on finances. I recently went on holiday to Spain. I had budgeted £200 for one week, which included my share of the cost of car rental for four people, along with a cost of the villa to be cleaned. So, with the money that left me I had to work out how much I could spend on average on each of the days on things like food. My view is that if I take x amount away, I do not have to spend it all. But, if I do then I do not worry about it. After all, that was my budget. On the last day we went out for an expensive meal with what i had left.