Full list of travel destinations that will be pricier to visit in 2025

The satellite has ne'er been much divided, but there’s 1 happening that ne'er fails to unite the masses: daydreaming astir holidays.

But adjacent that is astir to get a batch much expensive.

The lb precocious dropped successful value, a nonstop effect of a emergence successful government borrowing and concerns implicit the spot of the UK economy.

What that means connected a level we tin each subordinate to, is that Brits travelling overseas volition get little wealth for their sterling.

The lb has fallen 6.8% against the US dollar, the lowest level since November 2023, leaving Brits with conscionable £1.21 for each $1, compared to £1.30 successful October past year.

The lb is besides down against large currencies similar the Euro and the Swiss Franc, though the biggest drops person been felt crossed Caribbean and South American currencies.

In fact, caller probe from question wealth specialists No1 Currency shows that since October 2024 – when Rachel Reeves announced her archetypal fund – the lb has fallen against a full of 51 currencies.

There are conscionable 3 wherever the lb is presently up: the Hungarian forint, the New Zealand dollar, and the South African rand.

Here’s the afloat database of each 51 countries, and the worth of the lb against their currencies.

However, if you’re heading to immoderate of these destinations soon, don’t panic — this isn’t the beryllium each and extremity each of affordability.

Along with getting bang for your subordinate astatine the currency speech desk, you besides request to origin successful the outgo of items locally and the terms of getting there.

A formation to New Zealand, for example, volition offset immoderate savings made against travelling determination person by (regardless of however anemic the lb is there).

And wherefore not usage this quality to your advantage? Metro recently shared a database of the 9 cheapest European cities for play breaks, with Budapest, Hungary coming successful top.

The likes of flights, accommodation and nutrient and portion are already the continent’s astir reasonable, but fixed the lb is beardown against the forint, it’s the cleanable prime for a budget-friendly interruption this year.

Our nonmigratory off-the-beaten-track traveller Alice Murphy besides spent 48 hours successful Vilnius, Lithuania’s compact but charming capital which was precocious named Europe’s astir affordable city.

This nonfiction was archetypal published connected January 14, 2025.

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