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What a Christmas trip actually costs
Static articles answer this question with ranges nobody audited. This page answers it with your numbers. Pick the city, walk down the lines, and the total builds in the open: every line is a multiplication or a flat amount you can redo on paper. Where a preset carries a real 2026 price, it is one we took from the venue itself. Where we could not verify a price, the line is yours to fill in, and the page says so rather than inventing a number. Your numbers never leave your browser.
2026 venue prices
Lines you leave blank count as zero. Hotel rates, market spending and transit are your numbers: December hotel prices move too fast for a preset to be honest, the one exception being the labeled New York planning average.
Your trip, line by line
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total | $0 |
| Per person | $0 |
Check it with a pencil: hotel is nights times rate; skating is skaters times the per skater total; show, lights and tours are travelers times the ticket; market and transit are the flat amounts you typed. Nothing else is in the total.
From a number to a plan
The guides turn this budget into days: the New York guide is on sale now, and the Chicago weekend guide follows Friday, November 13.
The Christmas List.
One email if a season date on these pages moves, and first word when the 2027 guides open. Nothing else.