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What a trip to Naples costs

A week in Naples for eight people works out around $9,740 before flights — $294 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $75 per adult per day for food. From Atlanta and Dallas it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A southwest Florida Gulf city known for the shops and restaurants of Fifth Avenue South and for access to the Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$2,060	$2,100	$4,160	$1,040
8 people	$5,540	$4,200	$9,740	$1,220
12 people	$7,570	$6,300	$13,900	$1,160

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Naples compares

NaplesFlorida median of 4Beaches median of 14All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Naples runs $389 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 32% above the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 11th most expensive of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 40% above the typical beach ($277), the 2nd most expensive of 14 beaches.

Its season swings 91% between its cheapest and most expensive months, against 73% for the typical beach. Timing matters more here than it does for most beaches.
Beaches are generally cheapest in January, but the low here falls in May.
It is above the all-library median for 9 months of the year and below it for the other 3 (Jun, Jul, Aug) — so whether it counts as an expensive destination depends entirely on when you go.
The same week costs $1,882 more in February than in May on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
Although it is more expensive than the typical beach across the year, it undercuts one in Jun, Jul, Aug.
It is at its most expensive in February and cheapest in May — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Within Florida (4 destinations here), it is 15% above the regional median of $337 a night.
Driving beats four seats from Atlanta and Dallas. The longest of those is Dallas — 1,133 road miles and 18.4h each way, saving $493 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in May, at $2,058 for the whole property — $3,940 for the same week in February.
The sharpest single step is between April and May: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $1,882.
The closest thing to it on price is Lake Tahoe, CA/NV, a lake town: $9,849 for a week for eight against $9,739 here, 1% apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Naples is at its most expensive in February and cheapest in May — a 91% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$461
February	$563
March	$563
April	$563
May	$294
June	$294
July	$294
August	$294
September	$294
October	$294
November	$294
December	$461

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$387	3.9h	$906	10.1h2 days	driving
Chicago	$282*	5.2h	$1,897	20.2h3 days	flying
Dallas	$554*	5.0h	$1,723	18.4h2 days	driving
Denver	$578*	8.0h	$2,693	28.6h3 days	flying
Los Angeles	$554*	9.3h	$3,739	39.7h4 days	flying
New York	$356*	5.1h	$1,821	19.4h2 days	flying
Seattle	$577	10.1h	$4,383	46.5h5 days	flying
Phoenix	$509	8.5h	$3,124	33.2h4 days	flying

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.