I SPENT MY INHERITANCE TO EXPERIENCE LUXURY

Lynette Morse, Morse 38, 38 owns a baby clothing boutique and lives in Glasgow with her fiancé Cameron, also 38, a careers adviser. they spent £50,500 on an 18-day trip to Mexico. Business-class flights: £3,000. Hotel: £40,000. Food and drink:

£1,000. Excursions and airport lounge access: £3,000. Clothes and accessories: £3,500.

LYNETTE SAYS: When my beloved granny died from dementia, she left me — her only grandchild — £95,000 in her will. Gran adored holidays and often took me to Spain when I was a child.

Cameron and I don’t have any children, or intend to in the future. So it seemed fitting that, after paying off my mortgage and buying a new kitchen and bathroom, we splurged the rest on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday.

We’ve had some wonderful trips, but could never afford to pay more than £5,000. So we were giddy with excitement at the idea of a £50,000 holiday.

We toyed with going to Barbados or Bora Bora. But seven years ago, we spent our first holiday in Mexico and it stole our hearts. We’ve been back there every year since.

While previously we had only been able to look wistfully at fivestar hotels in Cancun, we splashed out on a suite costing more than £2 £2,000 000 a night night. There was a hot tub on our sunbathing deck, a butler who did everything from ironing our clothes to uncorking our champagne and sourcing roses and massage oils for us to have a romantic night in.

On the beach, a second butler brought us drinks and food. Initially, we felt guilty asking them to do things we could do ourselves, such as fetching towels or positioning the parasols. But then we thought: ‘We’ve paid for it, so why not!’

Before the trip I splashed out on designer luggage and clothes, including a £165 Louis Vuitton bikini, several pairs of designer sunglasses costing £400, Chanel sliders and around £2,500 of other outfits.

We made sure we had as many amazing experiences as we could, including spending £600 on chartering a private catamaran for a few hours. The only disappointment was the £500 helicopter ride over Cancun — the view was the same as when our plane landed in Mexico.

A year later we returned to Mexico, and I can’t deny it was a blow being back in economy.

But I don’t regret for a second blowing the £50,000 on one holiday, even though it means we’ll probably never experience such luxury again.