It'll be a case of planes, trains and automobiles for a million Irish adults trying to get home for Christmas.
Record numbers are expected to take to roads, rails and skies to get back to Ireland for the big day, with most spending more on their trek home than gifts.
The research from Mastercard reveals that the Irish will spend €388 on average travelling home, over double what they will spend on presents - €163.
And while mam and dad are the most popular people to go back to see, a quarter say they would go the distance to see their pet.
The average Irish adult will travel 814 kilometres to get home, around the distance from Dublin to Paris, which is significantly further than the average European whom will travel 500 km.
Sonya Geelon, Country Manager for Mastercard Ireland, said: “We live at a time where people travel more and build careers and lives in new cities and countries around the world, but Christmas is still a time for getting home to be with family.
“Christmas has always been a major spending occasion, but with more and more people living away from their hometowns it has become one of the biggest travel occasions of the year too."
