Over the past decade, Europe has quietly extended the possibility of rest to millions who once could not afford it — a modest but meaningful expansion of what economists call disposable freedom. Yet the map of holiday deprivation in 2025 reveals that geography still governs dignity: Romanians and Albanians remain largely earthbound while Norwegians and Swiss depart with ease. More unsettling still is the quiet reversal in wealthy nations like Germany and the Nordic countries, where rising affluence has not protected everyone from the creeping cost of simply getting away.