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How much money will i need to take to go travelling in thailand for a month? |
Travel Info Im a university student and i am going travelling all over Thailaind for a month in july. Im not sure how much money i will require. How much does it cost per day to eat and stay in nice accomodation(we wouldn't be looking to stay anywhere too luxurious but not anywhere too grimey), so i can work out a starting budget at least. Is public transport expensive? Travel Tips Will depend largely on what you want. In tourist places, everything depends on the season and the type of accomodation. prices double in high season. Your negotiating skills will be important. Never walk into a guesthouse or hotel looking exhausted and happy you have finally found something. You can save about 30% by being critical and taking your time. Go inside, drink a coffee, ask to see a room, show you are critical and wait. Try to see how many keys are on the key rack and look for other signs of occupancy rate. The ideal is when the staff gives the price first. Take off 40%. I have saved a lot of money this way. Start by booking one day and tomorrow we will see. Of course this will not work in a 400eur a day hotel or in a sleezy low end guesthouse. In most places you can find something decent for about 500THB or lower. If you stay somewhere long time (more than a week) negotiate but be careful about price schemes (extra for the laundry, for the cleaning etc). Do not forget to ask for a price with american breakfast included. If you manage to order food in foodstalls you can easily eat for about 100 THB. If you want to go to a restaurant you will pay more. In tourist places, the food in cheap restaurants is sometimes bad. Thai are keen on food, so eat where the locals eat. You can go to a market, buy fruit (people with sometimes cut the melon or the mango for you) and eat a piece of fried chicken with some rice. Food can be very very spicy here. Transport: buses are cheap and dangerous. Some are 30 years old, there is no real system of technical control. There have been reports of abducting and robbery. Never take a bus or a van outside an official bus station how friendly and charming that lady in her nice uniform may be. Trains are fun and cheap but slow, unreliable and not always safe. I feel that on trains you have more contact with genuine Thai people. Concluding: depending on what you want to do and how much quality, comfort and luxury you want, I would say you need about 500 THB for lodging and about 200 THB for food. Less is possible, but you will have to look for it. Others around US $ 2000 Thailand is pretty cheap, I would say 拢100 a week and you will still have some left over after. You could probably get away with 60,000 baht or about 拢800, rooms can be cheap in the range of 1,000 baht or less, food can be a little expensive but a meal of fried rice and chicken or pork or beef is maximum 100 baht in a local bar, on the street it is even less expensive. If you want western food that is more expensive still, a good Sunday-type roast dinner will set you back about 400 baht or 拢5. Transport around the country is fairly cheap from Bangkok to Phuket or Chiang Mai by VIP bus about 800 baht. By train to Chiang Mai (overnight 1st class sleeper) 1,200 baht, flight by a low cost airline 2,000 baht or so.. Bottled beer in a bar is around 100 baht tops. If you are really careful you could get away with less than 60,000 baht for the month and even manage 拢100 per week. This does not allow you a very 'full' night life though. To get the best idea as for how much money to take, I would recommend that you do some research on what type of hotel you are willing to stay in while you are there. Take a look at this site: http://www.thailandhotels.net/chiang-mai... Looking at the above prices, you see that the prices range from 17-370 dollars, so depending on the type of hotel that you want, that will determine how much you'll pay. So if you stay in Chiang Mai for 5 days at 20 dollars a night, you'll spend 100 dollars on lodging. The site above also lists hotels throughout Thailand that you can check rates on. Figure on 20 dollars a day for food and that is the high end. 800 dollars would be more than enough for food as long as you don't eat at high priced restraunts. Once you have the loding figured out, I would add a few hundred dollars over that, just to be safe. You'd hate to get out there and then run out of money. Of course, you can always withdraw money from an ATM. It's safe to do so. Public transportation is pretty cheap. If you take a taxi or tuk-tuk, make sure that you agree on a price prior to getting in. Taxis are supposed to use the meters, but that doesn't always happen. Here are a few sites for you to check out: http://www.hostels.com/en/th.html... http://www.tourismthailand.org/... http://www.travelthailand.com/ Good luck and enjoy your travels. Thailand is a beautiful country, the people are wonderful and you'll love it!!! a decent room will vary but 1000bht (15 quid'ish) will see you ok.Restaurant food about 拢10, street food(acceptable)about 1/4 that.Beer/cocktail around 拢1.20 from a bar,50p from a supermarket etc etc.In my opinion,I would pay a bit more for my room and save money taking my own beer to the beach ,if my budget was a little bit tight.Including everything except travel you should have a high old time on 拢50/day as long as you don't throw it around too much ie Danish Centre Inn Kata Phuket 800 bht double room high season,perfectly ok or go Evason Phuket for 20,000 per night.Public transport is ridiculously cheap if you stay off airplanes,even then it's only about the same as easyjet.Last time I went on Koh Samui ferry it cost 470bht (a tenner) for my pick-up truck and 5 passengers .If you're american sorry for using 拢's just double up for dollars and again if you are american you 'd be better telling people out there you are canadian,you may get abused by fellow tourists and stitched up by traders Happy travels ex pat |
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