This is one of our Budget series of posts to give you an idea of how much we spent traveling around the world. This is our wrap up post which will answer the questions you’ve all been dying to know: How much did we spend on our 10 month RTW trip? Did we meet our goal of spending an average of $100/day?
Let’s find out!
Total Spent (309 days): $29,827.38
We visited 29 countries on our RTW trip and were on the trip for 309 days. Egypt (just 1 day), South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe (just 1 day), Namibia, Germany (just 1 day), Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, USA, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia (just Bali), Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, and Nepal.
We did return to the USA for a few weeks in December, so we were actually out of the country for 282 days.
A few other things to remember while reading these stats:
1. Our parents visited us several times along the way. This screws with the numbers a little bit because they did choose to “play the parent card” a number of times which lowers our cost. However, there were certain situations where we stayed in slightly higher quality places, or traveled at a faster speed when they were with us which might have slightly increased our cost.
2. When we were at home in the States our accommodation cost/food cost were very low.
3. When were in the states, we bought Christmas presents for friends and family which we did include in our final numbers.
Accommodation: $7,869.29
This was 26% of our total cost of the trip.
Activities: $3,456.50
This was 11% of our total trip cost.
Alcohol: $593.38
We only count alcohol costs when it is not purchased with other food. This was 2% of the our total trip cost.
Food: $5,401.19
This was 18% of our total trip cost.
Miscellaneous: $1,768.08
This category includes any costs that don’t fit into the other categories. It could be things like postcards, souvenirs, laundry, bathroom, our wordpress costs, etc. This was 6% of our total cost.
Transportation: $10,129.86
This was 34% of the total cost. This is surprising to us because we used airline miles for the majority of our large flight costs, which means that this is significantly lower than it could have been!
Visas: $609.07
This is 2% of the total cost.
This divides out to $96.53/day including our time at home! We were so thrilled that we met our $100/day average for the two of us!
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Congratulations on meeting your goal and thank you for your posts. I have been studying them frequently since we head out soon ourselves!
So glad that they have been useful! Enjoy your upcoming trip!! =)
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