How A lot Did Our Household RTW Journey Price?

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How a lot does a household journey world wide price? It’s a burning query and understandably so! Certainly, with out cash, it’s troublesome to journey. So, I believed it could be helpful to compile some figures to tell those that dream of someday embarking on an journey like ours.

This text is the third of a three-part abstract of our around the world journey:

Monetary report on our household journey world wide – half 3

On this monetary report, I’ll present you all of the bills of our journey with a breakdown by class and by nation. With a purpose to see extra clearly and to check nations with one another, I give you an in depth evaluation of lodging, meals and transportation bills. Lastly, I’ll revisit the expense estimate I had made earlier than the journey, to see if it held up.

However first, I want to remind you of some statistics from our household journey:

  • 444 days of journey;
  • 50 nations visited;
  • 56 flights;
  • 33 rental vehicles;
  • 181 habitations;
  • 213 cities visited, together with 39 capitals, to not point out the numerous villages and websites exterior the cities;
  • 50% of pricey nations, 50% of nations thought of low cost;
  • Plenty of consolation, and typically luxurious;
  • Journey in carry-on suitcases.
Helicopter Ride

Helicopter Experience, Vanuatu

Distribution of bills

Expenditure classes

In complete, for 444 days, our bills quantity to 91,241.00 CAD (71,548.60 USD), or 205.00 CAD (160.76 USD) per day for our household of 4, i.e. 51.25 CAD (40.19 USD) per day and per individual.

Professional-rated over 12 months, it’s 75,007.00 CAD (58,818.36 USD), or 18,752.00 CAD (14,704.79 USD) per individual.

Right here is the breakdown of the whole price of our journey by expense merchandise:

  • Lodging (excluding campers): 19,538.00 CAD (15,321.15 USD);
  • Flights (worldwide and home): 18,677.00 CAD (14,645.97 USD);
  • Automotive rental (together with campers and gasoline) : 19,730.00 CAD (15,471.71 USD);
  • Transport (parking, tolls, buses, trains, ferries, taxis, and many others.) : 6,038.00 CAD (4,734.83 USD);
  • Restaurant : 14,445.00 CAD (11,327.36 USD);
  • Groceries (together with hygiene merchandise, laundry, SIM playing cards, medicines) : 6,857.00 CAD (5,377.06 USD);
  • Recreation actions: 6,013.00 CAD (4,715.22 USD);
  • Visas : 1,942.00 CAD (1,522.86 USD);

Please notice that the “Grocery” merchandise is a little bit of a catch-all, since I embrace hygiene merchandise, laundry, SIM playing cards and drugs. In the long run, I thought of that the load of this stuff in relation to the meals element is negligible.

Please additionally notice, nonetheless, that insurance coverage, tools, donations and items, in addition to bank card charges geared toward accumulating factors aren’t included amongst this stuff of expenditure. I contemplate that these bills, though associated to journey, aren’t strictly talking recurrent journey bills, since they aren’t relevant to nations, however reasonably to the journey in its entirety.

Expenditure by nation

The next desk reveals the expenditure damaged down by merchandise and nation. With a purpose to solely spotlight the bills associated to dwelling in every nation, I excluded worldwide flights, however I left native flights, which I contemplate to be an integral a part of transport prices – identical to automobile leases.

Be aware that the desk has solely 38 traces. With a purpose to simplify all the pieces, I’ve grouped collectively the bills of a number of nations:

  • Our bills within the Benelux embrace these of Belgium (3 days), the Netherlands (4 days) and Luxembourg (1 day);
  • Our bills in Central Europe embrace these of Slovakia (1 day), Hungary (3 days), Poland (2 days) and the Czech Republic (3 days);
  • Our bills in England embrace these in Wales (2 days);
  • Our bills in Spain embrace these of Gibraltar (1 day);
  • Our bills in Germany embrace these of Liechtenstein (1 day);
  • Our bills in France embrace these in Basel, Switzerland (1 day);
  • Our bills in Italy embrace these in Bratislava, Slovenia (1 day);
  • Our bills in Israel embrace these within the Palestinian Territory (2 days);
  • Our bills in Hong Kong embrace these in Macao (2 days).

Be happy to click on on the columns of the desk to make use of the sorting perform.

Nation Visa Inside flights Automotive Transport Gasoline Resort Restaurant Groceries Actions Complete
Iceland 0.00 0.00 2462.64 18.57 899.75 0.00 181.54 341.31 169.63 4073.44
UK 0.00 0.00 286.50 183.74 204.82 1161.88 447.59 339.63 0.00 2624.17
Benelux 0.00 0.00 281.33 66.52 148.71 873.05 283.25 195.34 0.00 1848.21
France 0.00 0.00 668.17 464.69 852.42 931.21 756.16 535.68 102.10 4310.43
Germany 0.00 0.00 398.98 156.36 345.45 1078.77 472.08 311.08 33.33 2796.04
Austria 0.00 0.00 159.59 82.46 99.93 173.44 178.25 212.97 157.02 1063.66
Central Europe 0.00 0.00 239.39 125.26 206.20 538.87 362.34 144.43 64.51 1681.00
Bulgaria 0.00 0.00 0.00 11.48 0.00 146.00 52.48 50.65 138.47 399.07
Turkey 322.00 0.00 350.33 267.45 261.75 194.84 347.42 131.72 876.25 2751.75
Cyprus 0.00 0.00 167.75 147.46 66.40 450.05 215.29 104.52 21.42 1172.89
Lebanon 0.00 0.00 214.84 4.29 55.75 686.11 314.97 48.03 132.08 1456.05
Greece 0.00 0.00 608.59 691.85 229.10 1148.80 497.31 359.32 172.13 3707.10
Israel 148.47 0.00 240.79 34.78 184.95 874.24 131.95 238.23 114.35 1967.75
Jordan 293.60 0.00 271.40 26.61 120.19 569.36 188.09 112.76 155.06 1737.07
UAE 0.00 0.00 285.52 7.26 95.76 14.52 256.82 148.02 180.77 988.68
Oman 123.78 0.00 176.29 0.00 46.46 193.53 46.46 76.59 29.04 692.16
India 440.72 0.00 1308.30 7.14 0.00 834.61 413.75 38.09 279.73 3322.34
Thailand 0.00 256.04 334.68 241.48 91.20 1094.73 635.20 214.80 213.20 3081.33
Myanmar 260.00 0.00 975.00 49.19 0.00 534.14 264.26 25.91 119.57 2228.07
Cambodia 54.00 0.00 0.00 147.02 0.00 434.72 415.85 63.65 91.80 1207.04
Vietnam 135.00 0.00 0.00 13.37 0.00 0.00 128.10 2.70 290.25 569.42
Sri Lanka 94.50 0.00 475.33 14.09 82.04 592.37 351.73 64.81 224.82 1899.69
Philippines 0.00 177.88 75.96 631.06 25.22 664.11 423.65 131.39 649.37 2778.63
Australia 70.23 436.56 798.96 280.80 398.77 383.50 83.51 256.89 144.40 2853.61
New Zealand 0.00 205.00 1004.89 103.96 419.58 91.22 53.00 464.03 283.54 2625.22
Fiji 0.00 0.00 285.00 2.52 29.04 332.60 169.50 97.73 31.94 948.34
Vanuatu 0.00 0.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 528.30 299.77 154.30 122.09 1129.46
Japan 0.00 19.64 0.00 657.35 0.00 1268.70 1126.45 417.71 243.37 3733.22
Taiwan 0.00 0.00 0.00 233.65 0.00 0.00 271.57 100.00 59.13 664.35
Hong Kong/Macau 0.00 0.00 0.00 185.90 0.00 81.17 403.09 212.73 89.19 972.08
Malaysia 0.00 286.44 22.67 282.48 6.48 180.44 222.45 98.31 108.80 1208.06
Indonesia 0.00 0.00 229.43 12.86 39.61 267.26 399.08 65.10 167.76 1181.11
Singapore 0.00 0.00 0.00 135.24 0.00 745.46 195.61 166.36 0.00 1242.66
Morocco 0.00 0.00 555.11 108.08 287.42 916.65 561.40 219.06 46.90 2694.61
Italy 0.00 0.00 103.37 262.65 205.76 99.98 288.60 100.47 87.00 1147.82
Croatia 0.00 0.00 258.43 153.20 138.20 790.47 263.35 168.56 110.00 1882.20
Spain 0.00 0.00 347.99 65.10 379.05 220.59 483.80 384.85 223.32 2104.69
Portugal 0.00 0.00 108.75 137.04 114.06 442.27 259.49 59.42 81.00 1202.02
Complete 1942.30 1381.56 13695.98 6037.94 6034.06 19537.94 12445.18 6857.14 6013.32 73945.43

Uluru

Uluru, Australia

Expenditure by nation – grouping for evaluation

For evaluation functions, I’ve compiled the next desk to signify the typical bills per day and per nation, by way of lodging, meals and transportation. The next classes are subsequently groupings of expenditure gadgets:

  • The Complete column merely reveals the whole from the earlier desk, divided by the variety of days in every nation;
  • The Lodging class incorporates the Resort merchandise;
  • The Meals class contains the Restaurant and Grocery gadgets;
  • The Transport class contains the Inside Flights, Automotive, Transport and Gasoline gadgets.

Be happy to click on on the columns of the desk to make use of the sorting perform.

Nation Complete Lodging Meals Transport
Iceland 407.34 0.00 52.28 338.10
UK 238.56 105.63 71.57 61.37
Benelux 231.03 109.13 59.82 62.07
France 148.64 32.11 44.55 68.46
Germany 186.40 71.92 52.21 60.05
Austria 177.28 28.91 65.20 57.00
Central Europe 186.78 59.87 56.31 63.43
Bulgaria 133.02 48.67 34.38 3.83
Turkey 171.98 12.18 29.95 54.97
Cyprus 195.48 75.01 53.30 63.60
Lebanon 182.01 85.76 45.37 34.36
Greece 231.69 71.80 53.54 95.60
Israel 245.97 109.28 46.27 57.56
Jordan 248.15 81.34 42.98 59.74
UAE 89.88 1.32 36.80 35.32
Oman 230.72 64.51 41.02 74.25
India 184.57 46.37 25.10 73.08
Thailand 114.12 40.55 31.48 34.20
Myanmar 185.67 44.51 24.18 85.35
Cambodia 120.70 43.47 47.95 14.70
Vietnam 94.90 0.00 21.80 2.23
Sri Lanka 118.73 37.02 26.03 35.72
Philippines 154.37 36.90 30.84 50.56
Australia 259.42 34.86 30.94 174.10
New Zealand 238.66 8.29 47.00 157.58
Fiji 135.48 47.51 38.18 45.22
Vanuatu 112.95 52.83 45.41 2.50
Japan 186.66 63.44 77.21 33.85
Taiwan 83.04 0.00 46.45 29.21
Hong Kong/Macau 88.37 7.38 55.98 16.90
Malaysia 100.67 15.04 26.73 49.84
Indonesia 78.74 17.82 30.95 18.79
Singapore 155.33 93.18 45.25 16.91
Morocco 122.48 41.67 35.48 43.21
Italy 286.96 24.99 97.27 142.94
Croatia 188.22 79.05 43.19 54.98
Spain 131.54 13.79 54.29 49.51
Portugal 240.40 88.45 63.78 71.97

Cherry Blossom

Cherry blossom, Japan

Evaluation of common bills per day and per nation

Complete expenditures

Nations the place we spent probably the most per day

  • 407.34 CAD per day in Iceland;
  • 286.96 CAD per day in Italy;
  • 259.42 CAD per day in Australia;
  • 248.15 CAD per day in Jordan;
  • 245.97 CAD per day in Israel.

The costliest nation, all classes thought of, is none aside from Iceland, and by a large margin! Fortuitously, we have now been extraordinarily frugal by buying the only merchandise in grocery shops and consuming out solely twice. In any other case, the bills may have actually exploded.

Israel can also be a horribly costly nation. We needed to deprive ourselves slightly, in any other case this nation can be in 2nd place within the rating.

Jordan is a shock on this rating. That is largely because of our deliberate decisions to pay extra in lodging.

Nations the place we spent the least per day

  • 78.74 CAD per day in Indonesia;
  • 83.04 CAD per day in Taiwan;
  • 88.37 CAD per day in Hong Kong;
  • 89.88 CAD per day in the United Arab Emirates;
  • 94.90 CAD per day in Vietnam.

Indonesia (Bali) is solely a really inexpensive nation, the place cash can go very far.

In Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, we stayed virtually completely in luxurious resorts with factors. As well as, we have now not rented a automobile in Taiwan or Hong Kong.

In Vietnam, the in-laws sheltered and fed us. I nonetheless really feel dangerous to say it, however they needed to pay for all the pieces, to the purpose of giving us some pocket cash… an out of the peculiar generosity!

You could suspect that this rating just isn’t consultant of the true price of dwelling in some nations. For the sake of being sensible, I will provide you with my evaluation of the prices of lodging, meals and transport.

Bornean Bearded Pigs

Bako Nationwide Park, Borneo, Malaysia

Lodging bills

Concerning lodging, we tailored our bills in response to the next pointers:

  • As a lot as doable, we slept in resorts with our factors. However solely once I thought it could be useful to pay in factors reasonably than cash (e.g. Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Spain).
  • In any other case, we normally simply slept in resorts or Airbnb of a decrease mid-range vary, i.e. providing a minimal degree of consolation.

Nations the place we spent probably the most on lodging per day

  • 123.31 CAD per day in Belgium;
  • 119.02 CAD per day in the Netherlands;
  • 109.28 CAD per day in Israel;
  • 105.63 CAD per day in England;
  • 93.18 CAD per day in Singapore.

Iceland would have been effectively on the high of this listing if we had chosen to sleep in resorts as a substitute of renting a camper.

Nations the place we spent the least on lodging per day

From the desk, it’s troublesome to say by which nation it’s usually extra inexpensive to remain in contemplating that:

  • We now have rented campers in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand;
  • We have been primarily hosted in Vietnam and France;
  • We now have used factors partially or completely for lodging in Austria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Italy and Spain.

However I used to be ready to make use of my lodging statistics to offer you an concept:

  • 29.70 CAD per day in Indonesia;
  • 33.49 CAD per day in Malaysia;
  • 39.26 CAD per day in the Philippines;
  • 39.49 CAD per day in Sri Lanka;
  • 40.53 CAD per day in Thailand.
Swimming Pool at Best Western Kuta Beach

Finest Western Kuta Seaside, Bali

Meals bills

Concerning meals, we tailored our bills in response to the next pointers:

  • In nations the place meals is dear, however the place there isn’t a nice gastronomic repute (e.g. Iceland, Israel, Australia, New Zealand), we merely bought meals from the grocery retailer.
  • In nations the place consuming is dear, however which have a excessive gastronomic repute (normally Western Europe), we extra usually mixed eating places in our weight loss program.
  • In nations the place meals is affordable (primarily the remainder of the world, together with each Japan and Singapore), we ate virtually completely in eating places.

Nations the place we spent probably the most on meals per day

  • 97.27 CAD per day in Italy;
  • 77.57 CAD per day in Japan;
  • 71.57 CAD per day in England;
  • 65.20 CAD per day in Austria;
  • 63.78 CAD per day in Portugal.

Our meals bills in Japan are excessive for the straightforward motive that we have now not made a lot effort to cut back them. We may have carried out so as a result of, it is vitally straightforward to eat there in an inexpensive means. However we most popular to benefit from the nation’s culinary specialties, and extra significantly Kobe beef, with a meal that price us 270 CAD!

For the remainder of the rating, there aren’t any surprises.

Nations the place we spent the least on meals per day

  • 21.80 CAD per day in Vietnam;
  • 24.18 CAD per day in Myanmar;
  • 25.10 CAD per day in India;
  • 26.03 CAD per day in Sri Lanka;
  • 26.73 CAD per day in Malaysia.

There aren’t any actual surprises right here both, apart from Vietnam, which is on the high of the rating, as a result of we have been handled by our beautiful Vietnamese household.

Rambutan Picking

Choosing rambutans, Vietnam

Transport bills

Nations the place we spent probably the most on transport per day

  • 338.10 CAD per day in Iceland;
  • 174.10 CAD per day in Australia;
  • 157.58 CAD per day in New Zealand;
  • 142.94 CAD per day in Italy;
  • 95.60 CAD per day in Greece;

Transportation prices have been very excessive in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand for the straightforward motive that we rented campers there, along with taking inside flights in Australia and New Zealand.

In Italy, tolls and parking tons are horribly costly. And in Greece, the 4 ferries we took to get to the islands, in addition to the 5 vehicles we rented on every island and on the mainland, pushed the value up.

It is usually in Iceland and the Greek islands that we have now encountered the costliest gasoline, at greater than 3.00 CAD (2.35 USD) per litre.

Nations the place we spent the least on transport per day

  • 2.23 CAD per day in Vietnam;
  • 2.50 CAD per day in Vanuatu;
  • 3.83 CAD per day in Bulgaria;
  • 14.70 CAD per day in Cambodia;
  • 16.90 CAD per day in Hong Kong.

This listing contains 5 of the ten nations the place we didn’t must drive. In Vietnam and Vanuatu, we have been taken care of by way of transport. In Bulgaria, we took a taxi. In Cambodia, we have been wandering round in tuk-tuk. In Hong Kong, we used public transport.

Graham Street Mural

Graham Avenue Mural, Hong Kong

Expenditure in relation to the estimated price of dwelling

I needed to do the train of evaluating, for the totally different nations, the bills incurred with the one I projected earlier than our departure (I’ll come again to this within the subsequent chapter). You’re going to must consider me as a result of for the reason that calculation is extra complicated, I didn’t wish to display it right here.

Nations the place we have now spent a lot lower than anticipated

  • 66% lower than anticipated in Hong Kong: we slept in resorts with the factors;
  • 62% lower than anticipated in the United Arab Emirates: we slept in resorts with the factors;
  • 54% lower than anticipated in Vanuatu: our native buddies helped us save;
  • 39% lower than anticipated in Singapore: we ate inexpensively in hawker facilities;
  • 37% lower than anticipated in France: we regularly loved the hospitality of household and buddies.

Nations the place we have now spent far more than anticipated

  • 107% greater than anticipated in India: primarily because of the rental of a automobile with driver;
  • 74% greater than anticipated in Italy: as a result of we ate a whole lot of pizzas;
  • 60% greater than anticipated in the Philippines: as a result of we made 4 boat journeys throughout the islands;
  • 55% greater than anticipated in Myanmar: primarily because of the rental of a automobile with driver;
  • 46% greater than anticipated in Turkey: as a result of we had a scorching air balloon trip there.

You may see that the primary listing incorporates nations which might be thought of costly and the second listing incorporates nations which might be thought of inexpensive – apart from Italy. It is because, generally, we have now not diminished our spending in costly nations so far as doable. And however, we actually indulged ourselves within the cheaper nations.

India and Myanmar are very particular exceptions, since these nations are identified to be incubators of “tourista” for a lot of the vacationers who go there. In these nations, since we have been on a good schedule, we didn’t wish to danger getting sick. We now have subsequently elevated our precautions by way of hygiene measures by avoiding road meals and favoring a sure vary of eating places. We selected resorts rigorously and used the providers of chauffeurs to journey by these nations. For all these causes, our spending in these nations is way greater than the true price of dwelling can recommend.

Agra

Agra, India

Comparability with the projected price earlier than departure

I’ve usually been requested if our bills are in step with the price range I had established. Bear in mind this estimate of bills I made earlier than departure. On the time, I had established a technique for estimating our bills based mostly on a cost-of-living index by nation. I had used a value of dwelling in France of 290 CAD par day as a benchmark to estimate the price of our complete journey. At the moment, our itinerary had not but been fully drawn up, however I had arrived at an estimate of 88,500.00 CAD (69,399.19 USD) based mostly on a interval of 431 days, equal to 74,748.00 CAD (58,615.26 USD) over 12 months. Contemplating that our journey, prorated for 12 months, got here again to us at 75,007.00 CAD (58,818.36 USD) (a discrepancy of 259 CAD), you possibly can think about that I can’t be prouder!

For slightly enjoyable, I up to date the estimate chart with our closing itinerary, which you’ll see within the picture beneath. The 443-day estimate (444 days if we rely our final night time in Montreal paid with factors) turns into 97,141.00 CAD (76,175.22 USD).  Following the identical methodology, I subtracted $50 for every night time in a resort the place we used the factors, in addition to the 38 nights staying with household and buddies, and the 6 nights spent in transportation, that’s ((86+38+6) x 50 = 6500 CAD. The corrected complete turns into 90,641.00 CAD (71,078.10 USD), which continues to be comparatively near the 91,241 CAD we spent!

Trip Projected Cost

Conclusion of Half 3

As you possibly can see, at 91,241.00 CAD (71,548.60 USD), our journey was not so costly contemplating that it lasted 14 and a half months, that we visited 50 nations, 50% of that are identified to be costly, flew 56 occasions, rented 33 autos, stayed in 181 totally different lodging, that we allowed ourselves a lot luxurious and that we by no means disadvantaged ourselves of something.

For comparability functions, 51.25 CAD (40.19 USD) per day and per individual, that is roughly what it usually prices (together with airfare, native bills and excluding tools, insurance coverage) to the typical backpacker, staying in youth hostels, taking public transport, consuming in native markets, flying 14 occasions, visiting 11 nations for 11 months, the bulk being nations deemed inexpensive.

The explanation for this, I repeat, is an excellent group. Thanks for studying me! I want you as a lot pleasure in your subsequent journeys as we had throughout our household around the world journey.

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