How much does it cost to travel?

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How much does travel cost?
You want to know how much it costs to travel around the world? How much money do you need to travel? How to calculate a travel budget for your road trip? How much will you need? I’ll gonna answer those questions how you can set up a budget very precisely for your travels. I’ll show you where i research prices and how i calculate the costs. It don’t matters where you are traveling from or to. This technique helps you to research prices and get a pretty precise budget for your trip!

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Main Expenses

To simplify the calculations we are going to split the costs in three main sections. In my experience you will spend the most money on those three sections:

Transportation
Accommodation
Food


Besides those sections you will be spending money on tours, sights and nightlife. These activities vary from person to person. so you got to figure them out for yourself and add them to the calculation.

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Where to research costs?

Nomadlist (food & accommodation)
Skyscanner (flights)
Bookings (accommodation)
Tripadvisor (tours & sights)
and use a search engine to research specific costs.

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The Formula

When you have all the travel cost gathered and researched simply sum them up with this formula:

[fixed costs (flights, tours, entries)] + [variable costs (food, accommodation, transport )]*[Amount of days traveling (in a certain country)]

This might look complicated but it really is not! lets make a travel cost example.

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Example Travel Cost Calculation

Fixed Costs
Flights (roundtrip) 1200 USD
Tours 150 USD
Shows 50 USD
Total = 1400 USD
Variable Costs
Hotel (per night) 22 USD
Food* (calculate every meal) 25 USD
Transportation 10 USD
Total = 57 USD
Amount of days traveling
Amount of days in a specific (researched) country = 21 Days
Travel Cost Formula
1400 USD + [57 USD * 21 Days] = 2597 USD

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Conclusion

In this shown example the whole trip is going to cost around 2597 USD. If you are planing a world round trip or travels to different countries, you have to calculate the variable costs individually and multiply them with the amount of days you are staying in this specific country. Fixed cost stays fixed costs but the cost of living like food, accommodation and transportation vary from country to country.

You might realize the more time you put into the research of the costs and the more precise you calculate the more accurate your budget calculation will be. If you don’t want to plan and calculate for hours, simply throw in some numbers of the biggest sections like flights, accommodation and budget for food. Then you’ll get a rough idea of your spending’s.
I hope this is useful and if you have any questions feel free to hit me up.

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How to plan a trip?

how to plan a trip

How to plan a trip? that's a good questions and no single correct answer. There are a lot of different ways to plan a trip. The general rule is, the more time you put in planing a trip the more precise the plan will be and less things will happen unplanned and go wrong. And the less time you spend on your planning the more you have to care about and manage while you are travelling. Actually it is not wrong to go on a trip without any plans, then things don't go wrong because you take everything how it comes. But that's not everyone's cup of tea.

This is why i am writing down, how to plan a trip and i produced a video explaining how i set up a travel master plan for myself.

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What to use?

I plan my trips on google sheets. It is basically the same like Microsoft Excel, you might know this application, but with less features for formulas and calculations. But you won't need super professional calculations for your travel plan. I prefer google sheets because it is free and cloud based. Cloud based is important because if you lose your phone or notebook you can log in to your plan online with a google account wherever you are from any device and that's practical especially while you are traveling.

But there are other ways to plan your trip on. Like mentioned above it can be on Microsoft Excel or a piece of paper. What you need is a document where you can create rows and columns.

Columns

On the very first row of your sheet you will define the columns. Simply from left to right you'll define some titles that describes what the rows will show.
This is how i do it:

  • Date
  • Time
  • Happening
  • (Costs unpaid)
  • (Costs)
  • Note
  • Contact

This is not a written rule, you can be creative and write down what is useful for you. This is just an idea and might be inspirational for your plan.

Rows

Under the column titles you start to fill in happenings or corner stone events in every single row. i'll show you an example down below of one of my travel plans. You don't need to fill out every column for every event. Only fill out whats is relevant. For example a hotel arrival don't needs an exact time mostly. Or you can define a happening without a specific date, you'll just place it under a row so you remember you plan to do this after the event standing above of it. The cool thing, when you work with an application like Excel or Sheets, is that you can add and remove rows under and above some existing rows.

Example

This is an example of an existing trip plan i created for my travels to Brazil. Here you can see that i also like to work with colors: important things red, fixed things green.

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Have you ever wondered how to travel the world for free? or where to get the cheapest flight tickets? how to discover places which are not overrun by tourists? then you are on the right site here! While i have traveled to every continent on earth (except Antarctica) i visited hundreds of different cities, thousands of hotels, restaurants and perfect spots. While this adventure i learned so many useful things. From travelling on low budget to staying in luxury resorts i share all my hacks, tips and tricks in this series.

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  • Preparation
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  • Accomodation
    • Check in
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  • Sightseeing
    • Research
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      • Find
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This is the agenda of all the topics ill be covering in this series. You can see there is a lot to talk and teach about. This Series should be interactive so if you have any questions or you know a very useful travel tip do not hesitate to write me a comment wherever you are (Blog post, YouTube, Instagram... etc.). If you bring up a good feedback or input i will cover it in a video for the series. this should be an interactive process and the list above keep on changing. So basically this site is the index for the "How to Travel" series, means you will find all the content linked here and you will get an overview here.

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