Comments on: Our Laos Budget. We’re spending $40/day, sort of.. https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/ | The Best World Travel Blog for Families | Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: alyson@worldtravelfamily https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/#comment-104443 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:01:15 +0000 https://worldtravelfamily.com/?p=11787#comment-104443 In reply to Sunny Kumar.

Yes, that budget is for 4 people Sunny!

]]> By: Sunny Kumar https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/#comment-104438 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:21:14 +0000 https://worldtravelfamily.com/?p=11787#comment-104438 wow thats a bit expensive in LP but I think it would be bearable for me as i’ll be traveling solo. Thanks for good info.

]]> By: alyson@worldtravelfamily https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/#comment-5327 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 04:14:33 +0000 https://worldtravelfamily.com/?p=11787#comment-5327 In reply to Jess with2kidsintow.

Yep, it’s gone up a lot, we did Laos in 2000 or 2001. The transport is ridiculously expensive. Last time we used ” local” buses, we just havemn’t been able to get one, my husband went to the bus station and asked, nothing! Either they’re not running because it’s wet season, or they just don’t want us to use them. Luang Prabang was the shocker, everything was expensive there since tourist started flying in on 2 week holidays. I never include money we spent before we left in budgeting, big flights, travel insurance, because our budget is about what we can spend each day. Last time we RTW’d I was so anal about it, I wrote EVERYTHING down. I can’t be bothered now, if we have to, or want to, spend it, we do, while at the same time keeping everything as low as possible.

]]> By: Jess with2kidsintow https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/#comment-5325 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:31:38 +0000 https://worldtravelfamily.com/?p=11787#comment-5325 we spent 12 mo backpacking with our 2 pre-schoolers around SEA in 2011 and we too had a figure in our head that we tried to stick to–in our case, we aimed for $50USD per day for accommodation, food, and pretty much everything else. of course, some days we went over to be made up by other days where we did not much. while we thought we were keeping to that pretty well, in fact after we got home and crunched the figures, we realised were averaging more like $69 USD per day when overland transport was factored in and as revealed by our ‘actual’ figures (we inputed pretty much everything on our iPod on an app). In our opinion, SEA has gotten more expensive (especially Laos–WOW–your costs are high. we didn’t go in 2011 but was there in 2003), although there are still ‘bargains’ out there. and when you factor in the flights that we had pre-booked, as well as things like travel insurance, vaccinations, and other costs like home insurance, etc, the figure was even higher. we did a post on our site about this after we got back.

]]> By: alyson@worldtravelfamily https://worldtravelfamily.com/budget-for-laos-family-budget-for-laos/#comment-5181 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:31:03 +0000 https://worldtravelfamily.com/?p=11787#comment-5181 In reply to Marni Shaw.

You’re right Marni, but I like having a budget, it’s kind of a challenge, trying to stick to it and do this trip super-cheap. We’re having a great time, no worries there, we don’t feel we’re missing out at all by not going to the big tourist draws, if we did, we’d go!

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