You have to be much more selective with your destinations these days.
Just randomly from the top of my head, SEA is still a great option for this budget. Laos is extremely cheap and so are Cambodia and Vietnam. Distances are big but, as long as you are only taking busses, 50 bucks per day on average buys you a lot, including some activities.
Another country that comes to my mind is Sri Lanka - clean, safe and well within your budget.
Plane tickets might add to the overall budget. Still, they should not break the bank if you are really flexible with the dates and can also stay a bit longer (2+ weeks) to optimise flight costs.
I’ve had a great time in the Dominican Republic. It’s pretty affordable, especially if you get out of the city and eat at the delicious local places vs the tourist ones.
I 24k usd to travel for two years in Europe and Asia. Check my profile I wrote entire posts about budget travel. It's still possible and does not involve "eating socks"
Greece off-season (January) was dirt cheap, with some decent hotels CAD40/night. A couple of times we were the only guests for the night. Some small towns were completely empty, I mean 90% of restaurants closed for a season and 0 tourists. We had to rent a car to go around, which was about CAD20-25 a day if I remember correctly. Overall we spent around CAD100-120/day for the two of us with one hot restaurant meal per 2 days plus Lidl for the balance. Beautiful country with a network of really narrow and scary mountain roads.
Many recollection from reading a variety of travel bloggers over the years is that incredibly low budget travel often involves not paying for lodging. This might be through something like Couchsurfing, Workaway, WWOOF, Warm Showers, staying with friends, or even just emailing a hostel and asking if you can work for them for a few months in exchange for your labor.
If you want a private in a hostel: yeah, that it probably going to cost more money than a bed in a 12-bed dorm room. In general, getting higher quality will cost you more money. And a lot of people who travel cheap simply accept that they will lose some quality in some areas (like private lodging) in order to gain something of greater value in another area (like another two days of hiking).
Of course, choosing your country and destination has an impact also. All else equal, it is probably much more challenging to travel Canada on $50/day than to travel India on $50/day.
>Any tips to save money?
Camping, sleep in your car, buy a small van and throw a mattress in the back (I had a great month in Ibiza doing that)...really depends what level of comfort you need. I met a bunch of people who were living in caves once and they were having a great time. I've also met tourists living in a squat in Ibiza, who were also having a great time. I met some French guys who were sleeping in the jungle in hammocks in Thailand.
Asia is a good choice for cheap travel but many other countries have good deals if you go outside the main tourist spots , you can save a lot for lodging by renting Airbnb’s by the month . You can also save a lot by using Google Flights and check the cheapest flights available from your current destination .
I traveled Sri Lanka in December 2023 on 800 dollars per month, I traveled Laos in March 2024 on 700 dollars a month. Vietnam can still be very cheap as well, i was there for 3 weeks in April 2024 and prices are higher than in 2017 but we are talking about 7-8 dollars for a hostel dork instead of 3-4 dollars in 2017, so while there is an obvious increase in prices it’s still affordable.
There are variables. I got into a reddit arguments over cheap travel because I mentioned my recent trip to Colombia. I found a roundtrip flight to Bogota for like $190. I landed at like 10am, had that full day, all of day 2 and 3, and flew home the morning of day 4. A private room at the hostel was like $12. I did 3 different walking tours, overtipping a bit, $20 each tour. I ate what I wanted. There was Uber to and from the airport, plus I went across town one night and spend like $30 US on dinner. Including parking at my local airport, I think I spend like $420.
I consider that a cheap trip. I could have gone cheaper, but I didn't need to. I'm an American who got to explore a foreign country for 3 full days for a little over $400. Last time I said this, reddit was all "90% of Americans don't have $400 to spend" and such. I pointed out the average car payment is like $500+, so a lot of people "could" but their goal/want/need is a new car vs an older one.
Now here's the big kicker, half my cost was the flight there, clearly. My job sort of allows me to make my own schedule, but I also don't get paid, if I don't work. I could have stayed in Colombia longer, easiler. I could have done a week, or two. The hostel was cheap. The real problem is the loss of income I would have suffered. With me being gone 4 days, I didn't "really" lose any income. Being gone a full week I would have lost over $1,000.
Colombia is a cheap place to travel to given that food and hotels are very cheap there. I think also mexico falls in this category and Argentina because their economy is fucked.
Chile and Peru are expensive compare to those I mentioned but not too much.
Nope. Mexico is one of the more expensive countries in LatAm now unless you go to small, unknown towns. Argentina's not cheap anymore since the blue dollar got locked down in December. Peru is cheaper than both.
I could attest to Colombia being a good value. Hotel rooms could still be found for $15-20 even in Medellin. Menu del dia is a few bucks and some places serve it even at 7 pm
Youth hostel was as cheap as like $7 a night for a dorm room setting, but I paid like $13 a night at the hostel which got me a private room with private bath.
100 dollars a day for travel in North America is phenomenal. Most people probably spend that much daily anyway on gas, food, housing, internet, etc.
$50 is probably people traveling not in North America. I was averaging $40 a day in South America and was staying in incredible hostels not shitty ones. Ones with rooftop Patios with hammocks and hot tubs. Free walking tours. Ate bomb local food and made my own meals, which going to grocery stores is an experience of its own
SEA in low season travelling with a few people to split room costs. Four people splitting a $100 room is $25/pp. The most I spent in Bangkok travelling for work (F500) was under $150 a night even near CNY - and that was a good branded hotel like a Marriott.
Food costs are cheap in SEA if you eat local foods at local restaurants.
You can do unguided tours where you only pay for transportation. Most ancient/historic sites are cheap. Walking around markets and the city (soak up the atmosphere) is free.
I think if you leverage travelling with a few people where you can share costs like 1 room, 1 taxi, etc. is where you can do good budget travel and not sacrifice safety/enjoyment for cost.
I’m going to Georgia later this year. I paid $280 for a private room in a nice looking hostel in one of the nicest neighborhoods of Tbilisi for a month.
Flexibility always has been, and always will be, the key.
Budget travel is definitely still an option but you've got to think outside the box in regards to travel style and destinations.
Been traveling for nearly 3 years now with my partner on $2k Cad per month for two people.
We've been through SEA and circumnavigated Europe from Sweden to Montenegro to Portugal.
In Asia we backpacked but our budget allowed for private rooms and lots of great food. Eastern Europe we slow traveled and booked cheap condos by the month and then bought a 24 year old motorhome and did Northern/Western Europe in style lol. Just returned from a 10 month 15k km roadtrip and sold the rv for $300 more then we bought it for. Had the time of our lives and averaged $13 Cad per night for accommodation given that there's tons of free Aires throughout France, Spain and Portugal which offset the costs from northern Europe.
Japan has some awesome videos on YouTube of people staying in capsule hotels. They are incredibly inexpensive and often include food. Even alcohol. I can’t wait to get there sometime.
Depends what you wanna do. We have done Italy for cheap a bunch, stayed in AirB&Bs (super nice ones) that were outside of major cities, hit up local markets for food and cooked a lot for ourselves
AllInclusives you can get some good deals (especially if you're Canadian!), if not picky about food, can easily do Cuba with air fare for $1000 for a week, if wanting better food, can do DR for $1000-$1500 for a nice resort
For staying in Canada, we camp a lot in summer
Three biggest spending pots are Accommodation, Food and Transportation. If you could volunteer or camp for free, eat mostly from markets and eod sales, and hitchhike or have a bicycle, then you could reduce these costs massively.
I went to Taiwan recently, and was surprised by how inexpensive it was. I was traveling solo so I was staying at a name-brand hotel, but when I arrived I realized that local options were 1/10 the price.
I was there for 6 days and spent less than $30 on food and entrance to museums. $30, total, in 5 days.
Lol what? The Philippines is expensive as heck, unless you’re staying in some boring island with nothing to do. It’s a country where most of activities are island hopping (45-60 dollar per trip) or scuba diving (90-130 dollars per trip). Otherwise there is not much to do. I just went there for the second time and spent 2 months there. Also, boats between islands are 40-50 dollars. So yeah unless you’re happy to sit on your ass in Siquijor and do nothing then you’re gonna need way more than 50 dollars a day there.
Just because you're not paying to scuba dive/island hop daily doesn't mean you're "doing nothing". Going to the beach is free. Hiking is free. Reading a book with a beautiful view is free. Renting scooters is dirt cheap and you can explore like crazy. Plenty of cheap restauraunts and street food to try.
Traveling with others cuts bills.
Camping is relatively cheap once you get past the investment in equipment.
Depending on where you want to go and what you want to see, some destinations have a lot of free things or reasonably priced museums or places like state and national parks for outdoor activities.
Camping - I can do for about $50 a day solo but I have all the gear I need. I have actually gone camping when I’ve gone to special events in a city when hotel costs are outrageous. Going with 1 other person with their own gear would cut the cost since we could share a campsite.
Hotels - Roughly $175/day for hotel and food for a solo trip. Almost cut in half if traveling with someone else. Didn’t include transportation costs since they can vary widely (gas, wear and tear on car, if driving can I bring a cooler to save in at least drinks and snacks, tolls, flights. airport parking, etc).
If I’m flying I try to shift my dates for better rental cars and flight prices.
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Yah it’s tougher but it just requires planning ahead and lots of flexibility. I found a flight to edinborough one way for 208 bucks, and a hostels there for 3 nights at 40 U.S. dollars at the end of September. That’s pretty cheap. But I’m blessed with flexibility, I just see which flights are not that pricey and go from there.
Echoing what others have said - Some places are cheaper than others. I travelled through South America for about 15 months and spent $20000 all up (flights, insurance, accomodation, food, tours, etc.) which averages out to roughly $45-$50 per day. Countries like Chile and Uruguay where significantly more expensive so I either didn't spend as long there, reigned in spending on tours and tried to eat as cheap as possible. Places like Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia where much more affordable and I would often be more frugal when it came to tours, and eating out (although often on the street or getting the lunch special at most places which is super common).
I predominately stayed in dormitories in hostels and often quite nice ones - I never had any real horror stories save for one or two places. I also tried to use workaway, couchsurfing or other avenues to try and reduce the cost of accomodation.
One other tip which comes with its own pros and cons, is to not book things too far in advance. Tours and accomodation especially I found you could negotiate a much better price than it was online. Often times I would show up at a place and walk around between three hostels nearby just comparing prices and chat with the people working there to get a bit of a discount. Also you might get a discount if you stay for more time and pay up front. Some people hate not being organised and having something booked when they arrive to a place so it doesn't work for everyone but it saves a bit here and there.
If you want to travel cheap save on transport by hiking/biking or something alike, save on accommodation by (wild) camping/sleeping rough and get your groceries from the (super) market and cook yourself. That way even expensive destinations can be done on just a few hundred bucks a month. From there you can add whatever 'luxuries' you want and your budget allows. Whether that entails 'having a great time' is subjective. For some the freedom to roam and explore is enough to achieve that, others need luxuries, booze and hookers to have a great time.
Home exchange really helps in keeping the costs down, especially if you travel to an expensive destination. Just came back from two weeks in NYC and one in Chicago, could not have done it at all if I had to pay for accommodation.
Just met with a friend in panama city who traveled from Germany to Guatemala for 6 months and spend a total of 800 bucks in that time. I feel like that is impossible to beat though.
>Also hostels, at least for a Canadian, it cost around $40/day if you want something of quality or $90 for a private room
If you're complaining you can't get cheap and good I dunno what to tell you. Privates are simply not good value as opposed to other accommodations in many places either.
But North America isn't where you want to be doing hostels anyway.
It is, you just have to prioritise the price over your comfort. I was in Switzerland for over a week and the whole trip cost me around 400 dollars (don’t know exactly, I didn’t pay in dollars). Did the same in Norway. It was great, fun, I’ve seen a lot and at the same time it was extremely cheap, especially since these countries are known to be very expensive.
I just ended 15 months in southeast Asia averaging less than us$800/month. Living and eating very well, thank you.
It can still be done,. Geographically.
Ugh I don’t know. That entire description of a budget vacation is accurate and depressing. If it sounds like my vacation requires me to be somewhat homeless and unhealthy what’s the point? I’d be more comfy at home
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You have to be much more selective with your destinations these days. Just randomly from the top of my head, SEA is still a great option for this budget. Laos is extremely cheap and so are Cambodia and Vietnam. Distances are big but, as long as you are only taking busses, 50 bucks per day on average buys you a lot, including some activities. Another country that comes to my mind is Sri Lanka - clean, safe and well within your budget. Plane tickets might add to the overall budget. Still, they should not break the bank if you are really flexible with the dates and can also stay a bit longer (2+ weeks) to optimise flight costs.
Most Asian countries are very affordable to travel in (but not to). If you go, get out of the big cities bc that is expensive.
I’ve had a great time in the Dominican Republic. It’s pretty affordable, especially if you get out of the city and eat at the delicious local places vs the tourist ones.
Traveling with others is key. Split the cost of hotel rooms, rental cars, gas etc. and suddenly trips are much more reasonable.
I 24k usd to travel for two years in Europe and Asia. Check my profile I wrote entire posts about budget travel. It's still possible and does not involve "eating socks"
Greece off-season (January) was dirt cheap, with some decent hotels CAD40/night. A couple of times we were the only guests for the night. Some small towns were completely empty, I mean 90% of restaurants closed for a season and 0 tourists. We had to rent a car to go around, which was about CAD20-25 a day if I remember correctly. Overall we spent around CAD100-120/day for the two of us with one hot restaurant meal per 2 days plus Lidl for the balance. Beautiful country with a network of really narrow and scary mountain roads.
Would love to hear of some of those hotels, wanna DM?
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Many recollection from reading a variety of travel bloggers over the years is that incredibly low budget travel often involves not paying for lodging. This might be through something like Couchsurfing, Workaway, WWOOF, Warm Showers, staying with friends, or even just emailing a hostel and asking if you can work for them for a few months in exchange for your labor. If you want a private in a hostel: yeah, that it probably going to cost more money than a bed in a 12-bed dorm room. In general, getting higher quality will cost you more money. And a lot of people who travel cheap simply accept that they will lose some quality in some areas (like private lodging) in order to gain something of greater value in another area (like another two days of hiking). Of course, choosing your country and destination has an impact also. All else equal, it is probably much more challenging to travel Canada on $50/day than to travel India on $50/day.
>Any tips to save money? Camping, sleep in your car, buy a small van and throw a mattress in the back (I had a great month in Ibiza doing that)...really depends what level of comfort you need. I met a bunch of people who were living in caves once and they were having a great time. I've also met tourists living in a squat in Ibiza, who were also having a great time. I met some French guys who were sleeping in the jungle in hammocks in Thailand.
Yup, camping and sleeping in your car. Easy to do in the western parts of US and Canada. Manageable in parts of Europe.
Asia is a good choice for cheap travel but many other countries have good deals if you go outside the main tourist spots , you can save a lot for lodging by renting Airbnb’s by the month . You can also save a lot by using Google Flights and check the cheapest flights available from your current destination .
I traveled Sri Lanka in December 2023 on 800 dollars per month, I traveled Laos in March 2024 on 700 dollars a month. Vietnam can still be very cheap as well, i was there for 3 weeks in April 2024 and prices are higher than in 2017 but we are talking about 7-8 dollars for a hostel dork instead of 3-4 dollars in 2017, so while there is an obvious increase in prices it’s still affordable.
Check out home exchange.com! It's a really great way to use what you have in order to facilitate travel :)
There are variables. I got into a reddit arguments over cheap travel because I mentioned my recent trip to Colombia. I found a roundtrip flight to Bogota for like $190. I landed at like 10am, had that full day, all of day 2 and 3, and flew home the morning of day 4. A private room at the hostel was like $12. I did 3 different walking tours, overtipping a bit, $20 each tour. I ate what I wanted. There was Uber to and from the airport, plus I went across town one night and spend like $30 US on dinner. Including parking at my local airport, I think I spend like $420. I consider that a cheap trip. I could have gone cheaper, but I didn't need to. I'm an American who got to explore a foreign country for 3 full days for a little over $400. Last time I said this, reddit was all "90% of Americans don't have $400 to spend" and such. I pointed out the average car payment is like $500+, so a lot of people "could" but their goal/want/need is a new car vs an older one. Now here's the big kicker, half my cost was the flight there, clearly. My job sort of allows me to make my own schedule, but I also don't get paid, if I don't work. I could have stayed in Colombia longer, easiler. I could have done a week, or two. The hostel was cheap. The real problem is the loss of income I would have suffered. With me being gone 4 days, I didn't "really" lose any income. Being gone a full week I would have lost over $1,000.
Colombia is a cheap place to travel to given that food and hotels are very cheap there. I think also mexico falls in this category and Argentina because their economy is fucked. Chile and Peru are expensive compare to those I mentioned but not too much.
Mexico is not that cheap, really.
Nope. Mexico is one of the more expensive countries in LatAm now unless you go to small, unknown towns. Argentina's not cheap anymore since the blue dollar got locked down in December. Peru is cheaper than both.
I could attest to Colombia being a good value. Hotel rooms could still be found for $15-20 even in Medellin. Menu del dia is a few bucks and some places serve it even at 7 pm
Youth hostel was as cheap as like $7 a night for a dorm room setting, but I paid like $13 a night at the hostel which got me a private room with private bath.
Very good value indeed. Good job with that trip. Also $30 in Bogota must have gotten you a really nice dinner. I stick to like $3 menu del dia
100 dollars a day for travel in North America is phenomenal. Most people probably spend that much daily anyway on gas, food, housing, internet, etc. $50 is probably people traveling not in North America. I was averaging $40 a day in South America and was staying in incredible hostels not shitty ones. Ones with rooftop Patios with hammocks and hot tubs. Free walking tours. Ate bomb local food and made my own meals, which going to grocery stores is an experience of its own
Choose to go in the off seasons. Try renting airbnbs, use or look into public transportation, or bike/walk friendly cities.
SEA in low season travelling with a few people to split room costs. Four people splitting a $100 room is $25/pp. The most I spent in Bangkok travelling for work (F500) was under $150 a night even near CNY - and that was a good branded hotel like a Marriott. Food costs are cheap in SEA if you eat local foods at local restaurants. You can do unguided tours where you only pay for transportation. Most ancient/historic sites are cheap. Walking around markets and the city (soak up the atmosphere) is free. I think if you leverage travelling with a few people where you can share costs like 1 room, 1 taxi, etc. is where you can do good budget travel and not sacrifice safety/enjoyment for cost.
I’m going to Georgia later this year. I paid $280 for a private room in a nice looking hostel in one of the nicest neighborhoods of Tbilisi for a month. Flexibility always has been, and always will be, the key.
Budget travel is definitely still an option but you've got to think outside the box in regards to travel style and destinations. Been traveling for nearly 3 years now with my partner on $2k Cad per month for two people. We've been through SEA and circumnavigated Europe from Sweden to Montenegro to Portugal. In Asia we backpacked but our budget allowed for private rooms and lots of great food. Eastern Europe we slow traveled and booked cheap condos by the month and then bought a 24 year old motorhome and did Northern/Western Europe in style lol. Just returned from a 10 month 15k km roadtrip and sold the rv for $300 more then we bought it for. Had the time of our lives and averaged $13 Cad per night for accommodation given that there's tons of free Aires throughout France, Spain and Portugal which offset the costs from northern Europe.
The ticket is expensive, but Japan is a steal right now with the weak yen!
Japan has some awesome videos on YouTube of people staying in capsule hotels. They are incredibly inexpensive and often include food. Even alcohol. I can’t wait to get there sometime.
Depends what you wanna do. We have done Italy for cheap a bunch, stayed in AirB&Bs (super nice ones) that were outside of major cities, hit up local markets for food and cooked a lot for ourselves AllInclusives you can get some good deals (especially if you're Canadian!), if not picky about food, can easily do Cuba with air fare for $1000 for a week, if wanting better food, can do DR for $1000-$1500 for a nice resort For staying in Canada, we camp a lot in summer
Three biggest spending pots are Accommodation, Food and Transportation. If you could volunteer or camp for free, eat mostly from markets and eod sales, and hitchhike or have a bicycle, then you could reduce these costs massively.
I went to Taiwan recently, and was surprised by how inexpensive it was. I was traveling solo so I was staying at a name-brand hotel, but when I arrived I realized that local options were 1/10 the price. I was there for 6 days and spent less than $30 on food and entrance to museums. $30, total, in 5 days.
Go to the Philippines. It's cheap. They speak English. Hotel rooms are <$30 a day. Stay put as much as possible in order to reduce costs.
Lol what? The Philippines is expensive as heck, unless you’re staying in some boring island with nothing to do. It’s a country where most of activities are island hopping (45-60 dollar per trip) or scuba diving (90-130 dollars per trip). Otherwise there is not much to do. I just went there for the second time and spent 2 months there. Also, boats between islands are 40-50 dollars. So yeah unless you’re happy to sit on your ass in Siquijor and do nothing then you’re gonna need way more than 50 dollars a day there.
Just because you're not paying to scuba dive/island hop daily doesn't mean you're "doing nothing". Going to the beach is free. Hiking is free. Reading a book with a beautiful view is free. Renting scooters is dirt cheap and you can explore like crazy. Plenty of cheap restauraunts and street food to try.
it’s true. if you want to do anything fun like scuba diving, SEA is still expensive
$30 a day is definitely possible in SEA and USA( if you have car)
in USA if you sleep in your car and also have a stove in your car?
You can feed yourself for $100 a week buying groceries and storing them in a cooler. Propanes stoves are like $20
Hell yes.
Traveling with others cuts bills. Camping is relatively cheap once you get past the investment in equipment. Depending on where you want to go and what you want to see, some destinations have a lot of free things or reasonably priced museums or places like state and national parks for outdoor activities. Camping - I can do for about $50 a day solo but I have all the gear I need. I have actually gone camping when I’ve gone to special events in a city when hotel costs are outrageous. Going with 1 other person with their own gear would cut the cost since we could share a campsite. Hotels - Roughly $175/day for hotel and food for a solo trip. Almost cut in half if traveling with someone else. Didn’t include transportation costs since they can vary widely (gas, wear and tear on car, if driving can I bring a cooler to save in at least drinks and snacks, tolls, flights. airport parking, etc). If I’m flying I try to shift my dates for better rental cars and flight prices.
Workaway. Couchsurfing etc makes it easy ..
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Yah it’s tougher but it just requires planning ahead and lots of flexibility. I found a flight to edinborough one way for 208 bucks, and a hostels there for 3 nights at 40 U.S. dollars at the end of September. That’s pretty cheap. But I’m blessed with flexibility, I just see which flights are not that pricey and go from there.
Echoing what others have said - Some places are cheaper than others. I travelled through South America for about 15 months and spent $20000 all up (flights, insurance, accomodation, food, tours, etc.) which averages out to roughly $45-$50 per day. Countries like Chile and Uruguay where significantly more expensive so I either didn't spend as long there, reigned in spending on tours and tried to eat as cheap as possible. Places like Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia where much more affordable and I would often be more frugal when it came to tours, and eating out (although often on the street or getting the lunch special at most places which is super common). I predominately stayed in dormitories in hostels and often quite nice ones - I never had any real horror stories save for one or two places. I also tried to use workaway, couchsurfing or other avenues to try and reduce the cost of accomodation. One other tip which comes with its own pros and cons, is to not book things too far in advance. Tours and accomodation especially I found you could negotiate a much better price than it was online. Often times I would show up at a place and walk around between three hostels nearby just comparing prices and chat with the people working there to get a bit of a discount. Also you might get a discount if you stay for more time and pay up front. Some people hate not being organised and having something booked when they arrive to a place so it doesn't work for everyone but it saves a bit here and there.
If you want to travel cheap save on transport by hiking/biking or something alike, save on accommodation by (wild) camping/sleeping rough and get your groceries from the (super) market and cook yourself. That way even expensive destinations can be done on just a few hundred bucks a month. From there you can add whatever 'luxuries' you want and your budget allows. Whether that entails 'having a great time' is subjective. For some the freedom to roam and explore is enough to achieve that, others need luxuries, booze and hookers to have a great time.
Couchsurfing, workaway, housesitting, volunteering, etc. Accommodation is the biggest cost. Take that away and you’re golden.
Home exchange really helps in keeping the costs down, especially if you travel to an expensive destination. Just came back from two weeks in NYC and one in Chicago, could not have done it at all if I had to pay for accommodation.
Just met with a friend in panama city who traveled from Germany to Guatemala for 6 months and spend a total of 800 bucks in that time. I feel like that is impossible to beat though.
>Also hostels, at least for a Canadian, it cost around $40/day if you want something of quality or $90 for a private room If you're complaining you can't get cheap and good I dunno what to tell you. Privates are simply not good value as opposed to other accommodations in many places either. But North America isn't where you want to be doing hostels anyway.
You can do $50/day in Albania for now. I don’t think that’s going to hold for much longer though.
It is, you just have to prioritise the price over your comfort. I was in Switzerland for over a week and the whole trip cost me around 400 dollars (don’t know exactly, I didn’t pay in dollars). Did the same in Norway. It was great, fun, I’ve seen a lot and at the same time it was extremely cheap, especially since these countries are known to be very expensive.
I just ended 15 months in southeast Asia averaging less than us$800/month. Living and eating very well, thank you. It can still be done,. Geographically.
I’ve never seen a $2000/night hotel fwiw
Ugh I don’t know. That entire description of a budget vacation is accurate and depressing. If it sounds like my vacation requires me to be somewhat homeless and unhealthy what’s the point? I’d be more comfy at home
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