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I've been tracking how much my husband and I spend on travel since 2018. I've only included "big" trips here, not included are local trips, trips with a specific purpose (e.g. traveling for a wedding), trips to visit and stay with family, trips that are not with each other, and business trips.
- All figures in $CAD and reflects the net cost after any rewards / points are applied
- These are trips my husband and I take together, so costs are for two people
- I've excluded any shopping we did on each trip from the total and per person per day figures
- We stay at a mix of Airbnbs and hotels, we usually splurge on a really nice hotel for 1 part of each trip (2-3 nights)
- We usually fly economy out of YYZ
- If we rent a car, the cost of gas and toll roads is included in the "Transportation" category, the "Rental Car" category is just the cost of the rental and insurance
- "Other" includes things like eSIMs, tourism fees, and toiletries
Posted by raspberrywines
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Awesome. Good lay out and easy to understand. I like seeing info like this.
How did you spend so much in Switzerland?? I know Switzerland is expensive but $16k for 14 nights for 2 people seems excessive.
Surprised to see Gros Morne in there. Also surprising that 6 nights in Gros Morne was more expensive than a week in Iceland.
I knew Switzerland was expensive, but hot dang.
Crazy how Iceland was the cheapest lol… Any tips? Everything is so expensive there
I was thinking how is NYC so low on this chart? Must have been a shorter visit. Then I swiped to the second image.
NYC is a vacuum cleaner in your wallet or purse. Still one of the most special places one can go anywhere on earth.
It all makes sense except that week in Iceland. Most expensive place we’ve ever been, but even in a per day basis it seems crazy cheap.
I’m not convinced that points should be excluded.
Points have a real cash value. They may be worth significantly less in cash than in their nominal flight value. But 10,000 amex points can be redeemed as straight cash against your CC statement for $100. That’s your opportunity cost by spending them on “free” flights.
If I spent 10,000 points on a flight, I’d book that as a $100 cost to me, personally.
It doesn’t make flights feel as “fun” and “free”. But it’s significantly more honest with costs.
Ballpark totals per year:
2018: 4000
2019: 15000
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 13000
2023: 24000
2024: 31000
2025: 16000
Net costs not including shopping or smaller trips during the year makes these figures wild to me.
Congrats to you!
I think you overspent big time on accomodation in Portugal in ’23.
Why is the X axis not the same? Impossible to compare the two charts
Now let’s see the carbon footprint
So I went to St, Lucia roughly 10 years ago for 7 nights as well. Flights and hotel for 2 adults only costed us around 2K USD.
Looks like a huge chunk of your cost was accommodations. Assuming you stayed at an ultra luxurious resort?
Did you guys get sick on any trip? Water always hurts my stomach when i travel
How did flights to South Korea end up eating half of the budget?
How come flights to South Korea were so expensive?
Did you enjoy your BC trip? I’ve spent my life moving across BC, haven’t lived elsewhere. Curious what an outsiders perspective is.
What was it about South Korea that was so expensive? Just the length of the trip? I thought it was fairly low cost.
Do you do this through excel?
Some of these costs seems so excessive. I was in Argentina in 2019 for 9 days and spent significantly less than you did, one a per person basis. It was so cheap back then
You both have got to be luxury travelers
jesus christ, my 2 month hostel trip through 10 european countries was $7k
I just can’t imagine spending 10+ days on a vacation. My wife and I went to Hawaii for 4 days for our honeymoon, and by the end of it, we were dying to come back home lol.
To travel is to adventure ❤️🙏
To make this more informative you should normalize the amounts over total household income
I would love to see a revised version that included the cost of individual trips to attend weddings.
I’m curious, how far ahead did you book your hotels and flights?
I’ve never travelled abroad
How is Iceland so low per day? We are going soon and it will be our most expensive trip but far. More than Disney world/ Hawaii/ NYC/ California.
$12,000 for 13 nights in Costa Rica is WILD
it’s an inexpensive country
Good god it’s cheap to travel when paying for one as compared to taking three children. Enjoy exploring the world OP.
10k in St. Louis is bonkers
So you went to St Lucia alone?
This is on a whole other level. Good on you if you can afford it. But these are crazy numbers to me (per night are the easiest to compare).
I always track our expenses as well, my cheapest had been SE Asia in 2014, 6 months for ~€7000 including everything, also replacing the GoPro and all insurances etc. This comes down to about 40€ per night.
Our last travel was to Norway (also very expensive) which was €100.78 per day for 23 days. Can’t imagine spending 4-8 times that.