Planning a Trip to Thailand Next Year April for Songkran
Still thinking of how much to set aside for this coming trip, for our last 11 days trip this year April, we spent a grand total of $4350.06, so let's see how much to budget for this time, by the way we are planning for 8 days because 11 is a bit too much.
Air tickets to and fro
$350 per person for 4 people, total $1400 for me, my wife and my parents. This time we are taking plane to Bangkok and then to Udon Thani, no more taking bus, the bus ride is too long, 8-10 hours, damn tiring for my parents and wife, I'm actually okay with it though.
Give sinsod installment and mother-in-law insurance
40,000 THB, $1700 Singapore dollars should be a safe number.
So $5000 - $1400 - $1700 and I'm left with $1900, that means we will have $237.50 to spend per day, which is more than 5000 THB per day, I think for our trip we spent less than that, I think around $200-$210 per day if we exclude the bus fare, so in the end we gave the leftover cash to my mother-in-law for the sinsod, and my wife spent everything else on shopping in Bangkok, oh and don't forget my wife gave her mom 12,000 THB, so I think we actually don't spend that much.
For the curious, as of now, I still owe my mother-in-law 135,000 THB for the sinsod, and I think maybe setting aside $5000 is way more than enough.
Air tickets to and fro
$350 per person for 4 people, total $1400 for me, my wife and my parents. This time we are taking plane to Bangkok and then to Udon Thani, no more taking bus, the bus ride is too long, 8-10 hours, damn tiring for my parents and wife, I'm actually okay with it though.
Give sinsod installment and mother-in-law insurance
40,000 THB, $1700 Singapore dollars should be a safe number.
So $5000 - $1400 - $1700 and I'm left with $1900, that means we will have $237.50 to spend per day, which is more than 5000 THB per day, I think for our trip we spent less than that, I think around $200-$210 per day if we exclude the bus fare, so in the end we gave the leftover cash to my mother-in-law for the sinsod, and my wife spent everything else on shopping in Bangkok, oh and don't forget my wife gave her mom 12,000 THB, so I think we actually don't spend that much.
For the curious, as of now, I still owe my mother-in-law 135,000 THB for the sinsod, and I think maybe setting aside $5000 is way more than enough.
Comments
by the way, may I ask which carrier u are going to book with?
Hmm.. I'm looking at Jetstar, Tiger, Scoot, Airasia but the prices seems a bit high now, think I'll wait till next month, maybe there will be some promo.
on the other hand u mentioned $350 per person? i feel that's a bit steep to pay for a budget carrier. that's actually more than enough to sit full fledged carriers which would include in flight meals and check in baggage. Recently thai airways just ended their mastercard promo 288 per pax. Singapore airlines also recently 295 per pax. offers more in flight comfort but then u have to transfer from suvarnabhumi to don muang airport. a tip I use is I check what airlines are on promo at www.airfares.com.sg and then I go to their own homepage to book the flights from their promo fares page. currently cathay pacific have sales to Bangkok at $281 per pax, can consider.
$350 is for one person to and fro, not for one ticket i.e. SIN to BKK, BKK to Udon, Udon to BKK, BKK to SIN ;)
Thanks for the link, didn't know about this airfares.com.sg.
regarding the link, just use that as reference to which airlines got promo. but when booking go to ther airline's actual website and look for their promo page book from there. saves some admin fee.
But ultimately I think the girl's family will also consider whether the guy is rich or not, if someone like me who is not rich, then few hundred thousand Bahts, for richer guys, naturally they will ask for more, really depends.