im planning a trip to the DR for the 2nd time and wanted to breakdown exactly where my money was going and to decide if it made the most sense to take a weekend trip, a week or 2 weeks. Im planning a big trip next year somewhere and this trip is going to try to feed the addiction
. I was mostly curious what % my airfare was costing on a weekend trip vs. week. As i like chicas more then FF miles.
Thats the graph of a one week trip with pretty detailed spending habits. I tried to overbudget everything, but i listed airfare at 400 for two reasons: one i have wishful thinking and i have a 200 dollar gift card so that will nullify any price changes in that. (
BTW i would not travel to the DR for 600 and up, i would pick another location or wait for a different time)
On the graph i used xe.com to change the stuff i think of in american dollars to RD's (airfare, hotel, tourist fee). I know the xe is a little higher then what you get on the street but the difference is like a dollar in this sample.
heres the full breakdown of the budget:
hotel - 50 bucks a night times 7
airport transfer - 25 bucks a night * 2 (I probably wont pay this next time as hotels will pick you up for a week stay, but just something extra to budget for)
airfare - 400 - Trying to be wishful
tourist fee - 10
prices in RD's
motoconcho - I dont use these a lot as i like to walk and find a hot ass chick thats bored. I budget using it twice a day for 7 days at 50 pesos. (i know you can pay less but thats what i pay because i hate coins, shoot me)
drinks - I drink a decent amount and listed 8 beers a day at 60 pesos times 7 days coming in at 3360. This is a pretty guesstimate as to be honest when i was down there im not sure how much beers were really costing me. I do know for some of the happy hours you get 2 for 1 and next time im not buying chicas a presidente ill just get a grande and we can split. I think those cost like 100rd for one.
food - Breakfast is usually free but i might oversleep, have a chica with me, or eat breakfast twice. I budgeted 150 for breakfast, 200 for lunch, and 400 for dinner. 750 all together times 7. This is probably a little to low now thinking about it but i dont always eat lunch.
covers - like classicos and After one nightclub covers not condom expenses lol. I budgeted 1000rd all together figuring i would hit classicos then AO a couple of nights, i would also hit classicos and pay for a girl that was with me. There probably would be a night or two i dont make it there.
pharmacy - For whatever, too many possibilities for ones health to go awry. I budgeted 500.
tip - security and maid 500rd total. maybe higher if i fucked up a room real bad or something.
fun - ie chicas....25000 rd. This is a guess, but i figured when i land off the plane i want to get a bj from bj shack right away. I budgeted 1000 for this. Then after a beer or two i would want a short time at 1500. Then that night i would get a
tln for 2000. The second night i figured 3000 total, 1000 for a short time or bj and 2000 for another
tln. 3rd night through the 6th night would be 2000 total a day. I also added 5000 because on one of those days i would see something i had to have during the day, or a passions/cmp girl or a threeway or whatever. last day i put down 4500. All that added up came to a perfect round number of 25k lols.
stuff i didnt include - drinking at the airport b/c i always end up with a good bar tab at airports, cigars, touristy stuff which i kinda wanna at least do a waterfall tour or atv or at least one thing next time.
The total comes out to be 66722rd or 2059.804 for one week.
Now when i do for a weekend (3 days) I did the same but for the hotel took 3 days and times it by 50. The stuff that is arbitrary like chicas, drinks, food, transportation i pretty much dividing in half then added like 10 or 15% since on a weekend time is a little more important then a week vacation.
Lo and behold (is that how that saying is spelled or said) the airfare is a bigger share then the chicas. I think i could do a graph showing where when the airfare is getting more of my $$ then the chicas that i shouldnt go or i need to make my vacation longer in order to get my moneys worth.
Hope this helps some newbie out when they have a question on how long or how much $$ one should budget.
One last word is make sure you have back up money because i spend more then what i budgeted for the first time, but thanks to this board saying double your budget i wasnt in too much of a shock.
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