Budget Short Europe Trip

Aku baca salah satu blog tentang budget europe trip dia dan jadi keinspirasi karena kayanya itu useful buat traveller yg money-sensitif kaya aku. Sebelum decide travel, aku biasanya selalu browsing blog traveller dan syukur-syukur nemu detail seperti : pesawat apa, hotel apa, berapa damagenya.

So, I think it is useful kalau aku share travel budget aku kmrn untuk inspirasi para pembaca blog.

Detil singkatnya adalah:
Durasi - 13D/12N
Periode travelling : 19 May - 31 June 2012 (non-peak)

Short Itinerary:
  

Date	Day at	Night at	Stay	Rate	per
19-May	Paris	Paris	Ibis Gare Du Nord	EUR 98	room
20-May	Paris	Paris	Ibis Gare Du Nord	EUR 98	room
21-May	Paris	Paris	Ibis Gare Du Nord	EUR 98	room
22-May	Avignon	Avignon	Hotel Bouquier	EUR 90	room
23-May	Provence	Geneva	City Hostel Geneva	EUR 27	person
24-May	Montreux	Geneva	City Hostel Geneva	EUR 27	person
25-May	Interlaken	Lucerne	Tourist Hotel Lucerne	EUR 90	room
26-May	Mt. Titlis	Lucerne	Tourist Hotel Lucerne	EUR 90	room
27-May	Venice	Venice	Alloggi Gerotto Calderan	EUR 70	room
28-May	Venice	Venice	Alloggi Gerotto Calderan	EUR 70	room
29-May	Venice	Rome	Rose Santamaria	EUR 88	room
30-May	Rome/Vatican	Rome	Rose Santamaria	EUR 88	room
31-May	Rome

Budget:

Type	Description	Total Cost (IDR)
Airfare	JKT-CDG-JKT-Qatar Airways	7,870,000
Visa Application	Schengen Visa	1,000,000
TGV to Avignon		420,000
TGV to Geneva		243,450
Swiss Pass		1,300,000
Accomodation	share with room mate =)	7,319,000
Meal	Meal at EUR 40/day	4,464,000
Daily expenses + local train	Expense at EUR 25/day	3,720,000
tickets to main tourist spot	museums, titlis, river cruises, etc	1,736,000
insurance	for visa	342,000
Bank letter		100,000
Train to Venice		390,000
Train to Cortona		364,000
Train to Rome		143,000
		29,411,450

Based on pengalaman diatas dan actual expense, sebenarnya bisa dilihat kalau budget kita agak irit hehehe, tapi selain hotel/hostel kurang oke, yg lainnya ga irit kok, minum pet bottle setiap saat, minum wine bbrp kali, makan selalu resto (eh ada deng, makan sandwich), makan eskrim sehari 2x =D

Kalau ada kesempatan lagi, ini yg akan diubah dan bbrp tips aku hehehe..

1. Spend more di kota kecil daripada kota besar
2. Agak terlalu panas di May ahir itu :) choose better one tp tetep non-peak season
3. Never go to Geneva - so boring
4. Venice is somehow overrated - tp ya susah jg untuk ga pergi karena itu tersohor sekali
5. Spend more in nicer hotel - say no to hostel/dorm, say yes to B&B, better if u can afford to stay in hotel
6. Food - never think of irit dalam makan, karena resto disana harganya mirip2 kecuali mau makan sandwich terus. Kita ga irit dan makan apa yg kita mau :) bayangkan kita sibuk cari2 resto murah sampe jalan keliling abisin waktu, sayang kan?
7. Italy - Milan & Rome itu yah just another city (except for Vatican) so better to go to smaller town in cost of Italy, macam Cinque Terre hehehe
8. lastly, kalian harus tau tipikal traveller macam apakah kalian? jangan pernah ikutin agenda dari tour agent dimana mereka akan ke Pisa Tower, Eifell Tower, Titlis, Museum X, Y, Z, Toko Ginseng (oops, Korea ya it?), Milan, etc etc. Belom tentu tersohor itu berarti bagus loh ya, yg pasti dia mahal karena uda di serbu oleh para turis (trust me, most turis adalah Indian dan Chinese traveller). Kenali apakah kalian tipe traveller yg suka sama : museum dan seni, alam dan pemandangan, shopping and splurge, love to stay in nice resort and enjoy its facilities, fun and adventurous atau tipikal yg "yang penting gw pernah pergi ke yg beken2 semua" =D once decided then focus :)

at last, enjoy biklin travel plan yaa, abis itu enjoy travel nya sendiri! =D