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on July 27, 2018 at 4:38 PM
What was the total amount spent?
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on July 28, 2018 at 10:02 AM
HI Brittani! Hotels=$0 because we dumped all of our IHG Rewards Club Points. The Ambassador program is about $200 and can be used throughout the year. You can also eat breakfast and sometimes cocktails in the Club lounge at no cost so if you’re going to stay at multiple InterContinental’s it’s a no-brainer. Flights= approx. $1,200 since we used our Skymiles to discount the actual cost of the ticket. It’s approx. $100 for every 10K miles the last time we checked. Our tour guide/transportation services/translator for the entire trip was $800 which included 4 airport transfers, admission to temples, a few lunches and refreshments, comfortable van transportation and tours to all outside hotel venues (e.g. elephant sanctuary, floating market, Chinatown, clothier etc.). Besides that, it’s safe to budget $75 for food/bev. per person daily but that’s on the high end because you can eat like a king in Chinatown for $5 per person and there are tons of days where you’ll just want a noodle bowl. For us, the total was just under $3K so about $1,500 per person keeping in mind that we were there for about 10 days.
Hope that helps!
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What was the total amount spent?
HI Brittani! Hotels=$0 because we dumped all of our IHG Rewards Club Points. The Ambassador program is about $200 and can be used throughout the year. You can also eat breakfast and sometimes cocktails in the Club lounge at no cost so if you’re going to stay at multiple InterContinental’s it’s a no-brainer. Flights= approx. $1,200 since we used our Skymiles to discount the actual cost of the ticket. It’s approx. $100 for every 10K miles the last time we checked. Our tour guide/transportation services/translator for the entire trip was $800 which included 4 airport transfers, admission to temples, a few lunches and refreshments, comfortable van transportation and tours to all outside hotel venues (e.g. elephant sanctuary, floating market, Chinatown, clothier etc.). Besides that, it’s safe to budget $75 for food/bev. per person daily but that’s on the high end because you can eat like a king in Chinatown for $5 per person and there are tons of days where you’ll just want a noodle bowl. For us, the total was just under $3K so about $1,500 per person keeping in mind that we were there for about 10 days.
Hope that helps!
[…] Besides Thailand, this was the most “unfamiliar” place we’d ever visited but we were up for the adventure. It was also a very interesting point in our relationship and careers. The allure of the fancy traveling gig which we both started in 2012 had begun to wear off, the company we worked for was in a bit of transition [go figure] and our sense of fulfillment at work was evolving. On the positive side, Mrs. r&R moved into a new role and received a significant pay bump [+12% in salary]. Of course, sky high expectations came right along with it. More on that later. […]
[…] took a few years, but when we went to Thailand, Peru and honeymooned in South Africa, we inspired others to consider them as travel destinations. […]