I know this is a bit like asking how long a piece of string is, but it would be interesting to see ballpark figures.
When my husband and I go to Turkey we spend roughly £50 per head per day. That covers three meals a day (usually breakfast and lunch in the villa, and then dinner out in the evening), a few drinks, some trips and some souvenirs - usually small piece of jewellery and handbags. We don't go clubbing and we don't spend MASSES on alcohol - although we do have a few every night.
I was hoping for a ten night stay in Goa £1,000 would be enough for the two of us - particularly as it looks as though food and drink prices are much cheaper than Turkey.
How much do you usually get by on?
We spent less than £1000 and stayed 30 nights. Didn't do many taxis and shared them where we could on longer trips. Brought few souvenirs but ate and drank very well !
Wow.. that's amazing! I will expect to eat like a queen then!
we work on £30 per day between 2 of us.
That's bottles of water and a couple of beers on the beach, lunch & drinks, sometimes a couple of G&Ts watching the sunset, and evening meals & drinks.
You might spend a bit more if you eat steaks, tiger prawns or lobster every night.
We spent less than £1000 in 3 weeks, I bought 3 leather bags, some silver jewellery and we spent 8000 rupees (£115 approx) on a 3 day trip to Hampi.
We don't take taxis, we either walk to and from our hotel or take the local bus.
During 3 weeks in Goa we spend less than half on food & drink in than we do during 2 weeks in Greece or Turkey.
Thanks PrettyPollyCat, that's really helpful. I could tell my husband and let him be happy that we won't be spending much... or I could just spend the rest on jewellery
We average £50 a day, but this includes our bike hire and taxis at night time, we usually have money left on our return home .
the silver jewellery is really nice. You can either get traditional Indian designs, Tibetan designs (there's the Tibetan market in Calangute) or comtemporary designs.
If you do go to the Tibetan marker (in Calangute, as you walk down towards the beach, there's the Tibetan market, on the right hand side, just after you cross the road to Baga. It's a bit hidden away but it's immediately before a cleared plot of land where buses are parked.)
They have lots of stalls selling some really nice silver jewellery.
Don't go on Fridays (they are all at Mapusa market), Wednesdays (they're at Anjuna) or late afternoon Saturday (they pack up early to go to the night markets).
Most jewellery shops sell gold and silver, I bought a delicate pair of silver earrings set with 2 garnets for £7, my next-door-neighbour loved them.
You can get stuff set with turquoise, lapis, coral, rose quartz, labradorite etc.
I've had some really nice pieces made from gold, it is cheaper than at home and you can design whatever you fancy and they're not fazed.
If you're buying handbags do check out the quality, some of the stitching can be a bit 'iffy'.
Fake Jimmy Choo, Prada, Chloe, MiuMiu etc can be bought anywhere BUT when we were there late Nov there had been a crack-down by some of the original designers and one shop that I sometimes pop into has stopped selling ‘obvious' fakes with tags/labels on but still does some lovely designs in excellent quality leather.
Be wary when buying spices.
I asked the price of black pepper on a stall going down to the beach from the Health Centre in Candolim and was told "3 rupee for 1 gram" - which sounds cheap.
I thought about it for a minute then said, "That's over £4 for 100 grams. I can buy it much cheaper than that in the UK" (Tesco charge £3.05 for 275 gram).
He went intio his 'I can give better price' spiel but I said 'I do not do business with people who start the price too high'.
Every day after that he tried to get me to buy but I just shook my head, I hate it when somebody starts with a stupid price - and I won't even start bargaining.
we took 2 grand but came home with over thirteen hundred. and that was with all meals drinks (soft drinks and pots of tea) 3 trips, taxi,s, hubbie bought me 9 dresses that cost less than £15 pound for all 9. leather handbag gifts for my girls and 3 grandkids, plus 3 .000 cigs, think he bought himself 2 of them long white shirt things, or may be i did cant remember as hubbie says you cant give your money away over there, hope he says that in nov when we go back as ive seen a few things id like, might just have to get him on a good day to go shopping
might just have to get him on a good day to go shopping
I'd not bother, Tammie.
Just do like I do - leave him in a bar while I go round the Tibetan Market or get ready for the evening earlier, arrange to meet him somewhere later and just browse the shops along the way.
I find he just cramps my style (not to mention my pocket). He does come in handy to carry the shopping back to the hotel though.
and like u say hes good for carrying the bags , am glad he dont read these posts or im in real trouble
Fizz
Been here in candolim for nearly a week and spend all day in the shack with food, beers and soft drinks etc. Then out for the night to a decent restaurant, drinks etc. and including massages, t shirts, safety deposit box and mini bar bill in the room plus cigs for the missus we have spent about £200.
Back in 2003 used to spend around £22.00 per day between hubbie and self - ah the good old days - but this did not include jewellery / gifts / trip to opticians / dentist etc which my hubbie and I buy out of our own money but during last couple of visits has gone up to £30.00 - be interesting to see what we spend this year as last year we were going at end of season and the volcano hit us - so we ended up in Egypt instead - not for me - but that is another story!!!
We don't do the tourist trips now or buy many souvenirs either so mainly our money goes on food, drinks and taxi's and we live as well as we want to when we are there - it is the one place we have been to where we have never felt we are likely to run out of cash.
On return from Tenerife many years ago we had nothing left to even buy a meal/snack at the airport and could only afford 1 coca-cola between the 3 of us ...................Never had this problem returning from Goa though.
Fizz
On return from Tenerife many years ago we had nothing left to even buy a meal/snack at the airport and could only afford 1 coca-cola between the 3 of us ...................Never had this problem returning from Goa though.
Not surprising Fizzy, the catering outlet at Diabolical airport is so poor the pastie I bought went straight in to the bin
I know what you mean Dave AND to add insult to injury, like any airport, rip off prices too
The oh and myself average £70 between the 2 of us every 3 days last year and that was food,drink and we went out every night and didnt do without a thing hope this helps
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