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No one price for every traveler! Some travelers only stay in 3 star to 5 star places and eat in fancy restaurants. Other travelers stay in cheap dorms or hostels and eat street food. Probably most of us are somewhere in the middle.

You can find cheap places to stay at in Thailand and places that will cost 6000 baht per night - where do you usually fall in at? Based on travel you have done to other countries, how much did you budget per day for that place?

For a new country that I visit I usually figure out how much I want to spend per day and then get the hotel that does not exceed that budget. Even in Bangkok you can get a place with air that starts around 600 baht, including private toilet. These cheap rooms in Bangkok may be small and even sometimes with "no window" or no view rooms.

So, figure out how much you can afford to spend per day and then ask for hotels that do not exceed that price.



Good luck.

cross83

From the top of my head (ie without research), Malaysia is about 30% more expensive than Thailand.

Posts re: travel costs are (in no order):

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/4706_travelling-thailand-on-250b-a-day

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/6243_4000-euros-for-6-months-what-do-you-think

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/5812_mr-and-mrs-backpacking-on--8000

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/6062_3-months---3-000--1-first-timer-

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/6138_5-6-months-in-south-east-asia--is--5000-enough-

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/5926_2-people---us-3-500---3-months-

Each of these posts will give you some ideas as to how to budget & save unnecessary costs.

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June is the wet season, so ideas of magnificent sunny beaches with tanned ladies may need to be rethought...

The route you suggest is pretty boring in that there are few cultural highlights, and the places you mention tend to focus more on cities than culture (which may be your aim).

If you wanted to reduce costs, try and do things away from the cities (as much as possible) and look for some of the 'less travelled' places.

Travelfish has much info if you've time to look.

Cheers

cross83

That sounds much better. At Kanchanaburi , try and get to Hellfire Pass (I suggest it does more than any other place in the area to 'explain' just how hard life would have been at that time.

Also, the nearby waterfall should be really in full flow then. If so, then at least a night at Kanchanaburi will be needed. Are you including the morning floating market on the way from BKK to Kanchanaburi?

If you can get to Malacca (south of KL) you'll see a different side of Malaysia. You can take a bus there, and the bus trip to Jahore Bahru also connects - it's just a matter of taking the (frequent) bus across the straights to Singapore.

Cheers

Cross83

Sadly, there ARE ATM fees in SE Asia. Go to:

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/thailand/6007_new-bank-charges-for-atm-withdrawls

Also, 700 quid over 6 weeks (or 900 Baht / day) sounds like a challenge. Try looking at:

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/financemoney/4706_travelling-thailand-on-250b-a-day

AND

http://www.travelfish.org/faq_answer.php?qID=131

This second link refers to costs. I don't know when it was written, but costs have increased greatly over the past 3 or 4 years.

Cheers

Hi cheers thanks for the info 1,200 baht a day seems ok ish but hopeing to try and keep it under 1000 baht!

cheers