How Expensive Is Thailand To Travel? (Realistic Budget Review)
you're probably wondering how much money am i gonna need when i come to thailand well that's a good question right so i thought today i would take this a thousand thai baht or about 33 us dollars and just use this for 24 hours i have to get my accommodation activities foods drinks and maybe some souvenirs we'll just have a whole day with this is a thousand baht a realistic daily budget for thailand here in 2021 so let's go right then first things first accommodation we are including accommodation because that's obviously what happens right every single day when you travel you need somewhere to stay and i'm going to be staying at the new normal house i just found this on booking.com big location extremely cheap price so i'm going to go in check in hopefully the room is not terrible because it was extremely cheap so let's go in let me see what the room's like and then i'll tell you how much it costs because uh it was ridiculously cheap right then room number two this is it private room not bad is it well it's not the ritz but it's not that bad i've definitely stayed in worse for a lot more money so i mean look whoops we've got a place to put your jacket you've got uh a light and a table and a chair so we can you know edit our videos and stuff like that and then yeah look you've got a nice mattress and it's on like a wooden pallet and then there's a fan so there's no air con but uh it is what is it it's january so it's not super hot yet so i'll i'll let you know in the morning if this is like boiling hot or not don't know what that's for and then there's outside you can see there's the old town there's the moat can you see so we're super close in fact there's like hostels all around here and there's a really hairy cat can you see the cat big hairy cat that's fine not bad 136 baht if you don't believe me here is the screenshot of the booking page and that leaves us with 800 and something so that's good right we've got our room because when i see these like living off 10 videos living off 20 videos they never include the accommodation so i'm not faking this i'm gonna stay here tonight even though i live in chiang mai i wanted to keep this as realistic as possible so this is where i'm staying tonight there's even a roof terrace up here so you can you know get some cold beers actually cold beers up here at sunset would be a really cheap little hack get some 7-eleven beers come up here enjoy the view of the smoky mountains and the temples and uh actually sunset will be a nice little spot to come up here with some music i realize there's no bathroom so it's a shared bathroom and toilet seat mirror shower probably let me see is it good that's not bad that's not bad and uh some complimentary leftover shampoo classic okay well the lovely lady at the hostel here the new normal house i asked if she could get me a bicycle she said she didn't have any so they went next door to the next hostel there's a japanese lady there and she said she can she said she would give me her bicycle for free when she said he's no good quality no good quality and i just cycled around the car park and it's rubbish but it's gonna get me around the old town for free okay so we have our bicycle and uh the seat's broken and it's going right up my gooch so it hurts a little bit oh hang on oh the hostel location is amazing obviously it's right next to the moat right next to the old city up here on the north gate of town isn't it beautiful today what do you think of this bike this place does really good juices let's get a juice and then we'll go get some proper food can i have uh e strawberry banana coconut and passion fruit please okay oh my god yes you've really got to suck it on these big straws perfect blue noodle shop best noodles in the old town hands down trust me on this you can get a different type of noodles so i kind of like these ones and then you want to get this delicious pork spare ribs large size 50 bars a little bit of vegetables and bean sprouts carefully selecting the meat for me there's a few nice big chunks in there let's grab a drink sprite oh it's got some chili action going on there oops so clumsy you cannot go wrong with a big bowl of noodle soup even on the hot day to be honest it's still really good look at the size of this piece of pork boy so soft lovely big massive dollop of noodles i used to be like a big fat noodle kind of guy but i like the thin ones weird right hmm i'm in my happy place 50 baht for the bowl maybe 10 baht for the drink we're looking good that smoothie this lunch all together 100 baht now because it's actually the you know middle of the day i thought to myself it's probably not a good idea to just cycle around and sweat profusely so actually right next to the blue noodle uh noodle shop is my favorite and cheapest place to get a massage thai massage one hour 140 baht 140 baht per hour i normally get two hours but we're on a budget today so we're just doing the one and it's in this beautiful temple surroundings and i love it because you can lie in there in the shade watch the squirrels and birds playing in this tree sometimes the monks are here just brushing the leaves very peaceful i don't know why but they always do this now they take your blood pressure and you have to wear a mask obviously safety first i do love a thai massage but just that one bit where the elbows go in it's character building perfect perfect like level of elbows and pressure just yeah i always feel like i'm stoned after a massage i'm feeling so relaxed actually that i'm thinking about going to black hard uh park which is here inside the old town it's like late afternoon now it's like four o'clock i think if we cycle down there feed the fish have an ice cream just lie on the grass and enjoy some sun rays i think that'd be the perfect way to end the afternoon and then uh and then we'll go out in the evening and try and find some beers and some sort of nightlife if possible because everything's been shut down at the minute but i think there's a few things open i don't know we've got six hundred and let me check i just written it down we're doing really well on our budget we've got 619 mart left so you know we're doing well i haven't even spent half of our money accommodation bikes lunch drinks massage we're doing well oops hello i uh i might have just fallen asleep oh i was so relaxed i just came down to the park and i was like okay i'll just wait a little bit lie down this is music and i fell asleep beautiful place this park let me show you around oh i want some ice cream now as well if anyone knows what type of thai bird that was i've never seen one of them before look at this hello yeah we'll feed you in a minute and one of the coolest games you'll ever see in your life is right here look at this oh off the back of the elbow it's like messy they've gotta try and get it we've got to try and get it in that hoop all the way up there look at this come on did you see that they're doing it off the back of the arms and then you've heard of volleyball but have you heard of this one i don't know what it's called nice and bottle of water 10 baht if you're actually looking for a workout and you don't want to join a gym this park obviously you can play with the thai people i'm sure they'll invite you to play if you want but if you just want to work out they've got all these machines everywhere this thing you know chin ups and uh you just use your human weight as the weight like i'm not going to sit on that because i've got any room my hands are full but you can work out on this thing you can come here this is completely free to get in look at this whole weights section with concrete dumbbells and car break dumbbells and a whole cool shed to work out in on a budget if you want to work out don't go to the gym and pay the day pass probably 200 baht just come here completely for free and chill and pump some iron i realized that coming here and falling asleep whoa okay oh there's a big catfish coming here means that i've failed on that rooftop beer sunset vibes at the hostel or the place i'm staying at but that's fine i mean the sunset here feeding the fish with a bottle of water still nice can you see the catfish where's the big catfish there he is big catfish yes can i have one coconut um um this one yummy thank you oh lovely strawberry uh yeah go on then why not a lot of people just living their best life in this park i'll tell you a story in a second coconut ice cream is amazing but i don't know why i wanted that stupid strawberry bye-bye four people on a bike safety first when um the whole lockdown happened in march this park was one of the last places to stay open we were all locked in our homes everything was shut but this park stayed open for ages and it was like where you would come and you wouldn't tell it you wouldn't tell anyone everyone kind of kept it a secret because it was the only place that people could see other people and uh i remember coming here and then feeling bad all day stuck in the home watching the world crumble and then we'll come here and feel good again and then right someone somewhere found out about it and shut it down that was back in march behind me there is where the saturday night market should be and i thought it was on uh but it's not we haven't had a case of uh you know what for nearly two weeks and when we hit that two week point this province goes to a green color which means we just go we can do whatever we want but yeah we can't go to the night market which is a shame but there is a beautiful food market here so let's just uh get a bite to eat enjoy the atmosphere while this you know it's beautiful early start to the evening and uh yeah it's just a shame that we can't walk around and look at you know rubbish chinese-made hats and try and buy some oh look at this guy oh what's up crispy fried pork fried chicken boiled chicken delicious rice the way they cook this rice is insane can you see the pieces of chicken skin that they boil it with yeah this is me thank you chiang mai has some of the best food in the world man just this food market like look how many places there are around here and every single one smells amazing there's vegetarian options there's vegan options and yes i will show you um the vegan food scene the vegetarian food scene in another video just today i'm feeling particularly in the need for some you know some meat actually that um sweet chili sauce isn't that it's not spicy they're not spicy at all look at this this is oh look at these jalapenos or jello jalap what do we call them in england i've lived in thailand so long and i've lived with americans for too long but now i say jalapenos what is wrong with me let's see if that makes the dish any better they're not spicy so i'm gonna give this dish five out of ten it like you know there's nothing wrong with it just it needs a bit kick tipping cap is 50 baht he's like yeah no no [ __ ] dude thank you thank you thank you thank you yep definitely come here guys southgate food market incredible selection no trip to the old city would be complete without checking out at least one temple right well check out this one this one is special so the monks are actually chanting right now so i don't want to go in it's like the equivalent of a service like they're in service right now so i don't want to be that idiot with my camera zooming in oh wow it's so amazing and the reason why i don't immerse myself with the religion of this country is because i like it to be a mystery i love the feeling of bewilderment when i come to these kind of places i mean i come to temples all the time and every time i'm like wow what's going on i love this sometimes it's good to just go somewhere and have absolutely no idea what's going on master's right over there remember you probably saw in the morning remember that big thing yeah that's that's the yeah good good chat paddy okay so i've just been back at the hostel winding down a little bit just resting been cycling around in the heat all day i think it's time for a beer but there's a problem we because of the night markets being closed there's no live music allowed to be played in any of the bars you can only get beers in restaurants or bars if they serve food at the moment so i don't know if there's going to be much of a nightlife i mean we've still got 500 and something bart left just over 500 baht so we haven't even spent half of our money yet we've had a really good day which is good but because this is a realistic budget video realistically you go and have a few beers don't you at the end of the day so just a stone's throw away from the hostel is north gates this is the jazz bar that is normally packing popping but uh it's not tonight normally we'd all be drinking here on the street dancing around to jazz music and we could have met a lot of people but not tonight but that's okay even though this is not open we can just keep walking go down there and we'll get to zoe and yellows massive place where loads of young thai people and backpackers go drinking and partying it's probably going to be closed but we'll go check it out all the rock bars reggae bar zoe everything's closed man i've had so many good memories in here drunk and debauchery it's all coming back to me i don't come in that often i found a place that's open and i met a few cool lads i think these two like 19 year old american guys who live in thailand and go to university in chiang mai but they're from america which i thought was really interesting so we've been playing darts and call and uh 105 bar for a big leo i'm actually going to have another one so that's 210 and then that should then not be enough for me i'll go home wind down with a movie on netflix at the hostel and then tomorrow we'll use the last of the money on uh breakfast and uh yeah so i'm just gonna chill here these are interesting guys i wish you could meet them but i don't want to put them on camera because they're definitely not 19 and they're drinking underage 100. i slept okay actually um i try to wake up and do some editing of this video but the plug of my macbook doesn't fit into these wall plugs down there by the side of the bed so i can't do that um the fan was fine had it on one the whole night i was actually quite cozy trashed the room so i'm gonna wake up we've still got like i've been keeping score of our budget and screenshotting it every time i uh buy something so last night we had two big leos 210 baht all together so now we have 319 baht which is plenty that's still over ten dollars so we're going to use that for a nice breakfast and go get coffee when watch the ufc and then after that it will be lunch time and it will be 24 hours since we started this challenge so um i'm gonna get up and get ready and go to the pub and that's exactly what i did i went to the pub i got myself a full english breakfast for 159 baht it was delicious and it came with a free coffee and some orange juice and then i went across the street to the pub where all my friends were and we watched the conor mcgregor fight and he got battered which was brilliant and i had some orange juice and lemonades and then i yeah i succumbed to peer pressure and i ordered a beer because that was pretty much the last of my money and uh that was 1 000 baht gone that beer in that shandy that was it so we did it a thousand bar and 24 hours and it was easy so yeah this is a realistic budget yes and now i'm back home and this is the end of the video but don't go yet because i've got some important news if you enjoyed this video you need to subscribe because very soon in fact two months to this day i'm going to be quitting my job as a teacher here in chiang mai leaving my beautiful home and getting on this getting on my honda dream and we're going to go to every single province in thailand and i have no idea how long it's going to take me and these kinds of videos um i'm just practicing and trying to get my editing skills and everything presenting wise uh tuned in so that when the big series starts in two months it's gonna be as good as possible so yes please subscribe join us on this big adventure we're going to go all around thailand and it's going to be amazing and check the links in the description because there's a bunch of ways that you can contact me give me suggestions for my trip and support the channel so thanks for watching and as you can see a thousand bar it wasn't a challenge it was just kind of like a review of does this realistic daily budget actually stretch because it used to easily when i was a backpacker first time in thailand seven to ten years ago and it's good to know that that budget of a thousand bar still gets you so much here in thailand so i hope you enjoyed that video and see you in the next one bye
2021-01-29 07:25
