Recent Posts Tagged With 'post trip accounting'

• Travel Budget: Singapore and Malacca Birthday Trip

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 18:29 in malaysia, Singapore, travel budget, post trip accounting, singapore travel expense, trave expenses

  I honestly wasn’t looking forward to tallying up my expenses for my last trip, yet at the same time, I was eager to see just how much damage I did. And if I really spent enough to buy the 50mm f1.4 lens I wanted. I didn’t, but a couple mo...

• Travel Budget: Bangkok and Penang

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 13:51 in malaysia, thailand, post trip accounting, bangkok travel budget, malaysia travel budget

  You know I’m out of topics to blog about when I start posting my travel budget. This one is from my one-week trip to Thailand and Malaysia at the beginning of the month. The main purpose of the trip was for the tennis, but we ended up dollie sh...

• Travel Budget: Boracay

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 07:29 in Boracay, philippines, post trip accounting, boracay budget, boracay travel expense, how much to spend in boracay

  I’ve been putting off posting this because it’s just too darned embarassing. For a trip that has a lot of free stuff, it has been one expensive weekend. Then again, if you have a penchant for eating out at fancy restaurants, you’d ...

• Travel Budget: Southeast Asia

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 13:18 in travel budget, post trip accounting, backpacking in southeast asia

  A year ago, Robert Alejandro and Jetro Rafael shared their experience of traveling through Southeast Asia on a shoestring budget: 9 countries (including China, Macau and Hong Kong), 3 months, for only Php 50,000. I was amazed at this figure they pres...

• Travel Budget: Malaysia

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 09:20 in malaysia, post trip accounting, travel budget malaysia

  Unlike previous post-trip accounting posts, I’ve consolidated all legs of my Malaysian trip into one spreadsheet. Admittedly, I started getting lazy listing down every expense (which is going to be hell when I start working on the Singapore leg...

• Travel Budget: Bangkok part 2

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 09:02 in thailand, bangkok, travel costs, post trip accounting, travel-expenses, budget travel bangkok

  Continuing on with my post-trip series, here’s my travel expenses for Bangkok, Thailand. Like the previous post-trip accounting posts, this only include the land transfer coming into the country. Also, I did not include the costs for the doll t...

• Travel Budget: Vientiane, Laos

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 01:11 in laos, post trip accounting, laos budget, vientiane budget, vientiane costs, vientiane travel expenses

  Throughout July, I’ll be writing about my post-trip accounting and evaluation of my Southeast Asian month-long backpacking trip. This includes the costs of each leg of the trip and reviews of accommodation and transportation. First up is my tr...

• Budget: Luang Prabang

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 02:45 in laos, post trip accounting, laos travel expenses, luang prabang travel expenses

  This was quite an expensive leg of the trip, specially since I took the plane from Bangkok. Living expenses in Luang Prabang isn’t too expensive though. Luang Prabang 2009 June 8 – 11, 2009 Exchange Rate: US$1 = LAK 8,500 ...

• Budget: Bangkok, Thailand

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 06:13 in thailand, bangkok, post trip accounting, bangkok budget, bangkok expenses

  I was really just in transit in Bangkok for my Monday flight to Laos. But I figured I stay over the weekend and try to see the places I wasn’t able to go to last time, like Wat Po, Wat Arun, Ayutthaya and the River Kwai. Fate has other plans, h...

• Travel Budget: Siem Reap, Cambodia

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 08:19 in cambodia, travel budget, post trip accounting, travel-expenses, cambodia expenses, siem reap budget

  Traveling solo is really more expensive than traveling with a group. Unless you find other travelers to share the cost, you’ll be paying big money for the guide and transportation. When I was doing a rough draft of my travel budget, I knew Camb...

• Post Trip Accounting: Cagayan de Oro

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 16:21 in philippines, cagayan de oro, cdo, bukidnon, post trip accounting, travel_budget

  As mentioned in my previous post, me and my favorite travel buddies spent the weekend at Cagayan de Oro. Eric was anticipating that the Kaamulan would be set on that weekend, so we took advantage of an airline promo late last year. Luckily, the Kaamu...

• Post-trip Accounting: Hong Kong

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 14:17 in travel budget, hong-kong, post trip accounting, travel-expenses

  I’m back from my trip to Hong Kong over the weekend. Since I always keep track of my expenses for every trip, the budget is always the first entry to be finished. This Hong Kong trip was certainly one of the cheapest trip I’ve had lately,...

• Boracay Budget 2009

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 03:01 in Boracay, philippines, word vomit, post trip accounting, boracay expenses, budget for boracay, expenses for boracay

  Four weeks after posting my Boracay budget from our trip last December, I’m once again posting another entry about how much I spent in Boracay last weekend. I spent double of what I spent last December on this trip. That’s owing to the co...

• Boracay Budget

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 05:04 in Boracay, philippines, post trip accounting, boracay budget, boracay expenses

  I just got back from a fun, relaxing weekend at Boracay with my favorite travel buddies, Gail, Marc, Eric and Melo. We were all set to go to Romblon, when we found out that we ran out of tickets and we got re-routed to Boracay. Hey, we’re not c...

• Batanes Budget

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 08:02 in philippines, batanes, post trip accounting, batanes travel, batanes budget, batanes costs, batanes expenses

  Hola! I’m back from Batanes. I’ve yet to finish working on my photos for posting, so I’ll start off with our travel budget. Predictably, the most expensive part of Batanes travel is the airfare. Good thing Seair helped us out in tha...

• Davao Budget

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 16:58 in philippines, davao, post trip accounting, davao budget, davao expenses

  My to-blog list is so long, I have pending entries from JUNE BUT! I’m slowly going to work my way through the list, provided I can still remember the details of each trip Anywhoo, I finally dug out my notebook and tallied my expenses from our...

• Post Trip Accounting: Cebu Budget

  Posted on Thursday August 21st, 2008 at 22:27 in budget, philippines, cebu, expenses, travel costs, post trip accounting, sugbo

  I was looking through my archive and in my personal files and I was surprised to find out that I didn’t have any spreadsheet on my first Cebu trip’s expenses. I’m pretty certain I wrote down all my expenses, but I guess after tallyi...

• Coron, Palawan Travel Budget

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 17:46 in philippines, palawan, travel budget, coron, post trip accounting, busuanga, travel-expenses

  This trip to Coron was certainly one of the cheapest trips I’ve ever had. Of course, it helps that we got to fly for free with Seair, but living in the island is surprisingly cheap. The expensive part of the trip are the island hopping expenses...

• Donsol: Post trip accounting

  Posted on Tuesday February 26th, 2008 at 20:05 in budget, expenses, donsol, post trip accounting

  After several months of planning, I finally made it to Donsol. Actually, I didn’t really make any plans or did any research. I just signed up for a trip already organized by Owen, from my PEX mailing list. (He’s also organizing a couple o...