Most likely probably the most widespread questions on our ten week journey to the USA and Caribbean from Australia? How lots did the journey worth. Listed beneath are all the options!
What did we do?
To summarise our journey, we flew Melbourne – Los Angeles – Miami – Dominican Republic (about 22 – 24 hours throughout the air) after which all the easiest way once more as soon as extra. We did an 8 day Caribbean cruise. We spent a few month throughout the USA, most of it on a Deep South freeway journey, and we spent a few month throughout the Dominican Republic in peak season. You probably can see our itinerary in USA and Caribbean family journey.
These prices are for the 4 of us – two adults, a 3 yr outdated and a 1 yr outdated. We did not buy seats for Z on the flights.
All costs beneath are in US {{dollars}}.
Cruise – $1900
The Carnival cruise journey worth about $1900 for 4 people in an out of doors cabin.
We took an eight day Caribbean cruise with 4 stops. We didn’t do any of the shore excursions and explored our cruise ports independently (very attainable). Our costs had been minimal in the middle of the cruise resulting from this, and we didn’t go over our $220 worth vary for in the middle of the cruise. This moreover included some cocktails and some teenager take care of Z (beneath 2s did not get free care).
Los Angeles and Miami – $180 per day
We saved to our basic $180 per day worth vary. This does not embrace our buying in Los Angeles on the end or getting my computer onerous drive mounted. We stayed in flats in good locations in every places.
USA Freeway journey – $184 per day
The USA freeway journey worth $139 a day excluding automotive lease. I imagine that’s fantastic value.
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We stayed in worth vary motels, nevertheless infrequently probably the most inexpensive they often had been all good. We regularly ate out as quickly as a day and in every other case self catered (so we incessantly spent a bit further on lodging for a microwave and fridge). Our lodging worth averaged $71 a nightso we would positively have saved money proper right here with some lower necessities. We spent $322 on gasoline over your full journey.
This value does not embrace all our actions. Just a few of those had been a Christmas reward from our mom and father. The place that’s the case, it is well-known on the individual posts.
We spent about one different $45 a day on automotive lease. I’ve seen so many people say they’ve paid far decrease than that so it must be attainable, nonetheless it was top-of-the-line value I’d get. This value accommodates two kids’ automotive seats. That they had been $90 each. We had full insurance coverage protection.
Dominican Republic – $79 per day
The Dominican Republic was a bargain at a median journey worth of solely $79 a day. We spent $54 of that on lodging – which was fairly 2 mattress room flats. We sometimes ate out as quickly as a day and self catered the alternative two meals. We had beer or wine day-after-day and after we ate out.
Moments like this on Cabarete seashore – priceless!
This does not embrace our time throughout the all inclusive resort or Santiago on the end. The resort worth us $240 a day/night time time and the one night time time Santiago stop on the end was about $150 since there was a shortage of worth vary lodging.
It does not embrace the private taxi transfers we took once more from Las Terrenas, nonetheless it does embrace all completely different native transportation.
This was fabulous value as we had a nice life throughout the Dominican Republic. We would positively have spent a lot much less money with cheaper lodging, nevertheless I wouldn’t want to spend so much a lot much less on meals which was the vast majority of the remaining worth. We did sometimes solely eat on probably the most cost-effective places.
Flights – $4418
This was certainly one of many largest elements of our journey worth – $4418 in complete.
We spent $2772 on our flights Melbourne – Los Angeles return on Virgin Australia and $1646 on our flights Los Angele – Miami – Santo Domingo/Santiago – Los Angeles on American Airways booked on expedia.
Entire journey worth?
Barely beneath $15000 for 70 days!
You might probably moreover take into account this as $214 a day which is unquestionably solely barely higher than what it costs us to remain in Melbourne a day. Take away the huge worth of the flights and it was solely about $151 a day for the 4 of us.
We saved to our worth vary which appeared like an extra achievement as our worth vary was primarily based totally on Australian {{dollars}}. After we made our worth vary, the Australian dollar was on par with the US dollar. As quickly as we had been there, the Australian dollar was nearer to US$0.90 which made each factor dearer than deliberate.
You can also be taught out put up about how we make a worth vary for family journeys or consider this journey worth with the worth of our 7 weeks in Asia last yr.
Do you assume this journey worth is good value or very pricey?
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