As you know by now, we are no so keen on living on our very lowest financial limits. We do love to live cheap but get the most out of it, aka traveling Suitcasepacking style,
and I'm proud to say we kind of have an excellent example of that from our recent Barcelona trip.
- DO TAKE NOTICE! -
This budget is accounted without flight prices.
The reason for this is that we have readers not only from our home town, so that information would make this budget useless for a many of those who will read this.
ACCOMONDATION
We stayed in H·TOP BCN City Hotel close to Sagrada Familia for 5 nights.
For that we paid 2850 SEK, which is 300 €. Then came city tax for 7,5 €.
Just outside our hotel was the beautiful Hospital de San Pau.
TOTAL PRICE FOR ACCOMMONDATION
153,25 €
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TRANSPORT
We went with the HOLA BARCELONA card for 5 days. That included transport from and to the airport and on all metro and buses.
TOTAL TRANSPORT PRICE
33,7 €
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ACTIVITES
Many of the things you can do we decided on just seing from the outside. With so much impressive architecture, there wouldn't have been time to see them all in 4 days, so we took a sample-sight of each and then moved on.
What we did do though:
Park Güell Monumental Area Tickets: 7 €
Round-trip cable car ride to Montjuic: 16,5 €
Day Trip to Montserrat: 65 €
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TOTAL COST FOR ACTIVITIES
88,5 €
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FOOD
- In all dinner sums, the tip (usually 1-2 euro per person) is included. -
DAY 1
Breakfast: Banana + Latte + sandwich + 2 macarons (McCafe): 6,04 €
Guilty pleasure: McCafe's macarons.
Seriously during the trip I think I ate at least two a day.
Seriously during the trip I think I ate at least two a day.
Before we were headed to a late lunch/early dinner, we had gotten recommendations to go to La Xocolateria by Oriol Balaguer in Barri Gotic that supposed to by to-die-for, so we shared an ice cream coupe with pretty plain vanilla ice cream but with THE ABSOLUTE BEST CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM WE'D EVER HAD.
Since we shared one, afternoon "fika" landed at: 3,35 €
5 tapas + 1,5 liter white sangria (made with zumo de piña, pinapple juice - yum!): 20 € per person
DAY 2
Oh, the day of Park Guell and La Boqueria.
We started with a Starbucks breakfast, foccacia + latte: 8.70 €
Lunch at the Boqueria, empanadas + a shared strawberry stewer: 3.75€
Afternoon espresso at Park Güell: 2 €
(Shared) fried spring rolls + Pho + 2 strawberry mojitos at a Vietnamese restaurant: 18,5 €
DAY 3
Breakfast at a local café near Sagrada Familia,
Bocadilla con jambon (baguette with ham) + coffee: 2,90 €
Pre-lunch ice cream at the beach: 4 €
...To this backdrop, hooolaaah
Lunch at Burger King (faaancy rite?): 4 €
Dinner at at place in Barri Gotic,
Paella of the day + 1 glass of red wine: 12 €
Post-dinner snacks,
Coffee from Starbucks + 6 macarons: 6,40 €
Breakfast McCafé: 5,50 €
- The day was spent in Montserrat so lunch this day is included in
-ACTIVITIES. -
-ACTIVITIES. -
Mackerel sandwich + caipirinha at the hidden bar at PASTRAMI/PARADISO: 16 €
TOTAL COST FOR FOOD
128,14 €
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SOUVENIRS
We are not very keen on buying traveling memorbilia. Stuff like small statuettes and refridgerator magnets What I did do though was buying film to my Instax mini70 which meant we could make our own memorbilia throughout the trip.
One other thing we did buy though - since we visited a wineyard, we brought home some wine from there.
Instax mini film double pack: 20 €
Wine from Oller DL Mas winery: 7 €
TOTAL COST OF SOUVENIRS
27 €
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Soo..
TOTAL PRICE
FOR 4 DAYS
430,59 €
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Since not all our readers are from Sweden, we didn't count the flight ticket in our budget.
The market for flight tickets are a gamble. One day you have to pay one price, that next week either is 10-90% higher or 10-90% lower.
But for a good start on learning to navigate in the jungle that is air prices,
1. to get a good price, COMPARE SITES. There is no insurance that Google flight will be cheapest just because it was last time you flew.
2. scout prices and then search again a week later
Good to know though is that we found round-trip tickets for 1600 SEK/pp - with a shared check-in bagage - which was up to half of what some airlines and websites offered, just a week before take off.
HOW?
By tricking those drrn cookies!
We had been looking for hours for a price that matched our set up limit for the hotel and flights, and then, we found it.
.. Only to have it ripped out of our hands just as we procceded to check out, with a hefty 1000 SEK extra on the bill if we still wanted it.
NO WAY! we said and seached for the exact same flight in Incognito mode. We found it (!) and finished our purchase fast as lightning.
TOTAL COST OF FLIGHT PER PERSON
- Including ½ of a 23 kg suitcase -
169 €
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MAKE MORE OUT OF YOUR TRIP
- FOR LESS! -
- FOR LESS! -
I have to say, adding the total cost I was surprised it wasn't more, considering our constant snacking. I figure thinking ahead and
● CUT DOWN ON COFFEE & WINE
We are coffee addicts and had counted with at least on coffee stop every day.
Also, we had alcohol at least once a day.
Although drinks and wine are cheaper here than at home, the sums will add up in the end.
● STAY LOCAL BUT AWAY FROM MAJOR TOURIST PLACAS - RIGHT...?
If you do need your drinks and coffee, try to stray towards local places rather than international chains (as you can see above a breakfast at a small café with staff only speaking catalán was 6 € cheaper than almost the very same meal at starbucks.)
Prices rise if you're eating anything in front of this beautiful site
Also, prices tend to drop as farther you get from the big tourist places - unless restaurants around for example La Rambla has bait-prices, that is.
It's a balancing act.
● MULTI-DAY METRO CARD MAY BE WELL WORTH IT
Public transport in Barcelona is efficiant, fast and has a really logic system, but this city is also great for exploring by foot.
We could have gotten away cheaper by walking everywhere but for a overflowing 4 day schedule, we simply had too much to do.
And I'm really glad we took the metro card, but again - Barcelona is a very walkable city, it's just also very big. Try to plan your days and see how much you'll really need the public transport system. If you only plan to take the metro a few times, it might be better with single tickets.
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I think this one already got through but this is just to highlight it:
- NEVER WORTH TO TAKE A TAXI FROM THE AIRPORT -
The buses, trains and metro's are even at single ticket price at most 5-6 €/pp. Spend those taxi-dinero on some We-arrived-!-sangria instead.
● SUPERMERCATS IS ♥
Not every meal needs to be had at a sit-down restaurant!Buy stuff from supermercats, that is basically around every corner, and make a picnic.
● WE ALSO ♥ LA BOQUERIA
Another way to eat cheaper is by buying food from La Boqueria.
Like any market place, the stuff is fresh and has lower prices than restaurants.
Just be there sometime before noon as many stalls had shut for the day when we arrived at 1 p.m.
● VISIT PARK GÜELL FOR LESS FREE!
Getting there before 8.00 am = free entrence.
Also, it will be less people and great lightning if photo's are what you are there for (which, honestly, we all are.)
● WE ALSO ♥ LA BOQUERIA
Another way to eat cheaper is by buying food from La Boqueria.
Like any market place, the stuff is fresh and has lower prices than restaurants.
Just be there sometime before noon as many stalls had shut for the day when we arrived at 1 p.m.
Getting there before 8.00 am = free entrence.
Also, it will be less people and great lightning if photo's are what you are there for (which, honestly, we all are.)
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THE RESULT
THE RESULT
So where did we land?
TOTAL PRICE FOR 4 DAYS:
(5 nights, 4 whole days)
(5 nights, 4 whole days)
430,59 €
- Add the pretty neaty price we got for flights -
and you'll end up only
599,59 €
poorer!
- Yay! -
- Add the pretty neaty price we got for flights -
and you'll end up only
599,59 €
poorer!
- Yay! -
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