How much does a 4-week holiday in Thailand cost including flight and mid-range hotel? And read the saving tips!
Anyone who wants to go on holiday to Thailand will naturally wonder whether this is within their budget falls. By understanding the expenses for accommodation, food, transportation and activities, travelers can create a trip that fits their budget and expectations. This prevents financial surprises and contributes to a relaxing holiday experience. Moreover, it helps to make conscious choices to personalize the trip, so that one can get the most out of their time in Thailand.
In this article you can read a budget for 4 weeks of holiday and saving tips.
The cost of a 4-week (28-day) holiday in Thailand, including flights and accommodation in a mid-range hotel, varies depending on personal choices and travel style. Based on the available information for 2023, we can make an estimate.
- Accommodation costs: For a comfortable double room with private bathroom in Thailand you pay on average around €30 per night. Over a period of 4 weeks (28 nights) this amounts to €840.
- Daily expenses: An average daily budget, including food, drinks, transport, excursions and other expenses, is approximately €50 per person. For a period of 4 weeks this is €1.400. This budget excludes the costs of intercontinental flights, but includes domestic travel and activities.
- Total costs without air ticket: For 1 month in Thailand without the plane ticket, you can expect to pay approximately €2.200 to €2.500
- Airline ticket costs: The costs for a return flight from the Netherlands to Thailand are around €900.
Based on this data, the total cost for a 4-week holiday in Thailand, including flights and accommodation in a mid-range hotel, can be estimated at approximately €3.100 to €3.400.
This is a general estimate and actual costs may vary depending on specific travel dates, activities chosen, and personal preferences.
Savings tips for a holiday in Thailand
Here are some saving tips for a holiday in Thailand:
- Choose budget accommodations: Consider hostels, guesthouses, or budget hotels instead of luxury resorts. Many of these accommodations offer basic comfort at a low cost.
- Eat local: Enjoy street food or eat at local eateries instead of touristy restaurants. This is not only cheaper, but also gives you an authentic experience.
- Use public transport: Thailand has an efficient and affordable public transport system. Buses, trains, and even domestic flights are significantly cheaper than private transfers.
- Plan activities yourself: Avoid expensive organized tours. Many sights in Thailand can be visited independently and at minimal cost.
- Avoid high season: Travel during the off-season when accommodation and flight prices tend to be lower.
- Buy souvenirs wisely: Be thoughtful when purchasing souvenirs. Prices can vary, so it pays to compare and negotiate.
- Use free attractions: Enjoy free attractions such as beaches, temples, and parks.
- Set a daily budget: Keep track of your expenses and set a realistic daily budget to avoid overspending.
By following these tips, you can save money and still have a rich and satisfying experience in Thailand.
The best saving tips: talk to an expat!
Expats living in Thailand often have valuable knowledge about how to go out, eat and drink cheaply in the country. Through their experiences and local integration, they know how to find the lesser-known, but quality and cheaper eateries, bars and entertainment spots that are often overlooked by tourists. These places not only offer lower prices, but also offer a more authentic experience of Thai culture and cuisine. Following the advice of expats can help a traveler enjoy Thailand's hidden gems while keeping expenses manageable.
For example, if you go to Pattaya it is nice to walk through Walking Street, but don't go into a bar or Gogo there, you will pay the top price. Sometimes as much as 190 baht for a beer. Go to Soi LK-Metro or TreeTown at (Soi Buakhao), there are also nice bars (with live music) that often only charge 60 baht for the same beer.
Are there any readers with good saving tips? Then respond!
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A few more tips:
– avoid the real tourist places. With the exception of Bangkok, prices are always higher, you are more likely to be ripped off and the places are usually not really special but resemble all tourist places in the tropics;
– take public transport as much as possible. especially if you have the time.
– Contact expats online in every place (before you go there) and ask specific questions.
– almost every town has a Facebook page where you can see what there is to do in the town (events like this https://www.facebook.com/udoninfo/posts/pfbid02rkhuEpCFUsAMYEn9YGrpxjvGD6CgmBwaFfH31M9T7xEY3kyQ612DKzexesMkG7hwl) and where it's fun.
– use your common sense and do not respond to pushy requests and talk from Thais. Take the initiative to ask something.
Our experience is that you can often get a discount on overnight stays if you do not book through Agoda or Booking Dot Com or other intermediaries. The hotels often have to pay more than 10% commission. You can take advantage of this by searching for a nice place among the providers and then booking on the spot.
It may sometimes happen that the hotel charges less for the same room, but it may also happen that you get a cheaper price through Agoda.
With thirty days that is an option and it only takes you a few minutes to do it. I also came to a hotel that was fully booked according to the desk clerk and when I looked in Agoda, it turned out that there was still a room available. So booked and we were able to get the room.
My wife also sometimes searches for rooms on Thai websites and there too it can happen that you end up in a hotel that is mainly visited by Thais and can be considerably cheaper.
If you want to have breakfast at the hotel, it is often cheaper to take a room with breakfast, because the additional charge applies to the room and not to the number of people. However, if you have breakfast separately, you are usually charged per person.
And would you mind reporting which Thai websites your wife supposedly consults? Or would you rather keep it to yourself and just let the others salivate. This blog could be a little more constructive. Then the criticism was also somewhat milder.
I'd love to say it, but my wife just searches her Thai websites and looks for deals. She often comes across the name of a hotel and goes straight to the website of the hotel in question... so I assume, Google is your friend here. The Thai Google, that is.
Eat local: eat at 'Thai' eateries that are well served by Thais. That most likely means that the food is good and not expensive. It also means that the chance of food poisoning is small due to the turnover rate. Accept any waiting time due to crowds.
For those who cannot or do not tolerate spicy food: when ordering, say “mai phed” (ไม่เพ็ด) :: “not spicy” or even “mai au phrik” (ไม่เอาพริก) :: “no chili peppers”.
Use public transport: by traveling by public transport you come into contact with 'ordinary' Thai much faster.
My belief: plan as little and flexibly as possible in as much time as possible and the lower your budget, the more interesting and memorable the trip becomes.
For taxi rides, put the Grab and/or Bold app on your phone. You can easily save 40 to 50%, especially in tourist places, with the exception of Bangkok. In Bangkok, make sure the taxi meter is on.
Shopping centers often have a food court with a wide choice of dishes and local prices.
Eat local as mentioned. From my travels through France I learned that in the late afternoon you have to follow the office men and women who walk through back streets into a small restaurant for the 'plat du jour' and there you eat cheaply and safely.
The same in Thailand; street tents where there are a lot of people or where the gentlemen sit down with their Samsonites in front of a plate, that's where you sit too. If the plates are clean and the cutlery too (although it often seems like cutlery has been handled by Uri Geller), you can eat well there without immediately starting the 'race'.
You can usually eat cheaply in a shopping center with a food court. These have a wide range and often a bit more hygiene than eating at a stall. Mainly eat Thai food, which is cheaper and quite tasty. What I also like is visiting a night market, where you can also get all kinds of snacks cheaply. Hygiene here is usually a bit less, but if you can handle it, it's doable and usually very tasty and cheap.
You will hardly find a comfortable room in Pattaya, for example (Bangkok is more expensive), for €30. This is approximately 1.100 baths. You quickly pay €.60 (Bath.2.200) per night. A budget of 50 euros per day per person is quite reasonable. We paid €1.200 per plane ticket per person in November for a monthly flight in July/Aug. (Direct flight). We have never been there ourselves, but in Northern Thailand it may be cheaper, but in Phuket it may be even more expensive.
for a month you can count on 3500 – 4000 Euro if you really want to travel in Thailand as a tourist and see something.
Sleep in the temple for an authentic experience. Wake up early and eat little to lose weight quickly.
I just got back from a month's holiday in Thailand. For accommodation my choices were Airbnb in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Krabi. Costs on average €20 per day. I use public transport and Grab, costs a total of €80 per month. Food: breakfast, lunch and dinner (Food court in large shopping malls, total €300 per month.
Shopping in China Town, MBK and Sampeng Night Market (€200)
Flight tickets EVA AIR €912.
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I think this calculation is very exaggerated.
I never pay more than 10 euros per night for a hotel.
And I can easily get by with 20 euros a day.
So 900 and 600 for the flight for 30 days should not be a problem.
Yes, me too… And always 80% over prices in nice middle class hotels with swimming pool
I am now going during the high season from mid-December to mid-Jan for 28 overnight stays
Flight local flights 4 times and 3 Baal bus and once train from south to north and also eastwards.. all for 1300 (I already thought it was expensive because I normally go outside the season. Then I still pay 15% less…)
Arrange everything on time, I started a bit late in July, book flights early and later if there are offers (usually during holiday periods, because then no one books, book hotels from your lounger by the sea in Europe)
Further local transport metros bus s taxis motor taxis songthauws. Etc.. all seems challenging or difficult but just do it and tasty as already mentioned eat where the Thai also does it
My experience with Hotels via Booking is that I always book 1 night via the site. Then I extend via the reception. "Firstly, you often have a different price and secondly, you know after the first night whether you like the hotel. Often, especially at small hotels or guesthouses, it is difficult to get your money back if you do not like the accommodation. I have experienced unpleasant situations in the past and have been to places where you really do not want to sleep. Dirty. Old. Uninviting (via booking) Sometimes the photos are outdated or edited with filters so that it looks like something else. I once ended up in a Guesthouse in Huahin where there were no doors in the toilet. It looked like a construction site and there was only a mattress on the floor in the room. The photos looked fine. I had booked for 4 nights and had to move heaven and earth to get my money back, So my advice. Book 1 night and see how it goes first (this applies especially to the cheaper class). I stay in Thailand for 3 months every year and outside of my ticket I have a budget of about 3500 euros. I travel with local transport companies. trains and buses. I eat at local markets and stalls (occasionally a nice European snack in a tourist restaurant). I get my coffee in the morning at a 7eleven and avoid the GOGo bars and walking streets. Converted and added together, I need 1500 euros a month (including ticket and visa) to have a nice stay and to take a look at many different places in Thailand.
I think it is a good example for a first independent trip through Thailand. .Thanks for all the info. Some (more sour) reactions clearly come from people who regularly or often travel in/through Thailand and have already seen/experienced a lot.
Thanks for another great article.
If you go to Thailand as a tourist, you are dependent on temporary overnight stays of one or two nights each. Then only two things are important. Is the bathroom with the toilet clean and is the bedding washed and clean. Then you can get a room for THB 400 without breakfast. But in an area where such rooms are offered, there are always many street stalls, so breakfast can be taken there. Cost THB 30 per person. If there are two of you, these costs together for a month (30 days) are less than THB 14.000. At the current rate of approximately 38,5, that is approximately € 360. Flight ticket something like €700,= x2 = €1.400. What you spend on transport, events, pocket money, etc. is highly variable and therefore very different per person and situation.
In summary: If you don't have much to spend, the two of you can still go on holiday to Thailand for a month for around €2.500.
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SiamTon
Nice and nice, those airline tickets at EUR 600, 700... But please note that these 1) are not direct flights from Schiphol, 2) may only be travel with hand luggage, 3) are a 'coincidental' offer of the moment, 4) you cannot be critical about your seat on the plane (ultra-basic economy). Furthermore, it very much depends on whether you need weekday or weekend flights. In other words: it is actually difficult to put an average general price tag on it and you have to have luck, a lot of patience and time to figure things out and be able to fly at these kinds of pre-corona prices.
Booked yesterday for May, direct flight, about EUR 900, so I don't think the setup is that crazy. As mentioned earlier, the picture outlined is a good starting point.