Travel budget planning

There are two main reasons that I’ve heard for people giving up on their travel plans:

  • They do not have enough time.
  • Or
  • They do not have enough money.

So why is there so little coverage of these two essential topics? Some people might say that planning takes the fun out of independent travel, but as we have already covered on our itinerary page, for most people this is far outweighed by the potential gains. With a little planning and preparation a suitable itinerary may be drawn up for most travel budgets. Don’t just give up, try to put up a good fight and make the good times happen. You may need to reach a compromise but if that is the only thing stopping you then there is little to overcome.

Using your itinerary data for travel budgeting

If you’ve been following through our itinerary guide you should be working on a basic idea of your travel plans. To turn this basic data into a detailed itinerary, all you have to do is add the information to a database containing all of the relevant information.

Imagine your own travel guide with all your train times, accommodation, and travel plans in one place. With helpful reminders for when you need to register your visa in Russia, all your essential information in one simple document.

As you go through your plans, confirming ticket prices and accommodation rates, update the prices for your travel itinerary and determine exactly how much your trip will cost. You can then edit your plans, upgrade or downgrade to stay within your intended travel budget.

See the following example of a travel budget. By clicking on the image you can download an excel copy of the file.

An excel document showing an example of travel budgeting.