Ke Eropa Timur: Group Tour dan Budget

Suatu hari Decil mengirim pesan whatsapp ke saya dan mengajak saya untuk ikut group tour ke Eropa (IG: @travelingeropa). Decil memberikan opsi ke Eropa Timur atau ke Eropa Barat, namun dengan mengarahkannya ke Eropa Timur. Karena harga yang relatif murah dan belum pernah ke keduanya, saya ikut saja.

Saya ikut group tour seharga Rp 18.900.000,00, yang terdiri dari:

- 10 hari tour (termasuk perjalanan)

- Pesawat Scoot Jakarta-Singapura-Berlin PP

- Bagasi 20 kg

- Hotel Bintang 3 (tidak termasuk breakfast)

- 6 negara: Ceko, Slovakia, Hungaria, Austria, Italia, dan Jerman

- Bus selama perjalanan antarnegara

- Asuransi

- Biaya pengurusan visa (belum termasuk visa)

Diluar biaya di atas, saya juga mesti mengeluarkan uang untuk visa Rp 2.300.000,00 dan tip ke tour leader Rp 650.000,00. Tour pun memberikan opsi upgrade kamar menjadi 2 orang dengan membayar biaya tambahan Rp 2.000.000,00 per orang (kalau kami tidak upgrade kamar). Kalau tidak melakukan upgrade, satu kamar bisa terdiri dari 3 orang. Selain itu, ada tawaran membeli makanan selama di pesawat Rp 360.000,00 untuk PP perjalanan Singapura-Berlin dan Berlin Singapura (yang masing-masing memakan waktu perjalanan 12 jam, saya ambil penawaran ini agar efisien dan ternyata harga di pesawat pun tidak jauh berbeda, SGD 17). Ada juga tawaran membeli kartu komunikasi yang bisa digunakan di Eropa Rp 600.000,00 dan tambahan bagasi Rp 900.000,00 per 10 kg. Kalau saya dan Decil membeli kartu komunikasi di Blibli seharga Rp 250.000,00 dengan kapasitas 500 MB per hari dan aktif selama 10 hari (ini cukup karena di hotel pun tersedia wifi). Untuk bagasi pun kami tidak membeli tambahan karena tidak banyak barang yang kami beli.

Jadi kurang lebih budget yang mesti disediakan sekitar Rp 22.000.0000,00, belum termasuk makan dan jajan selama di sana. Untuk saya pribadi, saya membawa EUR 200 (senilai Rp 3.200.000,00) dan menghabiskan saldo di Jenius saya sekitar Rp 3.000.000,00 juga. Saya selalu memilih menggunakan Jenius di toko yang punya mesin Visa contactless karena kursnya yang kompetitif (mostly semua negara yang saya kunjungi bisa digunakan, kecuali di Venice, Italia). Untuk uang tunai saya menyisakan sekitar EUR 35 (senilai sekitar Rp 500.000,00).

Next posting, insyaallah saya akan bicara soal durasi dan jadwal ya :)

Fisherman’s Bastion, Budapest, Hungary

Visit Myanmar: Budget & Expense Breakdown

Old Bagan, credit: Mr Min (One Bagan Tour)

Last two weeks, I had a chance to go to Myanmar with Valdo and Iphul. Finally our plan since eons had been executed. When I started to post the pictures taken there on my instagram feed, I did not expect to get some responses related to our itinerary, budget, and so on.

As my rememberance, I decided to write them in my blog to be more useful for others.

Our preparations:

• Booked flight tickets: Jakarta - Kuala Lumpur - Yangon and Yangon - Kuala Lumpur - Jakarta for IDR 1.702.000,00. As a tip, don't be too hurry to book them since the fare is always up and down. For your comparison, I booked Air Asia on 20 Dec 2018 for 14 Mar 2019 flights. If I were being too hurry then, I could pay IDR 100.000,00-200.000,00 higher.
• Booked tour for Bagan. Personally, It was the best deal we made for this travel. You can search One Bagan Tours at google and find them in google. We booked them at USD 30,00 (USD 1,00 = IDR 14.310,00) for one full day tour and paid them after the tour finished.
• Booked bus tickets at easybooks.com for Yangon - Bagan. Iphul actually did this. Each of us paid IDR 307.000,00. And we got JJ Express Bus.
• Booked bus tickets at klook.com for Bagan - Inle. Each of us paid IDR 311.000,00. And we got Bagan Min Thar Bus.
• Booked bus tickets at klook.com for Inle - Yangon. Each of us paid IDR 311.000,00. And we got JJ Express Bus.
• Brought USD 150,00 for each of us. You will find difficulties to find kyats. And even if you can find It, I suggest that you bring dollars instead since the exchange rate will be more favorable. (USD 1,00 = MMK 1.500,00 or MMK 1,00 = IDR 10,00)
• Rent router for all of us IDR 272.000,00 (4 days at Myanmar) and paid deposit for IDR 500.000,00)
• Downloaded application at google playstore: Splitwise (To split the usage of the bulk money easier, even It can help us what to settle and who to settle. Furthermore, It can track all of our expenses during the travel) and ShareIt (To send pictures on original size with faster time).

So, I already had spent around IDR 2,8 mio exclude converting USD 150 before went to Myanmar. If I include USD converting, the budget is around IDR 5 mio. Besides, I also borrowed a bit of MYR from Iphul since we consider him as local. As for the total expenses I spent both for Myanmar and Yangon is around IDR 2.3 mio. You can find the breakdown here if you interested.

I think that's all for the budget and expense breakdown post. I will write about the itinerary for the next post. Thanks for reading :)