@Blake
Not sure why you’re downvoted. You can go on Google right now and look up prices of high end hotels and restaurants in Thailand and see that $100/day won’t be enough.
No.
Definitely not for the US and likely not for Canada either. Asia - where in Asia? Hotels would definitely not be high end for $3100 a month for two people especially if you’re going to larger cities.
You would be comfortable, but I won’t say high end.
High End? Maybe if it’s for food only.
I think it depends on people’s perspective. For me, I can live and feel like a king living off that in SEA or South America. But in the US and Canada, you’re broke.
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I’ll delete my comment then. I guess I don’t know enough to know what kind of high end they’re speaking about. If they want like billionaire red carpet royalty treatment, then that amount wouldn’t do them enough.
Think hostels in South America. It can be done. $3100 is NOT high end for a month. Have fun. Report back…
SE Asia- yes (excluding Singapore). South America - depends where and what currency your money is in.
We spent $5000 CAD for 22 days in Indonesia. $3500 was international and domestic air, really.
We were not high-end, but not hostels.
Can’t speak to SEA yet, but you should be able to find a pretty decent 1 bedroom in 85% of LATAM for $500-$750 per month depending on where you go.
Assume you’re spending another $200ish per month on transportation and $200ish on gyms and co-working spaces, and you’ve still got a decent budget to eat out, take dance and language classes, or do whatever else floats your boat.
You’ll still have to be mindful of your spending, but it should be reasonably comfortable.
I’m solo in Puerto Escondido, Mexico right now and have a monthly spending budget of about $3750. I eat out twice a day and spend about as much on food and drinks per month as I do on rent ($650 in the hip part of town for a modern studio w/ a full-sized bed and great amenities - pool, A/C, hot & cold water shower, 2 cleanings per week, steps from the beach/strip, etc).
We stayed in a high end hotel in Thailand that cost us close to $3100 a night. So no it’s not high end. Not cheap either though.
If you went to one place and rented an Airbnb apartment for a month instead of hopping from hotel to hotel, that would make it much more feasible.
I spent about $2-3000 CAD per month traveling Southeast Asia, and this was while staying in private rooms in either hostels or guest houses. And during high season. This was while eating out, getting massages, not really thinking too much about spending when I was out and about. But I don’t tend to buy that many things. So depends on your habits.
Everything is relative.
I went to S. Korea for two weeks last year and stayed in Marriott-level properties that were nice, but not super luxury. (Seoul, Busan, Boseong)
We spent $150-$200/nt on lodging alone, and about $100/day on food (casual lunch and nice-ish dinner, but only one “fancy meal” on the whole trip).
Then also about $100-$150/day on transportation and activities (visiting Seoul Lotte World tower, a guided bike ride and food tour, a Busan nighttime boat tour, shopping, exploring food markets, etc.)
We spent about $4k for two weeks (half as much time as you’re planning) and I would consider that a nice trip but not even close to “high end”.
I did a similar trip to Argentina and Brazil (Buenos Aires, Rio, São Paulo) and the budget was similar. We stayed in slightly nicer properties but still not ultra luxury at all.
Personally, I would consider $3100/month for two people including lodging, food, transportation, activities, and gifts/souvenirs to be quite frugal and close to a backpacker budget.
No, I wouldn’t consider that a high end budget, even excluding flights anywhere in SA or SEA. Adding in the cost of flights for two people, depending on where you’re from, it could be a tight budget in plenty of countries in those regions.
Taking flights into account could drop you well into the budget territory. For instance, from the US, you could easily chew up half the budget on flights just getting to SEA. That could put you into a very tight budget for two people.
Not even close to high end, just simply comfortable travel. If Vietnam this will get you quite far, but in e.g., Chile - not at all.
$3100 for two people? So $1500 per person?