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Prices in Thailand/Indonesia

  • 19-06-2012 2:53am
    #1
    mac123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering what a good daily budget would be out in Thailand these days? I have been there a few times but not since 2008. Have the prices gone up much?

    Same question for indonesia?


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  • #2
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭Tipperary animal lover


    Hi, you can still live cheaply in Thailand but prices have gone up if you can stay out of the main tourist drags of Bangkok patong and koh samui etc you can find decent rooms for under €10, food portions are small in restaurants and price gone up, eat where the locals eat you'll be grand, beer small Singa €1-€2 depends where you drink.
    As for Indonesia once your out of the strip of kuta in Bali you can live very cheap on the rest of Bali and the many other islands. For me I think Indonesia is much better as Thailand has become to commercial, some days you see more tourists than Thai's.... Hope this helps and happy travels!


  • #3
    Notch000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Notch000


    Tipperary animal lover wrote: »
    Hi, you can still live cheaply in Thailand but prices have gone up if you can stay out of the main tourist drags of Bangkok patong and koh samui etc you can find decent rooms for under €10, food portions are small in restaurants and price gone up, eat where the locals eat you'll be grand, beer small Singa €1-€2 depends where you drink.
    As for Indonesia once your out of the strip of kuta in Bali you can live very cheap on the rest of Bali and the many other islands. For me I think Indonesia is much better as Thailand has become to commercial, some days you see more tourists than Thai's.... Hope this helps and happy travels!

    where do you recommend visiting in indonesia ?


  • #4
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭Tipperary animal lover


    Notch000 wrote: »
    where do you recommend visiting in indonesia ?

    Bali is the best place to start, it's a nice island once out of kuta area, spend a few days discovering the island arrange a driver and car(very easy to do check a few places for price and what they offer, some will try and rip you off).

    Lombok not a great island but has a really laid back beach area down south also called kuta.
    Gili islands lovely three small islands of the coast of Lombok, the biggest gili t is known as a party island but lovely and the other two are nice to spend a few hours on you can rent a boat from gili t to visit.

    Java get a ferry or fly from Bali, some lovely beaches, mad cities Jakarta, Yogyakarta etc, magnificent volcanoes to trek, you can get some great tours again all depends on what you want so check out a few different places and see what suits you!!

    We're heading back next February to go to Flores suppose to be beautiful and do a side trip to komodo(you can do this trip from Bali but heard bad reports).

    The parts we've travelled in Indonesia we found the people(always smiling) food(very cheap) beer(to cheap;)) and great weather even when it rains.
    Hope this helps and happy travels.


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