traveling china
my partner and nyself are traveling china from beijing down to hong kong stopping to see all the major tourist attractions along the way we are wanting to spend a total of 2months doing this would $20000 nz be suitable for this trip and can someone please give me a idea on cost over there we are wanting to do the anks for the helptype travel with a bit of luxuary thrown in there aswell t3
no that is our budget including return flights and for the both of us it will cost about $4000 for the flights so $16000 to spend over there for food hotels hostels etc and travel city to city(i.e trains buses) we want to start in Beijing head down to Xi,an,Shanghai,Yangtze(Nanjing) Zhangjiajie , Guilin ,Shenzhen,Hongkong4
I'll did something very similar (minus the flights to NZ).in Jan/Feb this year (Plus a dip into Vietnam).I did it solo and didn't go "luxury", but also didn't do dorms or hard-seat. Also, I did many of the touristy things that require entry fees. I probably spent the equivalent of 4K NZ.in total.
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So, that is about 10 000 rmb a week for 2 people. Should be more than enough. Around 2-300 rmb a night for a hotel / hostel, food about half that or less. For trains, it depends on the route and the class, but Beijing- Xian is around 300-400 rmb. Attractions can be expensive - to see the terraccotta warriors is between 120-150 rmb depending on the time of year. This is an average price now.7
A few years ago I traveled for 6 weeks on about $NZ50 a day (including a couple of overnight trains & 2 domestic flights, but not the flights from NZ to China as I was already here) but these days I'd allow more like $NZ60 - ie 300 RMB as a minimum. Much of the time I was travelling solo so paying 50-100 RMB for a room or less for a dorm. Nowadays a cheap hotel (7-Days Inn, Home Inn or similar) costs around 200-250 RMB in a big city like Guangzhou. Sightseeing can be expensive as National parks can charge up to $NZ60 EACH for entry - something NZers are not familiar with!!
