Hey hey! And welcome back to another tip Thursday with me, Conor Clyne, the
Language Tsar and PureVPN for virtual private networks. I'm gonna link those guys
below and I'll be shooting a video pretty soon on Virtual Private Networks
but in the meantime you should check out their link in the description and today
is the first video in a series that I'm going to be making for you guys as I
travel around and I'm gonna be showing you what you should budget for as you
travel to different cities and today I'm in Brest, Belarus which is the first city
where I'm going to be making these kind of videos for ... and I'm showing you what you
can get for $100, about 80 euros, so that you can budget better when you're
traveling around. Come with me around Brest, Belarus. Let me show you what you can
get for your 100 bucks!
So let's start with accommodation. Now Brest is really good value for a place
to stay. It's about 25 to 30 US dollars to get an apartment on Airbnb for
example in the city center so that's gonna be about 20 to 25 euros we'll say
more or less. So now food what should you budget for food in Brest. Now I would say
it costs between 10 and 15 US dollars so about 8 to 12 euros to have a two course
meal at an above average restaurant with drinks in the city centre, in the center
of the city. That was what I was seeing as a general price range. Of course this
fluctuates depending on you know your preferences and obviously you can spend more
and you can spend less but that's what I was seeing when I for example went to
the traditional restaurant and had draniki
and other traditional Belarusian dishes. That's more or less what I was spending.
So next up are drinks - now to have a cocktail, a very cocktail I must say at one
the best bars in the center costs nine Belarusian rubles which is about four
dollars sixty U.S. so I think that's around three euros eighty. So that's kind of
the price range that's an upper price range that you were gonna spend
in Brest. Now if you wanna have a beer it's probably around
yeah round two dollars depending where for local beer so 1 euro sixty
and if you want to have a coffee like you've probably noticed if you follow my
Instagram especially - my Instagram handle is @languagetsar then a flat white is about
a euro 20 so that's probably about yes one dollar forty in U.S. terms so
that's how much a coffee costs at actually I think the best cafe in the
city and that's kind of a specialty coffee to a certain extent so obviously
you can get that cheaper if you're not such a coffee addict like I am
personally. So next transport I didn't take public transport because I really
didn't need to take a bus inside the city itself everything was within
walking distance except for maybe the fortress which is a little bit of a walk
I think I walked like 20 to 30 minutes to get there but it was a beautiful day
so I really didn't care and a taxi in the city center it's gonna cost
you about four Belarusian rubles more or less and that is about well that's not
even that's about two US dollars about one euro sixty so that gives you
an idea about how much it costs for transport in the city and Uber didn't
work. I just called taxi drivers or I took
them off the street and that's how much I paid but remember I do speak Russian so
I was definitely getting the real price. I'm not sure if you show up speaking
English whether they will put it on the meter but the meters seemed to be all
honest it's not a place that has a lot of tourists yet so I didn't really feel
like there was any reason to be concerned about being ripped off
with respect to taxis and if you've seen some of my other videos you'll know that I am
not a fan of taxi drivers when I'm traveling just I've had a lot of
problems over the years with dishonesty and at times violence so yeah not my
favorite people but in Brst zero problems whatsoever and then if you're
feeling like doing something cultural like going to a museum that was actually
included in my visa free documents, the package I bought go to Brest and that
cost me 60 polish zloty to use about 15 euros which is gonna be around
17/18 US dollars I guess and that was already included so I didn't
actually have to pay extra it's actually about free and I was well I didn't get
it free but it was included so no extra money spent so there you go that's that's how
much the museum that actually went to cost me in Brest. So let's see what you
can get for your $100. Well there's actually an awful lot included there
right because you're gonna have your accommodation for sure well we're
assuming one night at least one night's accommodation that you could eat out in
restaurants basically three times a day probably have about five coffees if
you're a coffee addict like me and then go to a bar have maybe two cocktails and
four beers thrown in and then even go to the museum the next day and actually
that you won't even have spent your hundred dollars or 80 euros you probably
have some change left over so that's an indication of the price level if you go
on a trip to Brest. If you've been to Belarus if you've been to any other
countries in the region nearby like Lithuania to the north or Poland a
little bit to the west, Ukraine to the South, Russia of course
the East then drop me a comment below let me know how you got on with the
price level. Whether you found it cheap, expensive? What kind of things you would
like me to talk about in terms of prices when I'm traveling to the different
countries in the region that I'm traveling to? And yeah help everybody out in the
comments section. We're growing this community of people who are interested in
traveling to this region so whatever you guys actually leave below is really
valuable because there's a community growing of people who are interested in
going to Eastern Europe and that's part of the reason why I make these videos to
help you and I also have now decided based on the feedback from you guys on
my Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts when I did that poll a couple
of weeks ago that I'm gonna create a video course called 'How to survive a
trip to Eastern Europe' to give you a step-by-step guide about how you should
put all the things you need to know before you go to Eastern Europe on a
trip and so that's gonna be a really valuable resource that I'm working on
right now and I'm really looking forward to when it comes out so for sure sign up
for my free video course that's below on traveling.
That's today's video the first
of this type of Tip Thursday where I'm going to be showing you what you can get
for 80 euros, 100 dollars approximately as you travel around Europe. Let me know
what kind of items you're interested in seeing the price of. Today I went through
accommodation, food, entertainment a little bit but maybe there's other
things that you are interested in knowing about the price levels for so
write me in the comment section below and I will see you in the next video
this 'до свидания' which is 'goodbye' in Russian from Brest in Belarus!