people have been saying that bangkok is no longer a cheap city to live in and we
want to test that out. we want to see if we can spend only 10 each living in bangkok
for 24 hours this will include accommodation food transport and still having a great time
okay so for this challenge we have 10 USD which is around 335 thai baht and
that's gonna account for everything that we do today apart from health insurance
visas all that sort of stuff throughout the day we're gonna be putting everything that
we're spending on the screen just below we're gonna be splitting it between dylan and myself
but now it is eight o'clock in the morning so it's definitely time for some breakfast
let's get some coffee
we've finally managed to get some cafe ron which is just hot coffee with a lot a lot of condensed
milk in it it seems that we can dip our patango in finally you guys have been telling us for
such a long time like no no dip it in hot coffee and we kept getting it wrong we got iced coffee
last time so we also got some condensed milk to dip in and all of these patongo and the coffees
together were 60 baht in total so 30 baht per person which is very very affordable anyway yeah
oh that's sweet
aroi mak for me the coffee cancels out how sweet these are i prefer these on their own
we have now come to Benchasiri park which is a park right on sukhumvit road between the
asoke station and the phrong phong station it's really nice it's free to get in there's turtles
people are currently feeding the turtles here and it's just a nice place to come sit down
and here we are gonna finish our patongo donuts donuts
with the condensed milk this time
we're off for lunch now in one of the cheapest places that we know of here in bangkok
and then we're going to where we're staying for tonight which is
the cheapest place that we could find on agoda i couldn't believe the price really
and actually looks really really good the views were actually really good it's
one of those really small kind of pod hotels so i'm really excited for that
we are in pier 21 which is on the top floor of the terminal 21 shopping center in terminal 21 and
adriana is just getting the food for us now but the food here is extremely cheap so if you are on
a budget this is absolutely perfect we have got a pad thai each a vegetable thai which is only
30 baht for this whole thing which is absolutely insane because we've had these before and they're delicious
and a bottle of water each which was also seven baht per person
so 37 baht for a full lunch just over a dollar just over a dollar
that's crazy that's actually crazy and delicious what's great about this place as well is even
though it's you know extremely cheap the portion the portion here is really really good
and it's always it's always like the same quality always as well which is really good hmm
so 33 each to head to ratachewi which is part of the direction where we're going to but we'll
show you where we're going in a second this is one of the three modes of transport that we're
going to take today just to show you the kind of prices that you'll be paying in bangkok this is
the bts we're going to ratchatewi and then we're taking a really interesting mode of transport next
okay so if you guessed that correctly we're going on a canal on the khlog a few stops down
to a sort of old town this is fun yeah i'm excited i like being on boats
i don't think the canal boats are running that often there's one just gone past now
um going the other way and it used to be every five minutes but we've been here about
10 minutes now yeah luckily we have the whole sort of all day yeah
that was so cheap
so with that boat that we just took we have spent about 108 or not about we have spent exactly 108
baht each which is just over three dollars per person um and that includes breakfast
lunch transport all the way here which is pretty epic if i say so myself now we have a few more
things that we planned today and i'm very very excited to see slash show you guys the hostel
that we're checking into after we go where we're going now um because it looks really really nice
and i wonder if it's going to be as nice as it looks in the pictures because it's so affordable
this is one of the temples that you will most definitely visit if you come to bangkok it's
literally you can't miss it it's absolutely amazing and we don't come to temples that
often just because we're not religious specifically not this religion anyway um
but it's very peaceful up here there's people praying it is really nice the sun is roasting
even my eyelids are sweating it's it's a beautiful day yeah and then you've got 360 degree views
you're not in the middle of skyscrapers here so it's pretty good and for 50 baht i can't complain
i have to admit something now i've been to bangkok so many times i've never ever been on the mrt
to be honest i can never find them oh they don't stand out you know like the ones in london
they say underground everywhere yeah they're just they're just hidden in plain sight
of the bts everywhere we really needed one yeah the bts is everywhere but it's
super fun because yeah the tokens here aren't cards they're like little coins
that mrt that we just paid for was 33 baht two second bit which is kind of similar to
the bts actually it's exactly the same that we paid yeah to get here again yeah
it is absolutely roasting out here today i think it's 34 degrees celsius so we've got
some ice lollies from 7-eleven i got a strawberry and cherry flavor thing yeah mixed fruit tomato
um and some m150s it's so hot you know i get really tired as well so this whole
perk is right back up and for me it was 45 baht and 35 baht for you
okay we are right outside the matchbox hostel and i think that's called the
matchbox hospital because the rooms all the the cabins that we've got is really really
small it is super affordable and it's got really good reviews so let's go check it out
welcome to our little matchbox we've just checked into the hostel it is very affordable it was 133
baht each um so including that now dylan has spent actually $11 and i've spent seventy $10.70
yeah so we've gone a little bit over what we wanted to see what we could spend today and we
still have dinner to go so dinner's gonna have to be quite affordable but pretty good so far
and considering how cheap this place is it's it's pretty impressive it is you kind of get what you
pay for compared to a lot of hostels i've stayed at in the past it's not too bad there's a lot of
privacy you've got a tv which you never really have um double bed you never really had a double
bed so this is like an absolute bargain but it is obviously 133 baht we've stayed in much much nicer
places while we've been in time this time around like hotels are extremely cheap right now but
we wanted to see what you can get and if you can actually stay here because if you're on a you know
tight budget this is absolutely perfect so might lay your head down at night and you can watch tv
we have gone for i'm having a pad kra pao chicken with an egg on top and adriana's having a
khao pad vegetable and everything here was 160 baht to 80 baht to both of us
so we've actually been spending very similar amounts both of us today
but that doesn't happen that often but today it did so in answer to the question can
you spend less than ten dollars in bangkok well yes and no if we hadn't gone to the what for
example we would have probably saved quite a lot of money because the transport there the transport
back and the entrance fee was pretty much a third of what we spent today so if you just wanted to
walk around and do nothing else you could probably save some money there
but we like to do things um if you've enjoyed this video then we think you'll really like the video
that's on the screen right now where we did a full budget breakdown when we were staying in samui