our time in san miguel has come to an end.
it's now that point where we reflect on how much it cost us to have this amazing adventure.
hi everybody we've come to the end of our stay in san miguel, which means it's time to go back
and look at the numbers and see how much this all cost us. so we have a spreadsheet here which breaks
everything down and we're going to talk about what our key takeaways from this experience was
financial wise. and hopefully this will be helpful for you in planning your next day in san miguel,
and figuring out how much how much it might cost you. so the number of days that we spent in san
miguel on this trip was 44. we had extended our stay so it's a pretty long stay for us
and the total cost of everything together excluding airfare was six thousand eight hundred
and two dollars. so that means the average cost per day was a hundred and fifty-five.
now if you look back on our previous cost video that we did for Querétaro, we said that our goal
for travel was to be around 150 dollars per day into retirement. so i think we did pretty good.
pretty well, yeah, that's very close to target so i think we're happy with that. but let's look at
what areas we may could have made some improvements on. okay, as we said the airfare
was not included here, because that included some other trips that we took. but the stay,
we stayed at an airbnb with a total four thousand three hundred and eighty four dollars.
don't you think that's...it was pricey for us. it was a really nice airbnb, and you know we
really enjoyed. it but we spent probably a little more than we had to. we wound
up with a little more space than we needed. a kitchen, a great kitchen that we really didn't use.
so that was a splurge, and i think something that we can maybe modify a little bit in the future. it
had a great rooftop deck that we splurged for, and really loved. but we didn't end up being out there
as often as we thought we would. i think that's because it didn't really have cover. yeah. it
had an umbrella, and it was a little warm. but then we were out a lot, and so when we got home we had
been out all day and it just wasn't something that we spent a lot of time on. speaking of being out, we
put in some extra money for some experiences. we took a couple of excursions, and the total
for that was about 300. 295 to be exact. when it comes to eating out, .the dining was 1583
total. and we did some groceries. we ate in on a few occasions, and that turned out to be 265.
so how do you think we did food-wise? i think we did really well food-wise. for that number of days,
we had ate out quite a bit. and really enjoyed a lot of relatively inexpensive meals. we had a few
where we splurged, and i think overall it was a really nice blend. i was always enjoying the food,
and it seems like it was pretty much within our budget. yeah. there were a couple of times when we
splurged, like at 'Quince'. if you go back to that video restaurant video, that was
so nice and but it was a little pricey. but most of the time we ended up at some very reasonable
places. and we got in some decent costs for that. absolutely. the last couple of categories are
transportation and personal. transportation was a little bit more for us. because we had to pay
for some private chauffeurs to get from one place to another in a couple of places. but
usually we don't spend too much on transportation. not a lot. you know. usually back and forth to the
airport. we walk a lot, but we were, we went, what, 50 or 60 miles. and so for what we did, even though it
was over budget a little bit, it was a pretty good deal. yeah. i couldn't imagine how much that would
have cost you in the US yeah and then the last one was personal. we really didn't spend much. usually our
personal categories are when we splurged for some art or or something special for us. and we really
didn't pay for anything this time. we didn't. that's great. yeah. so all in all i think we did incredibly
well. we hit our target, so i think we're happy. we're very happy. i think we did a great job, and
we had a really good time. we did. we met our budget, and we did everything we wanted to do. and we
thoroughly enjoyed it. okay. i hope this was useful for everyone. please like and subscribe. thanks .
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