Fun to me is a good segway into beer!
Hey Guys, I am Ross and I'm a lesser half of Ross and Bek!
We've been here for over two months now and for those of you that
have been lucky enough to watch our other videos I think you'll see that you
know it is a really good value destination and there's just so much to
see and explore so we've loved our time here so we're going to share with you
how much it really does cost for us to live here but also some of the levers
that you can pull to really save some money here as well so now I want to go
through these categories because we think that they're the most important to go through!
Right so in Vietnam you have a few options with
accommodation we've got some friends that are staying in hostels at the
moment and they spend 50,000 to 70,000 dong per person per day
your next step up is really in the hotel space and you can go onto so many
websites and book yourself a hotel room for that to 200,000 to 400,000 zone
this time around we are both working online now so we really wanted our own
apartment and we went direct to a landlord believe it or not you can
easily get a one or two month lease in Vietnam through any of the landlords
they all advertise locally and online as well and you can go to them and hook
yourself up a pretty good deal we pay about $450 US per month!
In addition to that and we do need to pay for electricity costs about
$40 to $50 US for your electricity
now we all need to eat so I this is probably one of my favorite as you know
Bek and I we love food and we'd love to travel so you know this is something
that has been really important to us eating some really good food and also
some higher-end stuff some Street food as well having a bit of a mix so
depending on what you like to eat and how you like to eat is going to really
dictate this one but to give you an example Bek and I would normally wake
up we might have a bit of fruit and yogurt in the morning and then we might
go out and we've got some favorite little spots here and there to heat up
for lunch that a local nearby you can get away with eating stuff for
30,000 dong for breakfast and probably the same for lunch which is
pretty cheap through too much more expensive places in restaurants where
you can get close to Western prices in the two three four hundred thousand
Dong zone! So we did a bit of both because Bek and I are really obsessed
with food we passionately hunt down all of the different options that there are
in every place that we go so we did spend a bit more than what I think most
people would in Vietnam on on food so our monthly cost for breakfast and lunch
was 3.9 million Dong and for dinners it was 6.6 million dong.
I don't think it's possible to come to Vietnam and in particular Hanoi without drinking
coffee. If I wasn't addicted before I got here I definitely am now and I know
Bek is too we've found a lot of go to coffee spots that are really in that 20,000
to 25,000 dong zone and we've been really really happy with those we've
also tried out making coffee in our room and you know it does work out okay you
tend to run through it pretty quickly it is good value but just just go by it
it's you know one to two dollars per cup so our total cost for coffee for the
month was 1.5 million dong! Love coffee. And the coffee is delicious here
absolutely delicious
let's top up with some more water we're always getting water
so you can get a 6 liter bottle and it's $22,000 and we often get two of
those and we top up on that sort of maybe every second day we're topping up
we'll try to get in two to three liters of water each really really important
but I don't think very expensive
we've had a lot of fun in Vietnam fun to me is
a good segue into beer I read somewhere online recently that Vietnam consumes
more beer than any other country in the world so I don't know if that's true or
not but it doesn't surprise me because you don't have to drive far on your
scooter to see bia hoi's set up everywhere terms of costs and
anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dong for a beer right through to fifty
to a hundred thousand at the upper end now our total cost for the month for fun
and beer it was 1.9 million dong
Now, transport is an interesting one in Asia and for those that don't know there's an
app called grab that's fantastic it's a bit like uber and it's the Asian
version where you can actually still pay in cash as well so you can book it all
on your phone and the bike or car taxi rocks up and they will take you exactly
where you put in your phone now that's a pretty cool thing because it's really
really hard to communicate effectively and
addresses in Vietnam can be complex we often found when we used to catch taxis
we'd end up in the wrong place so grabs a really good option for people
but transport options are bigger than that now we rented our scooter and it
cost me eight hundred thousand dong for a whole month and it's a really good
condition petrol wise, sixty to seventy thousand
dong for a top-up and that'll get the tank from empty to full I have actually
stacked at once sorry mum don't don't watch this the benefit of a scooter is
that you can go down the streets and explore the city in a way that you don't
see with a taxi if you just catch a grab from A to B you just don't see the place
and you don't get to explore so Bek can either love that speck jumps on the back
and we just go for spins all the time and we've really really intimately got
to see Hanoi and Saigon which you know we will remember forever and the total
cost overall for Transport is 1.4 million dong
our total cost for the
month here was 32 million dong now that includes this other category that I
didn't talk about but that's your household goods might have some
health-related bits that you need SIM cards you get a sim card here for 80 to
90 thousand dong once a month you top up on that and that gets you enough data
and enough phone calls to do everything that you want we still pay for Netflix
your travel insurance haircuts I get a $3 haircut Bex is a little bit more
expensive overall that's that's our total cost for the month put some
comments down below guys we're really interested to hear what other people
have experienced in Vietnam and we are really really excited to continue
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