hello everyone and welcome to the channel if you happen to be new around here my name is trevor and
this is anna we are the delightful travelers make sure to hit subscribe and click on that
little bell to follow along on our adventures here in turks and caicos if you're not new
it's nice to see all you guys again and if you've already been following along you probably know
that we are in turks and caicos in providenciales to be very exact we quickly found out as soon as
we booked our tickets here that it's very very very expensive so we thought today we'd devote an
entire video to all the different costs so first off we are here in june so i guess it's not super
high season it does seem pretty busy though so if you're coming in like the middle of winter january
february march you probably can expect things to be more expensive i couldn't say for sure because
we've never been here in the middle of winter but that's typically how it works we figured
we'd start off with accommodation costs we did so much research to try to find out where to stay
everything especially in the middle of grace bay which is an area i think we'll head to
later is so so expensive most of the hotels seemed like they were looking at upwards of 500
to a thousand dollars u.s at night thankfully this place doesn't cost that also thankfully
we have a very nice pool here we're not staying at a hotel either this is an airbnb it is an airbnb i
think this is a condo area or a condo building i'm assuming there's people that probably live
here like a good portion of the year come for a few months and own a place here but we've managed
to rent a cute little airbnb so we'll take you up and give you a tour of our room it's a studio in a
few minutes here and we'll tell you the price but i just want to say how happy we are to have a pool
in june because it is hot you guys it's hovering around 32 degrees celsius every single day the sun
is out it's beautiful but you need a way to cool off and thankfully well we can do it right here
just walking around the grounds here you can see just how beautiful this place is you can see
this waterfall this is a second tier pool that we just discovered honestly this is all still pretty
new to us as well but it's kind of neat isn't it you have the big pool up there and then you have
this i guess kind of little pool there is steps over there you can go into so so far so good
with this place we will take you into our little studio apartment in a second but before we do that
do us a really big favor it's super easy just hit that like button and believe it or not actually
helps get the video out there youtube likes that and believe it or not our place is right here
so this is our own patio here actually only really been using it to dry our towels with
our clothes but it's a cute little spot but of course there is that pool over there and there's
the beach and stuff so we've been spending a lot of time not here but it's nice to have it so the
first thing you're going to notice when you enter the room here at least from the patio door is the
queen size bed it's not the most comfortable bed i've ever slept in but it's certainly going to do
the trick over here we're just storing luggage you can see it's just on a coffee table that's
all we need at the moment back this way this is the actual sofa notice it's all like brown
finishings like that mahogany typical style caribbean i kind of like it the only thing is it
makes the room a little bit darker than it maybe could it could be lightened up on my other side
here we have a tv and we kind of make this running joke you knew around here we never use tvs when we
travel but for those of you that do there's a nice flat screen television here so when you come this
way on one side you have a desk which of course is very convenient for us especially for trevor
doing all the editing and everything and there's also a dining room table on this side and funny
enough i feel like whenever we stay in studios there's never both a desk and a table so that's
kind of cool and then back this way very very great to have a kitchen it's pretty small but
like really nice appliances it has a dishwasher which is kind of mind-blowing for a place this
size for this price which we'll talk about in a little bit but it's really great to have a kitchen
we're going to get into food costs in a little while on how expensive restaurants are so having
a kitchen is great we've been having breakfast and lunch here and then usually eating out for
dinner so i'll take you guys in the bathroom here you can see of course you have a toilet
nice shower that's going to work for us and then you have a vanity over here it's quite a spacious
bathroom so we definitely like that come back out into the hallway here in this anna yeah so
we have a closet over here and when we first got here we opened it up and realized that they have
beach chairs an umbrella some snorkel gear and a cooler in there which is fantastic something
we've learned right away is that it's really hard when you're not staying on the beach at a beach
resort to get chairs like to get loungers it's really really expensive and some places don't let
outside guests come talk about a little bit more in the prices of that so that's a huge perk of
this place another big perk right here there's a laundry room yeah that's that's such a great perk
for us we travel a lot so that's going to come in handy yeah and it's great for people if you're
coming for a couple of weeks and you want to be able to do laundry in the middle of your stay
done one thing we really like about this place is the location now we're not super central like
in the main part of provo here we're close to turtle cove but what's good about turtle cove in
the marina is there's lots of restaurants around so now you're probably wondering how much this
costs per night right so get this this is june again so i imagine in high season
it's a lot more expensive this is about 150 dollars per night so for one week you have
that what's taxes and fees that go on airbnb but in general like starting at 150 at night
pretty good especially considering i think i said already is that when i was researching hotels
the cheapest one i think i could find was 200 a night but it ended up being like when you put in
all the fees a thousand dollars more for one week so it was just like and then most of the hotels
were a good thousand us dollars per night thousand dollars a night we found one place where we were
before we realized the prices it was ten thousand dollars for a week it's just like that's so crazy
to us especially coming from the dr which is where we came from yeah and we know we can't directly
compare the two so we know we got a bargain for 150 a night because good luck finding that if
you're coming here guys unless you maybe stay here so if you are interested in staying here we will
put the link to the airbnb listing below in the description that's just right below the video
and now let's head out and maybe explore some of the island so before we get going we wanted
to show you the car that we have rented for the week here now come on over here i'll show you
because this is kind of cool it actually has a name it's called muddy or mooty i'm not really
sure the pronunciation so this is kind of cute i think you can run all these different cars
from the place you rented off of and they all have names makes for a kind of fun adventure now here's
the thing we didn't plan on renting a car here but it took us about three hours and we realized you
have to have a car when you're on this island you have no choice it's not very walkable so you'll
need one of these so if you're wondering about costs of a rental car this small car like this
seems to be anywhere from like 35 to 50ish per day i think we ended up spending about 350 for
the week or something like that a little pricey more pricey than i thought yeah but not too bad
i mean at home in canada right now it's like a hundred dollars or more a day to rent a car so
can you guys can they hear the airplanes let's see we're uh very close to the airport
here so yeah you see uh airplanes from time to time all right let's get going
thankfully we have this car but i do want to talk about taxis really quick taxis are very expensive
on the island we've only taken one and we got a quote basically and it seems to be about a dollar
per minute a 10 minute drive was about 10 to 12 us dollars to get around so this island's pretty long
so you can imagine if you're going long distances that's gonna add up quick so it's worth it to get
a car we have just come over to the cutest open air restaurant it's called turks kebab yes it's
turkish and greek food really excited to try it of course in upcoming videos we'll be trying some
more local like fish dishes and that kind of thing but today we're just really excited that we can
get a variety of different types of foods here but before we get into that let's talk about a
little bit more about taxis when we first arrived we actually tried to order a couple of taxis we
tried a couple of numbers and they were either busy or like didn't show up so we quickly realized
that we need a rental car so today i decided to go for something called a euro kebab and if you guys
don't know what that is this is basically what we ate when we were in greece all of the time
and sometimes turkey as well i'm so excited about this in this there's some beef lamb tzatziki some
greens and look at the pita itself the wrap very nicely well done let's try it shall we
look at the inside of that thing first thing i noticed is just how nice and spicy and peppery
that meat is two different kinds it makes it full of flavor and the tzatziki is perfect the wrap is
nice and warm it's going to do the trick it's kind of like a perfect way to do lunch if you're on the
island here you're not going to break the bank by being here because at night those meals get really
really expensive but already one bite in i highly recommend this place so i went for it the chicken
shish there was an option to get uh both both of these in either a pita or a wrap we both decided
on the wrap which looks really really good these were both twelve dollars so if we had
a bigger breakfast which we did not we probably easily could have split one and had like a 12
lunch instead it's gonna be 24 for our lunch uh it looks like the main dishes for the evening
are a little less than twenty dollars which is really good for what we've seen so far
here on in provo i'm excited for you to try this one because mine is mine's superb wow this is
so good i'm gonna say right away this is a must come when you were here on the island the wrap
itself feels really really fresh but then it's also warmed up really nice touch to it the chicken
so soft so tender really nice spices going on it's not spicy but there's a lot of different flavor
and then uh i love taziki it's just a nice little zing flavor to it yeah this is this is a winner
well we've now come over to the beach as one does when you're in turks and caicos that is really
what you're here for isn't it the beach but take a look at a very cute little set up here
i'll show you right now so here's our two chairs and umbrella this is from our airbnb you guys
might remember and we're this close to the ocean speaking of cute little things we want to say a
huge thank you again to cali kate for sponsoring this video this is one thing that if you are
coming to turks and caicos or anywhere sunny and beachy where you're going to be in the water this
is a must-have it's basically a floating case for your phone so you can go and take video and photos
in the water it's waterproof and it floats the best thing i i'd say this is like a thirty
dollar gopro for the water basically a 30 gopro you get every all the benefits of a gopro but
in a convenient case you just use your phone with it so you guys have probably been to many
beaches where you see people selling kind of cases that let's be honest really aren't that
good you buy one you don't trust that it's going to work we can promise you with this one that is
not the case this is very high quality and look here is the best part it floats you guys so you
never have to worry about it you can just put this around your neck and then just start swimming away
also for every purchase made on calicase.com they donate one dollar to the ocean conservancy so use
our code delightful travelers 20 at checkout to save 20 off your next cali case the link is in the
description for that we want to say a huge thank you to cali case for again sponsoring this video
and supporting creators like us so we have set up shop with the stuff that our airbnb provided it's
very very convenient i think some people even go and buy this stuff because it's even still
cheaper than renting shares on the beach the cheapest we've found so far is forty dollars
for a check two chairs and an umbrella but we went the other day to a hotel and they were doing 75
and that doesn't include anything that's not like with food purchase or something like that it's 75
that might be the most expensive and i just want to show these guys so where you rent those chairs
there's lots of them on the beach but it's just right up there like honestly about 100 feet away
from us and we're here and this setup well this setup is free isn't it yeah so we're right now
near a restaurant called somewhere we haven't actually visited it yet but a lot of people have
recommended it to us we've been doing instagram stories during our time here a lot of people
said we have to go there i think it's sort of like a tex-mex place but they have some
good happy hours and then that kind of thing and then there's snorkeling off here so it's a good
place i think to set up shop on the beach yeah but i guess the moral of the story here the key is
it's expensive yeah on this island in general it really is back in the dominican republic we
paid i think maybe five dollars for two chairs and an umbrella for the day oh my god where are
we at now so i'll talk about excursions here or tours for a moment there's no shortage of those on
this island we've seen everything from parasailing you can kind of just go out in a boat for a day
and just kind of hop around the cluster of islands here you can go snorkeling we did notice like you
can get a private charter like basically go out with your own group of friends or whatever for
about six hundred dollars a day and up and like and way up if you want to pay that but
we did manage to find some kind of shared half half-day tours to go snorkeling for about 125
us dollars a day so i guess that's that's not so bad but just be prepared to pay maybe a little
bit more than usual at least what we're used to for excursions if you're coming here to turks
and caicos well it's now a little bit later and we came over to the place we mentioned earlier called
somewhere how about this setting you guys you can hear the music in the background hopefully you can
hear me i should also mention that we dropped the car off because where we were on the beach
was very close so that means i can have a beer the reason we're here is it's happy hour this was only
five dollars now that's a good deal that's finally a good cost of hearing turks and caicos but that's
a really good deal this is a craft beer by a brewery like a craft brewery here on the island
so i'm excited about that because we've been to other places on the beach that if there's no happy
hour around it can cost like 10 or 12 dollars for a corona or something like that so as you can tell
everything's just more expensive here in turks and caicos except when you can find a happy hour so if
you're coming to the island specifically provo come here somewhere apologies for the music if
it's really loud i'm going to try to talk over it and hopefully it doesn't interrupt things too much
because it is loud here however i want to talk a little bit about the other prices of different
types of alcohol trevor was just talking about beer and how you can find it pretty good pretty
good prices especially right here uh as far as mixed drinks go notice most cocktails like
beachy cocktails are anywhere from like nine to twelve dollars glass of wine seems to be like 10
to 12 something like that and the bottle is around starting around 35 but there are happy hours here
and there though this place definitely has good happy hour they seem to switch it up every day so
i think there's deer happy hour every day from a certain time but then they have other things like
half price bottles of wine i think on wednesdays and a bunch of things during the week so that's
really great and we've been going to a place called mango reef which is closer to where we're
staying they always seem to have a daily happy hour as well so we've just come back to where we
started from it's our airbnb the pool having a little night swim or evening swim i guess it is
at this point it's just starting to get dark out the water is really really warm we're getting the
feet and sand and salt off of us there's a few things that i guess we didn't touch on yet one
you might be wondering about is groceries so we haven't done a ton of research into it but we did
go to the iga here one day and get a few things we found most stuff is quite expensive so probably
everything that you buy at home expect to pay at least a few dollars more than you would there
nothing too crazy but like it's a it's a little bit more i think they have to import everything
maybe yeah like things that you might if you're from canada or the states i'll say specifically
because it's close to here like peanut butter or something like that i think that costs a
lot more yeah you know because you have to import that but there's other things that
does not so yeah and i think in general canada is more expensive for groceries than the us
so yeah canadians are americans might get more sticker shock than canadians that's a good point
the other thing we noticed is um cell phone plans so we were trying to figure this out we
decided not to go for one because when we travel we're canadians and our cell phone
plans are like the worst in the world we pay the most i think it's awesome roaming is just
roaming is ridiculous it's it's like 15 dollars a day on top of your already your existing plan so
it's just way too expensive so yeah we have to be very strategic about what we do so we it was funny
we were talking to a local and he doesn't even have a data plan because it's so expensive here
so i think for americans coming down right they don't have to worry about this yeah you probably
can just turn on your roaming and not pay very much per day for you guys it's probably easy for
the rest of us maybe depend on using wi-fi yeah maybe wi-fi works pretty well here but that's
that's the way we're doing it we're just here for a week so we're just trying to do that for now but
how about this lighting do you guys find this fun this is pretty cool a little bit weird there's
like one of the pool lights there i thought it would be a cool scene i don't know we're gonna go
inside now anyway fun day here in turks and caicos just getting to explore a little bit more of this
beautiful island and just learning a little bit more about the costs of it all huh yeah but also
getting to eat some yummy food spending some time at the beach i don't think a day can go by here
that you shouldn't spend it at the beach beaches you're so amazing but yeah hopefully we gave you
a little bit of an idea of what to expect if you're coming here or you're going to pay for
a few things so you can maybe plan out your budget i'm sure some of you are watching right now going
like yeah i mean this is what i expected to pay in turks and caicos but i'm sure there's others
that are watching that are going like whoa hold on a second i'm used to mexico i'm used to the
dominican republic prices and this is crazy why is it so expensive and that's a good question why
is it so exciting well i think for one if you're comparing it to those two countries is that it
is very small i don't think there's a lot of agriculture or anything here so they have to ship
everything everything that costs a lot more whereas in the dr and in mexico i think they
can grow a lot of their own and in this island over time i mean it is a british territory
over time it's kind of kind of got the reputation of like like a luxury travel destination and
that's why but let us know what you guys think is this way too pricey or way not pricey yeah also if
you have advice for people that are watching this maybe you've been here before and you figured out
some good budgeting tips or like great places to eat that might be a little bit cheaper anything
like that leave a comment below yeah yeah leave us that comment speaking of eating we are hoping to
get out there and do some eating and maybe show you guys a few more restaurants maybe even have
a video dedicated to that hopefully we also have a possibly one other video in mind just kind of
like how to spend a day here maybe you're coming on a cruise ship maybe you just are here for seven
days and one day you don't want to be on a resort or something like that so that's the plan as long
as the weather cooperates the next few days we will get those videos done before we leave
also if you're watching this video because you're looking for some tips and tricks for coming
sure turks and caicos be be sure to watch our last video which was our first impressions we had some
kind of like little tips or bits things that we learned when we first got here maybe surprised
us a little bit so as always it's trevor anna delightful travelers hit the subscribe button
there's lots more coming up even after we leave this island there's lots more coming up
leave us a comment share the video if you got this far probably means you like it to like the video
that really helps us out but for now we're going to sign off we'll see you in the next turks video
very soon all right guys that's it from turks and caicos wishing you delightful travels see you soon