Budget Travel

Thailand on a Month-Long Budget: The Route and the Numbers

20/10/2026

Thailand is the world’s most forgiving destination for a long budget trip, and it is precisely because of ordinary local prices that it rewards staying longer. The four-week route below — Bangkok, north loop, a beach phase, and the return — runs on roughly 900 euro per person including accommodation, transport, food, and activities, assuming shared rooms and mid-range habits rather than dorms. Here are the honest numbers that compose the month.

The route skeleton, weeks one to four

Week 1 — Bangkok (5 nights): Hotels in the Sukhumvit sois and Ratchathewi price 25–35 euro for clean double rooms with air-con. Days cost little: the Grand Palace’s 15-euro ticket, free temples (Wat Pho’s tiny fee aside), river ferries costing ten Baht, and street-food dinners at 2–4 euro that outclass most destination restaurants. A Bangkok week of ordinary pleasures lands at 150–180 euro per person including double-share lodging.

Week 2 — … Read More

Flight & Booking Tips

EU261 Explained: Flight Delay and Cancellation Compensation

20/10/2026

Flight delays are priced twice: once by the airline in re-booking and meals, once by law. In Europe, EU Regulation 261 — and its equivalents in the UK, and mirror rules in many other systems — entitles passengers to fixed cash compensation of 250 to 600 euro when a flight arrives three hours or more late or is cancelled outright. It is among the strongest passenger-protection regimes anywhere, and the claims process is simpler than the forums suggest. Here is what the law actually provides, what it excludes, and the order of operations that reliably gets you paid.

The compensation grid

The amount depends on flight distance, not ticket price:

  • Up to 1,500 km: 250 euro per passenger
  • 1,500–3,500 km (and intra-EU flights over 1,500 km): 400 euro
  • Over 3,500 km: 600 euro

One nuance doubles the money and one halves it. Long-haul flights delayed 3–4 hours (rather than more) … Read More

Hotels & Resorts

Choosing a Beach Resort: The 12-Point Checklist Before You Pay

20/10/2026

A beach resort week is the most expensive standardised purchase in travel, and it is usually bought from photographs. The five-star brochure sells the infinity pool; the review average hides whether the pool is warm, shaded, and accessible from a room you would sleep in. The fix is a fixed checklist — twelve questions that price the differences brochures do not photograph. Run any candidate through them and the honest ranking appears fast.

The twelve points

  1. Real room standards: bed sizes with exact centimetres (a “king” can mean 160 cm), blackout curtains, and whether the floor plan shows the third bed as a sofa bed or a rollaway. Family rooms that fit four are the scarcest product on the coast — verify capacity before pricing anything else.
  2. Pool depth and shade: a children’s pool of 30–40 centimetres with lifeguards is the trip’s most repeated infrastructure. Depth numbers are published in
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