Cruise-Europe-Morocco Trip Financial Breakdown

I really like, after a significant travel adventure, to put a little time into reviewing it's finances; to get an idea of overall costs after so much time of looking at finances from a one hotel room to the next view. And since I find it so interesting, I thought maybe other folks might too. So here's how the money panned out for this last trip. (Oh, and if you like this kind of stuff, you might like previous trip recaps here and here.)

(Interesting side note: I spent over $55 in "international exchange fees" from my stupid bank on top of bank withdrawal fees. This 3% on all non-domestic expenses is worth keeping in mind (and is going encourage me to look for a new bank for my next travels))

Major Transportation Expenses
Flight Seattle -> Puerto Rico$188
Cruise Puerto Rico -> Portugal$452*
Ferry Spain -> Morocco$50
Flight Casablance -> Amsterdam$122
Flight Amsterdam -> Vancouver$515

Day to Day Expenses (hotel, food, domestic travel, sights, etc.)
PlaceDuration of stayTotal CostCost/dayNotes
Puerto Rico2$70$35This was just bare bones hotel and food. We didn't do any internal transportation (except for a city bus or two) and no sights/museums/tourist activities*. I imagine if I was to visit in earnest (rather than a cheap as possible layover with trips to the beach), these numbers might be higher.
Cruise10$452$45For the caliber of food, lodging, entertainment, and more, this was a spectacular deal. The fact that it covered transporation as well* just made it all the better a deal.
Portugal/Spain9$425$47For Europe being one of the more expensive places in the world, I feel like these totals aren't bad at all.
Melilla (Spanish Morocco)2$125$62I used this time to huddle up in a hotel with wifi to do some work, so I imagine I could have gotten by slightly cheaper. But Melilla doesn't have cheap hostels*, so housing, at €35, really makes it an expensive stopover.
Morocco11$465$42Morocco was quite a cheap place. A bit of an extravagant 2-night trip into the dessert at $130 greatly up the per day.
Amsterdam3$195$65Again, lodging was the culprit for such a high per day, but again, I'm pleased with being able to visit a European city for such a relatively low cost. And since this 3 day stopover saved me $200 on airfare*, I consider it pretty much a free stop in an awesome city

Overall
Total cost# of daysTotal cost/day
$2653*38$70

Saturday June 8 2013File under: travel

Toggle Comments (2)comment?
on Wed 19th Jun, 2013 11:47 am PDT Jule said:
A priceless post! Does the crew of the cruise get all you can eat?
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on Tue 25th Jun, 2013 07:14 pm PDT Chris said:
I have a Chrome plugin called Dictionary of Numbers that try's to put large numbered quantities in context by searching a webpage for them, looking up something close, and then inserting a bracketed comment after the number for perspective. I thought you would appreciate that immediately after your total price for 38 days of travel it inserted [≈ Weekend trip for two to Hawaii]; Not Bad!
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