Another long weekend, another trip.
This time, I did a girls’ trip to Marrakesh, Morocco — country #70 for me! Yay!
Below is a photo of the budget breakdown I keep in my Excel spreadsheet:
Let me start with the flight, which was booked last year in July! Yes, July.
The flight is with TAP Portugal – this is my second time flying with them.
The total cost of the flight was $1093.00 CAD.
I know this isn’t exactly a “cheap” deal like most of my trips, but for flying all the way to North Africa on a long weekend? Not terrible.
The AirBnB we chose for this trip is an absolute-freaking-gem.
Basically I made a group wish list on AirBnB with the other three girls on this trip, and we all took a vote. The AirBnB we ended up choosing was the only one all four of us had given the thumbs up to.
We chose a riad in a central location with perfect reviews, breakfast included – oh, and it is four bedroom and four bathroom WITH a rooftop pool. Insane.
The total cost for three nights was $1632.00 CAD, which comes to $408.00 CAD per person. I know there were many cheaper alternatives to be found, but, YOLO. Will let you know if it was worth it when we return.
If you are interested in checking it out – click here.
We pre-booked/paid for three activities.
The first one was a food tour. Food, very important to all four of us. I happened to come across a video of Mark Wiens doing this specific food tour and I saw them eating snails. I said SNAILS? Yes. Sign me up.
The cost of the food tour was 60 Euros, which is $92.77 CAD per person. The link to it can be found here.
I am not a fashion girlie, but my friends are. The next activity we booked was a visit to the famous YSL Museum. Seeing the Yves Saint Laurent displays should be gorgeous. The cost was 140 Moroccan Dirhams, which is $20.20 CAD per person.
Finally, a BIG activity.
How does a sunrise hot air balloon ride sound? Yeah. Sounds pretty fucking epic. The total cost of this excursion was $206.03 CAD per person.
I can’t waaaait to come back and talk about how bad ass (hopefully) this was. I’ve never been on a hot air balloon ride. The link to this can be found here.
For spending money I budgeted 100 Euros, which is $157.00 CAD and 2233 Moroccan Dirhams, which is $350.00 CAD.
We have a spa booking, some fancy dinners and a VIP club booking. Not sure if this will be enough, but I’ve learned to at least keep SOME cash on me.
The total budget for this trip is $2327.00 Canadian.
I realize it sounds nuts for just a long weekend away, but I wanted something BIG to celebrate #70.
This absolutely could have been done for cheaper. I get that. But it wasn’t.
- Mirna
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