What do you think, was Naples more expensive or cheaper than Sicily? If you read the blog ‘Money Matters’ you will see that our aim is to keep our spend to about £3000 a month (4 weeks) and we went just over this in Sicily, spending a total of £3140.81. However this wasn’t bad considering a) we were moving around and b) we hired a car for eleven days.
Naples was very inexpensive and our total spend came in at £2228 for the four weeks. How so cheap? First, our accommodation was very inexpensive, second, we bought ‘Campagna Artecards’ which cover us for many museums in Campagna for a whole year. A lot of the places we visited allowed free entry with the card on two separate occasions. In this way we were able to visit Pompeii, the Archeological Museum in Naples and Caserta Palace twice. Most of the other places we visited gave us reduced entry with the card. This splendid card only cost us €43 each.
This is the breakdown for Naples:
Accommodation: £854.03 Entrances (including the cost of two Campagna Arte 365 cards) £197.27 Groceries: £294.50 Meals out (includes coffee, drinks and ice-cream) £375.55 Travel (including taxi and boat to Capri) £292.90 Anne haircut: £45 Mark haircut: £9 UK expenses: £160
How did we do in Capri? I don’t think we did too badly bearing in mind that Capri is a expensive destination with lots of high class shops etc. Our total spend for nine nights came in at £1076.
We were lucky enough to get our accommodation with a 20% discount as we are the first people in. We found groceries very expensive but meals out (we only had two) still cheaper than UK prices. A cappuccino cost between 4 and 6 euros a throw.
This is the breakdown:
Accommodation: £484 Entrances: £61.82 Groceries: £117.15 Meals out (includes coffee, drinks and ice-cream) £190.45 Travel (includes boat, taxi and train to Florence) £148.91 Other: £24 UK expenses £50
I am hoping that in giving you all the figures others might be inspired to get travelling too. It doesn’t have to cost a whole load of dough.
Next, we’re off to Florence for three weeks which we are expecting to be expensive. We will see how we do.
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