Our Trip For 2007 Is Booked
My wife and I have booked our 2007 summer. We just finalized the detaisl yesterday. Very exciting.
We are doing the Russia and Beyond Basic Tour with Intrepid Travel and then 6 days in China at the end on our own. It is the trans-siberian tour that goes from Moscow, across Russia, through Mongolia, and finished in Beijing, China.
The tour includes your transportation, accomodation, tour guide, and that is it. It is more geared for the backpacker types. No activities are included. They have all the optional ones you can add for a price or you can just do you own thing in the time you have in each location. Activity prices range from $3 up to $30 US so it is quite resonable really.
We are looking for recommendations in China for 6 days while we are there as well. Keep in mind we will start in Beijing and need to end up back in Beijing. My initial plan is to se the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'ian, go to Nanjing, then Shanghai, and back to Beijing. We might cut out Nanjing if time is a problem. Overnight trains will be the mode of transportation, but we might pick up a flight from Beijing to Xi'an if we are short on time.
We fly from Calgary (YYC) to London (GTW), London (GTW) to Amsterdam (AMS), Amsterdam (AMS) to Moscow (SVO), and on the way home we fly fom Beijing (PEK) to Vancouver (YVR).
We were impressed with the ticket prices. We managed to keep it under $1700 a person. The trick was booking each flight seperately on Expedia and Travelocity. If you just punch in the beginning and end the prices were coming out at $5000 and up. It is also the same if you do the multi-location feature of their site. This is because they get you all on one ticket (associated airlines). This is helpful if you have problems, but we just pick longer layovers in each stop to make sure we have time to catch our next flight.
The tour itself was $2225, but we had a 5% discount so that knocked over a hundred off for us. There is also a $200 US local payment upon arrival and they recommmend $300 US for food.
All in all, we are expecing maximum $6,000 per person for the trip after we pay for everything and buy our souvenirs.
I will keep you up to date and post every single cost we have. It is really helpful to know what things cost when trying to do things yourself. I will be using and updating my Checklist for Traveling - The Ultimate guide.
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