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Work out what a trip will really cost
A line-by-line estimate with a low and a high, and the numbers most likely to be wrong.
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Updates as you typeWork out what this trip is likely to cost. Trip: two weeks in Japan next April, Tokyo and Kyoto, flying from Manchester People: two adults How we travel: cheap beds, spend it on food Already known: flights are 720 each, already booked Give me a table, one row per line of spending: flights, beds, getting around locally, food, tickets and entry, sim or data, insurance, and a row for the everyday bits people forget. For each row give a low and a high, not one number, and say what the low assumes. Then a total range at the bottom. After the table: - Which of your numbers you're least confident in, and why - The two or three costs people most often underestimate on a trip like this - Anything that gets much cheaper if booked at a particular time These are estimates, not quotes. Say clearly where prices move a lot by season or by how early you book, and tell me which numbers I should go and check myself before I rely on them.
What you get: A costed table with a low and a high per line, and a straight answer on which numbers you shouldn't trust yet.
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A range, never a single number
One number reads like a fact and isn't. Asking for a low and a high, plus what the low assumes, turns the estimate into something you can argue with.
The confidence question is the useful one. It'll usually admit the food line is a guess, which tells you where to spend ten minutes checking.
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