The husband and I have a yearly tradition to plan a trip every year end to celebrate the hard work done the year around. This year we decided to travel to North India while we live in South India.. So the flight costs are pretty huge esp. because it is the year end and all the fares go up at this point. My husband has been to the places we are going to visit but this will be a first time for me to ever step out of south India :) plus I am going to see the Taj Mahal :) can this holiday get any better !
Because we are middle class indians , and because we love a better fare deal if we can manage it, we decided we would book our flight tickets via a travel agency. We checked out the prices in makemytrip.com and yatra.com , compared those prices and then headed to the travel agency near our home. My husband is great at trying to get a bargain deal out of everything :) so with his persuation we were able to get a cool discount and we got our tickets..
Next thing to do was to plan our trip once we reach Delhi. We got some discounts via Southern Travels for our tours as well as hotel booking as we decided to everything with them. However we want to go on a particular 2N/1D package that Southern did not have via bus (it was already booked to the full) the price of which is 2900/- per head for the package. However, the alternative would be to go by car for just the two of us costing us 14000/- total. That is a huge waste of money... Thankfully, my husband found another travel agency Panickers Travels having the same package on the days we wanted for the same price of 2900/- per head :) and we booked it just in time.
Now all that is pending is packing for the trip. This trip is something that we have been planning all year for in terms of finances, so this is something that would not cost a huge hole in our pockets as we have planned for this. Things are going as per plan in terms of finances so far
Cost of the trip so far :
Tickets to and fro : 20000/-
Hotel for 5 days : 7000/-
Trip Package Cost : 6000/-
We had estimated the trip to cost us around 40000/- including the shopping for gifts when we reach there, so far things are looking good :)
Plus, another thing I wanted to mention is that, yesterday afternoon we called our insurance agent and got ourselves Demat Accounts. We have already completed our tax investments for this year. Only thing pending is some infrastructure bonds , but for this we both needed Demat account. So we are in a good place right now in terms of where we stand with respect to our finances :)
Love,
MCB
Because we are middle class indians , and because we love a better fare deal if we can manage it, we decided we would book our flight tickets via a travel agency. We checked out the prices in makemytrip.com and yatra.com , compared those prices and then headed to the travel agency near our home. My husband is great at trying to get a bargain deal out of everything :) so with his persuation we were able to get a cool discount and we got our tickets..
Next thing to do was to plan our trip once we reach Delhi. We got some discounts via Southern Travels for our tours as well as hotel booking as we decided to everything with them. However we want to go on a particular 2N/1D package that Southern did not have via bus (it was already booked to the full) the price of which is 2900/- per head for the package. However, the alternative would be to go by car for just the two of us costing us 14000/- total. That is a huge waste of money... Thankfully, my husband found another travel agency Panickers Travels having the same package on the days we wanted for the same price of 2900/- per head :) and we booked it just in time.
Now all that is pending is packing for the trip. This trip is something that we have been planning all year for in terms of finances, so this is something that would not cost a huge hole in our pockets as we have planned for this. Things are going as per plan in terms of finances so far
Cost of the trip so far :
Tickets to and fro : 20000/-
Hotel for 5 days : 7000/-
Trip Package Cost : 6000/-
We had estimated the trip to cost us around 40000/- including the shopping for gifts when we reach there, so far things are looking good :)
Plus, another thing I wanted to mention is that, yesterday afternoon we called our insurance agent and got ourselves Demat Accounts. We have already completed our tax investments for this year. Only thing pending is some infrastructure bonds , but for this we both needed Demat account. So we are in a good place right now in terms of where we stand with respect to our finances :)
Love,
MCB
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