How Much I Spent On My Trip To Dubai

Mar 14

So, here’s a little back story about Dubai. My good sis Brionna had talked about going here for years! Years as in the past five years. Little did we know that her 25th birthday would be our time to travel to our most talked about place.

We went to Dubai September 2nd-September 8th and people are still asking about my trip to Dubai. After they hear how amazing it is the next question is “So... was it expensive?” Now, expensive is subjective but to us it was not! The reason for that is because when we looked five years ago the ticket alone was 3K!

So let’s get down to how much we spent. I tried my best to track every expense! Let’s talk about air fare, we flew Air Canada and RT my ticket was $655.52. I bought travel insurance from World Nomad that was $150 and my Covid test from Any Lab Test Now I took for departure was $199. We stayed at Hampton by Hilton Dubai for 6-Nights. It was $231.24. IKR!

As of today, 11/13/2021

1 USD= 3.67 AED

All currency below is USD

Day 1

Taxi to hotel: $14.29

Quick Bite (Walked from hotel): $9.13

Chana Masala: $4.63
Butter Naan: $2.18
Mango Lassi: $2.18
Chai: $0.14

Grocery store (walked)

6 pack water $3.40

Day 2

Careem (Halal Taxi) to Dubai Frame: $11.30

Dubai Frame: $13.61

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTaL_vWrkDD/

Coconut to HYDRATE: $6.26

Careem to Ting Irie: $5.58

Ting Irie

Burj Khalifa Entry: $43.29

Careem to Seva: $8.03

Seva meditation class

Seva Table

Day 3

Careem to Butterfly exhibit: $21.78

Butterfly Exhibit

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUpo5pJJ1fo/

Careem to the spa: $11.71

Spa: $62.62

Black Bean Burger Meal: $24.50

Shopping: $402.40

Yacht Dinner

Day 4

Desert Day (driver + activities + Dinner ): $46.28

Pictures from dessert: $10.89

Sugar Cane Juice: $5.45

We found the desert adventure on Groupon

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTiCHZBBcgF/

Day 5

Careem to Arabian Tea House: $16.34

Arabian Tea House

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUGfngospT6/

Gold Souk (All Shops): $216.72

At the souk I bought perfume, oils, incense, purse, scarves, nose ring, ring and name necklace

Careem back to the hotel: $18.11

Day 6

Vedaa Ayur

Ethiopian Food

Bikanervala

Takeaways!

For transparency, this list includes the majority but not everything. This was my first time abroad so I was really soaking in the moment but I hope this gives you a good idea.

Apps worth having in Dubai: