Hi all
I am booked on Grand Explorer Dec 27th and my question is how much spending money should i account for (roughly) i know everyone is different but just thought id get some sort of idea.
Thanks
Lisa

NZ can be $$$ depending on which optionals you take, more so than any other contiki destination (Euro/NA/Au).

- Vic

I budgeted $100 a day, some days you'll spend it, others you won't but I did the grand explorer and spent roughly £1400 but that didn't include my optional extras.

Lisa, I'm budgeting $100nz a day. If you look at it this way
if you do all the optional dinners you need to find 8 dinners for yourself. Approximate $25 for these = $200
Lunches: 15 of these @ Approx $15 = $225
Souvenirs = I plan on spending $20 on each of my family members and at least $100 on myself = $320
Drinks: 4 per night (60) @ $7 each = $420 (I'm thinking this is an overestimate cause I really don't drink that much. =)

Altogether = $1165 at least on spending money. That doesn't include snacks, necessities etc.

So $1500 nz should be enough (for me) for the trip = that works out to be about $100 a day. Thats roughly $1200 AU and I'm doing about $1000 AU optionals (I hope).

=) I hope I've helped you out, or given you some clue.

I took $5000NZ. Came home with just under $1000 and I did a lot of optionals. I didn't drink a lot though.