How Expensive is MINSK, BELARUS? It's Super Cheap!
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2018
- In this video I talk about how much things cost in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
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How Expensive is MINSK, BELARUS? It's Super Cheap!
The apartment I showed in the video is called the Aparthotel Capital Aparton (or at least that's the name of the company that manages the apartments). I recommend reserving it online using this website: www.booking.com/index.html?aid=1724899 Or you can use that site to search for other hotels, apartments, hostels, etc.
Cheers for the shoutout! If you are in the region sometime this summer let's go and get some food and vodka together in a Belarusian village 🍻
Hey Mr. Bald. Congrats on 100k. I want to visit India and meet you and interact with the locals like you do
Awesome man, absolutely! I'd love to see more of the small towns and countryside. It's a bit of a shame flying through these countries but it's the way it is right now. Otherwise maybe see you in India, sure I'll be back.
Harmin Vlogs, cool, you should go for it. Anyone can do it, all you need is a little time, money and courage.
bald and bankrupt can I come too?
Haha Mr Bald fancy seeing you here. It's because of you i recently subscribed to a few other travel vloggers which caught my interest. Obviously you and Harald are number 1 and 2 hehe. Gabriel is pretty cool informative i normally don't rate American travellers. You are both making me visit Belarus. Of course we can not forget Cheap Charlie he is missing Thailand lol. There is another decent vlogger a Indian fellow that goes but the name Mountain Trekker. He is pretty brave hitchhiked across parts of Russia which was very interesting people he met. Try and hook up with him he might be back in India now.
Even Cheap Charlie likes your channel !!! Btw Fappy Sunday everyone !!!
Beautiful Minsk
Gabriel ma bro!! Miss you man, I see that you doing very well, congratulations man you deserve it!! All good wishes from MOROCCO 👏🏽👏🏽
Hope you find Minsk not just "very cheap". I was there for a whole day last winter and I was pleasantly surprised! Minsk is very clean. The local airline (Belavia) is cheaper than Air Baltic and the service is also great. I speak Russian (so speaking Russian might add a whole other level to your experience), and I found people everywhere to be very friendly and helpful. Make sure you got to the GUM department store. It's a real Soviet-retro experience with products made in Belarus. Try some typical Belarussian food (they love potatoes). Notice how clean and maintained everything is. I agree with the person who wrote below that Minsk is underrated. With the 5-day visa, you could also branch out to other great cities like Brest, Gomel, Grodno, etc. Minsk was almost completely destroyed in the WW2, so it was built up again in the 40's with lots of well maintained architecture from the late 1940's. Looking forward to your next to next video (as always).
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Verdensrike22 I have also flown Belavia from Riga to Minsk and flew the return on Air Baltic as a code share. While Air Baltic is pretty, everything has a price behind it. Belavia has a generous luggage allowance and you get free coffee, tea and a sandwich in the short price, too. They have some super fares to Asia from Minsk, too. I’m flying to Minsk again soon and I saved $100 by flying with Belavia verses Air Baltic for the same dates.
Darn, minmilwaukee, I wish you would have produced a travel video of Minsk. Sounds like it's a decent place to visit. I'm guessing that it's best to visit when the weather is nice. Somehow , wandering around in the freezing cold doesn't appeal to me.
Sounds like Belavia is cheap biut it`s not. That is why most of belarussians fly from Vilnius (200km away), some from Kaunas or even Kiev. And very few really fly by Belavia.
@@glucus2274 Everything is relative. It's cheap by western standards.
Finally ✊🏻! Oh, many thx ! Minsk is awesome! Waiting for the city trip!
Прывітанне з Беларусі!
Hello from Belarus!
The fish dish is called shuba (Селедка под шубой - herring under a fur coat). It's got layers of herring, potato, carrot, onion and beet with mayonnaise between each layer. Quite tasty.
There we go, thanks. Yeah it was good and definitely unique. Looks more like dessert but the local I was with assured me it wasn't, so I figured I'd give it a try.
That is a really nice apartment, I like the lightbulb arrangement in the living room
Minsk is very underrated
I agree!
now you are the poodle of the EUSSR, does that make you proud ? pathetic @keith hopkins
@Stalin Steel My guess is that Minsk, like most large cities has its more upscale sections and attractions. I wouldn't mind visiting this city and I'm sure it offers way more than what is shown in this video.
It is underrated thanks to Euronews, CNN, BBC and other so called unprejudiced media.
Congratulations on 250k subscribers, Gabe!
Thanks a lot, appreciate it.
Thanks Gabriel! Stay safe! 😊❤
this is a great video! i wish you would do a video like this for every country/ city you do. i love the exoloring videos but this video is full of great information.
New destination on the cards! Thanks Gabe 👍
I like the indoor video, very easy to follow all the info. It's like a Ted talk!
Belarus is underrated. I’m from Minsk and fuck it’s nice to see people talk about it
A lot of People probably don't want to visit because it's still a dictatorship. Why is Belarus still a dictatorship?
Looks like such a beautiful place and the people seem so friendly
Cool, you made it to Minsk. Good video!
👌 yeazz
There is no high season in Belarus !!!
Okay.
😂😂
Ya we have like 5 visitors a year haha
No, there is. During long holidays and a week before them. Prices are higher and it's hard to find a place in the hotel or find a room. I am talking about Minsk.
great very informative much appreciated : ]
Hello, how are you, I'm from Algeria and I liked Vdyohat, I want to visit Belarus for five days, and I want to book an apartment in Minsk, what I have to do or send to you, because there is no embassy in my country Belarus
Thanks Gabriel, very useful video
Cool.
Thanks for another great video. Too sad, you're not coming to Transylvania again.
Gabriel come to Lebanon during Christmas time. You won't be disappointed
Cool to see that you are in Belarus, I will go there as well next summer!
Steve jobs looking Gabriel lol nice informative vid
Jose Lopez Hahhaha. Yes. Steve Jobs!
almost at 250k mate well done
Thanks, pretty crazy.
Great video
Thank you for visiting our country! / Спасибо вам что посетили нашу страну!
Awesome city! I was there in october. Did you go to the Minsk Sea? (actually its a lake). The WWII museum is aweseome. Just don't forget, if you are staying in Belarus for more than 5 days, you will HAVE TO register with the local authorities, or there may be problems leaving the country such as fines etc! However, weekends don't count as days. Only weekdays (mondays-fridays) do. EDIT: Saw now you mentioned that, however, weekends doesn't count. At my hotel they did the paperwork for me for free, hotels do, apartments don't do that, you will have to register on your own along with the owner if its an apartment. But hotels will give you the necessary papers at reception desk, all for free. That is an awesome price for an apartment in central Minsk, I stayed in Orbita Hotel very far from the city center for around $30 per night.
@Jonas Sandoy I know, thats why I choosed Orbita
I love Amsterdam I go every year, looking forward to your vids from there.
Very nice 🤗 will be waiting for Amsterdam video as well
Actually, not as cheap as I imagined.. Cheap by US standards, but quite expensive by Eastern European standards. $8.50 for the meal??? Such small portions.
$8.50 for the meal is also too expensive for me in Puerto Rico where a plate of rice and beans with salad, some kind of meat(fried pork,pork chop or chicken)and a cup of water is $5 to 6.75USD. That is of course in the main metropolitan cities eating out. In the small towns it varies. 8 and up is tourist robbery prices. Thank GOD I can cook and real good too lol! I save.
A tip for anyone visiting Minsk and planning to visit other Belarusian cities by train. Try Express Hotel ,which is right next to the train station. It's very nice and the view is the Gates of Minsk. Just across there is a mall,it is a very convenient place.
3:15 thought he was gonna give a Belorussian dance tutorial
Loving your videos man! Inspiring me to do more solo traveling. Any chance you'll do a Scotland trip soon?
Sweet, thanks. I really want to go back to Scotland and am sort of considering working it into this trip, but I'm not sure yet. I hitchhiked from Land's End to John'O'Groats when I was 18.
Solo travel, any travel, is so much easier with all the internet info available now. Maps, GPS, booking, vlogs, trip advisor, uber, credit cards, etc.. Back in the day, it was Let's Go, maybe Fodors, then Lonely Planet.
I went to Minsk on ground route, so I had to pre-book all hotels before I applied for visa. Then I went to travel agent and they sorted it out. I did not see much of a country, because that pre-booking thing. Food was certainly very good and metro was very orderly.
Awesome thx for sharing
Try kompot (or compote in English) at some restaurant in Minsk. It's a cold drink made by boiling fruit, water and sugar. This is a very Eastern European and Russian thing. Can't leave Eastern Europe without trying kompot!
it's very good! my grandma makes it home made, delicous
Merry Christmas
Nice vid! Gonna hang out in Amsterdam (my home town) next or just do a quick layover?
Hi thanks Gabriel that was very informative video of your location. And I want to add that very convenient pricing for some of the things there unfortunately the transportation, Not so reliable and I heard about the taxi cab drivers to as well before excellent video man keep them coming.
Oh you got me Gabriel. I had thought that you were taking the ferry from Estonia to Finland, but no you ended up in Belarus. This video should be interesting.
Wow those old Eastern block countries are a lot cheaper than I thought.
great view and hope to go in 4 days. So ready for new country
Cool, enjoy Belarus. Do you know if you will have to self isolate for fourteen days? Bald and Bankrupt had to, but I heard that maybe they stopped requiring that.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I dont know, honesty. I am ok with isolation because I am studying Dutch and apologetic anyway. Armenia is getting worse and just want something new.
@@JesusistheLambofGod Right on, well have a good trip wherever you go.
In East Europe and Scandinavia what are you fondest so far
Hohoho, when I heard this whole thing is going to be from inside a hotel room, I expected the worst... but pleasantly surprised! I liked everything! I enjoyed this one!
Cool.
Median monthly Minsk wage is 250 USD, 40 percent of the Belarussian population work for the state companies, that is why Belarussia is super cheap. Turkey is also amazingly super cheap, median net wage in Istanbul, Ankara is 270-300 USD per month, bottled 33 cl water price is 20 cents, 1.5 lt water price is 50 cents, 33 cl coca cola, fanta, sprite is 30 cents, 5 minutes taxi ride costs 3 USD in Turkey, 4+1 bedroom 180 sq meters apartment in the city center is priced 160.000 USD (just 20 years old); similar price at countryside apartments in the USA states on the eastern seaboard and Mexican shorelines in the USA.
Could you please go back for a longer time, its such an interesting place
how much time does it generally takes to book accommodation in advance for you, do you pay in advance or at checkout?
I used Booking.com without problem. You pay in advance and you get a voucher to print out.
Gabriel you upload the useful informative videos about the travelling kindly help us which season suitable for tour and preparation of leguage means bags and needful thing for tour
Loving your work Gabriel i found your channel a month or so back very informative good tips. It was unfortunate when you got scammed in Turkey but a valuable lesson for others. Belarus got badly hit with fallout from Chernobyl. Did you find anything out about how safe food supply is there? Local produce farming for example.
Hey we found your channel today and really love your videos!! We are traveling all over India this year so if at any time you decide to come we would love to meet up :)
Awesome, not sure when I'll be going back to India again, but have an epic trip. Amazing country.
Thank you so much!! After writing the comment we actually found some of your India videos :)
@@ACoupleofDreams Right on. Yeah I have hundreds of videos from India, here's a playlist from my last trip:
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Grimbergen! Amazing that they serve a Belgian beer there.
Minsk is the cleanest of all capitals in the world
Beautiful Country and it’s people!
Hello nice video looking for the next saludos
Sweet. I was wondering if you were going to hit Belarus since you were in that region. That’s so cool you can fly into Minsk to get the 30 day visa free access now. I was thinking about doing that next year. Would you say it is worth a side trip when visiting Europe?
Yeah definitely worth it. In fact my next video will answer that very question. Just finished it, probably post it tomorrow.
Grimbergen hehe Belgian beer my favorite
I would love to see more of Minsk from Gabriel! It's good to go here before everything becomes completely westernized and capitalized here.
Next video will be a tour.
You are living the life Mr. Gabriel , i think you get lot of sponsors while travelling.
Thanks, I agree except I never do sponsored videos. I prefer not to.
As always love each video! Always will. My 2 cents - and I know you have 250k viewers with all sorts of opinions as well - I'd like to see a bit of a deeper dive into each location or a slower pace. Seems like you hop from place to place like you're in a hurry (and I think all travel vloggers tend to). For example I'd love to see a 2 week journey or longer around Tallinn or all of Estonia and really get a better feel for it. Keep up the great work Gabriel.
I would have liked to have made more videos of all these countries, as I did in Greece, Turkey and Georgia earlier in this trip. But my trip was getting long and winter is coming so I decided to fly through and just give a taste of each place for now. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go back and show more of the countries and their cultures another time. Usually I prefer to spend more time in a place.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Are you going back to the states for Christmas Gabe?
@@nicolaskottis5245 Not sure if I'll make it back by then but sometime around the new year most likely.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Well, safe travels till then.
Hello!
Where is the journey? Where are the unique landscapes?
I was wondering if you stopped in Belarus. Hope you're having a good time!
It’s all good!
Absolutely
I saw that video this week!
Which video?
The Bald and Bankrupt video in Belarus. The $4 meal with lots of sides and vodka--bread, tomatoes, meat, maybe soup. Lots of food.
Ah gotcha, cool.
When I was on Belarus, it was 8000 rubles to every dollar. How’d you get your numbers?
If you've been there before 2016, chance is that you were using the old currency, currency that were showing much bigger number than the one they have today since 2016
Hi Gabriel, This is a first it must be a bit cold to be walking around very understandable.
Hi bro can u share about the busiest place in city centre? And also night life in Minsk?
I don’t know what going on but I don’t see any of you new videos in my feed anymore?
Gabe ----- Can you please do a question and answer video on Eastern Europe? Im sure many of your subscribers would enjoy.
I for one would like to know which of the places had the coolest vibe? Based on what I have seen from your videos, I like Vilnius and Tblisi
Also.....Bald and Bankrupts videos are amazing.....especialy those on India, where he wanders around with a muslim clerics hat and speaks Hindi!!!!
Omg you're drinking Kefir? It's my go-to food and it's super healthy! Great choice, Gabriel :)
@Chad Hoskins I got used to the original flavour but my favourite ones are pomegranate and strawberry! I will go with your recommendation for peach next time I'm out shopping :D
Raspberry is amazing, also strawberry and peach.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos haven't tried the raspberry one so next time I'm on the grocery shopping spree I'm after some new flavours to test out! 😎
Mine too when I travel Europe.
Good prices. Nice big apartment.
Am guessing you will head to Poland next amazing country, was in krakow just this July. Poland is nice and cheap and really good. I hope you visit gabe
He said he booked a flight to amsterdam
he got a flight to Amsterdam
Yeah I decided to skip over Poland this trip. It's a shame, heard amazing things but I'm short on time and heading back to the US soon. I'll have to explore it another time when I'm not in a rush and also when it's warmer would be preferable.
I had been to Poland. you can 100 percent skip it.it feels like Asia and in decline and it is not worth it. the only positive thing I cam say about Poland is that the people are friendly
Wow! In decline? Then you aren't aware of what it was like 30 years ago. Poland felt as prosperous as the US, but that might not be saying much anymore.
It’s be hard to get a bottled beer these days in the States at a restaurant for less than $8.
Interesting Gabe 👍🏻 I’m heading to Amsterdam in 2 weeks for 5 days 🤗 but I guess you’ll be in the US by then , safe travels dude ✌🏼
No way, right on. We'll probably just miss each other. Flying there tomorrow and will be there about a week. Otherwise I'd totally be up for a beer. I haven't made my onward plans yet but maybe to London after that.
3:19 you are on snappy dresser, my friend! those Belarussian ladies better watch out!
Was the dinner in Lido? Looks familiar though
What’s cheep
Prices are double from Pöland Romania etc
Very expensive for standard things
ayyee amsterdam next ☁️🔥☁️🔥
Excellent...great place for a cheap visit...at least in the winter months...👍🏻
Get a schwab or Fidelity investment check card, they give you the mid market rate and they don't have fees. They also refund you all the atm fee's at the end of the month... (you don't have to invest to get the check card)
Is there high season in Belarus?
Good question. Must be more tourists in summer, maybe from neighboring countries like Russia and Ukraine. I really have no idea, but seems like some tourists would be going there. Amazing city, as you can see in my next video. Just finished it.
Amazing deal the apartment bro
nice 👍
Cheap but I think Kiev, Ukraine is cheaper. I currently rent a 56m 2 room apartment with my wife for $370 a month and we are in the center. Metro is 8 hyrvnas which is roughly about 0.23 cents.
Love Amsterdam ♥️
You answered my question. I wanted to come here and but did not know how to get Visa. Thanks for info. I am an American too. I dont have travel or medical insurance. Guess I will skip this country for now or get the cheap insurance.
Visa is no problem for 5 days. It is free and the only thing they insist on is the insurance. Like Gabriel said, you enter the passport area and right before it is a kiosk to buy insurance. For one day it was also 5 Euros. It took all of 5 minutes to do this. Passport control was another 5 minutes and there was the usual red/green area for customs.
@@ahyodem It's ridiculous, though, that you have to fly in to get a free visa. Yet if you want to take the train, you have to have one in advance.
minmilwaukee you can stay for 30 days without visa in Belarus
Interesting to point out that Belarus only uses bank notes. They don't have coins, unless they're sold as souvenirs. Of course they also accept debit & credit cards etc..
They have coins actually, I just got some in change. Maybe that was the case in the past.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos You're right Gabriel. They issued coins in 2016 according to Wikipedia, but yes before that, it was only notes.
I see.
Visa needed or just land there and they issue it?
You can get the visa on arrival now.
when are you planning to leave?
Does anyone know for sure, if you need to have forward ticket for 30 day visa? EU passport
There is no 30-day visa, it's visa-free. No paper. But you must have those tickets, accommodation, insurance and pocket money per day in case you are asked about them. And that's random.
A great channel for visa questions if you want to visit Belarus is the Minsk Guide channel. Look him up.
I agree, Andrei spends a lot of time explaining everything travel related to Belarus. I was completely informed before I arrived thanks to his channel.
migrating there soon...I can live there..on doubt about it...
"We'll always have Minsk! "
Not many travel vlogs about Belarus , good to see you in rare travel vidoes about minsk '
Btw not many Videos about Philippines
Should travel manila & Boracay
Gabriel please send a link to your travel gear. Bro. Tnx
Hi, see the links below the video.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos do you use a powerbank? Which one?
How did you get a visa?
I talked about it in the video. You don't need a visa now. You can stay for 30 days as long as you fly in and out of Minsk.
Another very cheap destination for you would be Mexico, now that the MXN peso is considerably devaluated... the only exceptions are Cancun and Los Cabos that are mainly managed in USD
I need to go back to Mexico, I was there four years ago:
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What about powerbank and that stuff....