This is great! I'm capable of creating a budget for a solo trip to London, but trying to plan a future trip with my parents feels impossible with all the moving parts that they want to know the costs on - this will help a lot!
Very nice breakdown. If you are willing to switch teams, Google Sheets has a cool hack where you can use the formula =googlefinance("Currency:USDGBP") that will automatically pull the conversion rate into a cell and update as it changes. Cheers! 🍻
I’m thinking of doing a post-pandemic trip to London from Canada for the first time and I’m so happy I found your channel! Your videos are all so helpful. It’s difficult right now to figure out cost estimations of things like flights, hotels, attractions, theatre tickets, etc since so many things are altered or shut down, so it’s tricky trying to figure how much I’d need to budget for things. Right now I’m just researching and making lists of things I’d want to do while I’m there. It’s fun planning a “fake” trip! I might play around with a spreadsheet like this. Thanks for all the information.
Awesome to hear you're doing your planning! You can still kinda get an idea of prices while you're researching so try to have a look to help you plan better. I am going to make a spreadsheet that you can buy and gives ideas of pricing for each category so that will help too. Thanks so much, glad to have you here!
Budgets? Savings Goals? Using Excel? You are my kinda girl! We went to London for 9 days, 12/25/17-1/3/18. 2 parents, 2 college kids. All in, we spent $10,901.77. That.includes.everything: flight, airbnb, food, drinks, transportation, sightseeing, souvenirs, even our pet sitter. The best advise I got was from a friend... she said that since we were going to be traveling during the holidays, we should book our flight before Labor Day, because after summer is over, people start planning their Christmas trips. She was right as after we booked, our flights went up $2000 (Virgin Airlines) and never went down. Yes, the world is different now but just thought I'd share.
Yup! Generally with Christmas trips, the earlier you can book, the better, because the more seats that get booked on a flight, the more the remaining seat prices go up. Thanks for watching! :)
My Excel skills are basically null so I'm impressed! 😄 I liked the way you worked the budget. I think I could use a lot of this to help us plan. THANK YOU!!!!
this is really really great, i love all these tips!! i spent so so much in london when i lived there for a few months (ESPECIALLY on drinks, they so are so so expensive in london...) and something that helped me was having a budget app that i always entered my expenses into when i was on the go - so i didnt forget about the £2,50 for a pret coffee or so. also, eating at food markets instead of restaurants can often help you stay under £10 per meal, thats what i often did :)
Yup that's great. I track all of my spending while at home in London and I even just use the Notes app to write things down on the go and enter them into my budget sheet each morning before starting work.
I love your videos, but I admit I expected more from budget tips. Since you know the price ranges well you could maybe talk more about that? Not how to save but how much. I'm curious about different dinning options.
I did give tips for price ranges in this video, but do remember that ranges are usually huge for most things. I also have more info on price ranges in this video: czcams.com/video/CWMUHdK4kbo/video.html
Alright, I will see this one. I guess people who need to plan a budget are not billionaires, so a standard cost of meals would be good. I visited London a few times so I have a rough estimation (I usually go to the same places: Byron, Hawleys Arms, Brewdog, pubs in Soho) but I guess it would really serve others who have no clue about the prices. Cheers and Im waiting for more vids from you ♥
Cool video, just watched. So my take away point is that for my appetite and the places I like I would put aside 30-35 pounds per day for food. 2 meals and one snack. Now I'm only waiting for the borders to open and will come straight from Paris :)
I have a Google spreadsheet for each trip I plan with all the categories. Helps me prepare and also to look back and see how much I've spent on all my trips.
Hi Jess! I'm JOB DANIEL from India. I'll be moving to London for a new job in January. I'm really curious to know about the dining etiquettes in UK. Can you please make a video on that.
Hi! My wife has been offered a job in London (from Australia) to start in May 2021, we will both be going and we were looking at how realistic frequent travel through Europe is? (ie weekend trips from London through Europe AND once covid restrictions pass). I will be trying to get a job also to cover costs... Great vid btw
She will be getting paid £47k a year and I’ll get a job to boost that further so I was wondering how much travel could be done in 1 year to 1.5 years? 😊
Completely depends on you guys, so it's hard to say, because I don't know how much you plan to spend on living costs and such. But I don't see why you couldn't do a lot of Europe travel, try to use trains and buses as much as possible to reduce carbon footprint. The Eurostar is AMAZING and you can take trains all over mainland UK to see lots of great cities and countries too. Thank you so much for watching and good luck with the move!! Not sure if you've seen but I have a whole video series about Living in London which will help you tons before you come over.
This is great! I'm capable of creating a budget for a solo trip to London, but trying to plan a future trip with my parents feels impossible with all the moving parts that they want to know the costs on - this will help a lot!
Oh fab! Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!
Very nice breakdown. If you are willing to switch teams, Google Sheets has a cool hack where you can use the formula =googlefinance("Currency:USDGBP") that will automatically pull the conversion rate into a cell and update as it changes. Cheers! 🍻
Yassss love it. I actually did it in Google Sheets! Thanks!
I’m thinking of doing a post-pandemic trip to London from Canada for the first time and I’m so happy I found your channel! Your videos are all so helpful. It’s difficult right now to figure out cost estimations of things like flights, hotels, attractions, theatre tickets, etc since so many things are altered or shut down, so it’s tricky trying to figure how much I’d need to budget for things. Right now I’m just researching and making lists of things I’d want to do while I’m there. It’s fun planning a “fake” trip! I might play around with a spreadsheet like this. Thanks for all the information.
Awesome to hear you're doing your planning! You can still kinda get an idea of prices while you're researching so try to have a look to help you plan better. I am going to make a spreadsheet that you can buy and gives ideas of pricing for each category so that will help too. Thanks so much, glad to have you here!
I love fake trips to London.... I think I have one weekly...lol
lol!
Budgets? Savings Goals? Using Excel? You are my kinda girl! We went to London for 9 days, 12/25/17-1/3/18. 2 parents, 2 college kids. All in, we spent $10,901.77. That.includes.everything: flight, airbnb, food, drinks, transportation, sightseeing, souvenirs, even our pet sitter. The best advise I got was from a friend... she said that since we were going to be traveling during the holidays, we should book our flight before Labor Day, because after summer is over, people start planning their Christmas trips. She was right as after we booked, our flights went up $2000 (Virgin Airlines) and never went down. Yes, the world is different now but just thought I'd share.
Yup! Generally with Christmas trips, the earlier you can book, the better, because the more seats that get booked on a flight, the more the remaining seat prices go up. Thanks for watching! :)
My Excel skills are basically null so I'm impressed! 😄 I liked the way you worked the budget. I think I could use a lot of this to help us plan. THANK YOU!!!!
Haha I mean yes I do love Excel but I didn't do anything too fancy, I promise ;) Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it.
this is really really great, i love all these tips!! i spent so so much in london when i lived there for a few months (ESPECIALLY on drinks, they so are so so expensive in london...) and something that helped me was having a budget app that i always entered my expenses into when i was on the go - so i didnt forget about the £2,50 for a pret coffee or so.
also, eating at food markets instead of restaurants can often help you stay under £10 per meal, thats what i often did :)
Yup that's great. I track all of my spending while at home in London and I even just use the Notes app to write things down on the go and enter them into my budget sheet each morning before starting work.
I love your videos, but I admit I expected more from budget tips. Since you know the price ranges well you could maybe talk more about that? Not how to save but how much. I'm curious about different dinning options.
I did give tips for price ranges in this video, but do remember that ranges are usually huge for most things. I also have more info on price ranges in this video: czcams.com/video/CWMUHdK4kbo/video.html
Alright, I will see this one. I guess people who need to plan a budget are not billionaires, so a standard cost of meals would be good. I visited London a few times so I have a rough estimation (I usually go to the same places: Byron, Hawleys Arms, Brewdog, pubs in Soho) but I guess it would really serve others who have no clue about the prices. Cheers and Im waiting for more vids from you ♥
Cool video, just watched. So my take away point is that for my appetite and the places I like I would put aside 30-35 pounds per day for food. 2 meals and one snack. Now I'm only waiting for the borders to open and will come straight from Paris :)
I have a Google spreadsheet for each trip I plan with all the categories. Helps me prepare and also to look back and see how much I've spent on all my trips.
Team excel babyyyyyy
Very nice advice to exploring London
Wooo!
Thank you very much 🙏💖
Thanks for watching!
Awesome job Jess
Thanks so much for watching Kenny, I truly appreciate it.
Hi Jess! I'm JOB DANIEL from India. I'll be moving to London for a new job in January. I'm really curious to know about the dining etiquettes in UK. Can you please make a video on that.
Hi Job! I'll add it to the list.
GREAT VIDEO GIRL!
Thanks Ingrid!
i literally just wanted the excel sheet
Hi! My wife has been offered a job in London (from Australia) to start in May 2021, we will both be going and we were looking at how realistic frequent travel through Europe is? (ie weekend trips from London through Europe AND once covid restrictions pass). I will be trying to get a job also to cover costs... Great vid btw
She will be getting paid £47k a year and I’ll get a job to boost that further so I was wondering how much travel could be done in 1 year to 1.5 years? 😊
Completely depends on you guys, so it's hard to say, because I don't know how much you plan to spend on living costs and such. But I don't see why you couldn't do a lot of Europe travel, try to use trains and buses as much as possible to reduce carbon footprint. The Eurostar is AMAZING and you can take trains all over mainland UK to see lots of great cities and countries too. Thank you so much for watching and good luck with the move!! Not sure if you've seen but I have a whole video series about Living in London which will help you tons before you come over.
Have you got a channel based on New York as I’m from London and I would love to travel to the USA one day
I live in London!
@@loveandlondon your American as well I can tell by your accent just thought on what travel advice you will give to people flying to the USA
Great spreadsheet! Are you an accountant?
Lol running this channel and company is my job! But thank you.