The Budget Estimator answers the question that usually decides a trip more than the weather does: roughly what will this cost? Holiday spending swings sharply between destinations and seasons — a fortnight in Mauritius in July is a different proposition from the same fortnight in Mallorca in October, and a backpacker's outlay sits on a different planet from a luxury traveller's. You pick one of the 24 destinations, set a start and end date, choose a travel style, say how many of you are going, and optionally set the flight cabin and whether you will share rooms. The tool returns a single estimated total in euros, a per-day and per-person figure, and a breakdown across accommodation, food, transport, activities and return flights, with the share of the total each category takes. It also tells you whether the destination's daily cost runs noticeably above or below the typical destination for that style. It is built for the traveller comparing two shortlisted places, or sense-checking whether a dream destination is realistic, before any money is committed. Every figure is a typical planning estimate rather than a live quote.
Each destination carries a curated cost table holding three travel styles — Budget, Mid-range and Luxury — with a separate daily figure for accommodation, food, local transport and activities, plus a return flight price at three tiers. The styles are not just an accommodation markup: every line scales, so Budget assumes hostels and street food, Mid-range three-star hotels and casual restaurants, and Luxury four to five-star resorts and high-end dining. All figures are in euros and reflect the cost table's stated vintage of April 2026. Accommodation is priced per room at two guests per room when room sharing is on, otherwise one room per traveller; food, transport and activities are priced per traveller per day. A seasonal multiplier is then applied. Each destination's region — Mediterranean, Atlantic Islands, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean or Africa — has a twelve-month profile, and the tool averages the multiplier for your start month and end month. That factor is labelled peak when it reaches about 1.2 or higher, low at about 0.85 or below, and shoulder in between. The multiplier hits accommodation in full, applies at roughly half strength to activities and about forty per cent to flights, and is not applied to food or transport. Flights are added per traveller at a cabin tier — economy, premium or business — which defaults to match the style but can be set independently. The breakdown is summed into the grand total. These are typical estimated prices for planning, not quotes, and any weather references elsewhere on the site are historical climate averages, not forecasts.
No. Every figure is a typical estimated price drawn from a curated planning cost table, not a real-time quote. Actual prices vary with exchange rates, local events, demand and how far ahead you book, so treat the total as a planning ballpark to compare destinations and styles, then confirm real prices with airlines and accommodation providers before you commit.
The estimate covers accommodation, food, local transport, activities and return flights. Accommodation, food, transport and activities are daily figures for your travel style; flights are a round-trip price at the chosen cabin. It does not attempt to cover travel insurance, visas, vaccinations, shopping or other personal extras, which you should budget for separately on top of the figure shown.
Budget assumes hostels and street food, Mid-range assumes three-star hotels and casual restaurants, and Luxury assumes four to five-star resorts and high-end dining. The style is not only an accommodation setting: it scales every cost line, including food, transport and activities, so the gap between styles is far wider than the room price alone would suggest.
Each destination's region has a twelve-month price profile, and the tool averages the factor for your start and end month. It is shown as peak at roughly 1.2 or above, low at about 0.85 or below, or shoulder between. The multiplier applies in full to accommodation, at about half strength to activities and around forty per cent to flights, and is not applied to food or transport.
Accommodation is priced per room, not per person. With room sharing on, travellers are placed two to a room, so a couple needs one room and four people need two. Switching it off books a separate room for every traveller, which roughly doubles the accommodation line for a couple while leaving the per-person food, transport and activity costs unchanged.
Yes. The cabin defaults to a tier that matches the style — economy for Budget, premium for Mid-range and business for Luxury — but you can override it independently. Each tier maps to a different stored round-trip price for that destination, so a luxury land trip with economy flights, or the reverse, is fully supported and recalculated immediately.