Bicycle Touring Costs Yucatán Peninsula
How long did we stay?
24
days spent at
Yucatán peninsula
16
days cycling
8
days of rest
How far did we cycle?
833
kilometers cycled
52
kilometers cycled
on average per cycling day
Where did we sleep?
10
nights in hostels or hotels
8
nights of wild camping
6
nights at a paid campsite
How much did we spent?
| in MEX$ | in US$ | in EURO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| total amount | 24.316 | 1.299 | 1.053 |
| money/day/person | 506 | 27 | 22 |
| money/kilometer/person | 29,21 | 1,55 | 1,26 |
Bicycle Touring Cost Report – The Categories
For a better overview and to identify the cost drivers I divided our expenses into different categories. Every single amount of money we spent went into one of the following categories:
- Accommodation
- Bike Maintenance (Everything we need to buy to repair or improve our bicycles)
- Food & daily expenses (This includes all kinds of groceries and toiletries)
- Gear (If we need to replace any other gear that is not directly related to the bicycle)
- Healthcare (Hopefully we don’t need to spend money on this one!)
- Sightseeing (Including entry fees, fun stuff and everything else which is basically not necessary)
- Transportation (Ferry tickets and so on…)
- Visa and official fees (Entry or exit fees for countries, speed tickets 😉
Bicycle Touring Costs Yucatán by Category
Looking at the diagramm it’s very obvious that food and accommodation are the main cost drivers followed by sightseeing. We did a couple of dives in Tulum and that was by far our biggest expense. On the second place was – surprisingly enough – the exit fee we had to pay at the Mexican border (56,50 US$). The third place goes to our first resupply at Walmart in Cancún which was about 53 US$.
I guess we could easily cut some of our expenses by cooking more by ourselves instead of eating at restaurants and camp somewhere for free instead of sleeping in a hotel.
For those of you who are interested in more detailed numbers the following table shows the total amount of money we spent for the different categories and the amount of money per person per day.
|
Category |
amount spent in MEX$ |
amount spent in US$ |
amount spent in EURO |
|||
|
TOTAL |
DAILY amount/person |
TOTAL |
DAILY amount/person |
TOTAL |
DAILY amount/person |
|
|
Food & daily expenses |
9.248,32 MX$ |
192,67 MX$ |
494,33 $ |
10,30 $ |
400,75 € |
8,35 € |
|
Accommodation |
6.483,91 MX$ |
135,08 MX$ |
346,57 $ |
7,22 $ |
280,96 € |
5,85 € |
|
Sightseeing |
5.746,22 MX$ |
119,71 MX$ |
307,14 $ |
6,40 $ |
249,00 € |
5,19 € |
|
Transportation |
1.470,51 MX$ |
30,64 MX$ |
78,60 $ |
1,64 $ |
63,72 € |
1,33 € |
|
Visa and official fees |
1.057,05 MX$ |
22,02 MX$ |
56,50 $ |
1,18 $ |
45,80 € |
0,95 € |
|
Gear |
295,41 MX$ |
6,15 MX$ |
15,79 $ |
0,33 $ |
12,80 € |
0,27 € |
|
Bike Maintenance |
9,92 MX$ |
0,21 MX$ |
0,53 $ |
0,01 $ |
0,43 € |
0,01 € |
|
Healthcare |
0,00 MX$ |
0,00 MX$ |
0,00 $ |
0,00 $ |
0,00 € |
0,00 € |
|
24.311,34 MX$ |
506,49 MX$ |
1.299,46 $ |
27,07 $ |
1.053,47 € |
21,95 € |
|
Are you planning to cycle the Yucatán peninsula yourself? You might find my cycling guide for Yucatán helpful!
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You so sweet. I’m going through your blogs while cycling solo and having dinner in Peto, Yucatan. Thank you
You‘re welcome Glenn. Enjoy your cycling trip through Yucatán!