RTW Budget: What It Costs to Travel in Cambodia

By Eemusings @eemusings

hak house siem reap cambodiaOur stay in Cambodia was short and sweet, wonderful and terrible. It is a place you cannot visit without feeling something - whatever that might be in your case.

We spent just a couple of days each in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Moving this quickly, of course, inflates the daily budget. We also ate mostly in bakeries/restaurants. But staying at Hak’s House in Siem Reap, while a little bit of a trek from the main streets, provided us with a free breakfast and free mineral water refills from a cooler, as well as a cheap restaurant and easy travel bookings. Here’s how we clocked in.

Phnom Penh

  • May 28 – $221.85 (including $116 for Vietnam visas, $26 for bus tickets to Ho Chi Minh)
  • May 27 -  $132.13 (including $20 souvenir for T’s mom from the museum)

Siem Reap

  • May 26 – $125.31 (including $40 for Angkor Wat passes, $18 for bus tickets to Phnom Penh)
  • May 25 – $73.21 (nothing notable today)

Full travel day

  • May 24 – $144.64 – ($40 for Cambodia visas, $36 for the taxi – an outrageous amount as we were only three passengers along with a Chilean guy, and I oh-so-generously decided we should make up the shortfall as the couple.)

Getting from Bangkok to Siem Reap was, uh, an experience. Read more about that here!