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Tracked every dollar for 11 days in Bangkok and hit $219 total, then the weird part happened
So I grabbed a cheap flight deal and decided to test those $20 a day travel blogs for real, logging every single purchase in a notes app. By day 11 I was at $219, which beat my $300 guess, and most of the savings came from one dumb thing: eating where the moto drivers eat instead of anywhere with a menu in English. The funny part is a street vendor near Khaosan started waving me over every morning and gave me free extra rice after like day 6. Anyone else find that the cheapest spots also end up being where you make actual friends on a trip?
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parker_davis4128d ago
That line about eating where the moto drivers eat is the whole game right there. It's the same thing that happens at home with any place you go to enough times: the regulars spot you, and the wall between customer and familiar face comes down. Think about the barber who stops charging you full price, or the diner where the cook starts sliding you extra bacon after you've shown up five Sundays in a row. Fancy places can't do that because the whole setup is built to keep you moving through. Cheap spots are usually run by one person who's there every single day, so they actually notice when you keep coming back. That free rice wasn't random, it was the friend tax going the other way.
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