Simple travel planning
Estimate a practical total for transportation, lodging, food, activities, and unexpected costs.
Prices vary by destination and season. Confirm actual transportation, hotel, and activity prices before booking.
Include airport transfers, parking, resort fees, tips, transit passes, travel insurance, mobile data, and exchange-rate fees in “Other costs.”
A buffer helps absorb price changes and unexpected expenses without disrupting the rest of your trip.
It adds up transportation, lodging, food, activities, and other costs across a group of travelers and a trip length, then applies a safety buffer, so you have one practical total to plan around before booking rather than tracking every cost separately.
Two travelers on a 7-day trip with $900 in transportation, $180-per-night lodging, $65 per person per day for food, $40 per person per day for activities, $200 in other costs, and a 10% safety buffer comes to roughly $4,015 total — about $2,008 per traveler and $574 per day. Raising the buffer to 15-20% is a reasonable adjustment for destinations with less predictable pricing or a first-time visit.
Airport transfers, parking, resort fees, tips, local transit passes, travel insurance, mobile data, and currency exchange fees are commonly missed costs that fit well under this category.
10% is a reasonable starting point for a well-planned trip with mostly booked costs. For destinations with variable pricing, last-minute bookings, or a first-time visit, 15-20% gives more breathing room.
No. Enter costs in a single currency you're comfortable planning in, and use a separate currency converter if you need to translate local prices first.
Yes. Set travelers to 1 and the calculator will still split transportation and other shared costs the same way, while food and activity costs scale per person as usual.