What is the average cost of travelling around Oz?

by Lisa

Planning on travelling around Oz with my partner in Campervan (so no need for hostels etc.)

We were wondering how long we could travel on $10,000 Aussie dollars (excluding car cost), we would be fairly cost conservative. Has anyone else done this? What kind of money did you spend over what period of time?

Thanks! :)

Response to: What is the average cost of travelling around Oz?

Hi Lisa,

I have done a lot of that kind of thing, and I'd say $10.000 will go a looong way.

Your single biggest expense will be fuel costs. The rest just about pales to insignificance next to that...

So when you say excluding car costs, are you excluding fuel costs?

Costs for fuel vary wildly across the Australian states. The NT and WA are the most ridiculously expensive. On top of that prices shoot up as soon as you leave the populated coastal areas anywhere.

So what any stage of the trip costs you depends where you are...

The length of your trip won't be limited by the amount of time that your money lasts, but by the amount of kilometres you can buy. The slower you are moving on from one place to the next, the longer your money will last, know what I mean?

If you want to save money on camping check out Jan Holland's camping guide books. I wouldn't leave home without them. With that your camping costs across half of Australia are down to nearly zero.

You probably know what you usually spend on groceries, and a few national park entry fees here and there are not the world. Fuel, that's the only real expense.

Having said all that, I have no idea how you'd go over on the east coast, and what costs you are looking at there. I guess the free bushcamping sites would be a bit harder to come by. (But the diesel is cheaper :-) )

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by: Stacey

Me and my friend Emma are going to travel a bit of Australia, were thinking New South Wales. We would like to stay on a ranch where we could learn skills and perhaps work a little. We'd like to also attend surfing lessons, maybe do the obvious things like whale watching and visit national parks. Were looking to go mid year this year for maybe anything between 3 weeks and 3 months, how much money at least do you think we will need?

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by: Birgit

Hi Stacey, I'm sorry but I would have no idea. Surfing lessons, whale watching, New South Wales national parks... That has nothing to do with the Outback.

I'm afraid I can't say what any and every activity on the whole huge continent might cost. Maybe some readers have experience in that area and can help out with that?