Destination: Sweden

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Money & Costs

Sweden has a very good standard of living, which means the travel experience is generally high quality but it does tend to be expensive. Careful planning in advance can help reduce costs.

During the low-price summer period (June through until August), if you stay in a midrange hotel (which usually includes a huge buffet breakfast), eat a daily special for lunch and have an evening meal at a moderately priced restaurant, you can expect to spend Skr800 per person per day if you’re doubling up and Skr1200 if you’re travelling alone. Staying in hostels, making your own breakfast, eating the daily special at lunchtime in a restaurant, and picking up supermarket items for dinner will probably cost you Skr350 per day. The cheapest way to visit Sweden is to camp in the woods for free, eat supermarket food, hitchhike and visit only the attractions that have free admission – this will cost less than Skr100 per day.

If you stay in commercial camping grounds and prepare your own meals you can squeak by on around Skr250 per person per day. If there are a few of you, sharing car rental for a weekend in order to see some out-of-the-way places is worth considering (some petrol stations offer small cars for as little as Skr200 per day). Self-service pumps that take banknotes or credit cards are slightly cheaper, though many won’t accept foreign credit cards.

HOW MUCH?

0.7L bottle of Swedish brännvin (vodka): Skr200
Coffee with saffron pancake: Skr45
3cm souvenir Dalahästen (wooden horse): Skr80
Movie ticket: Skr75
Weekend admission to a Stureplan disco: Skr150
Litre of petrol: Skr12
Litre of bottled water: Skr12
Storstark (pint of lager): Skr35-52
Souvenir T-shirt: Skr150
Grillad korv (hot dog): Skr15-25

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