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name: travel-budget-breakdown
description: "Estimate what a trip will really cost, line by line, with room for the things people forget. Use when the user wants help with Travel Budget Breakdown. Related topics: Travel, Finance, Planning."
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# Travel Budget Breakdown

Estimate what a trip will really cost, line by line, with room for the things people forget.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Destination** (free text, e.g. "Where you're going")
- **Dates or season** (free text, e.g. "mid-March")
- **Trip length** (choose one: A long weekend, About a week, Two weeks, A month)
- **Number of travellers** (choose one: 1, 2, 3-4, 5 or more)
- **Travel style** (choose one: Backpacker / hostels, Budget but comfortable, Mid-range hotels, Boutique and nice restaurants, Luxury)
- **What's already paid for** (longer free text)
- **Currency to show totals in** (free text, e.g. "USD")

## Prompt template

## Travel Budget Breakdown

Estimate what this trip will cost me.

- Destination: {{Destination}}
- Dates or season: {{Dates or season}}
- Trip length: {{Trip length}}
- Number of travellers: {{Number of travellers}}
- Travel style: {{Travel style}}
- What's already paid for: {{What's already paid for}}
- Currency to show totals in: {{Currency to show totals in}}

Break the budget into flights, accommodation, local transport, food, activities, and miscellaneous, with a per-day figure and a trip total. Show a lean version and a comfortable version side by side. Include the costs people routinely forget: visas, travel insurance, airport transfers, tips, baggage fees, and card foreign-transaction charges. State the assumptions behind your numbers so I can adjust them, and add a sensible contingency percentage.

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Source: [Travel Budget Breakdown on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/FJ5k1hk1rcF2q4KrY1wa/travel-budget-breakdown)