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That’s fair! Although the water did end up being nicer than a lot of rivers we’ve paddled on but I’m sure there are some actually nice rivers further north

@@claireandcraigtravel may God be with you 👍

Matcha for me too 😋

Right!!

For sure! Next time we need at least 2 weeks!!

Thanks for such a lovely comment!! 😊

Oh really?! We actually preferred Osaka to Kyoto but Tokyo over both

Wow really? 😮There was so many cheap options available when we went!! We found all our accommodation on either booking.com, Agoda or trip.com

Hi! We downloaded the app called ‘Anywheel’ (green bikes) but there is also another app called ‘HelloRide’ (blue bikes), you use the app to locate, pay for and take out the bike. These bikes are everywhere around the city so you should just be able to spot them as you go around but you can also find all the locations of the bikes and return points on the apps

@@claireandcraigtravel thank you so much 😊

Completely depends on your travel style and what you want to do. We travel fairly budget so our costs are much lower than people who go on luxury trip to Japan. Activities can have a real range of prices as can hotels. Bullet trains are quite expensive so it’ll add up if you’re travelling to a lot of places quickly. Food is generally pretty reasonable but certain foods can still be expensive

We were really surprised by how little recognition the west coast seems to get internationally! It’s such a lovely area

Haven’t been to any of the other Canary Islands yet unfortunately

Hope you make it there yourself, Denmark definitely surprised us!!

Yeah we’d stay there again if we go back to Shanghai, mainly because the location of it was really good!!

It’s a great map, not sure if they still do it but we got it from the tourist information centre on Rømø

Mainly Booking.com, Agoda and Trip.com but a few times we did extend our stay directly with the accommodation and that tends to be cheaper since they don’t have to pay the platform fees

Yeah China is pretty cheap

Definitely the biggest one we’ve seen! Apparently they can grow up to 3m 🤯

Yeah other than the food, but that’s still very cheap, I was surprised how affordable Singapore actually is

It doesn’t include the flights to and from Europe, it’s just the costs while we were in Asia so it’d be almost $700 more when you add that on

We did visit again since this video but only for a week and unfortunately the weather wasn’t on our side so we didn’t get to see a lot that time. We definitely would like to visit again soon, possibly this summer if time allows. We will have a look into some of the islands and at your videos, thanks for the suggestion 😃

Us too 😂🤤

We don’t mention flights because they are so variable. Even the same flight varies a lot in price depending on when it was booked so it’s not representative of how expensive a particular country is or how much it would cost you to get there from your airport on your specific dates. In this case we flew from Shanghai to Osaka and it was £60 but obviously it’s going to be a lot more if you were flying something like London to Tokyo - we know most people who see our videos are from Europe or North America so it’s not very useful for most people to see the flight cost just from one random country :)

Yes we definitely will be posting a long one about Shanghai, still editing it at the moment though

Probably the busiest place we’ve ever been!!

@@claireandcraigtravel come to mumbai

It was such a cool experience and soooo efficient! I hope more places start introducing them

It was definitely a shock for us having just left Vietnam but agree it doesn’t seem too bad for new year

Yeah true, East Asia was just meant in the sense of east part of Asia as we needed to group Vietnam and Singapore with the rest of the trip (Hong Kong, China and Japan) and couldn't think of a better way 🤔

Yeah it really would be, almost half of the total cost was from one boat trip in Halong bay so when you take that away it’s even more insane

I definitely need a lot more practice 😂

We went back again just to see them 😍🤩

The rankings are based on cost of living so I expect the astronomical cost of cars has really swayed the statistics but in terms of travelling to Singapore it’s definitely far cheaper. As you say food in particular is incredibly affordable, much much cheaper than the west

We were really surprised by how cheap the food could be!!

That’s very interesting to hear your perspective because at the time we felt it was very expensive but we’d just come from Vietnam so I think we’d just got used to very low prices. Now we’ve readjusted it seems a lot more reasonable

Hong Kong is quite hilly so that was a bit challenging but in terms of infrastructure it was good. I don’t know if we were skewed because we came straight from Vietnam but it felt very accessible to us. I’d say out of everywhere we’ve been in Asia so far Hong Kong and Singapore are the most accessible. We’ve spent about 5 months in Asia and that hotel is one of only two where we’ve actually had an accessible room. The trains were level and had lifts most stations (although sometimes hard to find on street level), the tram is old and is not accessible, we didn’t use buses but I believe they are accessible. Lots of drop curbs, lots of disabled public toilets, not all entrances to shops/restaurants were level but a lot were. You also are given priority when queuing. There wasn’t anywhere we wanted to go that we couldn’t get to. Hope that helps :)

@@claireandcraigtravel that’s great thanks - omg I would love to spend a few months travelling Asia, what other parts have you spent time 🫶 x

We loved it, would highly recommend it if you get the chance!! :) We also went to Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore

Oh really? I was actually surprised the other way but we had just come straight from Vietnam which is incredibly cheap!

Thanks :)