How do you track vacation spending? iPhone App?

[4kids4karen]

Hi,

I am wondering how everyone tracks spending on their trip (not before).
I am traveling abroad and won't bring my laptop to log it in every night. I am thinking I need an APP that I can enter how much I spent at lunch, random street purchases, etc. I am not afraid of going over budget, but would like to see the final numbers. We will be using a lot of cash purchases vs card purchases.

 

[krysenchips]

I use the Every Dollar app on my phone to log my spending.

 

[Marionnette]

Cashish and Mint apps when I had an iPhone. I switched to android a few years ago.

 

[starry_solo]

I'm old school and bring a little notebook with a pen and pencil.

 

[elgerber]

Do you want detailed or very simple? I have used Vacation Budget Tracker. You do enter in a budget amount, but then you can enter every amount you spend and it adds it up. No spreadsheet or details or anything, just literally a total dollar amount spent.

 

[4kids4karen]

I'm old school and bring a little notebook with a pen and pencil.

I was thinking of bringing one of the tiny pocket notebooks. Simple. We will have an wifi egg, but a notebook would eliminate having to connect to wifi to use an app.

 

[4kids4karen]

Do you want detailed or very simple? I have used Vacation Budget Tracker. You do enter in a budget amount, but then you can enter every amount you spend and it adds it up. No spreadsheet or details or anything, just literally a total dollar amount spent.

I am looking for simple. Like: Lunch $20. Bus ticket: $12. Snack cart: $5.

 

[elgerber]

I am looking for simple. Like: Lunch $20. Bus ticket: $12. Snack cart: $5.

This program I mentioned only takes dollar amounts, you can't label or track anything, it's just a running total.

 

[amalone1013]

I always make our budget estimates for vacations in Google Docs, so I can open them at home or work and on my phone, so when we are on our trip, I just open the Google Doc on my phone and add each purchase as we go.