My recent trip to Georgia turned out to be a successful one! I invited some of my dear friends to flew direct from Dubai to Tbilisi during Christmas holiday, though for a very short notice they had agreed to come, ofcourse thanks to them as Jimson and I save a lot from this trip(group-shared expenses)! 😁

What you should bring from Dubai to Georgia

It was not much difficult to be able to decide to travel to Georgia. A Filipino passport holder and a UAE resident can visit Georgia with VISA FREE for up to 90days, and you just have to present ...

🗹 Passport(check the validity make sure you leave some blank pages of your passport)

🗹 Round-trip Air Tickets

🗹 Hotel Bookings

(Filipino who's not  a UAE resident may apply to Georgia Embassy for visa)

With Dubai's location being near to Asia, Europe and Americas travelling is just too easy! Airfares are extremely cheap by the time we booked our air tickets (3-weeks before departure) through Fly Dubai. A short haul flight from Dubai to its capital city Tbilisi.

Arrival at Tbilisi Airport

Make sure to bring,
🗹 Emirates ID as immigaration will still ask for some travel documents.

🗹 Currency (conveniently always bring US dollar)
☒ Travel Insurance (not necessary)

🗹 Credit / Debit Cards (optional)

In case you'll be asking how much your pocket money just to make sure that you have enough to cover your expenses (Minimum AED2000 or 500USD this is more than enough for 3days).

Georgia currency is the Lari (GEL) you may exchange some amount at Tbilsi airport.

TIPs: There are plenty of banks and small money ex-change offices in most towns and cities, where you can exchange commonly notes for US dollars, Euros.

🗹Power Plugs Travel Adapter 

Something that you should never forget when traveling so you won’t struggled to charge your electronic devices. In Georgia the power sockets type are C and F (which is two rounded holes).

🗹 Map

Book-marked the places that you want to visit especially the instagrammable places.

🗹 Clothes
Check the weather of your destination so you'll know what kind of clothes you require. In our case, we travelled in Georgia during winter so, I suggest to bring overcoat, thick woolen sweaters, scarf, gloves, hat, socks, leather boots.

When we had the idea to travel the world Jimson and I have had this kind of fearful feeling that we would never be financially able to travel the world unless we won a huge prize from lottery.

Right before arranging flight ticket overseas, first thing we do is to check how much the total estimated expenses per country for a certain days of stay by then we can start the so called “Savings” for travel. Ironically there were times that we couldn’t save as much as we wanted, pointing out our "Wants" in life is something hard to give up! 

Since we’re on for a super saving mission to fund our travels and a lot of adjustments must be done.
We stopped coffee dates though we love spending most of our free time in cafes and, Yup! Jimson and I don't mind if we get to pay 20dirhams(5usd) for just a cup of coffee. So we convinced ourselves to buy every month a one box of Nescafe 3in1 (comes with 24pcs of sachet) instant coffee for only 17dirhams.

We stoped buying food take-out instead we remind ourselves to don't be too lazy to make home cooked meal and tried to lessen more often to dine at fancy places instead of satisfying our cravings. We stopped going to movie theater instead we would just wait for a day/week or month and stream it.

Use Public Transportation since Dubai metro and bus transportation is very efficient so I guess no need to own a private vehicle. From our own experience getting a UAE driver license was extremely expensive I cannot put into words how much money we spent only to get driver license. Supposedly the payment for buying the car, petrol, parking, car insurance and maintenance. We could have saved a lot from that money!

We stopped buying new clothes there's nothing wrong with the old ones anyway! It could be more helpful if you're going to sell your old clothes and save for travels. Apparently, we segregated one box full of old clothes and we're planning to sell them all in due time.

We also stopped upgrading gadgets like cellphones, computers and cameras. Cut-off your mobile plan we started using wifi only and, as much as possible we don't want to recharge our cell phone at least once a month just to avoid to make any phone calls nor sms. Lessen buying magazines and books mostly we relied on the internet for new knowledge and ideas.

We should never spend too much money on things that we didn’t really need. We should start learning to travel smarter, learn how to save money on flights and spend less in expensive locations.