GUATEMALA Cost of Living: Lake Atitlan, 🏞️ San Pedro La Laguna! 2024

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Sharing a detailed cost of living illustration for us in Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, San Padro La Laguna in hopes that it can help you!
Living for the last 2 months in San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala has been wonderful! In case you are curious to know that the costs of rent, transportation, food, internet, electricity and other common monthly expenses are here, we have you covered.
Chapters:
0:00 - What is the COL in San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala?
0:26 - Costs on rents, transportation, food, internet, etc.
0:45 - What does it cost to rent an apartment on Lake Atitlan?
2:13 - Transportation costs to Lake Atitlan, within San Pedro La Laguna, boats to cross the lake to other towns.
5:30 - Cost of internet.
6:58 - Costs of monthly water and electric bill for an average home.
7:22 - 💖 Please click the LIKE button and leave us a comment, that helps a lot 💖
7:33 - Cost to refill propane for cooking.
7:48 - Cost of laundry service.
8:10 - Cost of going to the dentist.
8:29 - Cost to join a local gym.
8:55 - Cost of a men's/women's haircut. nails, facials, pedicures.
9:31 - Cost of a bouquet of flowers.
10:05 - Cost to refill purified drinking water.
10:40 - Cost of foods!
10:48 - Meats.
11:11 - Breads and dry goods. TIP!
12:06 - TIP!
13:09 - TIP! Use the second hand store!
14:23 - Wine.
15:22 - TIP! Rum is a great deal here!
15:25 - Gringoed on pricing! Be aware.
18:20 - Coffee!
19:44 - Did we miss anything?
19:57 - Next cost of living video here.
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@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

As promised at 6:58 in this video, here those extra monthly home costs for your info: ~ Home monthly water bill in San Pedro La Laguna: 20-25 quetzales! ~ Home monthly electricity bill: 100-300 quetzales.

@stephenmcdonald8635 2 месяца назад

What type of visa did you guys need to move there? I wanted to apply for the Guatemala investment visa.

@PlanFree 2 месяца назад

We lived in Guatemala just on a tourist visa. Mid term (not too short of a stay and not long term). We simply arrived at the airport in Guatemala City and they stamped our passport. It might depend on which country you're from. We're Canadian so we automatically (at the time of this writing) get 90 days to visit. Where are you from? Good for you on your plans, sounds exciting! When do you plan to apply for your visa? Thanks for watching and for your comment, please also share the video if you think anyone else can benefit from the info. That is appreciated! Ayr & Lori

@smartelectriccar 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful to see you both healthy and happy. Back here in Toronto it’s snowy and cold. ;-)

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! Please forgive us for asking but... who the heck is this!? Did you happen to change your username here on RU-vid!??? ...you have how does guessing here all morning! Brrrrr Toronto....sorry to hear that! Any travel plans for this winter?

@teagreentree 5 месяцев назад

We enjoy your topics and narration. Thank you! New subscribers.

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much @teagreentree! We appreciate you saying that and certainly welcome the encouragement. We put a good amount of time into our topics, learning about them in the areas when we travel to them, researching a little more online and trying to condense down the information for people... so it means a lot hearing you say that. We thank you for watching and we appreciate your short comment also. We're here if any questions pop up and wonder which locations around the world you are most interested in learning about?

@alanmiller6792 5 месяцев назад

Great video, thanks for sharing. Though Guatemala was not on my list up to now for travel, your video has me thinking it might be time to change my mind!

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Oh? What parts of our info have got you thinking about Guatemala? Glad you found our info thought provoking and we thank you for watching and commenting! 😘

@JuanMoreno-wo5yb 5 месяцев назад

Hi kids. I want to travel but I am getting up there in age… 😩. I don’t know how that happened but since the plandemic, I got many years older it seems?!?! Well. I am going to listen to your video. I have been a couple times to Guatemala!!

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Hi Clemente, nice to hear from you!! Yes, yes....this video might be a good one for you to listen to because we found the cost of living in Guatemala, overall, quite a bit cheaper than Mexico, especially Coastal Mexico. The COL in Guatemala might compare with something higher in elevation and inland in Mexico but overall we were just delighted with the friendly people good food and low cost of living in Guatemala. See what you think! Thank you for watching!, Please click LIKE for us too, that is awesome!

@ChristineJGold 5 месяцев назад

I lived in Peru and Ecuador for 6 months, a great experience. Looking for my sanctuary, thanks for sharing 😇

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Oh we completely hear you Christine. Before Guatemala we also lived last year in Ecuador for 6 months. Neat! Where were some of your favorite places in Ecuador? For us, we enjoyed Ecuador but wouldn't set up our life there permanently. We had no problems at all but still found the sketchiness of the government and some safety issues to be unstable enough at this time, as well as the cost of living to be not where we want it to be, for what we're looking for long term. We've actually got a handful of videos on Ecuador on our channel if you scroll through our channel.... perhaps they touch on some areas in Ecuador that you have not visited yet. It was a fabulous shorter term SLOW travel country for us. We hope you enjoyed our cost of living video here. We thank you for watching! Please click the LIKE button for us (helps a lot) and ask us anything that comes to mind, we'll help where we can! Ayr & Lori

@ChristineJGold 5 месяцев назад

@@PlanFree appreciate the help and tips! My favorite parts were Machu Picchu, sacred valley, Cuenca, Mindo and Santa Marinita. I left Ecuador due to civil unrest, and felt it wasn't a fit.

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

@MediumChristineGold ahhh yes. Well said with the civil unrest that's exactly why we were thankful for our 6 months in Ecuador but then also ready to move on. The Mindo area was probably our favorite area in Ecuador, though we would prefer a warmer climate longer term, it was simply fabulous for us with the amount of hummingbirds we got to meet in the area! It was magical! They came right to our door. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x2BXU1YDfHw.htmlsi=oouGUxuKPWS29EE6 Where have you explored now?

@MonicaGonzalez-nt5st 4 месяца назад

We are going to be traveling to Guatemala in May !! I reached out to you with a few questions specifically for the transportation information that you used! I am so exited and great full that you replied so quick!!!!❤

@PlanFree 4 месяца назад

Hi Monica, We are glad you found our videos and felt comfortable reaching out to us. Yes we hired the private driver that the family who we rented from in San Pedro La Laguna had recommended to us, his name is Ventura. For anyone who is not comfortable taking the more inexpensive shuttles, the private drive was very comfortable with Ventura, he was an excellent driver! Welcome to our channel! Ask away if you have any more questions. How long will you visit San Pedro LL? We made another helpful video on the "10 Best Places to visit in Guatemela" if that interests you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7rJuHt9XTsc.html Lori (& Ayr)

@therehastobesomethingmoore Месяц назад

We live in Xela. Our total monthly expenses have been running about $1100-$1200/month with no budgeting. Our rent is $350 in a nice 3/1 with a view of the city, and includes water, cable, internet, and electric. Temps here are PERFECT so electric bills are tiny anyway. We are at almost 8000 feet in elevation. Love the mountains ! We are looking forward to getting over to the lake…about 2 hours. We have 2 very senior dogs and are hoping to find a little place close to the lake where they can swim.

@PlanFree Месяц назад

Hi and welcome to our channel! We heard a lot about Xela when we were living on the lake. We didn't get a chance to go and check it out but wondered about it. Love your monthly rental price! That's more in line with what we're looking for longer term. And we wonder what kind of things you're factoring into your monthly budget to get it up to $11-1200? Is that CAD or USD? It would be nice if you found a little spot for your dogs to swim and when you mentioned you'd be going over to the lake do you mean a permanent move or just a road trip outing from time to time? We thank you for watching our video and really glad you took the time to comment! Ayr & Lori

@therehastobesomethingmoore Месяц назад

@@PlanFree Usually $1100 includes food, restaurants, maid, and so me miscellaneous stuff, and that is USD. We are taking 4-6 years to travel between Mexico and Argentina, in search of our favorite retirement city. We retired about 18 months ago and spent 11 months in Matagalpa, Nicaragua before moving here to Xela. We are cool weather lovers. We have also lived in Costa Rica. Not sure where we will go next…maybe Argentina, but we are here until our senior dogs pass away. They are both 17 and travel is too tough for them. The place at the lake would just be an ocassionally weekend. Definitely consider a visit to Xela….we love it.

@PlanFree Месяц назад

@therehastobesomethingmoore We definitely would consider Xela. Thank you! You mentioned that you love it in Xela... how would that compare for you to the place is in Mexico Costa Rica and Nicaragua that you've lived? 💕to your doggies💕

@therehastobesomethingmoore Месяц назад

@@PlanFree We haven’t lived in Mexico yet. We may at least go spend a few months in San Cristobal de las Casas. My wife is originally from Nicaragua but lived mostly in the US, and we have family in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. We have ruled out both countries for our retirement. Costa Rica is expensive, violent crime is way up, and to us it is an expensive version of Nicaragua. We tried Matagalpa because it is cooler, but still way too hot for us. We actually got ripped off a few times by the power company sending us electric bills for $600-$700 a month and although absurd, we had to pay it. Nicaragua will always have a place in our heart, but the heat, the litter everywhere, the skeleton street dogs… Guatemala is much more prosperous. Xela has 3 modern malls, Walmart, perfect temps, low cost of living. It really exceeded our expectations. We are not done traveling but it would not surprise me if we end up returning when we get tired of traveling.

@PlanFree Месяц назад

@@therehastobesomethingmoore Ahh yes. We hear you on all those great points. We will endeavor to check out El Salvador one winter in the future and this coming winter we'll be in Thailand and perhaps Vietnam....looking forward to comparing those countries also. You both have done some great work for yourselves so far and we are WITH you in terms of what you seem to be looking for. Very good to meet you both! Keep in touch, Ayr & Lori

@LisaBoulders 3 месяца назад

Lots of very helpful information, thank you. Originally I was planning on moving to Mexico but it's getting too expensive. My husband and I have an little homestead here in the States (Central New York). We're in our early 50s now and starting to struggle with the cold, damp winters. Why does everything suddenly ache, lol. But I don't want to give up growing our own food and the garden. Any suggestions for an area where we can buy something more like a shack/cottage with land? We're used to roughing it. Lived on the side of a mountain in a shack with an outhouse for 10 years so I could be within walking distance of the rock climbing area.

@PlanFree 3 месяца назад

Hi Lisa! Wow what a cool lifestyle you've lived in New York and sounds like in a couple of other places. We're quite happy with a small abode and nature around us also. After Guatemala for Nov and Dec 2023, we wintered in Mexico for the rest of the season and have found the prices to have jumped for sure. In rents and food. But, we have also her the this is the case basically around the world. I'm not sure if you're question (where to find a small home with land around you) was meant just for Guatemala or in any of the places be have lived over the last 12+ years but certainly Guatemala, around the lake, there are so many small lovely little communities that you could easily find something very modest with a little plot of land to grow vegetables. The thing we would recommend is to go to a place and rent in an area for a good 6 months, get a feel for the place, while looking around at houses/land for yourself. If you don't like a certain area for some reason you can take the next 6 months and rent somewhere else. Repeat. That's essentially what we've been doing for the last 12+ years is "test driving" all the countries and climates in areas that would do this for us for partial or permancy at a point the future. 👍 So glad you found our channel. Thank you so much for watching and we appreciate your question very much. Hope we helped and we're here if you have any other questions. 🥰 Ayr & Lori @ Plan Free

@LisaBoulders 3 месяца назад

@@PlanFree Hi Guys! Good to know and excellent advice for sure regarding renting first to get a feel for things. Where else have you spent time other than Mexico and Guatemala?

@PlanFree 3 месяца назад

@LisaBoulders oh man! Many countries! Actually if you go to our Channel and look at every single one of our videos just quickly and browse through you'll see all the destinations we make a video on or places we've lived for a longer time (usually 3-6months). So: Aruba, Curacao, Hawaii, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Ecuador, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore...and Canada and the USA. (We might have forgotten 1 or 2) Do you see all the videos listed on our channel? www.RU-vid.com/PlanFree 😘

@JuanMoreno-wo5yb 5 месяцев назад

Gringo prices come with the territory these days!! No so smart gringos come with their pockets filled and pay crazy prices not knowing they could pay a lot less. I started traveling over 20 years ago and after Mexico I found cheapest language schools in Guatemala and now I bet non of those prices exist! It’s like my memory of the amount of those prices also is gone haha. Or just much of my memory is shot. 😂 I would love to revisit but I am afraid the prices are now so screwed up that even I wouldn’t want to pay them. You gotta take a local with you and have them buy everything or learn the language so well, that they treat you better! Have fun you all!!❤

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Well yes you're quite right and your travel experience proves valuable here and you are quite right! Taking a local with you is genius as it unlocks an entirely different pricing tier system! Well it sounds like you are not really wanting to travel too far distances but these are current prices in Guatemala...the prices we talk about in this video. The cost of living was the lowest we found in a lot of countries so far (in the last 3-4 years of traveling) and that was just this past Nov and Dec 2023. 👍 * A person can rent in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala for as low as $300/mo, a small 1 Br place, and eating would be about $300/mo. Give or take. That's doable for even you Mr Traveler!

@LiveSlowDieWhenever 5 месяцев назад

Great info, thank you 😊 I live in Costa Rica and am heading up there for vacation soon. What is the restaurant scene like please 🙏

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

The street food scene is pretty vibrant, only thing is it begins to go full swing after we're in bed.🤓 Hopefully someone watching this can provide you some direction here in the comments, sadly going to restaurants is rarely a part of our lifestyle over the last several years. Thank you for watching and commenting!

@LiveSlowDieWhenever 5 месяцев назад

@PlanFree street food is all I need. Is Antigua in your plans?

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Yes hopefully someday we will visit Antigua as we've heard many good things about it. We are finished our Guatemala stay after 2.5 months (earlier then we would normally finish finish stay....we like to stay as long as is allowed), and have now moved on to Mexico to be with family for a time. ❤🙂

@christopherhouse7937 4 месяца назад

Is Guatemala a country you would consider getting residency in or retiring? Did you enjoy your time more in Ecuador, Peru, or Guatemala? And why!

@PlanFree 4 месяца назад

Good questions! As is often the case each location will offer certain benefits and drawbacks. We thoroughly enjoyed Ecuador because we went there primarily for their diversity of hummingbirds, and we saw 60 new species! So that one point was a huge win, but.....we likely won't return anytime soon due to civil unrest and a cooler climate than we prefer-the beach towns were too hot, and the mountains were too cold! Honorable mention to Vilcabamba area which was about just right. We will likely visit Ecuador for shorter hummingbird specific excursions only going forward. Guatemala-we visited Lake Atitlan area specifically for a 2 month respite from a busy time in our lives, and it delivered beautifully. Simple life, everything walkable, friendly peaceful people. But, it's unlikely we will return soon/long term. I would also say that we are unlikely to consider Guatemala for residency or retiring because we have residency in Mexico already. That said we were intrigued to learn of a sector of Guatemala City-near the new American embassy-it looks like it could be attractive to perspective expats. On Peru-our opinion is to be determined as we haven't had the opportunity to spend time there-yet! And you? Are you giving consideration to other countries for residency/retirement?

@christopherhouse7937 4 месяца назад

@@PlanFree Yes! Those three. Guatemala, Ecuador, and Peru. I’m also interested in Nicaragua, Colombia, Paraguay and Argentina! I will probably visit all countries and determine where I’m the happiest!! 😁

@mandibrosseau8047 5 месяцев назад

Where is your apartment located for that price? Is it 1 bedroom? Is there a separate work space? And do you have lake / garden access ?

@PlanFree 5 месяцев назад

Hi Mandi, how are you? The apartment that we rented was located on what's called Kaya Finca and if you are on the ground in San Pedro La Laguna you can ask around and people would point you in the right direction. 👍 But here I can leave you the Google pin on the map and if you go into the Google information you'll find the cell phone/WhatsApp # to contact the owner. Tell them Ayr & Lori sent you! 😉🥰 It is 2 Br, 2 Ba. There was not a separate workspace but we had a dedicated kitchen dedicated living room we slept in one bedroom and use the second bedroom as a workspace. There is lake access when you leave the fence property itself and walk around the outside of the property, about a block, towards the lake. It is lovely. And the owners are lovelier! ❤ maps.app.goo.gl/XQGygUp6SPq1NeWh8

@paolopozzato5074 3 месяца назад

so how much it cost to rent a simple apartament or house for long term? its not clear

@PlanFree 3 месяца назад

Sorry if we weren't clear and were glad you asked! If you watch again from 0:50-1:15 we explain what we found on Airbnb. We found Airbnb listinf prices for a month of CAD$1500/mo. Wow! We also explain that the apartment that we finally decided on was listed a bit higher on Airbnb originally but then through talking with the owners we agreed on a quite a bit lower than the norm price to rent for more than a month. (The price we paid is in our video). We did meet another fellow from our gym who was paying CAD$350 (Canadian dollars) for a month for a very basic one-room house. It really varies!! We find the best way to proceed is to book a place for a week or 10 days on Airbnb while asking the owner, in the Airbnb chat at the same time you are booking, if you would be able to extend to a month or two months once you arrive and generally you'll get a better price once you arrive in person and can pay cash. Does this help clarify for you? So glad you found our channel and our video and thank you so much for watching. Ask anything else if you have questions and we'll help wherever we can. Ayr & Lori