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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2003, 01:47:32 AM »
No, that's correct.  It's a long con.

Stacer: Thanks for the offer of the rooms, but to be honest, I prefer staying at hotels.  I like being close to the cons, and prefer the convenience of a nice hotel room.  
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2003, 07:03:55 AM »
Terry Pratchett is the guest of honor, I am so there!!!
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2003, 09:35:04 AM »
You know, I've never actually read any of his stuff. Nor do I think I ever will.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2003, 09:42:53 AM »
he's funny, and the stuff he wrote with neil gaimen is really funny.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2003, 09:48:33 AM »
Errr, bringing one of my favorite writers into play is grounds for me reading Good Omens finally.  And you say stuff in the sense they wrote more than just Good Omens together.

And what if some of us find it hard to pay for the hotel? And I would doubt (if there are only four of us) that we'd want two double beds to share. Of course, we're all a bunch of guys who feel pretty good about our sexuality. Baaba-booey Baaba-booey!
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2003, 10:14:57 AM »
I don't know that any of us are well enough off to spring for another's hotel accomodations. Consider that part of the price of admittance.
Cots, floors, and chairs work for sleeping. What? You've enver traveled?

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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2003, 10:16:46 AM »
Yes, but only with family. I've never traveled with just friends before.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2003, 10:17:13 AM »
No offense but 140 for the con is kinda steep if we also have to pay 140 a night or more for a hotel... that is unless anyone feels like financing it.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2003, 10:17:19 AM »
Ahhh!

£504 for a flight to boston. Plus £135 (or so) to get in. No thanks.

Guess i'll see you in glasgow then... Or i'll probably mug gemm while he is in london.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2003, 10:18:32 AM »
You are thinking so. But I, I will wear my karate gi. Then we will see who mugs whom.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2003, 10:21:04 AM »
On the other hand, i think i flew to japan and back, and hong kong and back, with lufthansa, who are one of the airlines who go from leeds to boston. I might be able to use air miles to cut that cost. But it is far to far forward. I honestly don't know whats happening next year, other than that i am meeting up with a whole bunch of star wars geeks in london in july. If my latest insane scheme doesn't crash and burn, i might (might) go to university next year.
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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2003, 10:22:37 AM »
Of course I can stay in Boston for 19 bucks a night, USCG has a base there near the Old North Church and Faniel Hall (sorry no civillians) obviously I'd rather be social and hang out with the guys, but if it comes down to hotel rooms or that Im going with that.
Saints right too Boston is one of the few Yankee cities I can tolerate (Portland ME and NYC being the others). Its easy to get around, fun and full of history.

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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2003, 10:31:46 AM »
the guy with the gun, probably, rather than the guy dressed in pajamas.

the con is $180, hotel split 4 ways will probably come to $20-30 a night (if we find a cheap place, not one of those places conected to it, we should probably start that research now, just to be sure), which means ~$100-150. Plus meals (eating cheaply means ~$6 a meal, with 3 meals/day for 5 days, that's almost $100 for food, and I know at least one meal I'm gonna want to eat nice. Plus shopping. The minimum you'll get by with is $500, unless you stay at a friend of Stacers', in which case you might do on $350.

However, when travelling, you should Bring more money and less clothes." You can get by on 1 suitcase, but you'll want a way to spend more than $500. I'd plan $650 at least, and bring a CC in case you need more for an emergency.

That DOESN'T include travel. ANd yes, if I'm driving, we will take turns paying for gas. We're talking 4 tanks of gas, I think, which in the Mazda is probably about $80. We'd let Gemm of light, being in NY and therefore much closer, would only have one of those.

We're not talking about something cheap, but we are talking worth it.

On the other hand, if you're very frugal, you can probably trim a lot of that off. You don't have to shop, you can live on crackers and water from a grocery, and save a lot of money.

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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #28 on: November 04, 2003, 10:34:43 AM »
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Of course I can stay in Boston for 19 bucks a night, USCG has a base there near the Old North Church and Faniel Hall (sorry no civillians) obviously I'd rather be social and hang out with the guys, but if it comes down to hotel rooms or that Im going with that.

I don't think anyone's talking about staying in the same hotel as the con, but finding a nearby cheapie instead, that we'd split. Which I thin EUOL is right about, it's worth it to be half a block from the con rather than having to travel in each day and back each night (sometimes very late). Boston's easy to get about in, but having been there during rush hour, it's still a city, and the commute's a bear.

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Re: Worldcon
« Reply #29 on: November 04, 2003, 10:42:15 AM »
Hum.

650.00 USD
United States Dollars               =               387.659 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds
1 USD = 0.596399 GBP             1 GBP = 1.67673 USD

Plus the air fare of £438... thats £830, make it £850 to be sure (+ inflation).  :o Thats a lot of money. But Terry Pratchet is one of my favourite authors... and my job gives me a good hourly wage... so if i save a quarter of my after-tax earnings, for the months between now and then, i would have £900, which gives me enough to buy some alchol to make the flights bearable.

/me goes away to think about this some.
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