[Mkguild] Midwest Furfest- I should have asked this earlier

[Alex Green]

Hmm… *looks at costs*

It's a 14 hour drive there and 14 back including two stops for gas and food
both ways. I've done worse before, but I wasn't the one paying for gas.
With current prices, that'd work out to be about $165 for gas alone. Factor
in registration, hotel, food, and parking, and it'd cost me approximately
$450 assuming I could find three other people to share a hotel room with.
That's unfortunately way too expensive for me.

Just 'cause I'm curious; other travel options include…

Plane:
It'd cost $360, but round trip travel time would be less than six hours
total. If I factor in the savings on parking, it'd be worth it to fly
unless I value my time at less than $6.60 an hour. In addition, I could
spend one less day at the hotel, for additional savings.

Train:
24 hours there and 26 hours back, for a round trip travel time of 2 days
and 2 hours (plus 2-and-a-half hours round trip from Chicago to Rosemont).
That'd cost me $338, or almost as much as flying, but it'd take nine times
as long. To be worth the $22 savings, I'd have to value my time at less
than $0.42 an hour.

Bus:
Round trip travel time: 2 days 11 hours; cost: $428. That's six-and-a-half
hours more than the train and $90 more expensive, or 31 hours longer than
driving and just $22 shy of the estimated cost of the entire trip by that
method.

Note 1: I used prices for the weekend after for the train and bus as I
would have had to have already left to make it using those methods. By
scheduling even further in advance, it looks like I could save $100 by
plane, $150 by bus, and $0 dollars by train, so the bus would be $60
cheaper than the train, but the plane would still be $18 cheaper than the
bus and ten times faster. $100 off air fair for booking in advance plus $50
saved on parking plus a potential $36 saved on a shared hotel room plus 22
hours saved on travel time makes flying the best option by far.

Note 2: Word doesn't like the contractions I'd've'd to've.

-AlexSurikat


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:23 PM, C. Matthias <jagille3 at vt.edu> wrote:

> One of these years I hope to go but it will not be this year.  Sorry!
>
> At 11:17 PM 12/3/2014, Hallan Mirayas wrote:
>
>> Is anybody else going?
>>
>> Hallan
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