How long you think we're going to want to be there for? a week long trip from Monday teh 29th November to Monday the 6th of December is

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$1691.10 Mon 29 Nov 04 QF107
Sydney - 12:35
Los Angeles 07:00 13hr 25mn
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Economy restricted

Mon 6 Dec 04 QF012
Los Angeles 22:30
Sydney 08:00 (Wed) 14hr 30mn
747-400
Economy restricted

more ppl go the better for 4 ppl it'd be 1499 ea
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i thiknn the offer expired august 20th but this wouldve been good
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i don't know much about flights to anywhere never havuing been on a plane in my life so if any of you mooks have any ideas lmk... i need a target in ming\d for how much $$ i should save


Scott

Air New Zealand (good airline) for $1378 plus taxes.

I'll contact my travel agent person and see what the best deal is. There's usually a group deal on a few airlines and such, but not sure how many would have to go for that to apply.

kool... so what $$ should i be saving for with expenses and such... 2000? 2500?

Really depends on what you want to do besides the PC when you're there, and also on how many people are going. If say 4 people share a hotel room, you can probably get it for easily $40-$50AU/night per person, so maybe $250 there. Food and stuff is fairly reasonable, again depending if you want to go on the cheap or have a Holiday of it. Disneyland and it's amenities are quite dear. I'd say $2,000 would probably cut it if you wanted to skimp, probably $2500 if you want to have a good time.. assuming staying like 5 nights

Of course VSParadise may be interested in (slightly) allaying some of that cost for Team VSParadise And you know like free shirts and stuff

Bickity Bam Kids... we have a winner... Team Xu is now Team VSParadise!


Scott

Talked to the Travel Agent - basically with the "cheap" fares you have to book and pay within like 48 hours so until after the $10k event I'm not sure if we know who all is going yet, so may have to leave it til then.

Full amount...

You don't have to do this with all the fares, but you do for some of the really cheap ones.

cash or credit card ok?

Usually Card is a bit dearer (2 percent or so)

thanks for the detective work scott, i'll keep this in mind when budgeting for the trip. WOW, 10k is important for so many, more so for those of us who wanna be at Gen Con in December................makes you think.

*goes to sleep to dream of 10k top 8*