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my recommendation

alright, people, here's the deal. looking at planes, i'm thinking if we try to go all these places, we are gonna end up spending a lot of money, and having to go back to london a lot of times to try to catch planes and stuff. also, amsterdam, venice, and rome are well expensive. so i think we should get passes:
britrail passes(england, scotland, wales)-
3 days plus 2 days car rental about $275 a person (thats 2 ppl per car)
4 days unlimited $157 (might be cheaper for group)
eurailpass(anywhere in europe except uk)
15 days about $400 a person
5 days within 2 months $241 (three countries i think)

(sorry, anon, its more for you (cause you're old) if you decide to do that with us)

my thoughts are fly to the cheapest place we can in europe and use the eurailpass(i think the 5 days), then fly from paris to dublin and back to england in time for dkm. if you guys wanna hang out in london, we can get the london pass (unlimited bus and tube for three days) and/or we can spend some time in northampton or get a britrail for 4 days.
assuming this, this is how the money would add up:
$25 (estimate) flight to somewhere in europe
$241 eurailpass (5 days)
$25 (estimate) paris to dublin
$25 (estimate) dublin to london
$134 britrail (4 days- for all 7 of us)
$20 dkm tickets
$26 london pass

about $500 total (plus lodging on nights we aren't on train or at ucn and food- i can live on about$20 a week with groceries)


i know you guys had it all figured out where you want to go, and i don't want to make your meeting useless, but if you knew how much time i've spent looking stuff up for you on the internet, maybe you wouldn't mind. you can still go those places, too, it will just be a little extra for transport to ireland (less than $20 in some cases) and to europe.
if we bought passes, we could go anywhere we wanted still, and if we changed our mind, it'd be ok. also, some trips can be got overnight, so we could sleep on the trains. overnight trains also offer sleeping accomodations (though i don't know if, or how much, it would cost more). also, if people wanted to go two different places, there's no problem with splitting up for a day or two.
so that's my recommendation. what do you think?

posted by Miriel @ 9:34 AM |