Capricon

[chris_gerrib]

I have booked my attendance at Capricon. Since I usually end up doing so anyway, I got a room for Thursday night. The hotel has a pool, there's a bar nearby, and so I can call it a mini-vacation.

My next project is to start working on Worldcon travel plans.

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[daveon.livejournal.com]

I checked last week when I was booking travel for end-Feb for Mobile World Congress and all the fares for the UK in August were standard 'rack' rates. My fare for end-Feb was lower than they were offering in August.

So I'm going to wait until Jan/Feb and look again. I'm trying to get upgrade tickets, but based on the current prices including taxes we might have to look at another route.

The taxes are the killer. Business class miles tickets are showing s $1250 in tax!

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just did a cursory sweep. Right now Aer Lingus is the low-cost leader, which since I was thinking of a side-trip to Eurocon () in Dublin, is even handier.

I am leaning strongly towards getting travel insurance, though. I'd hate to lose $1200 because I got sick or a work crisis erupted.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

That's why I always book flights on my AmEx so I'm covered by their travel service for that kind of thing.

The other handy thing about Aer Lingus is you can clear US customs and immigration in Ireland and save yourself some pain after the long bit.

Plus you can get a connection straight to London City from Dublin... as you're a friend I would suggest ignoring the offers from Ryan Air... no matter how good they look, they're lying and Stansted Airport is quite literally in the middle of nowhere.