Travel Advice Needed
Jan. 8th, 2019 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribTravel decisions need to be made, and thoughts from the wisdom of my readership are welcome. As of right now, I am sitting on an attending membership for this year's Worldcon to be held in Dublin Ireland in August. That's looking to be, well, costly.
Just to get to Dublin is around $1000 - and that for the privilege of cramming big me into small economy seat for 7.5 hours. Thus I'll arrive in Ireland cramped and zombie-like from no sleep. Then, Dublin has very expensive hotels. The bargain hotels are $200 / night. Yeah, you get breakfast too, but that's still at least 5 nights so that's another $1000. I'm thus at $2000 before dinner, booze, local transport, etc.
And I've been to Dublin. It's a nice place, but I've seen it. So do I really want to go? Helsinki was fun, and tied into a cruise and other events. London gave me an excuse to see some of Britain. But for me, Dublin would be just that, Dublin.
I'm strongly considering cutting my losses and going to Nasfic AKA Westercon. It's in Utah so it's much cheaper and unlike the underwhelming Puerto Rico Nasfic it's attached to an existing con so should be well-attended.
Again, thoughts welcome.
Just to get to Dublin is around $1000 - and that for the privilege of cramming big me into small economy seat for 7.5 hours. Thus I'll arrive in Ireland cramped and zombie-like from no sleep. Then, Dublin has very expensive hotels. The bargain hotels are $200 / night. Yeah, you get breakfast too, but that's still at least 5 nights so that's another $1000. I'm thus at $2000 before dinner, booze, local transport, etc.
And I've been to Dublin. It's a nice place, but I've seen it. So do I really want to go? Helsinki was fun, and tied into a cruise and other events. London gave me an excuse to see some of Britain. But for me, Dublin would be just that, Dublin.
I'm strongly considering cutting my losses and going to Nasfic AKA Westercon. It's in Utah so it's much cheaper and unlike the underwhelming Puerto Rico Nasfic it's attached to an existing con so should be well-attended.
Again, thoughts welcome.
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Date: 2019-01-08 06:14 pm (UTC)I think the answer's obvious from your very wording. You don't want to go, and you're right: The cons so outweigh the pros as to knock over the scale.
The game is not worth the candle.
Me and DragonCon
Date: 2019-01-09 02:06 am (UTC)of course, the right decision is the one you make.