Taking elementary-aged kids to see Taylor Swift

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Anonymous wrote:It is not 7-8k. Sorry. You could do this for under $1500 for two nights easily. Tickets are a few hundred each, flights can be used with miles or a few hundred each and hotel for 2 nights.

lol you tell me where you can find tickets for a few hundred.

I went twice to Eras and spent under $300 a ticket, great seats

I would absolutely tickets if they were $300. Not feasible at the current prices.

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My neighbors are taking their 3rd and 5th grade daughters - two moms and two girls. They got tickets through Ticketmaster, are sharing 1 hotel room, and got low cost flights to a US city. I don’t think they are spending anywhere close to $7-8k.

I still think that is still a lot of money. I also live in NoVa. However, the moms are also big TS fans and I think it is more for them and they are not spending more than if they went with a group of 4 adult women.

People take kids skiing or to NFL games or to Broadway shows in NYC. People spend all sorts of money going to Disney. I think that’s dumb and I have 0 interest in taking my kids to Disney or any other destination theme parks, but I don’t judge the people who really enjoy Disney and want to share that joy and magic with their kids. TS seems a bit like that for the moms and daughters taking these trips - TS became popular when women in their 30s were teens and college students and now they want to share something they love with their kid.

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What feels ick to me is that so many seem to be doing it just to post to social media.

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I do think it’s odd that you have a DD who has eight friends going to Indianapolis, which is the only spot left on the US tour. How did they all get tickets? Hmmm.

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it’s odd that you have a DD who has eight friends going to Indianapolis, which is the only spot left on the US tour. How did they all get tickets? Hmmm.

I am OP. I didn't say she has eight friends, that was someone else. The people I know who are going are doing Indy, which is over a FCPS mini break (might explain why they picked that one) and Vancouver.

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Not at our DCPS.

I am not judging though. She's an icon. What a special experience.

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My third grade dd has a bunch of friends who have gone over the past year. I briefly thought about joining a friend of mine with our daughters after she bought tickets for later in November. I'm not finding anything for <$2000 in advance, which we could afford but it's a luxury. I don't need to condition my 8yo for that type of indulgence.

If it was just me and an adult friend though I'd totally fly to Vancouver or Toronto and just try to snag last minute tickets!

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Anonymous wrote:It is not 7-8k. Sorry. You could do this for under $1500 for two nights easily. Tickets are a few hundred each, flights can be used with miles or a few hundred each and hotel for 2 nights.

Lolllllllllllllll

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Anonymous wrote:It is not 7-8k. Sorry. You could do this for under $1500 for two nights easily. Tickets are a few hundred each, flights can be used with miles or a few hundred each and hotel for 2 nights.

Lolllllllllllllll

You’re laughing but I went twice. For that price, in great seats. Sorry you’re not as savvy.

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Yes, I saw several parents take their kids to Europe to the TS concerts (which as others have pointed out can be far cheaper tickets, even when you budget in the flights). And I see people posting on Facebook about taking their Elementary school and tween girls to the Miami and NOLA concerts. Yes, it's $$ but so is DisneyWorld, cruises, housing renovations and all other stuff the DCUM folk post about.

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Anonymous wrote:What feels ick to me is that so many seem to be doing it just to post to social media.

That’s 2024 generally, nothing specific to Taylor Swift. And they aren’t doing it just to post on social media, but they aren’t doing it without posting on social media. Some people just enjoy posting/sharing/maybe even bragging and it’s part of their experience…

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I flew to Europe with my 11 year old this summer to see the concert. She told me last week one of her friends was seeing her in New Orleans. I think some kids are going and most are not and it’s nothing to feel self conscious about.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is not 7-8k. Sorry. You could do this for under $1500 for two nights easily. Tickets are a few hundred each, flights can be used with miles or a few hundred each and hotel for 2 nights.

Lolllllllllllllll

You’re laughing but I went twice. For that price, in great seats. Sorry you’re not as savvy.

If you were in the verified fan queue for face value tickets, yes. If you never got a code to get in those sales, you were out of luck and had to do resale which were NOT hundreds of dollars. It isn’t about being savvy or not, it’s who had access to the limited drops of face value tickets or not.

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Yes if you have not gone yet and are just getting around to looking for resale tickets, hotels, and flights now, then yes it is very very expensive. Especially with the few remaining shows left. We went to NOLA last weekend and paid $385 per ticket. Money not an issue for us but we still all crammed into one hotel room and flew a budget airline. Lots of people spend what we spent on weekends at Disney or to see broadway shows or whatever. OP you sound like you are disparaging the experience as somehow being something an elem age kid shouldn’t have bc of what it cost your braggy friend. But lots of people either did it for way less with luck and advance planning or are just ok with the cost for the experience. It was totally magical btw.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes if you have not gone yet and are just getting around to looking for resale tickets, hotels, and flights now, then yes it is very very expensive. Especially with the few remaining shows left. We went to NOLA last weekend and paid $385 per ticket. Money not an issue for us but we still all crammed into one hotel room and flew a budget airline. Lots of people spend what we spent on weekends at Disney or to see broadway shows or whatever. OP you sound like you are disparaging the experience as somehow being something an elem age kid shouldn’t have bc of what it cost your braggy friend. But lots of people either did it for way less with luck and advance planning or are just ok with the cost for the experience. It was totally magical btw.

I think people who don’t love Taylor and don’t have kids who love her make some pretty odd assertions about why people attended this concert, like the mom who says she thinks most people went just to post it on social media. Influencers, sure- that’s how they make money. Regular moms? No. We went because there’s nothing more fun than dancing and singing your heart out for 3.5 hours with your daughters to the same songs you both love in an arena filled with women doing the same thing with their moms, sisters, friends, daughters, nieces. I saw Taylor in college with my sister when she was
opening for Brad Paisley. I took my oldest to Reputation and my youngest to Eras. Those experiences are priceless to me, some of my fondest memories. Taylor has been around for 18 years; many millennial women grew up with her music and so did our kids. It’s perfectly reasonable given that that someone would spend more time or money to see her than they typically would for a concert. You can’t put a price on sharing that experience and bond with the people you love most.