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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ooops, for five nights in that lovely fishing destination, it would be $4,300, not $4,600 which is the price for a week.

But still a lot higher than $900 for the beach house.  Honeybunch.[/quote]

I don't think  you're following me here.

The lovely fishing destination is 58 minutes driving from the airport and the shuttle is FREE. Bfast is included and in Brasil you don't tip (BTW, food there is CHEAP). You just don't want to see it, do you?

And the ILs you keep posting about who insist in ruin your vacations won't be there ;)

Anyway, this topic is about people who NEVER have been out of the country. It's not about traveling with family. I went on my own and spent very little money compared to a weekend trip to Vegas or Miami.

If you want to drag your little ones with you it's a whole different story.[/quote]

Oh yes, I'm following your every deviation from the bottom line.  Now you've redefined this to say it's "not about traveling with family" or "dragging your little ones with you."

The same calculations still hold, just scaled down from 4 persons to 1 person.  If you subtract the family, then I'm also going to have to assume that a single person would share the beach house (totally typical), so now the beach house is down to $200 or $300 a week.  Against a single $550 airplane ticket and $1000 for a week in your fishing villlage, unless you travel with a friend and share that 2-person bedroom, in which case your hotel room is down to $500 a week.  Neither of us has addressed food, although it's pretty obvious that cooking in your beach house kitchen is cheaper than eating out for 3 meals a day in Brazil.

So a total of $1,550 to go to Brazil, against a $300 beach house.  A comparison that totally favors Brazil, because I'm assuming you'll never, ever, have to face those Thanksgiving relatives when you return, like over Christmas, so you're traveling in November not July. And we're excluding the cost of eating in Brazilian restaurants.

In any case:  lots of college students, and lots of young people starting out on a job, are in no position to take a $1,550 trip to Brazil (and dumpster dive for their food when they get there).  And then they have families, and it becomes even more expensive to travel.

You need to get out of your little fairy castle and look at how most of the world lives.  Maybe your next trip should be to some working class areas of DC, so you can talk to the "natives" about why they don't engage in recreational travel?[/quote]

Let's try again...

Did you notice that in some destinations the meals and transportation are part of the package? Food is CHEAP there, you don't have to tip, but still you don't want to see it. I'm not saying going to Brazil it's cheaper than staying at your boring beach house cooking for others and cleaning after your ILs. I never said that. I said that traveling abroad is cheaper than most of you are guessing. Mostly because you don't know how to search or don't speak the local language. That's all I wanted to say and so far all you did was attack me with your bad math and silly non sense arguments.

I was an AP and traveled A LOT with that $139.05 salary (good thing I didn't pay rent or food then). I traveled on my own when I was still paying my student loans. It's a matter of priority and being resourceful.

Now, if you still think that Expedia will give you the magic link to paradise, all I can do is LOL while you spend Thanksgiving with your lovely ILs. I'll be waiting for your posts on that last week of November ;)

OK, I give up (for now).[/quote]

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