Yes, every week after Spring Break/Xmas/Summer Break my kids ask me if we are going to Italy, the French Polynesian, skiing in the Alps, Egypt, the Northern Lights... to name a few.

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.

Flights for 2 people at "a few hundred" is $600. Hotel for $300 a night, total is now $1200. Good luck finding tickets for $150 each.

"Easily" lmao you are bad at math.

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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.

Right?!? I think last minute tickets in NOLA were going for around $685 at 8:00 pm - when she took the stage. I guess you could make that work? If you were already there?

And then you're in a situation where you HAVE to buy tickets because you are there and will have a massively disappointed little kid if you don't get any. It's just not a good idea. Maybe 2 adults could handle it, but no way I'm putting my DD through that for it not work out. Or to then feel pressured to spend $4k on last minute tickets.

Right. If it was just me - I'd fly to Indianapolis and hang out just to see if I could get a cheap ticket last minute. Not doing that with a kiddo.

Anonymous wrote:My SIL got tix in the nosebleed section in New Orleans for $900. I thought that was insane.

I think that is pretty inexpensive! I am seeing like 2500 plus for partially obstructed seats.

My SIL got tix in the nosebleed section in New Orleans for $900. I thought that was insane.

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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.

Right?!? I think last minute tickets in NOLA were going for around $685 at 8:00 pm - when she took the stage. I guess you could make that work? If you were already there?

And then you're in a situation where you HAVE to buy tickets because you are there and will have a massively disappointed little kid if you don't get any. It's just not a good idea. Maybe 2 adults could handle it, but no way I'm putting my DD through that for it not work out. Or to then feel pressured to spend $4k on last minute tickets.

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.

Tickets are $2k EACH on the reselling sites. Before any flights or hotels. So yes, $8k is about right.

OP, I also have a 10 year old DD. We've discussed how this just isn't how we are spending our money. So while I'd LOVE to take her I just can't justify the expense. She knows a few kids who have gone, but our school is pretty chill so it's hardly a thing that many others have done. Getting used to not having everything they want is ok too.

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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.

Right?!? I think last minute tickets in NOLA were going for around $685 at 8:00 pm - when she took the stage. I guess you could make that work? If you were already there?

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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.

Ha, that is so cute! A few hundred.

I paid $800 each early in the tour and we drove and stayed overnight. It was probably about 2K all in. Totally worth it and would do it again. I have some regrets about not going to one of the European tour dates because I think it would have been super fun to plan a trip that included a TS show.

I haven't heard of any of the kids at our elementary school (MoCo) have seen her, even the Taylor obsessed ones.

It's just insanely expensive, and I've gone online so many times to see if we could swing it. But I think we'd get more out of a vacation this summer instead of one night in New Orleans or Indianapolis. If I had money to burn, I'd be there with my DD (11) in a heartbeat.

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.

This is the OP. These specific parents told me how much they spent. I was kind of surprised but then looked at the actual ticket prices. If you are taking two adults and a kid, plus hotel (which are all jacked up), plus flights, it gets there quick! The tickets alone for one family were 8k. Telling a huge group of moms that is a weird humblebrag but I do think it's true.

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.

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.

My DD is 10 and she has three friends whose parents are paying between 7-8 grand to take their kids to see Taylor Swift in another city. She was momentarily sad that she can't go too but it is really not a financial option for us, and even if it was, I don't know that I would spend that kind of money. She gets it. A couple of her friends are just devastated and their parents feel terrible and are trying to figure out a way to go.

Is this going on at other elementary schools? We do not live in a keeping up with the Joneses part of NoVA so this just seems a little odd to me.