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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-09-22 07:11 pm

[ SECRET POST #3184 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3184 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[cards against humanity]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Spongebob Squarepants, Squidward]


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[Quantum Vibe]


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06. [whoa huge]

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[Until Dawn]


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[Turn]


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[Valhalla Rising/Mads Mikkelsen]


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[Person of Interest]


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[Mark Millar]









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Re: Douglas & Kirsten in Istanbul, the Queen of Cities

(Anonymous) 2015-09-23 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Not only do they want people to fund their vacation, but they're aiming to travel business class? (Though it appears they're willing to take one for the team and fly premium economy, what troopers!) Then they're afraid to stay in local (read: non-American) hotels so they need to be in a Doubletree, so as not to be out of their comfort zone. THEN they're planning on spending $150/day on top of accommodations. Seriously?? That'd be a reasonable food/entertainment/transport budget for New York, Paris or London.

"There's really no way to guess what this might run..."

Bullshit. Of course there is a way to estimate daily expenses. Google "tourist daily expenses istanbul" and you come up with a bunch of travel sites aimed at tourists who need to figure out how much money to budget for the trip.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkey/istanbul/money-costs

http://www.budgetyourtrip.com/budgetreportadv.php?geonameid=&countrysearch=&country_code=TR&categoryid=0&budgettype=2&triptype=0&startdate=&enddate=&travelerno=0

http://gomadnomad.com/2014/03/19/what-it-costs-a-day-of-travel-in-istanbul/


Keep in mind that some of those links include accommodations, so it's even cheaper than their listed estimate. All of them are well below $150/day!


Wow. I thought $12,500 seemed like an awful lot for a week long trip and now I know why. I feel for these people, but if you're going to ask people to pay for your dream trip, do some research first and maybe consider budget friendly options instead of flying business class and staying in fancy hotels. Other people are giving you money, it seems like the least you could do.