{"id":674,"date":"2004-04-08T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/674"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:37:55","slug":"to-diego-or-not-to-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/674","title":{"rendered":"To Diego, or Not To Diego?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s early April. Time to start vacation planning. <\/p>\n<p><b>Number of vacation days for 2004: eleven<\/p>\n<p>Amount of travel credit on my Visa: $225<\/p>\n<p>Top three destinations: Vancouver, BC \/ San Diego, CA \/ Nassau, Bahamas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s San Diego that&#8217;s really got me in a tizzy. Never in my life have I had to deal with something as big as the San Diego Comic Convention. I usually travel to visit family or else have no real destination at all and just bum around in hostels. This *planning* for hotels and events and car rental is frying my brain.<\/p>\n<p>I want your straight-up opinions, people!<\/p>\n<p><font size=4>Should I go to the San Diego Comicon (July 21-25) this year?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><u>Influencing Factors<\/u><br \/>\n-Justin will be there with his Dad<br \/>\n&#8211;<lj user=\"kenix\"> will be there, likely with <lj user=\"daojones\"><br \/>\n&#8211;<lj user=\"aboveaveragejoe\"> might go<br \/>\n-Royal Academy kids will likely be there<br \/>\n-lots of comics, lots of comics people<br \/>\n-would *finally* get to see California<br \/>\n-really expensive [estimating $600 flight, $250 car rental, $45USD ticket, $500??? hotel]<br \/>\n-loud, crowded, scary, overwhelming<br \/>\n-don&#8217;t I get enough comics at home?<br \/>\n-this will cost me at least three vacation days<\/p>\n<p>Give me your feedback, cost estimations, horror stories, plane ticket costs, bunking\/rental cost sharing offers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Best flight estimate so far &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><b>Outbound:<\/b><br \/>\nDATE 21JUL Airline DELTA  AIRWAYS Flt # 5895  Class&#8230;T  From TORONTO (Time 1540 ).to ATLANTA (1805 ). DATE 21JUL Airline DELTA  AIRWAYS Flt # 1273  Class&#8230;T  From ATLANTA   (Time 1905 ).to SAN DIEGO (2033).<\/p>\n<p><b>Inbound:<\/b><br \/>\nDATE 25JUL Airline DELTA AIRWAYS Flt # 1910 Class&#8230;T  From SAN DIEGO (Time 0640 ).to CINCINNATI(1350). DATE 25JUL Airline DELTA  AIRWAYS Flt # 5898 Class&#8230;T  From CINCINNATI (Time 1525) to TORONTO (1654) <\/p>\n<p>*\tBASE RATE: CAD$485.30<br \/>\n*\tAPPROXIMATE TAX:\tCAD$116.95<br \/>\n*\tRATE INCLUDING TAX: \tCAD$601.95<br \/>\n*\tAdvance Purchase Requirements:  7 DAYS BEFORE DEPARTURE OR 1 DAY AFTER RESERVATION<br \/>\n*\tMinimum Stay\/Maximum Stay Requirements:  SATURDAY \/  60 DAYS<br \/>\n*\tChange\/Cancellation Policy:  100 USD OR 146 CAD \/ NON REFUNDABLE<br \/>\nTO CONFIRM\/BOOK THESE FLIGHTS, CONTACT TD TRAVEL REWARDS AT 1-800-983-1043<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s early April. Time to start vacation planning. Number of vacation days for 2004: eleven Amount of travel credit on my Visa: $225 Top three destinations: Vancouver, BC \/ San Diego, CA \/ Nassau, Bahamas It&#8217;s San Diego that&#8217;s really got me in a tizzy. Never in my life have I had to deal with <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/674\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}