/con1/ - Conventions (Otakon 2006)

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Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 18:45:00 No.3117 View View Reply Original Report

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Good morning, /con/.

How much money did you spend in this last Otakon?

I mean, not what you bought in there, like manga, porn, etc. but how much did you spend in like transportation from where you live to Baltimore (bus? plane? on foot?), hotel fees, food, stuff like that.

The reason is that i'm planning on going to the next Otakon, and i live quite far from there :o

(pic not related)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 20:26:00 No.3121 Report

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Roughly 80 bucks. 60 of my own, and 20ish of my friends money.

BUT, thats not staying at a hotel (I was staying with a friend about 20 minutes from the convention center) I never ate at a fastfood resturant (We ate at Capitol City Brewing Company, Fuddruckers, and Hooters I believe).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 21:31:00 No.3127 Report

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I spent A LOT, $60 on registration, $135 on plane tickets and $240 splitting a hotel for 3 nights with a friend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 22:22:00 No.3131 Report

Quoted By: >>3433 >>3434

$1,485

800 plane ticket (i live Spain
$60 on registration
175 on shit
350 on hotel
100 or so food.

Lesson, DON'T LIVE IN SPAIN.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 23:08:00 No.3134 Report

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$155 on hotel, split 7 ways :( awful thing to do. actually double that since i payed for my boyfriend too (gift)
$40 parking for the weekend.
$50 membership fee
$40 in gas and tolls (coming from south jersey)
$60 food?

so about $500.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Aug 2006 23:36:00 No.3136 Report

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no one bought ANYTHING in the dealers room or artist's alley? shit, I spent almost $300 solely in the dealer's room, and had to borrow another 15 to buy a 4chan shirt...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 02:02:00 No.3148 Report

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they asked what we spent aside from that.

but in the dealer room i spent just under $200, mostly on gundam things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 02:08:00 No.3149 Report

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$50 round trip greyhound from Atlantic City to Baltimore

$150 hotel with 4 roomies

~$50+ i ate alot of sushi (not any of the ripoff aramark shit tho)

total: $200 + $50 reg fee = $250

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 05:12:00 No.3166 Report

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$40 for Bus from upstate NY to NYC
80 for Train from NYC to Baltimore
60 for registration (didn't pre)
68 for hotel (holiday inn)
20 for Bus back to NYC
40 for Bus back to upstate NY
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208 Total transportation

I also ate very little while there; max of $40 over three days (ie fasting rations) since I really didn't have any money (didn't spend anything in dealers or artists because I didn't have any to spend ;-;)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 05:16:00 No.3167 Report

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$50 registration
$60 hotel room ($480 split 7 ways)
$200+ in crap
$30-ish food
$35 Katsucon registration (I'm a sucker

All told, about $375 that ninja-vanished from my wallet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 06:19:00 No.3170 Report

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$50 Gas (rotated for whoever bought gas)
$75 Hotel (Split 8 ways)
$40 Parking
$50 Food
$50 Shit at con

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 06:49:00 No.3172 Report

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I was able to get away with a spending a little less this year because I stayed with my grandmother and drove in with a friend. In past years though I have spent ~$100 on the hotel (shared with a couple of friends) and ~$50 on food. Transportation wasn't ever much because my friends and I took the Metro to get downtown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Aug 2006 08:07:00 No.3178 Report

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$4 tolls. Friends I provided rides for paid for gas and parking all of the days, tolls every day except for one. I live about twenty minutes away from the convention center.

Food...maybe $20. I ate two pieces of pizza, chicken fingers, and lots of coffee that weekend. Pretty much it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2006 06:24:00 No.3284 Report

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Otakon fell on my birthday this year so I got the plane ticket plus $100 spending money on my birthday. But whoever bought the ticket, it was about $300. Plus $60 registration, $50-60 on food [counting in the airport too], $60 on the hotel [stayed 5 in a room at the Wyndham suites, a couple blocks from the con] and somewhere around $200 in teh dealer's room.

Just missed the WTF heightened airport security by a few days, too. Good thing I didn't have anything I was afraid to check. Hope that doesn't get too bad in the future, because I don't like checking my baggage. Too afraid of my luggage getting run over by the plane. THAT HAPPENS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2006 08:50:00 No.3293 Report

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$50 pre-reg
$90 hotel room (my share among several people)
$160 airplane flight (from Florida.)

I tried to eat cheap, so food came to maybe $30 for the weekend.

Total: $330.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Aug 2006 00:22:00 No.3314 Report

Quoted By: >>3315

I spent around seven-hundred...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Aug 2006 00:23:00 No.3315 Report

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>>3314
Okay, I realized that sounded silly.
But yeah. Around seven-hundred.

See. I live in Europe. So yeah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Aug 2006 03:41:00 No.3392 Report

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bro his friends (6 people) + me my friends (3 people) 1 x 2 bed room suite each paid 30$ !??!??! drove there from northern virginia in a suv and blew the aux port fuse from 3 laptops

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Aug 2006 12:00:00 No.3433 Report

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Pre-reg: $50
Food: I guess mabey $20
Gas: Free
Living 15 minutes away from Downtown Baltimore and knowing someone with a garage where I could park for free and not have to worry about getting my car stolen: Priceless.

By the way, a tip of the hat to>>3131.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Aug 2006 15:55:00 No.3434 Report

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>>3131
gj, a real 4channer.

setzer !aWswn/Y5zI

setzer !aWswn/Y5zI Wed 16 Aug 2006 04:25:00 No.3477 Report

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0 dollars for room
5 dollars given as a pittance for tolls along the way
60 for food.

70 dollars.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Aug 2006 14:40:00 No.3741 Report

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$10 for a MARC bus up there.
Parents are crazy and when I told them I wanted to go they gave me the ticket, $300 room for myself for one night (nothing else was open and a friend told me I couldn't stay with her last minute).

let's see... 10+5+1=$16 bucks for food, because something funny happened and I couldn't eat the second day much.

Total spent: $26

Lesson learned: Marc trains and crazy parents are your friends. <3

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Aug 2006 10:35:00 No.3749 Report

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$40 registration
$20 food
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$60

i love living in washington dc

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