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Originally Posted by Y0tsuya
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Originally Posted by rich8566
I've done numerous EDs - and yes, the benefits are terrific. As you said, this includes a price break, a vacation, the autobahn and touring through several European countries. For our first ED, I took the entire family of 5 along for 13 days. We had a great time, but the total tab for the experience, not including the cost of the car, and not factoring in the discounted price of the car, was $18,000 - and that was back in 2007.
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You can probably travel cheaper in Europe if you plan carefully (off-season etc). But I have to wait until school lets out in the summer anyway, no matter whether I do ED or not. My last trip was 15 days and we spent about $8000 total on plane ticket & hotel. The one before that was 10 days and we spent about $6000. Food is around $50~100/day on top of that but that's highly variable because you could spend $20 at a kebab joint or $100+ at a restaurant. Then there are the guided tours you can go on, but you could just walk yourself if you want to be thrifty. |
I don't disagree. I recall that the airfare for our first trip was about $6k for five of us.
