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J. Clarke wrote:
Icono Clast wrote:
BIGEYE wrote:
Travelling with my wife & 15 year old sone, to Florida in
October for a 2 week holiday. We have all our park tickets,
villa is booked & hire car booked.

So all you're going to buy is food. The MINIMUM budget, for you
two adults, is $5 for breakfast, $10 for lunch, and $15 for
dinner. For the teen-ager's appetite, $6 for breakfast, $12 for
lunch, and $18 for dinner. So that's a hundred-twenty dollars,
with taxes and tips, for food

Plan on $5 per day per person for incidentals and another $5 per
person per day for miscellany. $150 total.

Mind you, this is a bare minimum. You could easily spend more.

Stefan Patric wrote:
So, go ahead and eat in the theme parks, too.

Why? The food's consistently awful, overpriced, and unhealthful.
Many will refill your coffee cup, however, if you keep it.

Ever been to a major theme park?

Probably many more than you. Certainly many more than most. And a
great many amusement parks, too. I've ridden about 120
roller-coasters and probably around three hundred steel-coasters not
to mention countless other rides of every sort, many unique to their
locale.

Not eating at the theme park means walking halfway across it to
your car, fighting traffic to the restaurant, fighting traffic
back, then walking back into the park.

No, it doesn't. It means eating before going and after leaving. Of
course if one gets desperately hungry while at such a place, eat. An
occasional hamburger, for example, is a nice treat and a good source
of protein.

Doing that for both lunch and dinner you're losing several hours
of in-park time.

If you do that, your IQ needs improvement.

Once you're in the park, stay in the park until it's time to leave
for the day.

Just as I do.

There's one where I sometimes go to eat even if I'm not in the
amusement park: Knott's Berry Farm. Mrs. Knott's chicken is
deservedly famed.

Try your strategy at Disneyworld. The parks around Los Angelese are a
special case. And don't confuse an amusement park such as Six Flags
with a theme park.

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Calif Bill wrote:
Icono Clast said:
Knott's Berry Farm. Mrs. Knott's chicken is deservedly famed.

Go to Knotts for the breakfast. Good and reasonable.

Might do. I'll be in Anaheim in November. Thank you for the
suggestion. My fear is that they stop serving breakfast before I wake.

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Where did you find such a wife who is willing to travel for cheap. My wife
required at least a four star hotel, nice meals and a big shopping budget.
If I plan a trip, I have to budget out at least $400-$500 a day. My
vacations can't last more than four days

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"mdrawson" wrote in message
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My wife and I take extended road trips around the USA and Canada. Since
we're out for so long (2-3 mos at a time), we control our food spending by
staying at hotels where breakfast is included, carry crackers/cheese/deli
meat to eat as we go for lunch ("picnic-ing"), and generally eat dinner at
modestly-priced restauarnts where we typically spend $35-40 (incl tax/tip)
for the two of us --- sometimes less, sometimes more --- so we budget
about $40 a day for food for the two of us. It can be done!

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On Jul 22, 11:48 pm, Brian K wrote:
On 7/22/2007 9:06 PM PeterL exclaimed:



On Jul 22, 8:48 am, "BIGEYE" wrote:

Travelling with my wife & 15 year old sone, to Florida in October
for a 2
week holiday. We have all our park tickets, villa is booked & hire
car

Why, in October isn't that 15 year old IN SCHOOL.???Last I checked the
only holiday in October was Columbus Day.


booked.
How much spending money should I allow per day, eating ont mostly,
but
avoiding eating in the theme parks.

TIA

there is a show on FoodTV called $40 a day, where the hostess eat
well
at different places for $40 a day. With 3 people that would
translate
to $120 a day just for food.

The hostess is Rachel Ray. What they don't tell you is that Rachel is
getting a special price break because the establishments are getting
free advertising out of the deal. I tried doing $40.00 a day in Key
West, going the places Rachel visited, and it just couldn't be done.



It can easily be done. We watch the show and always wonder what's the
big deal. We can eat well on vacation for under $40 a day. A pastry
and coffee for $5 breakfast, a sandwich for $10 for lunch, and dinner
can be had easily for $25 or less.



My suggestion is go with the $100.00 per person a day as a base line.
Bring more than one credit card type. While it's not as prevalent some
places won't take Discover card, and others don't take Amex, Visa but
do
take Mastercard. Find out from your bank the location of all ATM's
that
accept your bankcard or debit card. If you are short of spending cash
or there is an emergency, you can always get funds from an ATM.

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In message "Enigma Boy"
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Where did you find such a wife who is willing to travel for cheap. My wife
required at least a four star hotel, nice meals and a big shopping budget.
If I plan a trip, I have to budget out at least $400-$500 a day. My
vacations can't last more than four days

Some of us are picky that way -- I dated one of those, moved on pretty
quickly. My current girlfriend travels cheap, it's where we go and what
we do, not where we stay.

Of the two of us, I am the picky one

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On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:24:54 +0500, Enigma Boy wrote:

Where did you find such a wife who is willing to travel for cheap. My
wife required at least a four star hotel, nice meals and a big shopping
budget. If I plan a trip, I have to budget out at least $400-$500 a day.
My vacations can't last more than four days

Engima.

I'm curious. Before you were married to her, did your wife travel like
this when it was solely her nickel?

Stef

"Enigma Boy" wrote in message
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Where did you find such a wife who is willing to travel for cheap. My
wife required at least a four star hotel, nice meals and a big shopping
budget.

Decent hotels and meals one can understand.

but a "shopping budget", on HOLIDAY!

tim

"tim....." wrote in message
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"Enigma Boy" wrote in message
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Where did you find such a wife who is willing to travel for cheap. My
wife required at least a four star hotel, nice meals and a big shopping
budget.

Decent hotels and meals one can understand.

but a "shopping budget", on HOLIDAY!

There are some sick people who try to fill that internal hole by
compulsively shopping, holiday or not.


tim