I live on the east coast and want to know what it costs to go to Eugene for world champs. World Championships start on Friday and I was curious what is the cheapest I could attend the championships for. Of course, I’m too lazy to do the research and I 99.9% won’t go, but if anyone else has priced it out, please respond with your estimate.
I am currently coaching an athlete that didn't make to worlds but I also use to coach another athlete while they were in high school and I am still close to her and her family so I considered going just to watch.
I will start you out with a gallon of unleaded 87 octane gas is between $6.50 and $7.00.
The hotel room was $400.00 a night at a Courtyard Marriot in Corvallis which is 45 minutes away from Eugene, I used airline points to get my ticket but it took 64000 of them on Southwest Airlines to fly into PDX and the rental car from Hertz looked like it was going to be around $2000.00.
So I figure I would've spent about $6000.00 dollars, twice as much as it cost to go to USA Champs, to just go watch someone perform. I wished her luck and said I would be cheering her on from the comfort of my living room.
You will have trouble finding somewhere to stay for anything remotely nearby and not fairly expensive.
I ran the numbers for New York City. If you were to go from next Monday to the Monday after, you're looking at 2843 minimum for flights, a rental car, and hotel. This is before any food is added or you factor in the cost of tickets for the world championships. If you'd planned half a year ago, it would have been under 2k.
eman wrote:
I am currently coaching an athlete that didn't make to worlds but I also use to coach another athlete while they were in high school and I am still close to her and her family so I considered going just to watch.
I will start you out with a gallon of unleaded 87 octane gas is between $6.50 and $7.00.
The hotel room was $400.00 a night at a Courtyard Marriot in Corvallis which is 45 minutes away from Eugene, I used airline points to get my ticket but it took 64000 of them on Southwest Airlines to fly into PDX and the rental car from Hertz looked like it was going to be around $2000.00.
So I figure I would've spent about $6000.00 dollars, twice as much as it cost to go to USA Champs, to just go watch someone perform. I wished her luck and said I would be cheering her on from the comfort of my living room.
BTW my figures are for staying at nearly the cheapest motel in the Eugene area and actually flying into Eugene - and renting a compact car from the cheapest rental car company.
I did the calculation for cheap but convenient. If you're interested in comfortable like eman, my numbers would get much higher (looking at the convenience of not driving in from Portland and or staying an hour away). If you look for budget, you can fly to portland and stay in corvalis or salem and drop the price a bit.