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[qcat79]

so, my co-teacher told me she's going to Guam for this winter holiday which is also her 10th year anniversary being married. she'll also be taking her two kids. i asked how much it will set her back. can you guess???




TEN ~ TWELVE MILLION WON.......for only four days!!!

i could spend 6 months traveling southeast asia on that budget. she said, well, it's our anniversary and my kids will go to a theme park (or some b.s.), so we need a nice place too.

jeeeeezzzz

[jvalmer]

The plane tickets for 4 people will be around 3 million right off the bat.

[redaxe]

A week-long overseas vacation for a family of four is $10,000 USD easy. EASY.

I don't know why you would spend so much to take your family to Guam, though.

But when I was 11 years old and my dad took me, mom, and my brother to Hawaii for a week, I have no doubt that it cost at least $10-12k.

Sure, YOU could spend 6 months in SE Asia on that, but no one in their right mind would take their two kids to stay in a youth hostel in Cambodia.

Life changes a lot when you have kids.

[qcat79]

yeah, totally understand not wanting to take your kids to Cambodia, but still, i'd just give up if i had to spend that much for a vacation. that's just far too much money on a teacher's salary (the husband is one too) to spend for a jolt of 4 days. i don't think i could even go through that much cocaine in 4 days.

[AsiaESLbound]

My sister and her husband took their 2 kids to Jamaica for 5 days for a cool $7000 all inclusive which was a low season deal as they said high season would had ran $12,000. I know I couldn't afford to resort to expensive resorts, but they pull in $120,000 a year combined take home.

[Globutron]

I'm about to catch a plane to Hong kong. �240 flight return. Couch Surf for free when I'm there.

Come back having spent... 800,000k most, I reckon., over 4 days.

[nukeday]

I wouldn't call couchsurfing much of a vacation. I mostly ran into anal-retentive weirdos as hosts when I tried to surf.

It'd be cool if you were fresh out of high school and truly, utterly broke though.

[sulperman]

That's pretty insane. Just did a five second check on the internet, and tickets are available all through January for about 600,000 won. A 5 second search for hotels and it appears there are lovely options in every price range, but the most expensive was about 250,000, and a lot of attractive looking places in the 100,000 and below range.

Are they flying first class? Separate rooms for each kid? Lobster for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day? Staying at some insane resort?

It is, IMHO an absolute waste for someone with limited resources to throw it all away on a little trip like that. The equivalent of somebody who works at a shoe store spending all their money on Louis Vuitton bags and things like that.

[Zackback]

With that money one could have (even a family) an awesome time in the Philippines.

[Junior]

Moral of the story is...don't have kids until U both make more than $ 50 K per annum.

[Skyblue]

[joeteacher]

What's with the Koreans' obsession with Guam? Seems like half the Koreans I know have either been there or really want to go.

[Skyblue]

Same here. I'd never met anyone who had been there before coming here.

[nukeday]

It's America's other Hawaii!

[Koreadays]

Guam is actually a great place.
flights, resort, car rental, sight seeing, food, jet skiing, etc etc etc.
family of 4... easy!
not to mention it's high season.

BUT.. 10 million does seem expensive for a package tour..
2.5-3 million per person. seems crazy..

perhaps this girl doesn't know how to shop for cheap airlines, and hotels and has over paid by 40%