True. This is OT but still an interesting conversation anyway.
My girlfriend and I spent a total of $3500 to go to Italy for 14 days. With $7500, we would have gotten better hotels (we did the hostel route) but it wouldn't have materially changed the trip. However of that $3500, almost $1500 was the airfare from New York to Milan. This is also a good example of the American vacation system screwing us, I would have stayed for 4-6 weeks if my job would have let me. 14 days was the maximum we could pull off, and my girlfriend's boss put her in as 'sick' for at least one day in there. I worked the day before we flew out and the day after we got home (as a jet lagged zombie) because I was out of vacation days.
My girlfriend and I spent a total of $3500 to go to Italy for 14 days. With $7500, we would have gotten better hotels (we did the hostel route) but it wouldn't have materially changed the trip. However of that $3500, almost $1500 was the airfare from New York to Milan. This is also a good example of the American vacation system screwing us, I would have stayed for 4-6 weeks if my job would have let me. 14 days was the maximum we could pull off, and my girlfriend's boss put her in as 'sick' for at least one day in there. I worked the day before we flew out and the day after we got home (as a jet lagged zombie) because I was out of vacation days.