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[Peter_Bingo]

I'm going to probably be a "maybe" at the moment. I have been invited to go to Jamaica and to Holland in the summer. Trying to pick between which to go is VERY hard

[LeeumDee]

Sounds really nice, but I have a holiday booked in May which wipes me out of money and holiday hours for workie work.

Hope you all have a nice time, sounds really well organised by gwyn.
Scotland is a fooking nice place, lorvely people! I really want to go again, shame I can't come.

[EvilWhiteDragon]

*bump*

[bloodynoob]

 it hurts you know

[EvilWhiteDragon]

*Bump*

[ShadeSlayer]

Blind, if I churn out $1700 for this trip, you BETTER be there.  

EDIT: Geez you people freak out.

[EvilWhiteDragon]

Blind, if I churn out $1700 for this trip, you BETTER be there. 

EDIT: I'm actually seriously thinking if spending that much on a trip is a good idea. That's a lot of money. Ahhhhh! I could buy so many things with that.

You know that backing out now is like, quite an annoying and expensive thing for Gwynzer?

[Trace]

My internship seems to be sorted out atm and I should be able to make it however I might have to work on both fri + mon so not sure how that will turn out.

[EvilWhiteDragon]

I'm not sure what your contract says about free days?
I know I got 5 free days (1 each month) and the ability to work at home, so
Oh and more importantly, my internship ends the 1st of July

You could always take a plane Friday evening and flying back on Sunday?

[ShadeSlayer]

I'm not backing out!

[Trace]

I'm not sure what your contract says about free days?

I'm not sure either since i don't have a contract yet
Not sure about the flying thing. Let me know what you guys will do.

[EvilWhiteDragon]

Well, I've looked at it again.

Own car_{Presuming we have one available}
Going by car might be fun, but will take probably 2 days, and a large part of way would be on the wrong side of the road. It's somewhere between 1200 and 1300 kilometers to get there, which means we would need about 1300/11*2=236 liters of fuel. Now I'm unsure what the fuel costs are in the UK or whatever, but estimating from dutch prices we'd pay about 236*1,65=390 Euros in fuel alone.

Since we would need to either take the ferry or the eurostar, costs would rise even more,
but haven't been able to find eurostar prices.
Ferry would save us some Km's, but costs with 4 people are a whopping 300 Euros as well making it a say 650 euro travel or 162,50 Euros each. With less than 4 people it's even worse.

Flight+car rental
Better idea could be flying to Liverpool (cheapest UK airport from Amsterdam) and rent a car there.That would cost 237 Euros for the flight and another 150 for the car (387 Euros) + (~400 km/11*2*1,65)= 507 Euros or 126,75.

(In)direct flight + pickup
Alternatively we could fly directly to Glasgow from Amsterdam for about 205 each or fly indirectly to Glasgow for about 127,50 Euros each. As an adition we could of course rent a car here as well.

[Gwynzer]

Shade, Benu and Hoops are gonna be staying with me for a while.  I'll have one more space from Aberdeen/to stay at mine in the car.

[EvilWhiteDragon]

Update for Seyes and me traveling.
Apparently you need a Creditcard to rent a car. That poses a problem since I don't have one, and since they require it to be in the first driver's name, we need someone who has a drivers license and has a creditcard. Kind of annoying :/

We've figured out that flying to liverpool or manchester is a lot cheaper, even with extra fuel costs. Saves about 100 euros each.

Flying indirectly to glasgow would cost over 6 hours in travel time, excluding from and to the airport and is not that much cheaper than traveling directly.

Direct flight from Amsterdam is about 200 euros to glasgow, but then we're still not at the lodge :/

[Trace]

Update for Seyes and me traveling.
Apparently you need a Creditcard to rent a car. That poses a problem since I don't have one, and since they require it to be in the first driver's name, we need someone who has a drivers license and has a creditcard. Kind of annoying :/

I do have both but I don't think that they allow me to rent a car since I'm not 21 yet.