Well, according to my January budget, I had $225 to spend while in Calgary. Here’s how I did!
January 13
$38.50 – dinner & beers at the Flames game.
(-$22 BF)
January 14
$5.75 – cost for 2 hours of parking in downtown Calgary.
$34.41 – lunch downtown Calgary.
(-$20 BF)
$66.04 – Chinese dinner for 4 adults & 2 kids (we treated BF’s brother’s family to dinner).
(-$33 BF)
January 15
$15.74 – bought The Lovely Bones b/c I finished My Sister’s Keeper on the plane.
$21.80 – lunch at the mall.
(-$10 BF)
January 16
$43.24 – lunch with 2 of my friends at a pub.
$6.20 – bought cupcakes to share with
$4.77 – Starbucks while shopping w/friend.
January 17
$141.25 – parking for 5 days at the Vancouver Airport (did you puke?)
(-$70 BF)
TOTAL SPENT = $227.70
I think I did pretty well. :) Just a couple dollars over budget, even with the ridiculous cost of parking (hmph!). We had such a fabulous time, and hopefully we’ll be able to get out there again before the end of the year.
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and you should be proud, i definitely consider being a couple of dollars over budget a success. glad you had a good time!
I'm just curious why you didn't take the Canada Line, or even a cab to the airport? =)
Shenanigans: We live quite a long ways away from the Canada Line. In fact, just to get to the Canada Line would require 2 or 3 transfers.
And we just didn't think about it. The last time we left the car and flew to Alberta for the same amount of time, I don't recall it being that expensive. J said they hiked up the rates for the Olympics.
A cab to the airport would have been expensive too!
Ah well.
You did great, even with the crazy parking fee! :)
Holy Moly!
I did kinda puke a little at that parking price. . . that's insane!
Airport parking is expensive everywhere – even in Victoria. My wife and I paid over 80 dollars for a weekend to San Francisco. Still saves over taking a cab downtown and the alternative of the bus.
Airport parking is expensive everywhere – even in Victoria. My wife and I paid over 80 dollars for a weekend to San Francisco. Still saves over taking a cab downtown and the alternative of the bus.
It looks like you parked in the "Parkade Level P2" for $28.25 per day, which is the most expensive daily parking they have :(
Next time you could park in the Economy Lot which is $20.25 per day (only a short walk) or the Long Term Lot which is $14.75 per day (needs a shuttle). There is also a coupon off the YVR (Vancouver Airport) site that works for both the economy and the long term lots.
Obviously, I'm not sure which part of Vancouver you live in, but from downtown a cab is $35 or so each way. I didn't have a car when I lived there though, so I guess I just automatically think of transit routes!
Here at my local airport (Kansas City) you can park economy for $5.50 per day.. I cant imagine paying what you had to pay!