So how much did this cost you?

Grath

We were comparing costs in the WCST thread

how much did this cost you?


gas/hotel/ticket in the door cost my group about 215$ a person
then after food/souvineers + that speeding ticket it cost me about $800 just for myself.

Legacy

$150 - $200.

fishpondbubble07

Gas: $0 -- We offered our driver money for gas, but he declined it.

Hotel: $50 ($150 total/3 people)

Food/drinks/other stuff: ~$250 (this includes money that I spent on my friends)

graizur

I didn't go on the wcst but it cost me an unneccesary 12hundred to take me and a friend to seattle from NYC for four days.


it could have cost only 6-700 if I would have set it up one week earlier and not made mistakes on the dates having to pay an extra 150 to rearange it again.

ben184

Sheesh! I thought my trip was expensive....

Does anyone agree that $1200 is a tad much for a $25-at-the-door event?

We need to get the PAX bus rolling...at $200 a ticket, it would be a bargain!

ben184

My $700 figure should have been split between 2 passengers ($233 each), but my girlfriend didn't have to pay, and I asked Michel (or Michael?) to pay only $90 (since his ride was less than comfortable).

I had been planning on $300 as my portion. Let's just say money was tight by the end of September...


At an average cost of ~$300 a person for driving, and ~$600 a person for flying, I think a $200 ticket for the PAX-bus-mobile would be a bargain...I am still working on it...promise....

JoahW

Hrmm... It costed me probably $45-$50. And thats including entrance fee. :P

futility

~$700

tickets 400
hotel 70
food&lots of drink 150
travel 50

Fallout

Well, now I know I'll have to save up quite a bit if I want to go next year!

And uh, this is off-topic, but... how did you all pronounce PAX? Pee Ay Ecks? Packs?

graizur

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

On a side note. The first guys I met at Hero (ask if you dont know) I ended up hanging with for the rest of the weekend. Shout Out to DocZero, Seth, and Tristan from room 520. Were YOU there?

Sigma_100

i spent about $300, 120 on hotel, another 100 on gas, and the rest on misc. pax sstuff

BigRed

graizur wrote:

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

It was funny when I was walking down the street to the hotel in my enforcer shirt. Whenever someone on the street saw me (everyone walking between pax and the doubletree was from pax) id hear a "WOOO! PAX!"

graizur

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

It was funny when I was walking down the street to the hotel in my enforcer shirt. Whenever someone on the street saw me (everyone walking between pax and the doubletree was from pax) id hear a "WOOO! PAX!"

Were you the one wearing the kilt?

BigRed

graizur wrote:

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

It was funny when I was walking down the street to the hotel in my enforcer shirt. Whenever someone on the street saw me (everyone walking between pax and the doubletree was from pax) id hear a "WOOO! PAX!"

Were you the one wearing the kilt?

No, I was the really tall guy guarding the boyc room and the bawls cap fruit fucker.

graizur

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

It was funny when I was walking down the street to the hotel in my enforcer shirt. Whenever someone on the street saw me (everyone walking between pax and the doubletree was from pax) id hear a "WOOO! PAX!"

Were you the one wearing the kilt?

No, I was the really tall guy guarding the boyc room and the bawls cap fruit fucker.

Were you one of the three black dudes. Actually I think there might have been only one black dude.

Dog

about $40.

i live just north of bellevue and paid for 1 day. the rest was bawls and food

BigRed

graizur wrote:

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

BigRed wrote:

graizur wrote:

pronounced Packs. Preferebly while yelling it in a questioning manner across the street while with your geek friends to another group of geeks who really do look like they could be going to coming from ...



".....PAX?"



to which they respond

".....Yeah, PAX!"

Which happened all weekend but died down on day 2 since we all recognized eachother by then, from the hotel parties or the show floor itself. Mostly the hotel parties.

It was funny when I was walking down the street to the hotel in my enforcer shirt. Whenever someone on the street saw me (everyone walking between pax and the doubletree was from pax) id hear a "WOOO! PAX!"

Were you the one wearing the kilt?

No, I was the really tall guy guarding the boyc room and the bawls cap fruit fucker.

Were you one of the three black dudes. Actually I think there might have been only one black dude.

me = tall guy next to my evil female friend

http://bigredwa.temp.powweb.com/PAX/PAX%20026.jpg

Element Brian

it cost me about 28 for parking, 20 for ticket, 10 for gas is 58, sucks i found out when i got home on sunday night, that i just as easily could have parked at dairy queen instead of the parking garage and saved 28 dollars.....

ben184

Element Brian wrote:

it cost me about 28 for parking, 20 for ticket, 10 for gas is 58, sucks i found out when i got home on sunday night, that i just as easily could have parked at dairy queen instead of the parking garage and saved 28 dollars.....

I hate you

SpuD

Gas: $15
Room: $40
Food: $20
2 day Ticket: $25

graizur

Plane ticket for me to fly from NYC to Seatac $250
Plane ticket for friend and hotel for both of us$450
Surcharge because I booked wrong date for^$150
Food at store , Wendy's, Lanwerx etc aprox__$050
Seattle Space Needle etc for me + friend ____$075
Beer__________________________________$009
Total cost: A Buttload

Chance to feel the geek love, see other PA fans, talk to Gabe about Spokane, seeing and hearing Connie Lyn and the MiniBosses for the first time, Thank Tycho, Show friend Seattle for the first time and giving him the oppertunity to play Halo 2 early: Sigh, Priceless.

Cerrius

$280 on various stuff (anime soundtracks, food, parking, hotel)

And $20 on gas. It only took a half tank to get back to Portland from Seattle.

iplaybass

$300 in gas.
~$50 in food
~$150 for new tires and brakes (long story)
$100 in bounced check fees

I also received speeding tickets in two seperate states. But I probably won't be paying those.

Still worth it.

Barenaked_Enid

Gas + food + hotel + alcohol + ticket into pax + case of bawls = $160 US

That's about $200 Canadian, plus another $80 for taking my car on the ferry both ways. It's a little much considering I came from four hours away, but it was well worth it, and I didn't even have to work for the money. But now I'm stuck with $40 american and the exchange rate when back up so I refuse to use it or change it back into canadian.

Legacy

Barenaked_Enid wrote:

But now I'm stuck with $40 american

You'll be able to use it someday soon. Hopefully.

doczero

90$ for Gas... Heavy pedal. PDX to PAX, couple cookies, Pax to PDX.
~270$? 3 nights in the DoubleTree Room 520. excellent.
20$ beer.
80$ food
14$ shipping "borrowed" XBox cable back to Digitalodin in the midwest boonies.
Worthless 1 `17 Sony trinitron dropped on vehicle entry leaving the DoubleTree.

Next time I am getting a bigger room.
Doc

TastEPlasma

Hmm, let me see...

~$200 for doubletree 2 nights
~$300 for gas (drove 4000+ miles round trip! :shock: )
~$250 for food, drink, bawls, CDs, etc
~$120 for speeding ticket in southern nebraska
~7 full days for round trip and stay
(Nobody has done this yet, so...)
~Seeing the single greatest match of pong ever witnessed by man...priceless.

I suppose it cost me about ~$900 or so. Worth every damn penny, although I certainly wish I had loosened up and been a bit more social. Oh well, there is always next year.

Sincerely,
TastEPlasma

graizur

So now that we know how much this can cost and how we can cut spending (ie:pooling rescources sharing rooms etc) we should all resolve ourselves to bring more friends, more games, more beer money and at maybe some chicks. Although I don't know how the room sharing thing would work with that... :-P ok maybe this wasn't well thought out.

The Geek

Dang you guys, going to E3 didn't even cost me as much as going to PAX for some of you.

Robert Khoo

a lot.

futility

Robert Khoo wrote:

a lot.

wait, you or the company that you work for?

i'm kind of curious to know if you guys made money in the: none, a little, a lot, or gabe@tropicalparadise.island range

Robert Khoo

we broke even. but man there were a lot of unexpected costs... electricity is crazy expensive as it turns out.

-robert

locomotiveman

Does the suprise costs risk there not being a PAX next year?

futility

Robert Khoo wrote:

we broke even. but man there were a lot of unexpected costs... electricity is crazy expensive as it turns out.

-robert

you should have hooked up some of your bawls powered patrons to treadmills. you might have made money that way.

and news of your only breaking even makes me want to send you monies.
maybe I'll buy another shirt or something

Frowbakk

With all the bills paid it is good to hear that PAX broke even its first year, since so many conventions do not. I hope it turns out the extra attendees turned out to be a windfall instead of a burden.

Plus given that 'electricity is crazy expensive', and there should be an even bigger power drain next year from more exhibitors, with more area being available, I think that PAX '05 will be at least $30 for the weekend for attendees, if not more.

Plus from a local attendee:

Parking = $4/day. ($8 total)
Saturday lunch I brought from Safeway = $6.
PAX Pre-reg $22-ish.
Going to see Hero on Friday = $10 (stupid Fandango surcharge...).
Amount I paid in rent, instead of a room = $40 or so.
Lunch at a restaurant on Sunday =$20.
5 lb bag of Chocolate Coated Espresso Beans = $20.

Walking around Sunday morning handing out said nuggets of Encapsulated Evil saying things like 'Sleep is for the Weak' and 'Strangers have the best Candy' = Priceless.

Bagel

Would anyone mind guessing how much it would cost me to go to PAX '05? I doubt I can convince my parents to let me go, but if I did, what you might need to know to calculate it is; I'm from upstate new york, probably won't be able to drive by then anyway, so I'd either fly [but I'm afraid of flying] or is it possible to take a train or something? Or is anyone car-pooling that is going near upstate new york [actually near the PA border right in the center].

sage_ich_nicht

Bagel wrote:

Would anyone mind guessing how much it would cost me to go to PAX '05? I doubt I can convince my parents to let me go, but if I did, what you might need to know to calculate it is; I'm from upstate new york, probably won't be able to drive by then anyway, so I'd either fly [but I'm afraid of flying] or is it possible to take a train or something? Or is anyone car-pooling that is going near upstate new york [actually near the PA border right in the center].

Watch out for the ECST!

Robert Khoo

Bagel wrote:

Would anyone mind guessing how much it would cost me to go to PAX '05? I doubt I can convince my parents to let me go, but if I did, what you might need to know to calculate it is; I'm from upstate new york, probably won't be able to drive by then anyway, so I'd either fly [but I'm afraid of flying] or is it possible to take a train or something? Or is anyone car-pooling that is going near upstate new york [actually near the PA border right in the center].

If you're staying all three days, I'd budget out $250 for hotels, but if you can find someone to room with you can split that in half if not more. Then there's travel, which will run you $300 from NYC (Jetblue is $288 right now i believe). cheaper if you do the ECST.

Admission is on the cheap this year, especially if you prereg (you'll see what I mean later this week), and then there's food.

Sooo..

Hotels: $75 to $250, depending on what you do
Travel: $150 to $300
Food/Admission: $100 or so.

So it could cost as little as $325 or as much as $650 for you new yorkers.

-robert

galenblade

Robert Khoo wrote:

If you're staying all three days, I'd budget out $250 for hotels, but if you can find someone to room with you can split that in half if not more. Then there's travel, which will run you $300 from NYC (Jetblue is $288 right now i believe). cheaper if you do the ECST.

Admission is on the cheap this year, especially if you prereg (you'll see what I mean later this week), and then there's food.

Sooo..

Hotels: $75 to $250, depending on what you do
Travel: $150 to $300
Food/Admission: $100 or so.

So it could cost as little as $325 or as much as $650 for you new yorkers.

Not a bad estimate. I flew out to PAX last year from Boston, and the whole shebang (flight + Doubletree + food) cost me under $300, not counting souvenirs. Well worth it, if you can find the deals. I just happen to be an excessive bargain hunter.

Affliction

Last year it cost me a total of twenty dollars American. We only went for one day, and the ATM was broken so the only money I had was the twenty that was left over from my last trip to the States. I spent it all on Subway and one of those "Shoryuken" T-shirts. Gas cost was negligible because we took my diesel Jetta.

This year, though, we're going for all three days, we're staying at the hotel, and we're taking Stefan's gas-guzzling American minivan. Plus I'm planning to stock up on Japanese candy, so I'm budgeting about $250US or so for souvenirs and edible items. Accomodations and gas should be pretty cheap because we're basically splitting it six ways.

Dog

It cost me about $20 for gas plus registration ... then there was food in there somewhere between kicking tail at smash bros and drooling over halo 2 ... i think overall it ran me about $70.