travel costs

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 15 March 2011 Mar, JL VT wrote:
> Reading those estimated ticket prizes makes me cringe...
> 
> LAN Chile had absurd ticket prizes going from US$3500 to US$5800 (with the
> upside of shorter travel times).
> Other airlines were less steep on the travel costs, but with larger travel
> times... though I have my trusty Nintendo DS to deal with 21 hours of
> travel!.
> 
> For leaving on Friday and returning on Monday, average cost: US$2500
> (cheapest was Swiss airlines, $2244, let's take this price)

Ok, that should be fine.

> 
> That's the cheapest I could find (within a reasonable time frame), link
> here:
> http://www.despegar.cl/search/flights/RoundTrip/SCL/AMS/2011-05-20/2011-05-23/1/0/0
> 
> All other costs of travel are meaningless in comparison, but just for
> reference:
> Back and forth from Rancagua to Santiago: US$10
> Back and forth from Santiago Downtown to the Airport and then back: US$24
>  (Yes, they overcharge for this trip  :-)  )
> 
> I can't think of any other relevant travel cost, so rounding to the nearest
> 100 to compensate for unexpected situations, we have:
> US$2300 to arrive at Amsterdam's airport.
> 
> Those are my estimated expenses.
> That assuming I manage to get a Visa to visit Amsterdam  *crosses fingers*.

I'll visit the town hall this afternoon to ask what's needed on my side for a visum to .nl. But maybe a tourist visum doesn't need anything on the dutch side. Can you check?

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