Originally Posted by Wingman32
While a $15 increase to $5 is 400%, a 15% increase to $450 is 3.3%. Rationally, $15 added to $5 should be the same as $15 added to $450. Also, think of all of the time you're wasting, and what you could be doing during that time. Is however many hours you are adding your trip really worth $15?
Originally Posted by IceTrojan
Agreed. While budget travel is great, I fail to understand people who go for the absolute cheapest route in anything regardless of the consequences (exception for those who are absolutely destitute).
Let's just assume the trait takes 2 hours. So $15 saved / 4 hours wasted = $3.75/hr. If you just a minimum wage job, you can easily make that up in ~2 hours of extra work, so net time wasted is ~2 hours (and this is minimum wage... I imagine a lot of people can make that up in under an hour).
And while traveling, I can think of a lot I could do with those 2 hours.
For Chrissakes, you guys - you are off topic.
civicmon, too.
Your replies are an awful lot like people taunting the particpants in the Mileage Run forum and somewhat analogous to ridiculing people in the airline fora who are willing to add segments and go out of their way to earn MILES.
This is the BUDGET TRAVEL forum. While I couldn't force myself to spend 5 or 6 hours on a bus to travel SAN-LAX, I can certainly appreciate a discussion about its possibility.