Archived:Costs

HERE ARE THINGS which the financial-obsessive and/or cautious members of this guild have calculated will contribute to the cost

UNMODIFIABLE STUFF (which will be a cost no matter what method we choose to use)

FOODSTUFFS AND DRINKING WATER

• £15 per person per day maybe? (this is based on costs in europe and the balkans being fractionally less than those here, but that we will not be eating in the most economic manner due to not living out of a supermarket (for one thing, we won't have a big fridge.) if anyone cares to revise this estimate, go right ahead

this totals £240 per person.

ACCOMMODATION

• how do we intend to do this? i have little idea. i will arbitrarily assume that for £15 per person any given town can put a group of five or six up for a night; this is based on www.hihostels.com information and assumes that we are going to do it by youth hostels &c. (the cheapest way)

this also totals £240 per person.

OTHER STUFF

• we will want to go in to attractions, museums and so forth maybe? let us assume that for the whole trip this totals £75 per person (based, again, on almost zero data).
• we must allow for random crap, let's allow £75 per person also.

this totals (pretty arbitrarily) £150 per person.

UNMODIFIABLE: £630 ph

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MODIFIABLE STUFF

                   hire          buy

cost of car .... £1,300

                                -£900   resale

cost of insurance .... £700

                                -£400   cancellation

cost of tax .... £120 cost of rent £900 .... cost of fuel £360 £500 assumes 45 mpg cost of flights £480 total .... calculated at £80 ph return to munich cost of tunnels £150 .... cost of tolls £30 £50 a bit in france, germany and bosnia

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MODIFIABLE £1,620 £1,370

                 = £270 ph     = £230 ph
                               however this also requires an additional £220 *float* ph for purchase of car

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TOTALS: £900 ph for hire, £860 ph + £220 ph (hopefully) reclaimable float for purchase risks involved: hire, we will be charged through the nose in case of accident. buy, we lose the float but only have to pay a pittance for scrapping and a flight home.