{"id":2021,"date":"2009-01-05T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/05\/vacation-worth-it\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:01:00","slug":"vacation-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/vacation-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big problems in vacationtown. First, a little background…
\nLast year, I canceled a flight to Israel. I had assumed that I was given credit through British Airways to redirect the flight wherever I felt like within a year, but it turns out that there was a misunderstanding.
\nToday it was confirmed by both British Airways, and my booking agency Vayama, that the flight is only good for SFO to London to Tel Aviv. Oh goody.
\nI no longer have much to do in Israel. Visiting Shiranne would always be nice, but it’s not worth taking a week out of my work schedule to do. I had originally planned on using the credit to book a flight to Paris, where I’d hang out with Hannah for a week in February while she’s off from the Sorbonne.
\nBut if I were to do that, turns out it would be an extra $500 plus another ten hours on a plane, as I would have to go from SFO to London to Tel Aviv to Paris (and back), at best. I’m not so sure this is worth doing anymore.
\nThis is a week of unpaid vacation. By not working, I would have been losing less money than I had already spent on this ticket, but with this extra cost and burden of going through yet another airline and expecting flights to go as planned, I no longer think this is a good idea. But I feel pretty bad about already having spent over a thousand dollars on travel and having it go to waste.
\nAnd if I were to decide to go to Israel, it probably would<\/em> be en route to somewhere else. So why not Paris now? And since I was thinking of spending extra time in Paris because Shiranne would possibly visit, why not spend that extra time visiting her in Israel instead, since I kind of have to go there?
\nSo in summary:
\nIf I go:<\/u>
\n$1000+ credit used
\n$500 extra spent on ten extra hours (not counting airline transfer time) for a round trip flight from Tel Aviv to Paris
\nAt least an unpaid week
\nHundreds spent on hostels and other accomodations
\nFun in Paris and perhaps elsewhere
\nIf I don’t go:<\/u>
\n$1000+ credit lost (or used some other time in the next half year to still go to Israel)
\nNo work schedule interruption
\nNo visiting Hannah, etc.
\nHey LiveJournal! What do you think I should do!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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