Boston POTN Meet (3)

Anyone interested on a trip to Alaska or Iceland?

Interested? yes.

Able? not this year (likely)

Yeah... I'm probably not able this year, either. Next year, high maybe

Mistabernie wrote in post #17506496
Interested? yes.

Able? not this year (likely)

This!!

but i'd probably prefer to do alaska over iceland

Harm wrote in post #17506603
prefer to do alaska over iceland

ditto

Wow. Just updated my sig and added the Ls to the lens descriptions. Didn't realize I had so many. I'm so fortunate. I think that's one for every two years I've been shooting.

why do you have 2 x 85s?

Alaska and Iceland.

Both interested in.

Neither I can afford right now. Need to get my stone wall fixed. Its leaning pretty bad. Its about 1-2 ft high denepnding on which end and its leaving a good amount. Its also about 50ft or so in length.

Wow Air has some fairly inexpensive flights to Iceland

Planning on a family trip next year and Iceland may win out over some other Europe choices

Harm wrote in post #17506655
why do you have 2 x 85s?

Will be getting rid of 85 1.8. Just haven't had a chance.

WOW Air is like Spirit Airline in the States. You can find really cheap flights, something like around $450 RT, but if you want to check in a suitcase - it is $50 each way, a carry-on - $30 each way, etc. I looked into this because I need to go to Paris, and WOW has $850 RT fare, but when you add all these extra, it will be close to what regular flights would cost.

Lbsimon wrote in post #17506858
WOW Air is like Spirit Airline in the States. You can find really cheap flights, something like around $450 RT, but if you want to check in a suitcase - it is $50 each way, a carry-on - $30 each way, etc. I looked into this because I need to go to Paris, and WOW has $850 RT fare, but when you add all these extra, it will be close to what regular flights would cost.

That is one thing I remember about Spirit airlines. My coworker took it to Las Vegas and he paid a lot less then me but I was on US Airways and he was on Spirit. We his flight took off about an hour before mine but I landed over an hour earlier then his flight. He had a layover in Florida. I had a layover in Philly.

In the end, he paid more for that flight with the check-in luggage and check bag and they charged him for the carry on.

Last time I flew Spirit, we were delayed 2 hours, then 4, then 6 and then cancelled because the plane from Florida decided not to arrive.

I forgot to mention that both Spirit and WOW charge $10-$25 each segment for seat selection, depending on the seat, so here is $40-$100 total extra on a trip to Paris. I am also sure that one needs to pay for food on board...

Interesting to hear, for poops and giggles I had priced it out all the way to checkout and total for family of 4 came out at least $600 less than Orbitz, Expedia, etc to Iceland and and about $400 less to Copenhagen

All may change next year though when we actually fly, this was more for early research