So just a little update for you today. I spent a somewhat stressful hour or so in the Flight Centre talking to my travel agent Stephen about changing my flights home and booking my Contiki trips.
I had been tossing up, going back and forth about what I was going to do next January after Disney with my 30 days of travel in the USA. I like to be super organised and have a plan of exactly what I'm going to do.. but I wasn't sure if I should plan out my post-Disney travel or just wing it. But, my organised self won over, and I made the decision to book my Contiki trips and change my flights accordingly. I found the flights online, and thinking it would be a simple change, went into the Flight Centre today.
Turns out changing the return flights was not as simple as I had anticipated. It has to do with seat classes, and having to book flights with the same class in order to avoid fees (I don't know, it doesn't really make sense to me haha!). Anyway, with the flight home that I wanted, the booking class that I originally booked with were unavailable. Which meant I had to upgrade my seats to the most expensive (yet still economy) seats. Which meant paying another $395. So that was very disappointing, as that was money I thought I would be able to put towards my Contikis. So all up, my return flights cost me $3000. Disappointing, and I sort of wish that I had've tried to get cheaper one-way tickets. But that works out to $1500 each way, so really it's not too bad. I'm just glad its sorted now.. and I definitely won't be changing again!
Next was to book my two Contiki tours (that I had mentioned previously). We are waiting on Contiki to confirm, then I will be going in to put down the required $400 deposit. And then I will be officially as broke as!
So my new flight itinerary is:
12th July 2011: Auckland - Los Angeles
12th July 2011: Los Angeles - Orlando
7th January 2012: Orlando - Los Angeles
18th Januar 2012: Los Angeles - Auckland
After I pay my Contiki deposit, I am planning to draw up some sort of budget, just to work out how much I have to put towards the rest of my Contikis, insurance and visa, plus whatever else I have to buy/pay for before I leave. I'm sort of stressed, because now I don't know how much money I will have as spending money before Disney start paying me. Ah.. stress stress!!
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Until next time
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