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Want to go on trip I can't afford
Hi, 17/f, from England
So basically there's a trip to America and I really want to go on it. Its only for three nights/four days, but for me it'd be once in a lifetime.
The only thing stopping me is money. The thing is, my parents can afford it-we have money but its being saved up, same as with my twin sister, for university.
But I realllly want to go on the trip and don't know how to ask them. I've been feeling like this a while now, because:
1)I NEVER ask for anything I don't need,for example I'm stuck with the same phone I had when I was 11.
2) We can afford the trip, but my parent live in the future all the time, so we have been scrimping alot now just to pay uni costs in the future-but in doing so we don't get luxarys like holidays that ironically we can afford.
I'm honestly not a petulant, spoilt child at all, but I don't know how to convince my parents when it's like £800, and I have a twin sister who can't go as she doesn't study the subject?
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I have to agree with NinjaNeer the trip is not worth the money. You will lose one day and one night to travel. So the trip is really two nights and three days. Not knowing how many places you plan on visiting you could spend a lot of time traveling to these places.
If you plan on visiting New York City and Washington, DC it is a 250 mile trip between the two. The roads between the two are good but traffic can make the trip take anywhere from four hours to forever depending on road construction and traffic accidents. Rail service is very good though travel time is about three hours and trains are not as reliable as they are where you live.
You could loose another day just to travel and unfortunately you should count on loosing this day as this is more the norm then the exception. This leaves two days for actual sightseeing. I live here, not far from DC and this is a sum I could afford if I wanted too. Frankly I would not spend this amount of money to spend two days trying to see two cities and not see what I wanted to see.
America is a big place, you would need several weeks to visit many but not all of the places of interest. To spend the kind of money you are being asked to spend I believe is a terrible waste of your parents sacrifices to give you the opportunities they wish to provide for you and your sister.
Yes please come here and visit we would love to have you visit us. Do so when you have the time to visit and appreciate the many great places there are to see. I spent two weeks touring your country and visited some but not all of the places I would have liked to see. Two weeks was not enough time for me to visit and see your country, a great place which is geographically smaller then the USA. Still it was not enough time for me to visit all the places I wanted to see. Two days here will not even give you a taste of what my country is like.
I feel as NinjaNeer does that this trip would be a terrible waste of money. Please wait until you have the time and funds to visit and appreciate what this country has to be seen.
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It's not worth it, especially not for that length of time.
$1600 for three nights? That's insane, even for a family with a reasonable amount of money. You'd spend at least 8 hours on a plane each way, which would kill half your time. You'd be suffering from horrible jet lag while you were there. It would be rushed and you would be left wishing you had more time.
Your parents are right to live in the future. Trust me when I say that you will be far more grateful for the money when you're in university than you would be for the trip. It might not seem like a lot of money to you, but I would have to work 160 hours to make that much, and it would cover half of a term's tuition of college for me. Keep in mind that it's expensive to put a child through university, and your parents get the double whammy with you and your twin sister. They're trying to give you the ultimate gift here. By bypassing a few luxuries along the way, they're giving you a real head start by helping you graduate debt-free.
The best thing you can do right now is to look to the future yourself. Plan an awesome trip to the States for when you graduate university. Take the time to really make the trip worth your while. It's why I haven't been to Europe despite it being a lifelong dream of mine. My parents didn't make it until a few years ago. You want to make sure you do it right when you do it. This isn't a once in a lifetime opportunity. You have your whole life ahead of you to take amazing trips overseas.
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