Have you guys thought about how much money it would cost visiting your SOs?

[alittlemind]

I feel like I'm lucky having to only spend about 600$ compared to some of you who have to spend over 2000$. But either way it really adds up if I'm visiting two or even three times a year.

[Sabrinaloveshim]

Well... a LDR is very veeerrry expensive.
Just one visit to my babe is around 200$ and thats without hotel!!!

With its about 400, so your SO should be working or you haha ^_^

My baby has invested over 5000$ in me And were just a year together haha.

[Alle1770]

I never really thought of the money issue at all before I met my SO, and now planning how to get the money to pay for my tickets and other transport that I'll need to get to him. The flight alone costs about 1500 dollars, and then I have to take a bus from Buenos Aires to where he lives, which is a journey of 24 hours. All in all, I have to get around 2300 dollars, and when you're still in school and all, that is NOT an easy thing to do. Fortunately, I just got a job so I'll be working afternoons and weekends! It'll make me unable to meet friends as often, and to talk to my SO, but since it's so that I can go over to see him in a few months I think it's worth it <3 But god, I've never had to really worry about money until now, and it gets me really stressed out every now and then when it hits me just how much money I'm dealing with...

Okay, and now I just realized how much money my SO has spent on going here... My god, I never thought it would be that much!! He's spent around 11 500 dollars on getting back and forth from here! 2300 dollars/time, and he's been here 5 times in a year and 2 months... I've told him that I feel horrible about him having to do the travelling, and I really really do because I feel so worthless when there's nothing I can do to help, and I can't take weeks off from school to go there either, but now I feel even worse :O

[chizatlauren]

For my SO who's about to visit soon (we still haven't booked the tickets), here's my breakdown:

$1,500 roundtrip airfare Manila-Las Vegas
$1,000 hotel (he can't sleep in my house! My mom will be really mad at me -__- ) that is for a 10-day stay in a nice hotel
$1,000 food, travel, stuff to do for 10 days

Miscellaneous stuff like he said he's gonna buy something for my family when he comes here. Chocolates and whatnots.

$3,500 for every visit! Woohoo! I don't really know where he'll get that, but he has a job right now (US minimum wage though). I have a full-time job too (but I live in the Philippines so don't expect that to help a lot). I offered to pay for his hotel stay because I think it's my fault that he can't stay at our house.

[Alsfia]

The everlasting money issues. Luckily my SO and I stay at eachother's houses whenever we visit, so that makes it a hell of a lot cheaper... The puzzling with flights and trains is a nightmare though. It's to scan every possibility to try and go with the cheapest option, where to fly, how to get there... Luckily my SO's dad runs a fairly successful company and has paid all my SO's flights, and some of the train rides (most of them in UK)... I refuse to let them pay anything for me though, it would feel horrible. Luckily I had some savings (marked for travelling) already before I started dating my SO, and I always have over 500€ at my bank account (trying to keep it at 1,000 but so far no success...) though. So far I've paid for 6 or 7 visits, and it all adds up (flights alone) to about 1,200€. Since I only get to work sporadicaly, and have to pay all my books for upper secondary (done with that now though, FINALLY! Must've put around 2,000€ on those) my poor savings account has shrunk quite a bit... I hope to get a job in UK for the summer though and open an account over there for expenses while staying and pay my flight back to Finland... Oh this puzzling.

[AlexandraM]

i'm visiting mine in a few months. cost me £900 for flights and more for spending money. trust me, he will be worth every penny.

[Brieasaurus]

Plane tickets are about $350, staying at a hotel here (this is staying at a super ghetto, gangs outside hotel) is about $80 a night and we no longer have to rent a car because I have my own but that was $500. Our last visit cost about $900 all said and done for four days. When I go there it'll only cost about $600 because there's a long term hotel that's significantly cheaper and I want to have at least $200 spending money.

My SO has a decent job (makes about $12 an hour, full time) and I volunteer to clean our house in lieu of my parents hiring a cleaning lady which they give me $75 a week for (also because the economy here is so bad that adults who went to college are applying for the usual "teen/minimum wage jobs" because there's nothing else so it's hard to get a job). Save your coins! That gave me about $80 the first visit.

[Black_Halloween]

Any flights we take will be between $400-$700 depending on the time. My trip to him this summer will probably be close to the $700 end.

[leah_c]

So I'm gonna tell you a lot of info, get ready. lol.

I'm seeing my SO for the first time in June. Since it's during the summer and I'm going from the US to the UK the tickets were pricey. I spent $1,482 on the ticket (which included a phone card to call my family while I'm over there). I saved some money on the ticket since I'm arriving at London and leaving from Manchester. Then our room at a B&B in London was about $400. I also spent about $400 on a London Pass w/Travel Card (total price for buying two of these together, one for each of us), which gets us in free to the attractions in London and we don't have to pay for our trips using the Tube and buses. So buying these cards will save us both lots of money. But I know I'm saving a lot of money when we go up to northern England to stay at his house for most of the trip. He's paying for the coach bus up to his place and for other things.

If we're talking about shopping and food over there... I'm not sure. I hear London is expensive, but I have money saved up so I don't have to worry too much unless I decide to go the high-end shops and buy tons of clothes. lol So I'm guessing in the end, I'll probably spend a total of $3,000 for this whole trip. That's way cheap. I thought it would cost more. I think if I didn't get the London Pass w/Travel Card, we didn't stay at a B&B in London, and I was arriving/leaving through London the trip would easily cost about $5,000. Just think that about each attraction (Tower of London, Tower Bridge, etc) cost at least £12-14 or more each place and a trip in the tube between all of these places is usually £4.50 or more in cash depending on where you go... you're going to spend a lot of money if you don't get some sort of money saving card.

Sorry, sometimes I just write and write and can't stop. lol.

[AmericaToEnglandWithLove]

Well, yours is an America to England relationship, also? Sadly, we are slowly trying to make rough plans of having him come visit me over here before I get to go see him next summer, but he's being quite stubborn and insisting that he pays for the airplane ticket himself. :/ Personally, I don't mind how much I would have to pay to have him come see me, because I just want to see him ASAP, but.. Airplane tickets are either 1,000 or more US Dollars.. So I'm praying and hoping that he'll be able to visit this year. :/ Wish me luck?

[leah_c]

Well, yours is an America to England relationship, also? Sadly, we are slowly trying to make rough plans of having him come visit me over here before I get to go see him next summer, but he's being quite stubborn and insisting that he pays for the airplane ticket himself. :/ Personally, I don't mind how much I would have to pay to have him come see me, because I just want to see him ASAP, but.. Airplane tickets are either 1,000 or more US Dollars.. So I'm praying and hoping that he'll be able to visit this year. :/ Wish me luck?

Yep, I'm in the US & he's in the UK. Unfortunately my SO has been through rough times with losing his job and then getting a part time job where he earns way less than he use to, so he can't afford coming here with ticket prices. But luckily I was able to save up and some stuff happened to where I have enough to go there. I don't care about the price either, I just want June to be here so I can be with him.

Good luck, I hope it all works out for you.

[MattDavies86]

For yourself it's pretty much handy man jobs etc to get money and save up! , you could always try this site: https://www.gofundme.com/ it's the generosity of people who can help, depends if they think what you need money for is good or not.

[Mellow]

That might MattDavies, doesn't sound like a bad idea to try out at all ^_^

For now, I do have enough money to see my LDR when he arrives in Europe. He'll be studying in a different country then mine, but it is not that far apart.
So if I were to visit him by train/bus I'd look at around 150,- euros. Which isn't that bad.
Just a bit worried for when he'll leave for the USA again though... But I'll think about that later.

[Jmoc1024]

Dear Sabrinavo,
I might be a little far off here but I think you should tell your parents what you are up too..you never know they might just be ok with it and help you out by giving you extra money for a bday gift, or be able to help you find some odd jobs around the way. Plus I don't think it is wise for you to conceal the reason you are going to Edinburgh. I am sorry but I am a mother of three girls and if one came up to me out of the blue and told me she is hopping an international flight I just might have a couple of questions. But please think about telling them, it is the best thing you could do. Even if they don't help you out at least they will know what you are up to and where you plan to be. Plus getting odd jobs is not a bad idea, you could sell Avon products to your school friends and there parents, get a dishwashing job at a dinner, start using lower costing products. As for not having experience in the work field...you have more experience then you think. If you know how to use a computer and know how to use basic Microsoft words programs then you have experience, use personal references, put your odd jobs on your resume that counts as experience. Check out your local county or town programs for work during the summer, check the local amusement parks and water parks they are always hiring during the summer. Put an ad in the paper to be a dog walker...you would be amazed how people love their dogs and pay someone to walk them when they are working. Put an ad to clean houses, their is nothing wrong with the kind of job you have as long as it is a honest job!!! Good luck!!!

[SonyaKitty]

I sell jewelry I make on etsy, maybe you could try selling some crafts that you make.