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Originally Posted by speede5
What's an honest budget for tickets and hotels in YUL?
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From YYC, $400-600 for flight, maybe more if you want a shorter time frame. I always do Wed-Mon so that I can do the open house on Thursday and then don’t have to rush on Sunday.
$400ish per person for tix, maybe more if you go secondary market. Mine are in grandstand 11. Obviously you could go full on paddock club and be well into the thousands per person. Or go a bit cheaper and only spend about $250 per for one of the cheaper grandstands.
Accommodations are the tricky one. We went for a place right near the main metro station so it was $600 (split 3 ways) a night and that was quite reasonable. Many are upwards of $1k a night. One year I stayed further in the suburbs in a private room and shared bathroom/kitchen with the condo owner for $39 a night. So yeah, accommodations can be all over the place.
All in I probably spent about $2500 this trip. $2k for tix/flight/Airbnb and another $500 for merch/food/Uber/metro etc. that’s very low for spending money though. We ate in our Airbnb multiple times, took the metro everywhere, I don’t drink or go to clubs, and bought very little merch. I also don’t spend a lot of money at the track, outside merch, because you can bring food. Even then, this was the least amount of merch I’ve ever bought because a) most of it is crazy low quality garbage (looking at you McLaren and Aston Martin) and b) the merch prices are out of control (and they’ve always been bad, but now they’re insane). And with the times being weird this year, I found I could eat an early lunch before I left for the track for the day and was home for supper.
We all agreed we’d like to do the Champions Club passes one year and sit at the wall of champions. That’s full on paddock club thru F1 Experiences and must be outrageously expensive. In the meantime, I’ll continue to budget travel solo most years. Now that F1 has exploded in popularity, I may be able to subsidize my own seat by selling my other two. Used to be I was happy to sell for just above cost.