If you're attending a lan that requires you to fly and get a hotel expect to have a budget ready of about $1300 USD
Driving should bring that number down a bit.

There are plenty of smaller lans in the community but most of your cost is in Airline/Hotel/Food more than anything else, regardless of the size of the actual lan.

ya when i flew to fites i definitely didnt spend 1300 on my whole weekend rofl

~350 plane ticket
~100 hotel split a few ways
~150 food/lan costs
~100 other

Both these arent accounting for the fact you live in the UK. So you dont need to plane it.
For me it cost about £350 total. I took a train so. And the majority of this went to drinking and food.
Also I didnt play so if you want a BYOC ticket expect +£80
Edit: Also worth noting I camped so sleeping arrangements only cost me £10

100 for ticket + EAS
250-300 for hotel
120 for food, drinks and booze (it might be more or less depending how much alcohol you gonna drink)

You split a hotel. All of the lans I've attended I've paid for the room myself entirely and would spend 2-3 days there.

GXL 2015 and FLan 2015 trips both cost me about the same, buutttt I did rent a car to drive to Orlando to FLan so that didn't help.

i ended up getting my gxl plane ticket less than a week before the event and had to pay $200 for an extension on the return flight because i fucked it up so my total cost was around $1300 -_-

Even if you think Miggy's budget is a bit pricey, it's generally better to budget a bit more money than you'll actually spend in case you have an unforeseen cost, and they do happen.

I should also mention that I live in the dick tip of Florida so traveling anywhere from here sucks.
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True^ I literally got home with 2p because I got a taxi on a bank holiday to the train station which cost twice as much...

Is there a beginner's guide to PC LANs? I assumed the whole point of a LAN was to bring your own gear, but if a ticket for that is extra, then what do you do without the extra?

hang out with friends and consume illicit substances

gxl last year cost me 450$ at most

It's the same for Canadians, and add to that the low Canadian dollar doesn't help.

europe seems so much nicer for travel than the US :( It's $300 for me to get somewhere where I can actually leave the country rofl

Our hotel is 215 split between 3 people
Ticket is £85 + £15 for EAS
Drinks+Food
Fuel cost

i was looking at prices to go:

£100 for ticket & EAS
'bout £150 for a 3 night hotel we were looking at
travel prices vary obviously, train tickets cost £50 return last time i went to birmingham from here but i booked that last minute
Food and alcohol and shit costs however much you wanna spend on it i guess
Unexpected stuff you might have to pay for: taxi to/from train station (cause heavy gamer gear), kensington lock

Idk about you, but I like to hit up as many strip joints while out of town so I like to budget for that.

even if i booked a room solo for two nights thats like 300 tops ?

I seem to be getting ~£300 figures (not including travel) for playing video games away from home. Basically the cost I'd expect from a single-person weekend holiday. Thanks, that tells me what sort of budget I need in life (a bigger one than I have right now) before I can start considering this stuff.

Edit: Unless like there's like smaller/local 2-day events that would come to like £100 (not including travel).