Costs

We hope you are enjoying your Easter break so far!

We are nearly in a position to give you all a final price for the trip. This amount will hopefully appear in the next week or two and we'll be sure to give you enough time to get your money in. This final price will cover the vast majority of your costs for the trip such as internal flights, travel insurance, airport transfers, hotel and hostel costs and mini bus transport.

We're currently looking at the best way to pay for food costs during our trip.

For example, for our 2 days in Budapest breakfast is included in our hotel price but for lunch and dinner the plan is to eat in the city, somewhere inexpensive and relatively healthy. It's probably best that in this instance we don't include these payments in your final payment but rather budget it into the amount of "pocket money" that we think you'll need.

The church in Tileagh (our second location) will be providing us with lunch and dinner and as you can imagine at this stage they have not got an exact figure for us in terms of price. It will be inexpensive but at this stage it's difficult to get an exact figure and of course we cannot pay them by credit card!

In Tirgu Mures (our final location) we will have access to a kitchen facility to make our own lunches and breakfasts and as a group we'll do a 'big shop' when we arrive.

We tell you all this so you'll see how difficult it might be for us to get exact food costing before departure. These costs will be minimal as food is not expensive in Romania but just so you all know that we're working out the best way to take care of them!

We're looking at the idea of "pocket money" and the best way of going about this. Any suggestions from past trips you've been on with school etc would be most welcomed. We want to strike the balance between allowing team members to have some cash in their pockets and also not carrying too much cash with us during the trip.

When you signed up for the trip we said that the cost would be in the region of £350-£500 and this will still be the case. All of you have paid £250 already just so you have an idea of how much we'll be asking you for.

Thank you for your patience!

Many of you have still not responded to us regarding the team building day on 22nd May at Belfast Activity Centre.
Please let us know over the next few days!

The Leaders :)