All Gone

I received a Living Social Escape e-mail last week about an 8-day trip to China. The price was $1,199 which sounded like a pretty decent price for a land tour, but who has the time and money to that far away. It was about a day later that I went to look at the fine print and noticed that the price included hotels, quite a few meals, AND airfare from New York city. I couldn't believe it and when I went to see what round trip airfare alone cost, this trip seemed to be a great bargain. Airfare alone to China could cost over $1,200.

The downside was that the trip had only 3 dates in November and December. So there wasn't much time to get your affairs in order to go on the trip, like getting your passport and visas. The other downside was the trip was only 8 days long. I had gone to China once before and it took a day to get over there. Jet lag didn't seem to be a problem when I was there but trying to get the most out of China you really need more time.

Well to make a long story shorter, by the time I made up my mind, the trip was sold out. They sold 120 tickets in about 2 days. I guess some of these trips you have to jump on really quick. So far this is really the only one that really caught my eye, but it looks like Living Social is really pushing to get into the travel business and are having offers daily. But some escapes are definitely better bargains than others. I mean which is the better bargain, $1,200 to go half way around the world or for 1/4 the price stay 2-nights in Missouri, transportation not included.