Tuesday, October 14, 2008

decisions decisions.......

Since we are trying to get 28 people under one roof, we have a couple of choices:

1) http://www.dreamexoticrentals.com/properties/Europe/vacation-rental-Ireland-kerry.htm
The house and Cottages would be 9,250 Euros per. week. Now that sleeps 29 total.

2) http://www.dreamexoticrentals.com/properties/Europe/vacation-rental-Ireland-bella.htm
You can sleep up to 14 in the main house and up to 12 more in guest cottages and apartments. Which is about 9,500 Euros for everything. Maybe a little less, that is the average for this year.

3) http://www.dreamexoticrentals.com/properties/Europe/irish-country-manor.htm
Sleeps 18 in the main house and the two guest cottages would be sleeping 26 guests in house and cottages. This would be 11,800 Euros for the house and cottages.


Now I am pushing for the first choice, it's the least expensive, holds the most people, and is in western ireland. the others are look great, please check them out.


Luckily with this financial mess the world is in currently the euro to dollar exchange rate is coming back in our favor.

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=EUR&to=USD&submit=Convert

As of right now if 28 people commit our lodging will be 9250 euro's, which is about $12580, equalling about $450/person for the week. A pretty good deal for staying somewhere for a week, especially a huge irish estate.

So the questions are, should we book now or later? Is the Euro going to continue to fall, or rise? Any international financers out there feel free to chime in on this.

Also, when do we want to do this. I am still awaiting to hear back on when the rental starts (friday, saturday, or sunday) It sounds like last week in July, First week in August. I know of weddings July 25th and August 8th, anything else?

Thats all for now: we are 41 weeks away from this. So if you save $11/week the house will be paid off, or something like that.



2 comments:

Abby said...

nate, i think the first one looks great and the location is pretty decent from what i can tell. i'd venture to say that mom and i can go any time in late july/early august.

Kate said...

Nate, thanks for doing all the research on this! I like the first one too--looks like a decent deal. And I think late July/early August would work for me too. Count me in!