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>>1140358
Pretty simple math. If you'll be here for seven days and ride the bus or streetcars ($2.25 each) three times each day, you'll save a little over $7 by buying the unlimited 7-day pass for $40. If you ride the bus or the streetcars three times a day and a cable car ($7 a pop) once, you'll save ~$14.

If you don't expect to ride more than once or twice daily, and don't plan on a cable car trip (cable cars are mostly just a tourist attraction, but the California St line is also a semi-practical way to ascend Nob Hill, or to get between the Financial District and parts East) paying as you go is a better deal.

But getting the stored-value version of the Clipper card is more convenient than paying cash whenever you get on, so you may want a card whether or not you buy a pass. I don't personally like to fumble with money on the bus. The big disadvantage of the card (along with buying the card itself for... think they're $3? I've been carrying the same one for years) is that you'll get exactly 90 minutes per transfer/round trip, as opposed to the paper transfer you get when paying a cash fare, which will be valid for as long as the strip of paper the individual driver rips off. Officially it's supposed to be 90 minutes, but it's usually longer, so you can often get several hours' transit time out of a single $2.25 fare.

>tldr--pass is worth it if you want cable cars or 3x+ rides/day
>card is easier than cash but cash may be slightly better deal

I would get the clipper card. It's really not that expensive and pretty damn handy.

>>1140422
didn't know there was one for just a week! Thank you a lot.

If you're a local, is there any hotel you could recommend? Im staying with my boyfriend and we already looked at Booking and AirBNB but they are too expensive for what they offer.

Maybe by living there you know more about hiddens nice cozy hotels. We're planning to spend 80-100$ per night (max) since we just want somewhere to sleep at night.

London is great as there's so much to do and not much travel needed to get from place to place, seems it would be good given the situation. And then driving to the coast or other nice places outside the town isn't too far either.

>>1140287
Lol you had big dreams of travel and adventure and now you're cucked into some shitty suburb with a boring family sedan and the occasional weekend getaway like camping or Legoland.

Just give up, you're old and boring now, maybe join a bowling league or play in a cover band.

/Projecting

>>1140287
You could play it safe and travel down the Rhine.
But in general I would say it's southern Europe. You want good weather, interesting places close together coast and mountains nearby. You could get this in Portugal or Italy.

Because of the Olympics, Brazil has waived visa requirements for a lot of countries, including mine. I'm thinking about going between the games ending, and the visa free period ending, so late August to mid September. A few questions, but some are about places pretty far away.

Only person I know who has been there said other than flying, going between cities is pretty bad. He also said just about every flight was connecting via Sao Paolo. Would you agree?

I've heard a lot of mixed things about your cities. All of the big ones have nice safe parts, but they're also NA or Europe level expensive. There's also usually some poor places that tourists really stand out in. I don't have an interest in going to Rio or Sao Paolo. Are any of the other big cities on the coast, like Recife or Fortaleza worth going to?

Do you know anything about traveling the Amazon? From what I've found, you can ether go up on a cruise ship and spend thousands, or travel like a local on an old rusty boat, and it's pretty cheap. I was looking at going Manaus-Belem.

Is travel between places in Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande de Sul doable by bus? Have you been to Itaipu Dam? Are the German places like Blumenau and Pomerode tourist traps, or are the people actually like the pictures?

>>1140320
I can't help you in Amazon, but here it goes:
>Only person I know who has been there said other than flying, going between cities is pretty bad. He also said just about every flight was connecting via Sao Paolo. Would you agree?
No. The main Brazilian hubs are São Paulo (both), Rio de Janeiro (both), Campinas (for Azul company) and Brasília
>I've heard a lot of mixed things about your cities. All of the big ones have nice safe parts, but they're also NA or Europe level expensive.
In São Paulo, Rio, Brasília and surprisingly Manaus (a sort of tourist trap) yes. Belo Horizonte and Northeast capitols are way cheaper
>I don't have an interest in going to Rio or Sao Paolo.
There are many historical and interesting cities in São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro-Minas Gerais triangle.
>Are any of the other big cities on the coast, like Recife or Fortaleza worth going to?
Yes, yes and yes. Recife (and Olinda) has a lot of historical highlights, and Fortaleza is a good base to know goat Ceará beaches - I don't know about . But both are quite violents - and Recife has a shark problem (but you can always go to Porto de Galinhas)
>Is travel between places in Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande de Sul doable by bus?
Yes, but AVOID WITH ALL YOUR STRENGHTS PLUMA BUS COMPANY.
>Have you been to Itaipu Dam?
Yes. 2, max 3 days in Foz do Iguaçú are enough (one day for Itaipu Dam, other for birds reserve and other for crossing the boarders).
>Are the German places like Blumenau and Pomerode tourist traps, or are the people actually like the pictures?
I don't thing there's much thing to do there outside Oktoberfest. You'll have more fun going to Florianópolis and Itajaí.

I will be travelling for business to Sao Paolo. I will mostly stay around the intl airport. What should I absolutely do if I have 4-5 hours of free time?

What do Brazilians expect from a foreigner at first-meet, and is there any kind of invitations that is rude to refuse?

Obrigad-anon

>>1140191
Canda's alright, but it's really small so you shouldn't plan to spend more than a couple of hours

>>1140199
I was thinking the Canada side of Niagara falls or drive to Toronto for a Yankees game except Yankees aren't there until August

>>1140201
Niagarafag here.

The Falls themselves are obviously worth checking out but the area surrounding is just an underwhelming tourist trap with the prerequisite Ripley's Believe it or Not and wax museums. Overpriced food and mediocre American chain restaurants. Fallsview casino is nice but most of the tourist stuff is low quality.

The local's drag (Queen street) has a nice brewhouse called Taps that usually has great live music in the summer, and a generic sports bar called Grand Central with hot waitresses, but a lot of low rent shops and roving white trash underclass.

I would sooner explore the surrounding wine region, particularly Niagara-on-the-lake. You should do some wine tours, try the icewine, check out Niagara-on-the-lake, book a bed and breakfast, maybe rent a bike and do some exploring. It's very beautiful and scenic, a great way to relax and de-stress. You won't regret it.

>>1140130
I just know you better be in shape because it's mountainous as fuck so bike is really exhausting

>>1140223

I am.

>>1140130
If you're a sporty person, you could go hiking for a bit. I wouldn't recommend the GR20 because that shit was still dangerous and icy and slippery when I got back three weeks ago. But maybe hike up to a réfuge, spend the night there and then take another path down?

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>>1140089
Well it depends on what you like. Autokomanda is pretty cool because most of the embasies are there and because of that you don't have that many cops there to give you shit if you like smoking joints outside.

Also would suggest anywhere near Tasmajdan.

I am genuinely interested in what's your motivation for that.
So far, I've only met people who'd be willing to do more or less anything to do the exact opposite.

Would you mind sharing a bit, OP?

I don't have any advice, I just wanted to say I'm extremely jealous. I love Belgrade and pretty much anywhere in serbia.

Also i should note that i really want to take her sooner rather than later. Our other kids are old enough to be on their own but we won't be able to get away with a newborn. Lot's of stress. Work, pregnancy and we haven't taken a real holiday in over a year.

>>1140031
There are no ferries to the DR from the mainland US. There are ferries between Puerto Rico and the DR, though, so perhaps you could get there from Miami via either a cruise ship or freighter.

But it's hard to imagine that a long drive followed by a long boat ride or two would be very relaxing for a woman in her last couple of weeks of pregnancy.

But are you sure you can't fly? If she's healthy and carrying just the one kid, many airlines will let women on up until a month before due date, and I think pretty much all will let her on if she can get a letter from her OB/GYN affirming that she's fit to travel.

I did a bit of research into this when my pregnant wife and I took a trip to Hawaii--although she was only 6mo along at the time, she was carrying twins.

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How does being pregnant stop her from flying?

There are cruises that can probably take you there.

Dominican Republic sucked balls in my experience. The country is beautiful but the people are trash.

I actually stayed at the Grand Bahia Principe which is the resort in your picture. However I think you had to pay extra for that hotel section.

That resort is gigantic and it was terrible. I got extremely sick while I was there. The food was really bad and the workers were extremely rude and were getting drunk while on the job. They will most likely hit on your wife right in front of you and your kids. Please just don't go to that resort.

Jamaica pr Mexico is better.

>>1139917
I've been all across the Balkan.. In Albania don't spend time anywhere other than the coast. Check out saranda and jal. Nothing else. Trust me.

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They have shuttle bus / van type thing called furgons most places that will take you mostly anywhere, but it's not really a bookable thing and you will have to haggle. Public transport isn't really a thing.

The coast is REALLY nice. I camped on Gjipe Beach (pic related), but anywhere around the Dhermi region is great.

I also really enjoyed Tirana though. Super interesting city with, good hostels, great food and you can live like a fucking king for very little money.

Also some pharmacies will let you buy xanax without a prescription so that's a thing too.

Shkoër is an amazing little city not far from Montenegro. Should be your first stop. The only hostel in town is great. Probably the coolest hostel I've ever stayed in. Also, you can bike 20 minutes from the hostel to the largest lake in the Balkans, skaderzko jezero (spelling?). It's quite a sight. Shkoder is probably one of my favourite cities in the Balkans. Cheap as fuck too.

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>>1139913
If you say that you are german, they'll like you.

If you say that you are american, they'll give you a daughter to marry.

If you say that you are turkish, they'll let you sleep with their wives before giving you the daughter.

fun country.

t. turk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzZw-ihIAeY

>>1139923
I'm a kiwi.

>>1139927
They'll give you a sheep.

>>1139902
Is drinking about all you like to do?

Anyway, for dark grins, spend an hour in "The Dead Zoo" (Museum of Natural History) which is an old-school taxidermied critters in glass cases museum. In addition to the dark humor of bad and aging taxidermy, it is amazing how many of the dead things are smiling at you. Apparently being dead in Dublin is just a fine old time...

>>1139902
been here in Dublin for the last couple of days and I gotta say it's kind of a bummer.
yes, there are plenty of pubs and yes there's lot of beer, if thats what ur looking maybe u ll be fine, but city seems really uninteresting in a cultural way or whatever, it's just a bunch of boring low ceiling buildings and drunken people.
Guinness factory it's shit though they give u a 'free' pint.

on the other hand I really enjoyed Howth which is a city by the shore just 20' away from Dublin

porterhouse has damned good beers

however

i mean that in a "i like the taste of good beer, and some food to go with it" not "let's all make assholes of ourselves" sense of the term

>partying in a small town

lel, not possible

If I were you I'd just go to Amsterdam and visit some nearby towns like Volendam, Monnickendam, Marken, Zaanse Schans, Naarden, towns along the river De Vecht, etc. Also cities like Utrecht and Haarlem are less than half an hour away and worth a visit.

Note: For partying in the cities summer is pretty much the worst time of the year, since every student will be on holiday or back to their parents. It's a great time for festivals though, you can find some here: https://www.djguide.nl/events.p/festivals?language=en

i like rotterdam, but i have friends there and "nearby" across the border in antwerp

>>1139893
I live in a small town south of the Netherlands ( Gilze - Rijen ) , shit's dead as fuck, small towns suck ass.

check out the Mountain Hostel in Gimmelwald. The Jungfrau region has some stunning scenery and hiking options.

>>1139882
prepare your wallet to get raped

>>1139882
Valais is nice for hiking and stuff, Graubünden, too. Not as much tourism as interlaken. Jungfraujoch is really expensive if you want to go to the top. A lot of nice hiking spots in and around interlaken though, I recommend the harder kulm, short and easy hike and in case you're feeling tired you can take a lil' train down again.

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>>1139832
In my left hand I have tonight's top ten list so without further ado here are the top ten reasons why OP is a prick. Paul, can you play us in?

Number 10
>You write at a sixth grade level
Number 9
>You use a trip
Number 8
>You use backpack as a verb
Number 7
>You use the term hiking even though you will be longboarding which has completely different parameters from hiking and requires a completely different preparation and route taken
Number 6
>You think way too highly of yourself if you think we are going to "follow your journey" on YouTube.
Number 5
>You rely on hipster welfare (GoFundMe) because you're too lazy to get a job and save up despite having a year
Number 4
>You're trying to meet up with people on 4chan
Number 3
>"Meeting up" for you means "finding people to freeload off"
Number 2
>You can't even figure out how to keep yourself fed

And the number one reason why OP is a prick is...

>You clearly haven't taken so much as a long bus ride yet you think you can skateboard clear across the country using only begging and the advice of the internet, and are doomed to fail to the point where even attempting to help you is a waste of time and energy.

>>1139832
kys, faggot

>>1139832
get a job

>>1139804
Do the hotel from the Hangover

Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit. The one and only hotel I always stay at. Not the same Sheraton you listed.

>>1139806
A bit too far away but damn tempting lol

>>1139842
i saw this one, unfortunately tahts too much for my budged

30 per person i reckon? You can do that if you manage well and don't hit the pub every night.
I found aran islands and connemara amazing, generally everything west coast. Some hostels have a field where you can set up your tent.
Months seems a long time tho, you can tour the whole island in like 15-20days.

Vsit Moyross and St Mary's Park in Limerick City. They are great places to go horse riding.

>>1139689
This, there's no way it'll take more than a month to do the whole of Ireland even if you do it quite in-depth. It's not very big.