Economics Project: Planning Spring Break
Your budget for the trip is $3,500.00
Plan a vacation to a destination you would like to visit during Spring Break. Decide where you will go, how long you can go, and how much money you can afford to spend in each area. Then, develop an itinerary or a travelplan for your trip. Your itinerary needs to include the following information:
- Mode of transportation
- Routes of transportation (if driving)
- Hotel/Lodging
- Food
- Sites to visit
- A detailed breakdown of your daily plans
ITINERARY: A complete cost breakdown of all expenses. Attach all documents and contacts you make to find information. Print webpages of flight info, hotel quotes and any brochures, correspondence, and copies of websitesshould be included with your itinerary. Also included with your itinerary are costs of the trip. All costs must be exact, to the penny, except where noted below.Template for this is on my website:
Costs should include:
- mode of travel
- food
- hotel/lodging
- attractions
- other entertainment (may be estimated)
- souvenirs (may be estimated).
PAPER: When the itinerary is complete write a 1.5-2page double-spaced typed paper in MLA format in 12 font with the appropriate headers. The first paragraph will discuss why the location was selected for your vacation. What attracted you to this location? The second paragraph will detail the comparison of costs and discuss how you can afford the trip. Where will you spend your money? What aspects are most important? The next paragraph is the conclusion where you will discuss any challenges you had the project. What did you like best? What did you like least? Did you learn anything new? The final paragraph will include any suggestions on how to improve the project. Would you change or add anything if you were the teacher?
FAQ: You may NOT stay with friends/relatives in this project. Also, if you go over budget you must redo parts of the trip to get under budget. This is an individual project and must be done independently. With that said, several students may go to the same locations HOWEVER each person must turn in their own project, print outs, itinerary and individual paper. Sample itinerary and paper are available on my webpage and Edmodo. These can be used as templates as well to ensure your formatting is correct.
Guidelines: You must plan to stay for at least 5 days and 4 nights anytime from March 2014-June 2015. In order for the websites to give you quotes you will have to put your age as over 21. Use a fictional name such as Fred Example if needed. Remember - do not enter your real information into the websites! This is for learning purposes only!
The following are some ideas where to get information:
- Internet: Travelocity, Expedia, hotels.com, etc
- MapQuest, Yahoo Maps
- Airlines, Bus Depots, Train Stations
- City Department of tourism
***Do NOT put your actual personal info - you don’t want solicited calls!
Your project should be organized as follows:
1. Itinerary with totals and specific daily breakdown
2. 1.5-2 Page Paper
3. Flight Printout
4. Hotel Printout
5. Car Rental Printout
6. Places to Visit Printouts
Sample Itinerary
Name: Fred Example February 24, 2014
Where are you going?DISNEY WORLD in ORLANDO FLORIDA
Dates? June 7th – 13th, 2014
Costs
Flight: SouthwestAirlines Round-trip $305
Hotel: Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort $1,129.02
Rental Car: Enterprise Full Size Vehicle $381.00
Disney Park Tickets: 5 Day Hopper Pass w/ Water Park $415.30
FOOD:
10 a day for breakfast
15 a day for lunch
10 a day for various snacks & drinks
30 a day for dinner
65 a day for 5 days = $325
Sites to visit: $200 (include printouts and detail in daily plans)
Entertainment: $200 (include printouts ticket cost and details in daily plans)
Souvenirs: $200 (can estimate)
TOTAL COSTS: $3,155.37
Daily Breakdown: June 7th – 13th
Day 1:
How:
Columbus to Orlando:
Southwest flight 927 nonstop to Florida
Depart: 9:25 am - Arrive 2:35(Include print out)
Where:
Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort
I Drive and Sea World and Universal: Universal Orlando Resorts
5800 UNIVERSAL BLVD Orlando, FL 32819
What:
Check into hotel
Walk around Downtown Disney and shop
Eat at Chef Mickeys for dinner
Shop more
Dance club at night
Day 2:
How:
Take rental car to Disney land for the day
Ride rides, see sights and buy souvenirs
Where:
Disneyland/Magic Kingdom
What
Ride rides and see shows
Breakfast at hotel
Lunch at the park
Dinner at Hard Rock Cafe - then continue with day 3 etc
Fred Example
February 24, 2014
Spring Break Project
Mrs. Ellwanger
Spring Break Project - Sample Paper
The first paragraph will discuss why the location was selected for your vacation. List the location and why you picked this spot as well as any relevant information. This paragraph needs to be 4-5 sentences.
The second paragraph will detail the comparison of costs and discuss how you can afford the trip. Summarize the costs of the trip. How did you come to the decision to allocate your budget in specific areas? This paragraph needs to be 4-5 sentences.
The next paragraph is the where you will discuss any challenges you had the project. What did you like best? What did you like least? Did you learn anything new?
The final paragraph is where you include any suggestions on how to improve the project. If you were the teacher would you do anything different? If so, what would you change? This paragraph needs to be 4-5 sentences.