Chernobyl: Future Top Vacation Spot!

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:47 pm

That settles it then. DAC con at Chernobyl and Susan takes care of the bills. Now what date would be good?

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:57 pm

Yesterday.

j_peeba · Post by **j_peeba** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:23 am

Thanks a lot for your interest on our little trip

I'm the author of the gallery number 2 and I am a huge fan of fallout 1-2 games myself.. I think I've played fallout 2 three times from the beginning to all the way to the end, it's one of my all time favourites. Anyways if anyone has anything to ask, feel free to drop me a line.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:28 pm

I would be interested to know how much you paid for the food, lodging, and Chernobyl tour, total cost per person.

j_peeba · Post by **j_peeba** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:49 pm

We arranged the tour to the chernobyl area through a Ukrainian travel agency called New Logic. You can check their prices on the Chernobyl day trip here. We contacted them about two months in advance IIRC and we handled all the necessary stuff through e-mail with them. They took care of all the paperwork and we had to provide them with the necessary information like passport numbers and nationalities of each traveller etc. (they'll check the passports when entering the Chernobyl exclusion zone).

While in Kiev, we stayed at hotel Kozatsky. We did the reservation over the internet. Only a portion of the staff speak english and the rooms were not very nice but they were acceptable since we were there for two nights only. The location of the hotel was excellent, it was right next to a large square in the middle of Kiev (subway station was also there for travelling around Kiev) and the New Logic travel agency was across the street.

Food and other everyday needs were way cheaper than here in Finland. IIRC, you could eat in a good restaurant for around five euros (this is just a guess since it's already been quite a while).. All in all, the whole trip, including flights from Finland, cost me way less than 1000 euros (and again, I've already forgotten the exact amounts..)

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:08 pm

Hmm... $350 one-day tour, plus another $300 for a room, plus cross-Atlantic airline tickets, plus adult entertainment... Hmm, maybe when I'm 50

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:43 pm

Holy shit, that's amazing. I'll put it on my Journeys To Be list

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:46 pm

1000$ for a 3 days trip

It cost me 2500$ for 17 days in Paris, chit.

j_peeba · Post by **j_peeba** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:48 pm

You did notice that the prices on the hotel's page are in the local currency, Hryvnas?

318 hryvnas (single room) translates to about 63 dollars. And the tour itself is much cheaper with a larger group.. There were six of us in our group so the tour was about 60$ for each. But of course, the flights from over there are indeed quite expensive.

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:07 pm

Paris vs Chernobyl. Vi Vi! le atol le bom bom. Chernobyl anyday than Paris. Whatever the price.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:41 pm

It's a lot cheaper to go to Ukraine than to go in Paris. Both have crazy closet-socialist people running the country and many angry moustache-faced people with ugly machine guns poking you around, so Tsernobil, here I come!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:10 pm

vx trauma wrote:Paris vs Chernobyl. Vi Vi! le atol le bom bom. Chernobyl anyday than Paris. Whatever the price.

It's not really the same kind of trip, eh.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:38 pm

a few months ago I saw a documentary about people living in towns near Czarnobyl. Fucking spooky sometimes. A child with his brain out of his skull, hanging loosely behind the skull due to gene damage (covered with skin only), etc etc; most kids in the area are born with a lethal heart flaw ("Chernobyl heart syndrome") and local hospitals can't afford the surgery / lack supplies so lots of kids are basically doomed. cancer galore, for (almost) everybody. and recently this area (can't remember the biggest city's name) was claimed "no longer a high hazard area" so people from there don't receive a radiated-area benefit any longer. sweet.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:07 am

In scandinavia, cattle and stuff still have to eat food spiced with RadAway, even though Chernobyl is on the other side of four different countries and the Baltic Sea.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:19 am

Stop making up that nonsense.

It's called AntiRadi, not RadAway. This is real world, not Fallout, u f4g.

They can still detect radioactivity from the Chernobyl in Finnish mushrooms.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:05 am

radioactivity can be still detected in mushrooms throughout half of Europe at least, including Poland and Germany

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:33 am

Kashluk wrote:Stop making up that nonsense.

It's called AntiRadi, not RadAway. This is real world, not Fallout, u f4g.

They can still detect radioactivity from the Chernobyl in Finnish mushrooms.

Are you stupid or what? Of course it isn't called RadAway in the real world, but since I can't go around remembering the names of every chemical substance in the world, I called it RadAway, knowing that only complete morons would be able to miss the point.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:50 am

Urizen wrote:
Kashluk wrote:Stop making up that nonsense.

It's called AntiRadi, not RadAway. This is real world, not Fallout, u f4g.
Are you stupid or what? Of course it isn't called RadAway in the real world, but since I can't go around remembering the names of every chemical substance in the world, I called it RadAway, knowing that only complete morons would be able to miss the point.

no he was not being stupid, but ironic

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:42 pm

Well done, my Polish friend. Illuminate the way for the illiterate! (because during my short existence I have never encountered a stockman who'd feed anti-radiation drugs of any kind to his cattle, nor have I ever heard of such procedure before)

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:23 pm

Research, Uri, research.