Post #154404 by ikitnrev on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 10:33 AM

Consider the cost per mai-tai at the Lava Lounge (which I have never been to) if I were to make a visit .... cross-country airtrip, rental car, a couple of nights in a hotel. That could end up being in excess of $600 per drink, if I were to have just one. I would just have to drink more mai-tais, to lower the average cost per drink, to perhaps $100 or lower per drink. (Tiki Economics 101 - save money by drinking more)

Of course, if I were to come to L.A., it would be for a combination of other factors, and it is way easier to splurge on a higher priced drink when one is on vacation. And being far from home and work, one has the luxury of consuming four mai-tais in one evening, rather than being forced to squeeze time for a single drink amongst your regular work and social commitments.

It is all a balance - in a world full of choices, where do we spend our free time and our free money. Do we find a single favorite location, and visit it as often as we can? Or do we venture out and sample as many different places as we can - even if it means flying cross-country - and treating a visit to a favorite local place as a more rare event, but one with more of a 'welcome home' feel to it.

Vern