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Projected PolyParadise Costs - 2008

PolyParadise is no longer accepting New Campers
THE NO VACANCY SIGN IS OUT!
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We all know that Burning Man, Making the Trek to the Playa and running PolyParadise costs MONEY!!!  Here is a look at the Projected Costs for PolyParadise 2008.

PolyParadise Camping Fee $100/person.

  • $2400 --Truck Rental
  • $1200 -- Rental Truck Gas
  • $325 --  Generator Maintenance & Gas
  • $650 --  (2) - 20'x20' Shade Structure for HCW
  • $80 --    Poly High Tea Supplies (Tea - Cookies - Cups)
  • $575 -- On-Playa Ice
  • $900 -- Community Snacks
  • $50 --   First Aid Kit - ( Replacement Items )
  • $500 -- Community Kitchen ( Canvas Tarps, Pots/Pans - Food Saver Bags, Cammo Netting )
  • $100 -- Propane (Stoves)
  • $50 --  HCW Supplies   (SOAP - Spray Bottles)
  • $150 - Solar Shower Bags
  • $175 -- Pre-Playa Ice
  • $300 -- Estimated PayPal Fees
  • $130 -  (2) Metal Racks for Dish Drying
  • $2000 - Grey Water (provided storage tank & service)
  • $250 -- Shower Structure & Base - Drain to storage tank
Total: ~ $9835  
'07 Surplus    $296  
Reserve:   $461 - Assuming 100 Campers -  $100/person  

Costs for Camping with PolyParadise - $100/Person


What Is Provided For You

  • Secured Playa Address & space within PolyParadise
  • Community Kitchen - Kitchen utensils for cooking - Pots, Pans, Fry Pans, Bowls, Knives, and orange zesters (well, maybe not) Soap to WASH the utensils Washing station to use the SOAP
  • Cooking stoves - Propane to run those stoves
  • Salt, Pepper, and every other spice you would need to create your Playa delicacy.
  • Paper towels, Paper plates, Plastic Cutlery, Trash receptacles
  • Bags, and other consumables for those who don't bring their own.
  • Tea and Cookies for the High Tea.
  • Microwave, Toaster, Blender, Large & Small Coffee Pots
  • First-Aid Kit
  • Hot and Cold Snacks (3 per day for 7 days) Packaging for Cold Snacks Refrigeration - Pre-event - for the cold snacks.
  • ICE - Daily - to keep the cold snacks cold AND to keep what YOU bring for community food cold.  (The first priority is the community coolers - average of 15-20 Bags/Day
  • Electricity (to recharge laptops, camera batteries)
  • Gas to generate the electricity
  • Community Shade 80'x20'
  • Community Kitchen 20'x30'
  • Community Events area - 20'x40'
  • Poly Play Space
  • Shower Structure / Privacy Curtain - You supply the water
  • Grey Water Recycling - Provided by Tailfeather
  • Spray bottles, cement bins, tarps, and buckets for the HCW Cloth to surround the main shade structure.
  • Rope, Duct Tape, First Aid Kit & other things to repair things that need repairing
  • Rental Truck  - Gas to & from Playa - Insurance - to haul ALL of the above.
  • Camp Playa Events: Human Carcass Wash - Poly High Tea - Greater Intimacy thru Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, The Heart of Now & Mind Melt

When you think about it... ~$100 isn't bad at all for 7 days... Can you find another hotel that only charges $13 a day for all this and all the dust you could want?

What Other Camp Contributions Do I Still Need To Bring?

  • 5 Gallons of Water/ Car to contribute to the running of the Human Carcass Wash and or to Community Drinking water. 

  • Participate in Daily Community Meal - (Eating, Cooking, Serving or Washing Dishes

  • Participate in Camp Playa Events

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