Cost estimate? Plane looks cheaper then bus X.X or at least roughly equivalent and about 40+ hours less time in transit. Train also takes 2 days to get there and is obscenely more expensive unless you want to spend 48 hours sleeping in a bus seat. If we wanna drive I'm all for the road trip but it's 35 hours of driving, we'd need to stop 1 night, and all things considered would be about $200 for the trip.
As for plane, I'd leave super late on Thursday (11pm-ish) because the difference between leaving on Thursday at 11 vs. Friday at anytime is $100. And then it costs an extra $100 to come home on Monday as opposed to Tuesday but that I can't avoid cause of school. This process costs $620 + another possible $70 to take the bus from Edmonton to Red Deer *round trip* if the west coast ride-failures us. This is the same cost as taking the bus there basically, or a train with crappy seating. (Having a bedroom on a train would cost over $1000)
Also, why are non-canadian mods coming here telling us about spam? >_> I could go to so many threads (brawl forums) and declare spam in all of them