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What a trip to Coeur d'Alene costs

A week in Coeur d'Alene for eight people works out around $10,600 before flights — $357 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $69 per adult per day for food. From Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A resort town on the lake of the same name in the Idaho panhandle, built around a lakefront boardwalk and summer water sports. Its golf resort is known for a floating green.

with children goodadults-only trip okstroller / limited mobility good

What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$2,500	$1,930	$4,430	$1,110
8 people	$6,730	$3,860	$10,600	$1,320
12 people	$9,200	$5,800	$15,000	$1,250

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Coeur d'Alene compares

Coeur d'AleneLakes median of 5All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Coeur d'Alene runs $264 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 10% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 16th cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 13% above the typical lake ($235), the 2nd most expensive of 5 lakes.

It is above the all-library median for 1 months of the year and below it for the other 11 — so whether it counts as an expensive destination depends entirely on when you go.
The same week costs $864 more in June than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
Driving beats four seats from Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix. The longest of those is Phoenix — 1,139 road miles and 18.5h each way, saving $245 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,635 for the whole property — $2,499 for the same week in June.
The sharpest single step is between August and September: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $864.
The closest thing to it on price is Destin, FL, a beach town: $10,677 for a week for eight against $10,590 here, $88 apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Coeur d'Alene is at its most expensive in June and cheapest in January — a 53% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$234
February	$234
March	$234
April	$234
May	$234
June	$357
July	$357
August	$357
September	$234
October	$234
November	$234
December	$234

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$518	8.7h	$3,290	34.9h4 days	flying
Chicago	$475	6.0h	$2,509	26.6h3 days	flying
Dallas	$474	5.9h	$2,478	26.3h3 days	flying
Denver	$228*	4.6h	$1,427	15.3h2 days	flying
Los Angeles	$434*	4.8h	$1,609	17.2h2 days	driving
New York	$538	9.2h	$3,668	38.9h4 days	flying
Seattle	$346*	3.3h	$412	5.1h	driving
Phoenix	$494*	5.0h	$1,731	18.5h2 days	driving

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.