Reminds me of this time in Lisbon where I did the opposite, paid for the fancy tram ticket and then realized I could've just walked the whole route in like 25 minutes. Stood there feeling like a genius and an idiot at the same time. The thing nobody tells you is that the cheap option always costs you something else, usually time or stress or a mile of walking with your bags. So yeah, you saved 26 bucks but you also gotta ask what that hour on the bus was worth to you. I still take the cheap bus every time though, so maybe I'm not the guy to ask.