So question for any who have traveled throughout Europe....
Me and my friend plan on flying into London, England sometime in April (dates are not important) and are interested in backpacking through 8 countries (England, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Italy, and finally Spain) in 21 days about.
Accommodations are pretty much taken care of in these countries.
The question then is, what can we expect to pay in terms of airfare between these countries?
We don't care what airlines, or what class, or anything like that, and there's only 2 of us.
Also what are expenses like in the above countries?
For seasoned travelers, what would a trip like this cost approximately, if you assume we'll be paying only $500 for board, and $800 for a flight to London and out of Madrid together?
Dates are kinda important they could determine what you actually pay in airfare. Where have you been looking for tickets? Unless of course you're spoiled and money is no object.
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Money isn't really an object, and April isn't peak season, they're pretty inexpensive then.
And I've been looking on travelcuts.com , we get a discount there as students
But whatever the costs depend heavily on where you are staying when and with how many people. A hotel in Amsterdam for instance is 5x as expensive as a hotel outside. However there are more in Amsterdam and easier to find, and a lot of bad hotels as well, those things can always keep you cheap.
The same probably goes for any mayor city in Europe.
It really depends on where you want to stay, the cheapest hotels can probably be booked for something like € 20 or € 30 a night.
The food in big city's unless you want to go to a Mc Donald's or other worthless fast food place will cost you something like that as well... If you want to have a real meal it will easily cost you € 100,- for two people. Big city's are expensive.
If you don't intent to go to the big city's and stay in smaller towns the hotel prices will probably stay the same your room will just get better and the food will be a lot cheaper and better... It kinda depends on what you want to do
Well I've been to Paris and had full 4 course meals for about 17 euros in the latin quarter for example. It's all about taking the time to look for these places, and me and my friend are perfectly willing to do so.
It's just me and a friend, we'll both be 19, and we plan on staying in hostels (some meals included) and with friend/families, so the accommodations are taken care of.
It's more the airfare, with my student discount through my university I've calculated the whole trip (airfare anyways) would cost me about 1600 Canadian if we don't fly to Switzerland from Austria (one of the most expensive fares).
So now it's narrowed down to 7 countries.
I'm thinking 4000 Canadian, about 2640 euros should be enough?
It's cheaper than by train, a train pass for unlimited travel in 18 countries in Europe is about 830 american. Only a few of the countries I want to visit are on that list, and then I'd still have to fly to and from to get home.
In the long run me flying for 1600 candian seems to work out cheaper.
Indeed the taxes are not always mentioned in the ticket prices making even a 2 dollar ticket a 100 times as expensive as you think it would be.
The best way would be to look into it, for instance from Amsterdam to Paris by the fastest train in the world would cost you € 80,-. Flying would cost you more and after you land you would still need to take the train to the actual city. Which would cost you another € 20,- at least.
With a Eurail Global pass, it would still work out to about 1600 but it wold give me more freedom in the countries since I wouldn't have to limit myself to major cities.
However, it would knock Czech off my list, it not being included, and would mean I would still need to fly into England, into Amsterdam from England, and home from Madrid. Even still it would work out to 1600 approximately for those 2 flights and the pass.
If you get a train from Waterloo via Eurostar, it is easier and faster to get to Netherlands, Belgium and Paris (but you're not planniong on going to Paris, so...)
Germany is quite easy to get to via train from London (depending of course where you're going).
It is faster because you don't have to go through the tedious things you go through when you get on the train.
It can also be way cheaper and the trains are more common.
If you're already decided to fly, then EasyJet is the way. Super cheap.
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Oh I've decided to fly to London, stay a few days there, fly to Amsterdam, then from Amsterdam do the whole train thing. End up in Madrid, and fly home from there.
Now it's just important to figure out where I'll be so I can book hostels and such
you'd be better off getting a European rail travel card...its a couple of hundred Euros and is valid for a couple of months and allows you travel between pretty much any country both in and out of the EU whenever you like...although the French get a bit snooty sometimes and their security will try to stop you but just call them smelly froggy bastards and you'll be fine.
they might only be available to European students so if you know someone who can book them for you then that's probably best
you're also better off staying at youth hostels than hotels....their far cheaper and you meet some great people who, contrary to popular belief...dont actually pay any more to kill americans.
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