How much money would it be for me to go to Europe for a month?

Question

My younger sister and I would LOVE to go to Europe for a month in the summer. How much money would it be for me and her to fly to a European country, eat, sleep, and take trains from one country to another for one month? We would probably fly into England, and visit: England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Belguim, and Sweden? We would probably stay in each country about 4 days each, and we're fine sleeping in cheap hotels. I know this is a very rough outline, but I really need someone else's input. Thanks!

Answer 1

Well it will cost you around $26000

Answer 2

You don't have a clue of how to do what you want to do... Look into YOUTHRAIL PASSES... You can get a Youthrail pass for each of you... take a backpack and travel on the train... you sleep on the trains at night and sightsee during the day.  Even doing THAT you still need at LEAST $300 PER WEEK EACH... plus the cost of the roundrtip airfare AND the cost of the Youthrail Passes... so, you are looking at a minimum of $4000 and that is to just live on the trains and eat from the street vendors.

If you want REAL information, then go to any mall bookstore and BUY a copy of EUROPE BY EURAIL.. it has all the information about doing what you want to do... and forget getting your wrong information off the internet.. you have to BUY any REAL information.

What you want to do is a very acceptable way for a young person to live in Europe for a month or more.  I got a one month Youthrail pass and $1000 as a graduation present when I was 17 and went to Europe with nothing more than my guitar and a backpack... and stretched that one month vacation into a 3 YEAR stay that took me to EVERY Western European country and some of the Eastern Bloc countries AND parts of Asia and Africa.

Answer 3

You need to do alot of reaserch on prices as everything is different than even a month ago.But I would say several thousand dollars Nowadays just the flights and trains can cost that.Be prepared to spend $6,000 or more.

Answer 4

It really depends upon where you stay and what you plan on doing. If you plan to use trains, planes, etc. you should speak with your travel agent and see what types of package deals can be created for the two of you during the high point of the season. If you get your museum passes and train tickets prior to leaving the U.S. you shall save a few hundred dollars and if you eat where the locals eat you shall save even more. Rick Steves, Foder's, and The Lonely Planet all offer great guides for getting the most out of the money spent. There are also a number of websites such as cheaptickets.com which can help you out as well. Right now though with the dollar rapidly dropping in relation to the dollar it would be best to exchange your dollars for Euro's as soon as possible in order to get the best rates. All the countries you've mentioned, except England use Euro's. As for cost, I'd say roughly $3,500 to $4000 each including flights and being very cost effective since you're going during the high point of the season. $4,600 to $5,600 if you want to make it just a little bit nicer. Believe me when I say this, it's important to have a good comfortable place to sleep with a decent bathroom.

When I was last in Europe not too long past, I spent roughly $7000 for a month's holiday, and that was during the low season.

Discuss all this with a travel agent though, and for London here's a sight you might that might prove helpful; it's londontown.com.

Cheers

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Answer 5

Since you want to travel by train while in Europe, an Eurail pass could be interesting to you.

http://www.eurail.com/eurail_home

Answer 6

Dollar has gone down so first check dollar to euro, food and gas in Europe is more expensive and everybody can smell a tourist a mile away, you're best bet is to go through a travel agency and plan your trip so you would know in advance what hotels you're staying in and @ what price, that way you can relax and just bring some spending money

PS

Don't bring too much cash, bring prepay-ed credit cards and talk to the credit card to make sure they don't charge you special international fees.....good luck and watch out Europe has even more weirdos I'm from there

Answer 7

About $75 per day each minimum, and $100 per day to be more comfortable - more restaurant meals, etc.  You should get a rail pass, and use either the Lonely Planet "Europe on a Shoestring" or Rough Guides "Europe" guidebooks to find decent hotels that are still cheap in each city.

Answer 8

Since the exchange rate is so bad right now you should go to an exchange converter and put in different amounts of usd to exchange into euros and see how little you will get back in return.  Then you will have an idea of what a beginning it will take.

One word of caution.  You may say you don't mind "cheap" hotels, well some are in okay areas of the large cities, but some you just wouldn't want to stay in them.

I always feel safe in Athens but I still have seen some of the hotels and no way would I spend a night in one.

Trains are not so inexpensive, ferries are about 15 euros for just short rides of couple hours.

You should find the train site for the countries you plan on going from and to and get the pricing.  Add those up.

You can save on food though, just by ordering lower priced foods at meals.  

Airline tickets in summer months are higher in high season rather than in spring or late summer like late Aug or Sept.  You could save more on tickets then.  My tickets for June or July or Aug were 1600 usd straight into Athens from Memphis to Atlanta to Athens.  I had booked 3 months in advance too.

So get the train pricing, check the money exchange, figure on airline tickets and you'll see about what you will need.

Sounds like a wonderful time though and hope you both get to make it.