How much will it cost me to have a 2 week vacation in august in europe?

Question

How much will it cost me to have a 2 week vacation in august in europe?

Answer 1

From WHERE?

Figure about $100/day for lodging and bread and water.  closer to $200 if you want your own bathroom, and to sit in cafes and eat real food.   Plus your airfare.  From the US, that's around $1500 RT.  Probably less from the East Coast.  I had to pay for airfare from Denver.  

Here's what you need to do.  You get on one of those travel sites, and look up the airfare FROM your home TO where you want to start (if you have multiple destinations, compare - Paris is significantly cheaper than Madrid.  Don't know why...might be the dual airport thing).  

Then you search the towns you want to go to.  Just put the name of the town into the search engine.  Whatever page you come up with will probably have lodging options sponsoring it.  Or, if you have something specific in mind, you plug in:  Pensions, Paris.  And Pension type lodging will come up.

Then just figure about $50 to 70 a day for food.  More if you want something special, less if you think you can get to grocery stores and markets and picnic.  And enough for souvenirs.  THEN you probably want to add another 10 - 20% because things are always more expensive than you think they will be.