Post by seanmtl on Aug 3, 2010 18:25:42 GMT -5
- Is this route doable?
Yup but you really won't have much time to see enjoy these cities. I say try to see half. Last summer I spent about 17 days seeing Rome/Barcelona/Paris/Amsterdam/Brussels and I although I enjoyed the trip, I feel like I could/should have spent a lot more time in each city (except for Brussels).
- We would like to have a flight-and-train travelling way to lower our budget. For instances, we take flight to travel among countries and take train to travel among cities within same country. Is this a good idea? or there will be a better way?
It really depends on a lot of things. Just look up prices for flights at easyjet/ryanair/airberlin/etc and compare with trains on deutschebahn.de, sncf.fr, etc. Busses are also very cheap but ABSOLUTELY horrible. I took a 12 hours bus ride from Barcelona to Paris, it was cheap and got the job done, but it was just really boring and long. Check out megabus or eurolines.
- Also, we would like to have private room with private bathroom for our accommodation. In such option, how much will be the minimum cost? (we would like to get as lowest budget as possible for such option)
Hostels will usually run on average about $25-30. For privates with a bath room (they call them "en suite" over there), figure to pay at least double that (in total).
- How much should we budget for all the expenses? (to travel within 6 countries above,including accomodation, food, low-cost flight, euro rail tickets)
I'd say about $60-70 per person per day.
- The daily expenses budget??
Food is slightly more expensive then in the states, depends on where you go though. You can have some amazing street food in most European cities (Why I LOVE Berlin!!!) for not even $10 a meal.
Yup but you really won't have much time to see enjoy these cities. I say try to see half. Last summer I spent about 17 days seeing Rome/Barcelona/Paris/Amsterdam/Brussels and I although I enjoyed the trip, I feel like I could/should have spent a lot more time in each city (except for Brussels).
- We would like to have a flight-and-train travelling way to lower our budget. For instances, we take flight to travel among countries and take train to travel among cities within same country. Is this a good idea? or there will be a better way?
It really depends on a lot of things. Just look up prices for flights at easyjet/ryanair/airberlin/etc and compare with trains on deutschebahn.de, sncf.fr, etc. Busses are also very cheap but ABSOLUTELY horrible. I took a 12 hours bus ride from Barcelona to Paris, it was cheap and got the job done, but it was just really boring and long. Check out megabus or eurolines.
- Also, we would like to have private room with private bathroom for our accommodation. In such option, how much will be the minimum cost? (we would like to get as lowest budget as possible for such option)
Hostels will usually run on average about $25-30. For privates with a bath room (they call them "en suite" over there), figure to pay at least double that (in total).
- How much should we budget for all the expenses? (to travel within 6 countries above,including accomodation, food, low-cost flight, euro rail tickets)
I'd say about $60-70 per person per day.
- The daily expenses budget??
Food is slightly more expensive then in the states, depends on where you go though. You can have some amazing street food in most European cities (Why I LOVE Berlin!!!) for not even $10 a meal.