europe trip --estimating costs

GladGradDad
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:23:26 +0000

$200/day for food is too much. It’s easy enough to spend that much if one tries but also easy to reduce it if one tries including doing what I said about stopping at a grocery or even deli and picking up some food that way to take care of some of the meals or even hitting some fast food places, including local ones.

The European hotels drive me crazy. They generally sell their rooms by the ‘single’, ‘double’, or ‘triple’ and if you have 4 people they expect you to simply get 2 rooms - at their ridiculous room rates. There are some hotels that have quad rooms which makes it more reasonable but you really need to search these out. B&Bs can usually handle 4 people less expensively as well but I don’t know about B&Bs in Sweden - I only stayed at hotels there.