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How much money would I have to spend on a ten to fourteen day trip in Europe?

Considering I’d buy a roundtrip plane ticket there for about 800 – 1000 bucks. Besides that, how much do you think it’d cost me? I’d be on a tight budget (not wanting to go on expensive shopping sprees and stay at five star hotels). I’d want to go to London, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Austria. I’d probably try to stay at the cheapest motel and travel by train to the other countries. I know ten to fourteen days can have a wide range money wise, but how much do you think the estimation would be? $2000 – $3000 or so? Including the plane ticket in there.

In a hostel you can have a bed at rates below 20 EUR/night. Cheap hotels start at +/- 30 EUR.

A hot meal in Belgium starts at about 10 EUR. You can find – out of tourist areas – lunch menu (starter – main dish – dessert) from 15 EUR. Drinks (soft and common beers) start at 1,50 EUR. If you like more fancy drinks you can have beers up til 10 and more EUR.
It’s also common to have a sandwich (half a baguette!) for lunch, those start at 2 EUR.

TIP: Some bistros offer Full English Breakfast for 10 EUR (it’s quite a meal, so you can skip lunch).

When visiting Belgium, you ought to try one/some/most of the +300 beers (from 1,50 EUR – 20,00+ EUR); waffles can be bought at carts in the streets (tourist areas), they start at 1,50 EUR; Ice-cream generally 2 EUR/cone (2 flavours).

A museum (take care most close on Mondays) can be free or up to 15,00 EUR (adult, full fare). It’s good to plan ahead, because most cities have a museum pass that offers multiple entries to several musea at a flat rate. Carry your student card when you have one, it’ll save you plenty of euros.

Bus, tram, metro tickets can be sold on the spot (expensive over 2 EUR per ride) or in newspaperstands or tabaccostores (lots cheaper).
Flanders: http://www.delijn.be
Brussels: http://www.mivb.be/index.htm?l=en
Wallonia: http://www.infotec.be/index.aspx?PageId=631734023237830544&Language=english

Traintrips can be expensive, but for trips inside Belgium you might want to consider a “B-Excursion”, that includes the trainride and the entryticket to a touristattraction (http://www.b-rail.be/nat/E/tarifs/tipstrips/bexcursions/index.php).

International train travel with the Interrail pass can be cheap (you can travel 30 countries for upto a month!). There are two types (1) continuous, you are allowed to travel without any limits, (2) flexi, you choose 5 (10) days in a timespan of 10 (22) days. The continuous pass for 15 consecutive days costs 279 EUR/399 EUR; flexi 5 costs 159 EUR/249 EUR and flexi 10 239 EUR/359 EUR (first fare is for people under 26/ the second fare is for adults under 60)

So, your daily expenses will add up to 85-100 EUR/day (x 14 = 1190-1400 EUR) + 159 EUR flexi5 + 650 EUR plane = 1999 EUR (x1.25 = 2.500 USD)

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