Comments | satyrwilder: Theoretical financial stuff

satyrwilder

Theoretical financial stuff

Jan 31, 2009 10:02

So I'm trying to determine how much money I would need if I were to theoretically try to take a 2 week vacation to England. Airfare is easy to figure out, but the other expenses are the tricky parts. I can look up Air + Hotel package details on Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity, but that isn't ideal. It would not be my intent to spend 2 weeks ( Read more... )

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mixnmatchmemory January 31 2009, 16:08:00 UTC

Cheapest way for international travel?

Couch surf, and offer to pay your friends back for their hospitality by cooking or cleaning up for the time you stay. I went to Denmark, Belgium, Germany, and England for less than $1100 doing just that.

deva_fagan February 1 2009, 10:44:10 UTC

I know that feeling -- I didn't travel anywhere other than Canada until we went to Paris when I was 33! A trip to England sounds amazing -- I hope you are able to make it happen!

Bob and I are currently planning a trip to Italy for this October (Florence and Venice) and I've been finding a lot of helpful resources on the Slow Travel Website. Even if you aren't planning to travel particularly "slow" (ie stay in one place for several days and/or rent an apartment) it has a lot of great info, and (one of my favorite parts) trip reports.

There's a special section for the UK and Ireland, which is not quite as busy as the Italy and France sections, but still has a lot of info ( ... )

somnamscream February 1 2009, 14:38:56 UTC

Contiki Tours...I mean if you don;t mind being led around by the nose a bit, my friend did it and said you saw a goodly amount of everything there.

Assuming that you don't know anyone in these countries to couch surf off of, a tour would be the best way to go...or you could hostel hop. Which I have heard isn't so bad.