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[brookeislove]

About how much do you think I should save up for the trip?  Im thinking about 2000 for round trip tickets from Phoenix, AZ. So on top of that how much more maybe?

I want to plan a trip to Europe  in the summer. I want to do the actual backpacking around thing. Im thinking Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, and maybe a few other places but right now

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[eee_eph]

Write an approximate single day budget:
e.g.
cost of where you're sleeping
cost of food throughout day (3 meals)
cost of activities during day (entrance fees, etc)

Also consider travel between places (train, coach, plane...)

Then, work out how long you'll be travelling and do the approximate equations!

[monkeedreamer]

It depends how long you plan to stay, and what you intend to do, but... a good amount. Staying in hostels you should figure a min of €10/night, which can easily get up to 20-30, depending on what you can find, how booked places are, etc. Food is another €10-20/day, if you don't splurge. You need to figure out how you're going to get from place to place to figure out the budget for travel, some of it can be pretty cheap, some can be a little pricey. Look up various train & bus options and whatnot and see what works for you and what the price is. Then there's any shopping, figure out your budget for that beforehand - know how much you want to spend either per day, per person back home, and/or all-around what you'll allow yourself to spend on souvenirs and such. And then museums & other cultural and/or touristic-relevant places you visit in each city, which, again, just do your research and figure out what things interest you that you'd really like to see, that you might like to see, and that you don't care about, look at how

[kali_kali]

I agree, and want to add - also don't forget about the costs of public transit within the cities you're visiting, making sure to examine the relevant websites to see what is the most cost-effective method. This applies especially to London - public transit can become vastly cheaper if you know what you're doing.

[monkeedreamer]

Ah yes, I forgot to mention that. The need for that varies a lot from city to city, like in Amsterdam you really can get around without it at all, except maybe if you're staying somewhere not quite in the midst of everything, and then you only need it in the morning & evening; but I'm pretty sure in London things are a lot more spread out and you have to use public transit a fair bit. Either way, it's definitely worth looking into the options, both online before, and within the city; if you need to use it a few times/day then checking if there's 24 hr tickets sold at the stations (rather than they general 1hr) can save a bunch, as well as looking into city passes (like the IAmsterdam card) which usually include free public transit of all forms, and generally come in some selection of 24, 48, 72hr, as well as sometimes 5 and 7 days. So, again, it really all depends on what your plans are, and just doing a little research.

[abrandnewhope]

Not counting trans-atlantic plane tickets, I did a london-rome-venice-brussels-amsterdam trip on about $2000-- this included hostels, food, tourist attractions, and travel from one city to another (flew from London to Rome, train-ed from Rome to Venice, flew from Venice to Brussels, and train-ed from Brussels to Amsterdam). If you pack lightly (to avoid checked-luggage fees), flying via Ryanair or Easyjet between cities can be fairly cheap