Budget travel
Fifteen days across four countries in Central Europe, flights included, works out around USD 1,900. Producing numbers like that is what these guides are for.
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Not advice about booking early. Actual arithmetic: what a bed costs, what a meal costs, what a local train costs, added up into a total you can hold against your savings. Where the total comes out higher than you hoped, it stays higher.
Figures are in local currency and dollars, with the date they were checked, plus the handful of choices that move the number most: which airport you fly into, which month you go, and the one thing worth paying up for.
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