so next summer, i'd love to go to europe with my dad for 3-4 weeks, specifically to french-speaking regions so i can practice my french (corsica, monaco, france, belgium, luxembourg, switzerland, etc.) and maybe even stop in london for a couple days for the olympics (although, please excuse my ignorance, i have noo idea how that works). i have relatives who live in la rochelle, france, and an exchange student who lives in bordeaux who we could stay with, but other than that, how can we save money? i'm thinking the hotel rooms and transportation are really going to make it expensive. any ideas?
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Don't be too lavish. Please spend money for necessary things.
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dont spend too much. budget your daily expense
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Europe is generally very expensive you need to be basic about certain things try not spending too much on the hotel as most of the time you will be out shopping or sight seeing and just going to the hotel to sleep (i presume) secondly try to choose joints for eating that are affordable as good as the restaurants look from outside they may not have value for money so you can actually enter a supermarket and grab a decent bite for one meal and the other meal you can pop by in a near by cafe every second shop is either a restaurant or cafe so you will get an idea where you can grab a bite from thirdly try and book your train tickets and air tickets in advance to get the cheap fares esp for the trains thalys and eurostar have offers for early bookings and the rides are very very smooth all the best and enjoy yourself
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I assume you are not European, if so, you will be able to get an Eurail pass, not an InterRail. The man in seat sixty-one has a good site with lots of information for you: http://www.seat61.com/ You 'should' read the page on France, the page on rail passes and maybe just roam around the site to see if there is something else you like to see. On the France page, (click on France in the bar on the left) you will see 'how to buy tickets' in the heading of the page, and How to travel from the UK to France, that info is as good for you as for people who start out in England. If you do decide for a rail pass, it is likely that a 3 countries Eurail Switzerland, France and Benelux will do. The UK is never included. Booking all your train travels early is likely cheaper but less flexible. On the French railway site you can book for all TGV trains as well as the Thalys and Eurostar, that are the high speed trains, and booking early you can save 50 to 90% of the price of tickets bought on the day of traveling. For cheap places to stay use one of the hostel booking sites, they also do cheap hotels and bed and breakfast kind of places. If you do not mind sharing a room with your dad you will often find hotels as cheap as two beds in a dorm in a hostel, but sometimes you will pay less when you go to hostels. France is a country to eat out, but hostels will allow you to do (part of) your own cooking. Cooked lunches in restaurants are often way cheaper than dinners, so if you want to eat out and still want to save money, go out for lunch and cook your own dinner. If you want to see some of the top games of the Olympics, you will have to apply for your tickets very soon, but often there will be sports that have games with tickets for sale when it is almost time for start.
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Bonjour. Cheap Hotels: Formule 1, B'nB (Bed and Breakfast, that is the name of the hotels company) Cheap supermaket: Aldi, Lidl, Leader Price, Netto, Ed Transports: City bus and subway aren't expensive. Trains prices are decent. Plane: forget it! All of that is for France only (but you can find some of these companies over Europe).
