I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find the
best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.

Number of people - 2
Length of stay - approx 1 week
Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.
Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
east of the Mississippi)

Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging

Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.

gpsposter wrote:
    > I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find the
    > best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.
    > Number of people - 2
    > Length of stay - approx 1 week
    > Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.
    > Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
    > east of the Mississippi)
    > Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging
    > Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.

At that price I think March (possibly April) would be your last chance until
late October or November.

miguel
--
Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu

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    > I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find
the
    > best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.
    > Number of people - 2
    > Length of stay - approx 1 week
    > Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.
    > Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
    > east of the Mississippi)
    > Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging
    > Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.

US$500 for a week including airfare? Perhaps I am reading it wrong, but that
would barely even pay for a flight at that time of the year! If you want
your money to go a long way, check out the non-Euro parts of Europe, like
Hungary, Czech (not Prague) or Romania (my personal favourite!).

Avoid London at all costs.
---
DFM

gpsposter wrote:
    >
    > I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find the
    > best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.
    >
    > Number of people - 2
    > Length of stay - approx 1 week
    > Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.

Are you seriously thinking of doing all this in one week? With one week,
any more than one country would be madness. Or are you asking us to pick
a country for you to visit? Since we don't know anything about you, this
would be rather difficult.

    > Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
    > east of the Mississippi)
    >
    > Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging

This is virtually impossible. In May or July, the airfare alone will
likely cost this much. For two people in a cheap double room without
bath, you will have to figure about $40-60 a night minimum, more in
England. In a hostel, figure $25 per person per night. So that would be
about $200 per person MINIMUM for lodging.

    > Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.

Flexible, maybe, but not very realistic.

Barbara

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:47:42 -0600, gpsposter wrote:

    >I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find the
    >best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.
    >Number of people - 2
    >Length of stay - approx 1 week
    >Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.
    >Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
    >east of the Mississippi)
    >Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging
    >Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.


in belgium we can get budget -deals between 350-700 dollar for 1 week
for greece, spain etc...(flight ht half board)
you should contact a good travelagent...
since airtravel is cheep between ny and europe it must be possible to
do a bargain :-)

Have you tried http://www.skyauction.com. There have been some hotel/air
packages to Europe that have gone for those prices, for travel before Easter.

--mikeb

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Miguel Cruz wrote:
    >gpsposter wrote:
    >> I am looking to go to Europe in May or July. I want to know how to find the
    >> best deals. Should I go to a travel agent? The details are below.
    >> Number of people - 2
    >> Length of stay - approx 1 week
    >> Destination - ireland, spain, england, italy, greece? anywhere.
    >> Leaving from - Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Boston (just about anywhere
    >> east of the Mississippi)
    >> Total cost - around $500pp including airfare and lodging
    >> Is this doable? As you can see, I am very flexible.
    >At that price I think March (possibly April) would be your last chance until
    >late October or November.
    >miguel
    >--
    >Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu