A Summer European Vacation
Just Got a Lot Cheaper
Just in time to plan your summer vacation, currency exchange rates favorable to Americans — better than they have been in more than a decade — are making European travel super attractive.
Normally,
Europe is a notoriously expensive getaway. But with the
euro-to-greenback exchange hovering near one to one (€1 was equal to
$1.06 at publication time, compared to $1.30 to $1.47 in recent years), Americans now get an instant discount when spending there.
As
if you need another reason to want to go to Paris or Rome or Berlin,
the cost of visiting many European hotspots has gone down an average of
11 percent since last year, according to TripAdvisor’s just-released
TripIndex Europe report, with some destinations down as much as 25
percent.
“Compared to last summer, Americans can expect to pay about 20 percent
less on hotels in Europe when booking on TripAdvisor, and eight percent
less on roundtrip airfare,“ said Brooke Ferencsik, director of
communications for the company. The average nightly rate for a European
hotel booked on TripAdvisor for this summer is $133, compared to $164 in
2014. And roundtrip flights from the U.S. to the European destinations
on the index cost $1,448 on average between June and August, compared to
$1,579 in summer 2014.
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/a-summer-european-vacation-just-got-a-lot-cheaper-115958417682.html
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