Average daily costs for various European cities
By Lucy
Lazarony • Bankrate.com
Headed for Europe this summer?
Your hard-earned American dollars will last a lot longer in Amsterdam
than they will in Rome.
Consumer
Reports Travel Letter analyzed the cost of lodging and meals
and other expenses in popular European vacation cities by studying
the U.S. State Department's "per diem" rates (the average
daily allotments paid to federal employees living in foreign countries)
over a five-year period.
Single-day costs are based on the average reported costs for a
single room at a moderately priced hotel, three meals and incidental
travel expenses. The incidental travel expenses are equal to 10
percent of the combined lodging and meal costs.
The chic Italian cities of Milan and Rome make the priciest vacation
spots. The most affordable destinations are Aix-en-Provence in the
south of France and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
| City |
Single-day
costs |
Change
from 5 years ago |
| Milan |
$324
|
+ 32%
|
| Rome |
$320
|
+ 47%
|
| London |
$294
|
+ 14%
|
|
Edinburgh
|
$287
|
+ 0.7%
|
| Dublin |
$279
|
+ 21%
|
| Paris |
$249
|
- 9 %
|
| Florence |
$249
|
+5 %
|
| Barcelona |
$245
|
+25%
|
| Venice |
$238
|
- 24%
|
| Berlin |
$234
|
+9 %
|
| Lyon |
$231
|
-13%
|
| Zurich |
$226
|
-15%
|
| Madrid |
$211
|
-10%
|
|
Glasgow
|
$209
|
-4 %
|
| Munich |
$209
|
-10%
|
| Hamburg |
$189
|
-28%
|
| Aix-en-Provence |
$186
|
-3%
|
| Amsterdam |
$170
|
-28%
|
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