Travel On The Cheap | Seattle Times Newspaper Travel | Q & A | How To - Price

Travel | Q & A | How to travel on the cheap | Seattle Times Newspaper


If the euro goes to $1.60, you'll pay $90 more — an amount you can make up by substituting an expensive dinner with a meal in a local cafe, or by taking public transportation instead of taxis. If you did your budget estimates at the beginning of this year, when the rate was $1.47, a week in a 100-euro-a-night hotel will have cost $1,029. Most estimated the dollar will be at around $1.30 to the euro when they priced their 2008 tours. Obviously they were wrong, and a few have added currency surcharges to cover the increased costs.The U.S. This has always been the case, but it's more apparent to Americans now that the buying power of the U.S.