Today we’re celebrating a big update to our budget hotel search engine and we want you to know all about it, Cheapos. The quick backstory Code-named “CheapoSearch” when we first took it live five years ago, our hotel search engine lets readers quickly see room rates for all of the hotels we recommend on EuroCheapo » Read more
CheapoNews: Budget Travel Guide
We have some exciting news to share with our fellow Cheapos. Today we’re happy to announce the relaunch of EuroCheapo.com, complete with a brand spanking new site design and all sorts of helpful new features that we think you’re going to enjoy. This is the largest redesign in our 11 year history and it affects » Read more
Sports-minded procrastinators take heart! It’s still not too late to attend the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. However, you’d better get moving! This weekend’s New York Times features an excellent round-up of last-minute advice for would-be Olympic attendees, including some thoughts on hotels provided by EuroCheapo! The piece, part of the Practical Traveler series » Read more
By Tom Meyers— Ten years ago this week, we launched EuroCheapo from my apartment in Berlin with a guide to 25 budget hotels in Paris. On June 14, 2001, with three friends huddled around my desk, I clicked “upload,” refreshed the browser, and watched www.eurocheapo.com come to life. True to “cheapo form,” we clinked glasses » Read more
For all of the New York City-area Cheapos out there: We’re throwing a happy hour this Thursday and would love to see you. We’re co-hosting this event with our travel friends from Jauntsetter.com and have a fun, easy-going evening lined up. No formal RSVP is required, just show up and bring your travel friends. Here » Read more
Over the past few days we relaunched our blog and gave it a major, much-needed overhaul. We added all sorts of things that didn’t exist previously to make it more navigable, social, and – we hope – easier to use. But sort of like moving out of your first cramped apartment with no windows and » Read more
We’re celebrating some exciting stuff at EuroCheapo HQ today. At long last, we’ve pulled back the curtains on a new site design and have made a giant upgrade to our technology. That’s right, Cheapos, we’ve put on our “fancy pants.” Here’s a sampling of what’s new: 1. Enhanced city pages Our new city pages (for example: » Read more
Pardon the interruption to our regularly scheduled “Daily Cheapo” programming, but we have an exciting announcement: We’ve unveiled a new release of our budget hotel search engine and think you’re going to love it! Our new search engine includes all the Cheapo “bells and whistles” we could dream up to help budget travelers find the best hotel. » Read more
Over the last several months, we’ve been quietly toiling away at redesigning the EuroCheapo homepage. After many revisions, tweaks, testing, more tweaks, bug testing and pulling solid patches of hair out of our collective heads, we finally took it live late last night. Hallelujah! What’s with the redesign, you might ask? Well, we loved the » Read more
We take lots of photos while visiting hotels in Europe. While most of them look fine and accurately capture each hotel, every now and then we notice something unexpected in the corner of the frame. Something lurking in the shadows. Something creepy. That’s right Cheapos: sometimes we take pictures of budget hotel ghosts! Think we’re » Read more
Why is this man so happy and smiling at the camera? Is he: A.) Just glad it’s a nice, sun-shiney day in New York B.) Amazed that the windows in EuroCheapo’s office haven’t been cleaned in 2 years C.) Delighted to be the most recent “EuroCheapo Insider” D.) All of the above. If you » Read more
Today we begin a 30-day “Grand Tour” on our blog that we’re calling “Free Europe: Cheapo by the Day!” During this time, the blog will travel throughout Europe, showcasing free things to do in each of our cities. Along the way, we’ll show you how to go mark-free in Budapest and visit London without the extra pounds. Did you know you can » Read more
A few weeks ago, we stumbled upon hidden europe, an amazing publication devoted to the lost corners and secret terrains of Europe. We blogged about the magazine, ordered six back issues, delighted in the unexpected arrival of the current issue in the mail, and then blogged about it some more. This sort of fan activity » Read more
