Posts by author Pete Meyers
The enchanting lobby at The Jane Hotel.
There’s nothing quite like visiting New York City over Thanksgiving weekend and taking in the Macy’s parade, holiday activities, shopping and “pre-Christmas cheer” in all its splendor. But how do you do it without breaking the bank? Considering that average nightly hotel rates during Thanksgiving in New York can reach well above $500 per night, » Read more
Time to unwind in Aix. Photo: miguelvirkkunen
Beautiful, beautiful, Aix. Land of Cezanne. Childhood stomping ground of Zola. Purveyor of more jaw-droppingly gorgeous fountains than you can throw a pétanque at. This lovely small city located just 30 minutes north of Marseille dates back to 123 BC and is the historic southern home of the French upper crust. Aix-en-Provence has a lot going » Read more
You never looked so good as when you studied abroad in France. Photo: Fred Romero
Nostalgic for your days abroad? You know, that semester or two when you lived (and studied a bit) in a country far removed from your home campus, parents, and perhaps significant other. It’s a time of self-discovery, new tastes, new languages, and new options. If you have been lucky enough to count yourself among the » Read more
Matt Kepnes, author of "How to Travel the World on $50 a Day."
Last week we had a fun afternoon visit from our friend Matt Kepnes, creator of the popular budget travel site NomadicMatt.com. Matt stopped by to talk about his new book, “How to Travel the World on $50 a Day”, which is published by Penguin and hits bookstores this week. Obviously, our Cheapo interest was piqued by » Read more
The new CheapoSearch displays much more information about the room types on the results page.
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
Tim Leffel, editor of "Perceptive Travel."
In today’s installment of “4 Cheapo Questions for…” we interview Tim Leffel, an award-winning travel writer, editor of the narrative webzine Perceptive Travel, and all around knower of budget travel tips. When we last chatted with Tim back in June at the Travel Blog Exchange conference in Keystone, CO, he was hard at work wrapping up » Read more
Time to renew the passport. Happy New Year's, Cheapos! Photo: hjl
There are many things we love about the end of the year. Eggnog, HD yule log apps and the subtle but certain scent of travel plans in the new year to name a few. But what we really love are lists. Big honking end-of-the-year recapapaloozas that rehash what we learned in the past 12 months and what » Read more
All lit up on New Year's Eve in Paris. But is it a deal? Photo: Waqqas
What are you up to this New Year’s Eve, Cheapos? Hosting a whopper of a party? Running around town with friends? Showing off your boss karaoke skills with a non-stop Gangnam Style medley? If your answer is “well, I’m not sure just yet” and you’re wondering if a spontaneous getaway could still be in the » Read more
Ryanair, tasteful as always.
We’re heading over to Paris at the end of the year to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Most of our time is booked up with typical holiday plans—getting together with friends, blow out dinners (on the cheap, of course) and relishing winter in Paris. But we do have four or five days that are wide open » Read more
Only 34 days until liftoff! Photo courtesy of Andreas.
Hey Cheapos: You know the age-old question “when should I book a flight to get the best deal?” Is it better to book many months in advance or at the last minute? What about holidays? Recently the flight gurus over at Kayak.com looked into the matter. By sifting through a billion (with a “b”) flight » Read more
Are you feeling lucky, Cheapos? We’ve teamed up again with our friends over at airberlin to give away another fantastic and free roundtrip for two from New York’s JFK airport to anywhere airberlin flies in Europe! Start packing your bags, folks, because someone is about to get lucky. Why shouldn’t it be you? Did you » Read more
This week’s “Four Cheapo Questions for…” interview features travel blogger extraordinaire, Jodi Ettenberg of LegalNomads.com. We first met Jodi many moons ago in New York at our favorite after-work watering hole, Botanica, where she happened to be attending a MeetUp for Gothamist.com. A member of our happy hour clan happened to be wearing a t-shirt » Read more
Check out our new look!
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
Update: Entry for this contest is now over and a winner has been selected. The summer travel season is heating up, Cheapos, and what better way to celebrate than by winning a free trip to Germany? EuroCheapo has teamed up with airberlin and A&O Hostels to offer one very lucky Cheapo a freebie trip for » Read more
Welcome to Professor Thom's ... we're upstairs. Photo: Jazz Guy
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
Happy 2011 and good luck with your resolutions. Photo by 28722563@N05
Welcome to 2011, Cheapos. Now that the eggnog is finally gone and we’ve shoveled away the snow from the Christmas blizzard, it’s time for one of our favorite annual traditions: making New Year’s travel resolutions. This year, everyone here at EuroCheapo HQ has made a pact to aspire to both personal and office-wide resolutions. The » Read more
By Pete Meyers— Today we continue our “4 Cheapo Questions” interview series by catching up with Darren Cronian, founder and editor of the Leeds-based website Travel Rants. We first came across Darren’s site several years ago when Travel Rants received the “Best Consumer Website” award from Travolution, a trade magazine and website that covers » 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
By Pete Meyers—It’s officially “shoulder season,” Cheapos, and you know what that means: comfortable weather, more tolerable crowds, and most importantly…bargains galore! Best yet, even with fairly little advance planning there are plenty of cheap, last minute deals to be snagged. But where to go? We decided to tap into our inner-Van Gogh and searched » Read more
This past weekend, June 18-20, 2010, the Travel Blog Exchange (“TBEX”) held its second annual conference in New York City. Hosted at the Cantor Film Center in Greenwich Village, the two-day event featured panels, presentations, and readings featuring travel bloggers hailing from the US and abroad, some coming to town from as far away as New Zealand. » Read more
Here’s a simple and essential car rental tip that will save a lot of time, money and hassle: When renting a car in Europe, make sure you know if it requires diesel or unleaded gas. Why, you ask? Allow us to demonstrate photographically what happened on a recent journey when we overlooked this critical step. » Read more
Best "Super Cheapo": The Hotel Tiquetonne in Paris. Photos: EuroCheapo and Booking.com
Here at EuroCheapo, we’re obviously big fans of budget hotels. But we’re even bigger fans of budget hotels with that “special something.” In our 29 city guides, you’ll find more than 1,200 reviews of budget-friendly hotels, each one inspected and photographed by one of our editors. Some are listed simply because they’re cheap and clean. Others, » Read more
Continuing our “4 Cheapo Questions” series, this week we hop across the pond to Oslo, Norwary to say hello to our travel pal Sam Daams, co-founder of Travellerspoint.com. We had the pleasure of getting to know Sam when our paths crossed in London last year, during which time he told us the fun and interesting » Read more
We’ve all been there. Your flight is booked, your itinerary is nearly finalized and now all you need to do is book your hotel rooms and your travel plans will be complete. But there’s just one small problem: It’s the summer. And you’re planning on going to, say, Paris, and are freaked out that all » Read more
Today we continue our “4 Cheapo Questions” interview series with one of the pioneers of travel blogging, Michael Yessis. Michael, along with Jim Benning, founded the highly regarded website World Hum in 2001 with the stated goal of publishing “the best travel stories on the Internet.” Their plan seems to have worked out well, as » Read more
