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[quote=Anonymous]It is expensive.  We've taken our kids to Europe twice, so we've been through it.

Tickets are $800-$1000 per person.  Off-season isn't an option if you have kids who need to be in school, unless you're homeschooling, we we aren't.  If you're renting that stupid house with your ILs, then they are picking up part of the $2-3K/week tab, so the stupid house is actually probably cheaper to you than 4 tickets.

We stayed at modest B&Bs, away from the tourist centers. The tab was over $1000 a week each week.  Part of the problem is that European hotel rooms generally have either one king/queen or two twins.  So you can't get the whole family into that Holiday Inn room with 2 king-size beds, like you do in the states.  We stayed in some places with "family rooms" consisting of 2 connected bedrooms, but the bill was still $1,000 for five days.

And the dollar SUCKS at the moment.  About 1.45 euros per dollar, even worse than the 1.25 rate we got 3 years ago.  It's $60 for 4 sandwiches and 4 cokes, and it doesn't get cheaper if you eat the local cheap paninis or meat pasties.  The fact that you don't have to tip doesn't make up for this (unless you tip 45%).  [/quote]

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