exile Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 The wife and I are talking about visiting Europe on the next trip we take. Places we discussed included England, France, Portugal, Spain and Italy mainly because we can take a cruise and hit all of these places for 1 low price which means great bang for the bucks. While we only scratch the surface of these destinations, it helps us refine our next trip and rule out places that just didn't work for us. Example: On our cruises thru the carribean, we have leanred which islands we like and which ones we don't feel the need to revisit again. I'm researching land packages as well to see how competitive I can get with the cruise. So not knowing anything about European weather, when are the better months (bang for the buck wise) of the year to go given these destinations? I know we visited Alaska at the end of the season and got a whale of a deal (pun intended). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Just don't go in August. Best times are right now and October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lutter Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Take a look at http://www.gotoday.com Got some amazing deals combining flights and hotels. Lowest prices will be on the less popular dates (which you are probably looking for). We actually might take them up on their car-flight deal to Ireland sometime in the future. Other than that, let me know how Spain is. They've got some amazing food there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 Amsterdam! Wait. Dude. What was the question? Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 I'll second Josh's recommendation on when to travel.... April through to June is usually good for Italy, France and so on. In theory that should be true of the weather here in England too (hitting a high point around July) but it's always unpredictable here. We've had a spate of good weather off and on rather recently though so I think we'll be due a nice summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted April 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 Carlucci, Amsterdam is actually changing their image quite a bit. The pot culture and red light district is moving to Prague as Amsterdam wants to badly change it's image. Being a beer guy, I would love to visit Belgium though More than likely we'll be going towards Sept/Oct. How's the weather generally in that time frame? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 More than likely we'll be going towards Sept/Oct. How's the weather generally in that time frame? Should be OK; more so on the continent than in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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