Generally, farther south is cheaper. UK and Scandinavia are very expensive. Spain, Italy, Greece are “cheaper” but, IMO are still expensive by US standards. You have to go well off the beaten tourist track in Eastern Europe to find any place that’s truly cheap. Luxembourg can be slightly cheaper than the rest of Northern Europe due to the tax rate — Europeans go there to shop — but that doesn’t necessarily help much as a tourist. The former “East Germany” used to be cheaper than “West Germany” but I’m not sure that’s still the case.

Smaller towns are often cheaper than big cities and you can sometimes save by staying in the suburbs. Any city in Western Europe that shows up on the itinerary for a packaged tour is probably expensive. Any capital city is expensive. If the city is in the top 25 list of cities in Western Europe that you’ve “heard of,” it’s expensive.

Oh Boy! However for about a 18-22 day trip, trying to travel relatively cheap, do you think i could make it on around 4,000 USD? traveling maybe 6 countries?

Money discussions are usually on the “packing forum” so I moved this thread. Hopefully, you’ll get better answers here on “packing.”

My base budget would be: airline ticket + city to city transportation +$75 US per day + $200 emergency fund. I’d estimate $1,000 (Hopefully the cheap flights forum will allow you to save a few hundred here) + $600 (cost of a 21 day global eurail pass. You probably won’t want to buy that pass , but you’ll probably spend that much on a combination of railpass, point to point rail tickets, bus, cheap intra-Europe flights, ferries, etc.) + $75 a day for food, lodging, local transportation, admission fees (assuming dorm rooms in hostels, eating from markets, street vendors and the occasional cafe, minimal partying, using public transportation and taking advantage of free admissions, student prices and limiting museums, almost no gifts and souvenirs — here’s where it’s tough to spend less and easy to spend twice this much).