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Planning for the Eurotrip City Guide app

Since this has come up in a couple other threads and I don’t want to hijack their threads, I will do a summary here.

We are currently in the planning process for a new feature that we are currently calling the Eurotrip City Guide or Eurotrip Printable Guide. Basically, it would be a way for you to specify what you plan to do in a city or during a trip and then before you leave on your trip you would print it off and it would serve as a trip specific guide book.

Eurotrip Planner turns 1 year old

The Eurotrip Planner went live just over a year ago now and it has been adopted very quickly. Including both Published and Unpublished trips, you have entered more than 25,000 trips this past year.

good article: basics of Europe backpack-style travel

http://www.gadling.c…
includes basic strategy for deciding where, when, what, and how much

I’ll post also in Packing forum.

How To Use Favorite Places

Hey all.

Mim and I plan to mostly stay out of the way in this forum.
Favorite Places is a busy category and we and all of the regulars here hope to just keep it spam-free and rolling along smoothly.
Here are a few ways to help:

Please try a Search first. There is a Search button in both corners of the page, prominely upper right, and also here:

Are they worth it?

Are Nice, France and Barcelona, Spain worth going to?

First time Euro-tripper, itinerary help please! (mediterranean)

Hi! I am in my first year of grad school and my sister is in college. We are looking to plan our first trip to Europe this summer and do a bit of back-packing/budget hotel staying (we have never stayed in a hostel and are open to it, but we have found some great and affordable apartments and bed and breakfasts that we are thinking to choose instead). The trip was originally only going to include Italy and Greece, but it is a ton cheaper to fly into Madrid (which we wanted to see anyways). Would you mind looking over my tentative schedule and letting me know if this is doable?

France/Italy-Itinerary help-Thanks!

Hi all! Thanks for your help thus far, especially DreamingOfItaly. I have my itinerary sort of pinned down. I leave in 62 days, so I want to really start nailing down details like rail pass, where to stay, etc. Here’s the plan:

May 13: fly out of Nashville
May 14: arrive in Paris airport around 6:30 a.m. Spend the day in, duh, Paris.
May 15-17: Paris with possible day or 1/2 day trip to Versailles
May 18-19 Burgundy (or Alsace, what do you think?)
May 20-23 Draguignan (I have a friend here and we’ll take a day trip or two to Provence.

Germany - Best city and sites

I am planning a trip to Amsterdam, Germany, Belgium and Paris for Summer 2010 and coudl really use some suggestions as far as must see sites and things to do. Our itinerary is pretty much wide open and other than hostels and the general locations we dont have any specific plans.

Whats the best city in Germany to visit if were planning on coming from Amsterdam, staying for 2 days, and then heading to Paris? We hope to also visit a concentration camp along the way – Has anyone visited one? Or have any suggestions?

Summer!!!

We are currently expats in Munich and are planning our last holiday before we have to leave Europe….
Originally the idea was to spend a week or two in Provence, Barcelona and Ibiza during the June/July… Now I am considering maybe rather touring Croatia?
What would you do???

10 days in italy

I will be spending 10 days in Italy at the end of July this year. I will be leaving from venice airport on the 10th day. I will have already spent 2 days in Venice at the start of the trip. I am wondering if it if would be to much of a rush to go to Naples, Florence and Rome in the 9 days I have left or should I choose either Florence or Naples. I did want to go to Pompei – does this take all day? If anyone has any suggestions, ideas of things to do in each town to try to help me decide, that would be great.