While pricing hostels and hotels we came across the brilliant idea of camping in Europe. Apparently, most major European cities offer camp sites where you can pitch a tent or stay in a permanent tent for a fraction of the cost of hostels or hotels. A lot of campsites even offer mobile homes you can stay in, pools, clean bathrooms with showers, a kitchen area, and electricity at each camp site. This is not the common American idea of camping. None of that rustic living stuff here!
For about $18 you can get a camp card through ACSI which is a camping association.It gives you a 50% discount rate on camp sites meaning most sites in the off-season (when we're going) will only cost about $17 a night! That's a huge savings versus hostels which can be about $35/ person per night. So $17 for both of us, or $70. Easy to see why camping is a good idea when going for 45 days!
We still plan on mixing it up between hostels, hotels, and camping. I mean, the price is right, but 45 days sleeping on the ground... yikes! This looks like a really great deal though, I'm excited to get to have the true back packing experience complete with camping!
Safe Travels,
- Kit
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