what's up guys it's Alexander Travelbum
and today we're going over how to travel
Europe on a thousand dollars or less per
month
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alexander Travelbum and i make travel
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coming up. so I traveled Europe just a
little while ago and I had $6,000 and I
stretched it so that I could be there
for six months or half a year traveling
all over Europe so I'm gonna give you
guys a little bit of the tips and tricks
that I learned when I went there so if
you can you want to avoid travelling in
the summer that's when the prices are
highest not only for flights but also
for hotels activities for everything so
if you can avoid it travel in the low
season or the shoulder season and the
cheapest time to fly in the whole year
is the first two weeks in January right
after Christmas so if you can travel at
that time do it the flights are
unbelievably cheap I've at that time I
usually fly across the world for around
a hundred and 150 dollars so my next tip
is to stay on the ground everyone knows
that Europe has its cheap flights so if
you do want to fly from place to place
you will have to do the budget airlines
there's airlines like Ryanair sometimes
you can get across the country for 20 or
30 dollars and that is great but one
thing I like to do is I like to stay on
the ground
once I get to a new place and I'm gonna
be traveling to a lot of the different
countries in one area I like to stay on
the ground so that way you can usually
save money by traveling by bus by train
or hitchhiking so hitchhiking is gonna
be the cheapest option obviously it's
free and you can really easily hitchhike
in most of the countries in Europe but
if you aren't really wanting to do that
you can do trains which are also
decently cheap if you do it right what
you want to do in Europe is you want to
do that your rail tickets so you'll have
to check that out down below I'll leave
a link and you can see how you can
travel Europe buy your rail the Nexus
buses and buses can be really cheap
especially in Eastern Europe so that is
a really good way to go the next thing
is you want to travel in the right
places so
first of all the cheapest part of Europe
is Eastern Europe for the most part if
you go to the other side of the
Mediterranean Sea the other side of
Italy and you go Croatia to the east so
this will be Croatia Albania Macedonia
Greece is over there but it isn't as
cheap as the rest still pretty cheap
Romania Bulgaria Serbia Poland all of
that those are going to be a lot cheaper
than France Italy Spain and that kind of
thing so if you can and you want to be
more adventurous because it's actually
really cool in Eastern Europe people
just know less about it
you should try travelling to some of the
countries in Eastern Europe especially
if you want to save a few bucks but
besides traveling to the east also the
cheaper places if you don't want to do
that the cheaper places are usually
southern countries Spain is cheaper than
France which is above it for the most
part Italy is a little cheaper than
Switzerland and then Germany so usually
you can kind of do that almost anywhere
in the world when you go south it's a
little bit cheaper the same thing
applies to cities when you go to Spain
the cheaper cities are usually the
southern cities same with Italy the
south is cheaper than the north for the
most part the same with everything
really so first of all travel Eastern
Europe if you can if not that stick to
the south if you want to travel on the
budget so the next thing is try to stay
away from the touristy things if you can
and you want to have a more real
experience you should do something like
couchsurfing where you can actually meet
people you don't always have to stay
with people you can actually meet people
through the app meet locals and you can
hang out with locals and they show you
the local spots which are usually
cheaper than the tourist destinations
you can meet people through couchsurfing
through this other app I just found out
about called show around where a local
will show you around it does cost a
little bit just to meet them and maybe
they'll hang out with you after that if
you become friends or just strike up a
conversation with somebody at a bar
there's some or a beach or something
like that do the free things you don't
want to do the expensive tours and you
really don't have to do the best things
are usually the free things just walking
around the city doing the activities
are free sometimes there's concerts
little shows festivals things going
around that are free the next thing is
walking tours in most countries and most
main cities you'll have free walking
tours and usually they last around 1 to
3 hours and after you get a walking tour
of the whole main part of the city and
you get all the history and you can meet
people there and it's it's really
awesome you get to learn a lot about the
place where you are I like to do this
when I first get there so I really get
my bearings and get a little bit of
knowledge before I start heading off on
my own and so these things are free and
usually you just give a tip at the end
and if you're on a budget you can give a
smaller tip but you know give them a
decent sized tip if you can especially
if they did a good job the next thing is
pub crawls free pub crawls a lot of
times if you're staying at hostels
they're gonna have pub crawl nights and
because the hostels want you to have fun
and they want to get good ratings and so
especially for the younger crowd they're
gonna want to bring you out as a group
and go on these pub crawls and
surprisingly in a lot of cities there
were free pub crawls free to get in
sometimes you get free drinks for the
first hour or something and so that is a
way to get free alcohol and free
activity for the night okay next is
hostels you can find hospitals decently
cheap in Europe it's not as cheap as a
lot of other places in the world but
what you want to do is you want to book
ahead for these because the best ones
are gonna sell out quickly so try to
book a week ahead maybe at least a few
days ahead so that the cheapest options
are still available to you instead of
booking the hostels a better option and
the best option is couchsurfing
couchsurfing is the number one way that
I was able to travel Europe for so long
on a budget because when you do
couchsurfing you get a free place to
stay you meet local friends you get to
hang out with them and they take you to
cheaper places not the tourist
destinations that always hike up the
prices also a lot of times they want to
show you their culture show you their
cuisine and everything
so many times my couchsurfing hosts
would cook for me and of course you save
some money there so couchsurfing is
really great and I made a video on how
to do it how to get the most hosts how
to really do it right and I will link
that above my head so watch that video
after this if you're interested in
couchsurfing but make sure you finish
this video first I have a few more good
things lined up really quick if you're
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next is if you don't do couchsurfing you
can try Airbnb there's surprisingly
really a lot of good deals on Airbnb
because Airbnb is becoming more popular
and there's just so much out there and
there's so much competition people are
really bringing their prices down a lot
in order to get people to stay there
because there's there's so many other
options and then if you want to try
something longer this is another site
that I've used which is amazing it's
called trusted house sitters and you get
free accommodation just for watching
their house house-sitting sometimes you
watch a pet or two and feed them and
keep them alive and other times you just
watch their house and keep it safe for
them sometimes you can do this for a
month or so if you really want to stay
in one place so make sure you check that
out I have a link below to trusted out
sitters another quick thing is take a
night train to save on a night's
accommodation because you're sleeping in
the train so you don't have to pay that
for food there there are deals all over
Europe and it really depends where you
are but there's for example when you go
to Spain they have top US you get a
bunch of little foods to go with your
drinks and it usually it can be free or
it can cost just a little bit and the
other thing that's very similar to that
is aperitivo in Italy
it's basically what an American would
call a happy hour but much better than a
happy hour because it involves sometimes
a lot of free food in Italy it's usually
kind of a all-you-can-eat buffet of just
these little plates and you buy a drink
and then you're allowed to go stand in
line and just fill your plate with all
these foods and that's kind of a way to
get a free meal another one if you can
here
is don't pay for your phone while you
travel if you're traveling for a longer
term and you can don't pay that phone
bill instead get a SIM card SIM cards
are really cheap in Europe and you can
just buy one in whatever country you're
in and they're cheap
you got high-speed Internet tax call you
get everything okay the next thing is go
to budget destinations so there are a
lot of budget budget destinations but
let me just name a few so you can go to
Portugal southern Spain Romania Bulgaria
Croatia if you do it right and mostly if
you stay off the beaten path and you go
to the cities of the small towns that
aren't the major major tourist
attractions you can do most things
pretty cheap okay the next thing is get
the right credit card combo so you can
get a travel credit card and a travel
the debit card because when you go to
Europe say if you're American and you go
over if you go overseas you're probably
going to be paying foreign transaction
fees when you pay with the credit card
you're gonna be paying all these other
fees when you take out your money from
an ATM so what you want to do is you
want to find a good travel credit card a
travel debit card and use a really good
combination I'm gonna make a video about
this and I will link it above my head
when I have that and that's about it for
today I don't want to make this video
too long so those are just a few of the
tips that I could come up with really
quickly off the top of my head if you
have any other tips that I didn't go
over please put them below leave a
comment below let me know some of the
other things so I can put them in the
next video and everyone else go down
below and take a look because maybe
there are a few things some really good
things that I didn't mention here if
you're about to go to Europe all right
I'm Alexander travel boom thanks for
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