{"id":6231,"date":"2015-03-19T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:24:53","slug":"24-off-absolutely-everything-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"24% off absolutely everything in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures like these have a way of exciting me about making a trip to Europe:<\/p>\n

\"Austria\"Cinque\" \"Bell<\/p>\n

But, as a bargain-hunter, I’ve got to say that this picture has me\u00a0even more excited:<\/p>\n

\"exchange<\/p>\n

I know that one of the things that people hate most about international travel is calculating exchange rates, and sometimes I’ve simply opted just not to think about it in order to avoid travel-expense-depression. Yet, with the recent strength in the dollar relative to other international currencies – the Euro in particular – not only is it becoming much more simple, it’s also much more affordable.<\/p>\n

When we went to Italy more than a year ago<\/a>, every euro we spent on gelato (and believe me, we spent plenty of them) cost me more than $1.40, whereas today I can swap $1.06 for a Euro.<\/p>\n

What this ultimately means is that now\u00a0is the best possible time to visit Europe in the last 12 years. \u00a0Absolutley everything you buy in Euro-demonimated countries is 23% cheaper than it was just a year ago. \u00a0Italian suits? Yes. Fancy dinners in French restaurants? Yes. mugs of beer in Germany? Yes.<\/p>\n

Now, I hope you’ve followed our blog for long enough to know that the old “but it’s so expensive to travel over there” argument just doesn’t fly with us. \u00a0You know that we and our followers have booked dozens of round-trip itineraries to Europe for less than $100 a ticket.<\/p>\n

But if you haven’t followed our blog forever, you may be tempted to be turned off to that notion… you may have just scoffed, and\/or now you’re expecting me to sell you on some kind of multi-level marketing scheme. \u00a0Stay with me, though, for just a second, though, because if you liked the 24% off part, you’re really going to like this.<\/p>\n

The short of it is that we don’t neglect the awesome world of frequent flyer miles that allow us to travel almost everywhere almost for free.<\/p>\n

There have been some amazing offers over the years, but the one that we are most excited about right now is a combination of applying for two separate cards that will get you a total of 100k points with American Airlines – the airline with the maximum efficiency in using miles to get to Europe. \u00a0As you can see on our Using Airline Miles<\/a>\u00a0page, you can book a round-trip to\u00a0Europe with AAdvantage for 40k miles per person between October 15th and May 15th.<\/p>\n

Those two cards are:<\/p>\n