Three weeks in Europe

4 days     Paris
2 days     Münich
2 days     Fussen
4 days    Berlin & Potsdam
7 hours Dresden
2 days     Prague
2 days     Vienna
2 days     Firenze
2 days     Rome

Short Summary.

Day 1	Depart the United States	on flight to Paris
Day 2	Arrive in Paris	Paris Hotel Chopin (1st).
Day 3	Paris	Paris Hotel Chopin (2nd).
Day 4	Paris	Paris Hotel Chopin (3rd).
Day 5	Paris	Train to Munich. Depart at 10:45 p.m. and Arrive the following day at 8:58 a.m., without switching trains anywhere.
Day 6	Munich	Munich. Hotel Münchner Kindl,
Day 7	Munich	Munich Hotel Münchner Kindl,
Day 8	Train from Munich departs at 10:51 and arrives in Füßen around 1:00 p.m.	Füßen. Hotel Sonne.
Day 9	Day to see Neuschwanstein	Füßen. Hotel Sonne.
Day 10	Train from Füßen departs at 11:05 a.m. and arrives in Berlin at 7:00 p.m.	Berlin. East Side Hotel.
Day 11	Day in Berlin	Berlin East Side Hotel.
Day 12	Day to go to Potsdam	Berlin East Side Hotel.
Day 13	Second day in Berlin	Berlin East Side Hotel.
Day 14	Depart Berlin at 8:46 a.m. and arrive in Dresden at 10:52 a.m.. Store luggage in lockers and see Dresden. Depart Dresden at 7:10 p.m. and arrive in Prague at 9:18 p.m.	Prague Apple Hostel.
Day 15	Day in Prague	Prague Apple Hostel.
Day 16	Train departs Prague at 10:23 a.m. and arrives in Vienna at 2:48 p.m.	Vienna. Hotel Stephanie
Day 17	Day in Vienna	Vienna. Hotel Stephanie
Day 18	Third day in Vienna. Take a train at 5:40 p.m. from Vienna to Innsbruck, arriving in Innsbruck at 9:43 p.m. Then switch to the overnight train with sleeping carriage and go to Florence, departing Innsbruck at 10:09 p.m. and arriving in Florence at 6:18 a.m.	Train to Florence.
Day 19	Day in Florence	Florence. Hotel Accademica.
Day 20	Second day in Florence	Florence Hotel Accademica.
Day 21	Take a train in the morning. It’s only 2 hours to Rome, and there are many trains.	Rome Hotel Beautiful.
Day 22	Day in Rome	Rome Hotel Beautiful.
Day 23	Return home	Home.

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Costs.

This trip hasn’t been thoroughly researched and priced.
I use dollars for the year I research costs and then convert those dollars into Myrfti units. A Myrfti is a sort of inflation-adjusted price. If you have 100 Myrfti, you have 1% of the median year-round full-time American worker's wage/salary. So, if the median year-round full-time American worker earns $50,000, a Myrfti is equal to $5, and 100 Myrfti are $500.

The dollar prices will soon be out-of-date, but the Myrfti prices should be close to what you would pay in any year. Just find the most recent median full-time year-round income for American workers, and divide that by 10,000 to find what 1 Myrfti is worth. Then, once you have that figure, multiply it times the Myrfti costs to get an estimate for the current dollar price of the trip.

Total.

Comments

This plan uses a rail pass.

One should purchase the six days in 2 months through 5 countries pass.
The travel is through France, Germany, Austria, and Italy.

In 2008 the price was $400 for a youth ticket and $525 for an adult saver pass.

In Myrfti, the youth pass was 86 (0.86% of the 2008 median American full-time year-round worker’s wage). That can be converted into hours (assuming the average full-time year-round American worker puts in about 2,000 hours of labor), and it works out to about 16.8 hours of labor for the youth pass.

The adult Saver price was $525 in 2008, which was 113 Myrfti, or about 21.7 hours of labor for the median year-round full-time worker.

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4 persons: $11,390

2 persons: $7,920

4 persons: Myrfti 2,300

2 persons: Myrfti 1,600


		To show how a family of four earning about 120% of the median income would budget to pay for a trip such as this (costing 22% of a median worker’s year-round full-time income) every three years, I offer the following household budget, using a household annual income of $59,400 (about 120% of a single worker’s income of $49,500): Housing and utilities (including gas, electric, sewer, water, rent or mortgage, homeowner or renter insurance, and home repair and maintenance budget: 28.1% ($1,391 per month) All taxes (property, sales, income taxes for local, state, tribal, or federal governments): 15.2% ($752 per month) Car expenses (ownership of cars, gas, maintainence, insurance): 12.3% ($609 per month) Groceries, food, restaurants, and household supplies: 9% ($446 per month) Savings for a trip like this every three years: 8.0% ($396 per month) Health insurance and health care expenses: 7% ($347 per month) Savings for retirement: 7% ($347 per month) Savings for children's college expenses: 4.8% ($238 per month) Charitable giving: 2.3% ($114 per month) Other entertainment, internet, travel, cable television, movies, etc.: 2.2% ($109 per month) Miscellaneous other expenses (incuding phone): 2.1% ($104 per month) Clothing: 2% ($99 per month)