Originally Posted by SAnger3494
Hello all and Happy Holidays,
Looking for non Euro Nations to explore? I see that others are sliding, but not quite as bad. .... We traveled in Sept 03 to Italy and the Euro was sliding then and is much lower and going down. We have access to award business class tickets on US and DL.
SCA
Actually, the dollar is the one doing the sliding and the Euro is the one increasing. I would suggest using up your US Airways miles now even if you have to take the flight on the 767 rather than airbus, or alternatively, US miles on Lufthansa would work too.
If you fly into Germany, you could get a lowfare ticket to Eastern europe or maybe you can do the whole thing on a LH award ticket. Or perhaps you could fly into London spend a night or two and transer to BMI for your onward journey.
Also, if you read some of the travel guides on Europe, some countries like France are not horribly expensive if you shop around for hotels and restaurants etc .. even at 1.39/1 USD or even at higher figures if the dollar slides down more. I think the advice of others is true that Switzerland and UK are more expensive than more other Euro currency nations (but even the Euro currency nations differ in cost of various vacation purchases/expenses).
Have a nice trip..