Europe’s best-value-for-money cities for Britons have been revealed – and the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius is the most cost effective.
Second place within the rating goes to Lisbon in Portugal, whereas underrated Lille in France comes third.
The most costly vacation spot is among the hottest for weekenders. Amsterdam languishes on the backside in thirty seventh place. Second to final is Belfast the place a dinner for 2 prices £109, whereas third from backside, Edinburgh, sees guests having to pay £5.25 for a bottle of beer.
The findings are courtesy of the seventeenth annual Submit Workplace Journey Cash Metropolis Prices Barometer and are based mostly on the prices of 12 ‘tourism objects’ throughout 37 cities. They embrace two nights in three-star lodging, return airport transfers, a high museum and a cup of espresso.
In Vilnius, this basket of products totals £237. In the meantime, on the different finish of the size, holidaymakers planning a visit to Amsterdam received’t get a lot change from £669.
Europe’s best-value metropolis hotspots have been revealed and it is Vilnius in Lithuania (above) that is primary within the rating. The findings are courtesy of the seventeenth annual Submit Workplace Journey Cash Metropolis Prices Barometer and are based mostly on the prices of 12 ‘tourism objects’ throughout 37 cities
Above is the highest ten least expensive European vacation vacation spot rating, which exhibits that the price of espresso in Vilnius is simply £1.82
Europe’s most costly metropolis is Amsterdam, which sits on the backside of the desk in thirty seventh place
The identical basket of products is priced at £263 in second-place Lisbon – final 12 months’s number-one metropolis and the most cost effective in Western Europe. A 26 per cent rise within the common value of three-star lodging in Lisbon – £152 for 2 nights in comparison with £121 in June 2023 – accounts for the upper barometer value this 12 months.
Nevertheless, costs for meals, drinks and different vacationer commodities stay good worth, in response to Submit Workplace Journey Cash.
Third-place Lille in France – which has a captivating outdated city of cobbled streets and vibrant buildings – has jumped seven locations up the highest ten resulting from a fall in lodging costs – now £131 in comparison with £186 in June 2023.
Lisbon, final 12 months’s winner, sits in second place and nonetheless provides the very best worth in Western Europe at £263
Lille sits in third place and has a captivating outdated city of cobbled streets and vibrant buildings
The Greek capital, Athens, with its iconic Acropolis (above), ranks fifth. The basket of products right here totals £289
The basket of products in contrast features a three-course meal for 2, a glass of wine and high museums
Jap European cities fare nicely within the rankings, with seven inserting within the high ten alongside Vilnius, which is lower than half the worth of 18 different cities.
In fourth comes charming Krakow (£278), overtaking classical Athens (fifth, £289) earlier than the Jap European cities take agency management of the remainder of the highest rankings with Riga (sixth, £297) and Budapest (seventh, £310).
Worth falls in each Bratislava (5.7 per cent, eighth, £316), and Prague (12.5 per cent, ninth, £318), have assured their entry into the higher echelons.
Lastly, tenth place goes to Poland’s capital, Warsaw, with items totalling £319.
Krakow, Poland, is available in at quantity 4 and is one in all a number of Jap European cities to seem within the high ten
Costs in London have fallen 6.5 per cent since final 12 months, inserting it at twenty fifth on the checklist
Cardiff sits at quantity 16 on the barometer total, however is the best-value UK capital metropolis
This 12 months, the barometer discovered that costs have fallen in 21 of the cities surveyed
The most affordable of the 4 UK capital cities is Cardiff, sitting in sixteenth place (£409). It’s over a 3rd cheaper than Belfast (thirty sixth, £629), the most costly Irish metropolis this 12 months, and surpasses Dublin (thirty second, £578).
Edinburgh is in the identical ballpark (thirty fifth) with a basket whole of £602 thanks to cost rises of 12 per cent. Surprisingly, costs in London have fallen 6.5 per cent (£524), inserting it twenty fifth on the checklist.
This 12 months, costs have fallen in 21 of the cities surveyed.
Paris (twenty fourth) noticed a discount of 24.9 per cent (£287 in comparison with £382 final 12 months), Venice (thirty third) is down 21.9 per cent (£375 from £480) and Prague is down 21.4 per cent (£196 to £154).
The biggest fall in lodging costs has been in Lille, which noticed costs drop 30 per cent from £186 to £131. Previous winner Athens registered lodging prices of £289, whereas the most costly is Amsterdam at £462.
Laura Plunkett, Head of Journey Cash at Submit Workplace, stated: ‘It is essential to do not forget that the price of meals and drinks should be added to the spending price range as metropolis break holidays hardly ever embrace these things.
Over the course of two or three days, these could make a massive distinction to vacation prices and the low costs we discovered for meals and drinks in Lisbon and Athens make these cities robust contenders for a cut price break’.
