Budapest and Sopron among the cheapest European cities
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The Budget Your Trip travel portal has compiled a Travel Cost Index, ranking the most visited European cities by order of how much one tourist spends there a day on average. Two Hungarian cities are featured, Budapest and Sopron, although the Hungarian travelling website, Turizmus.com, warns readers to take the ranking with a pinch of salt.
Budget Your Trip argues that the list was put together based on the experiences of “real travellers”. The cities were ranked based on how much one person spends a day on average on lodging, provisions, leisure time, bottled water, local transport, tips, and alcoholic beverages. This is how Wroclaw (Poland) made it to the top of the list as the cheapest European city, and how Reykjavik (Iceland) closes the ranking as the continent’s most expensive metropolis.
Turizmus.com has noticed that two Hungarian cities are featured too (it is no wonder: last year, Budapest was listed as the cheapest city in Europe for a university student). However, it seems that the listing is a bit off: even though Sopron ranked as the 25th cheapest city and Budapest as the 52nd,