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What a looker! EuroCheapo launched on June 14, 2001 with this design.
What a looker! EuroCheapo launched on June 14, 2001 with this design.

EuroCheapo Turns 10: Cheapos who made it possible

By Tom Meyers— Ten years ago this week, we launched EuroCheapo from my apartment in Berlin with a guide to 25 budget hotels in Paris. On June 14, 2001, with three friends huddled around my desk, I clicked “upload,” refreshed the browser, and watched www.eurocheapo.com come to life. True to “cheapo form,” we clinked glasses » Read more

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Posted in CheapoNews, Cheapos at work, Media, News
You’re Invited: A very Cheapo happy hour this Thursday

You’re Invited: A very Cheapo happy hour this Thursday

For all of the New York City-area Cheapos out there: We’re throwing a happy hour this Thursday and would love to see you. We’re co-hosting this event with our travel friends from Jauntsetter.com and have a fun, easy-going evening lined up. No formal RSVP is required, just show up and bring your travel friends. Here » Read more

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Posted in Bars, Cheapo night out, CheapoNews, Drinks, Events
EuroCheapo’s Greatest Blog Hits: 2007-2010

EuroCheapo’s Greatest Blog Hits: 2007-2010

Over the past few days we relaunched our blog and gave it a major, much-needed overhaul. We added all sorts of things that didn’t exist previously to make it more navigable, social, and – we hope – easier to use. But sort of like moving out of your first cramped apartment with no windows and » Read more

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Posted in CheapoNews, Cheapos at work, Design, Media, Other, technology
The Cheapo 100: Our favorite budget hotels in Europe

The Cheapo 100: Our favorite budget hotels in Europe

June 15, 2010. Here at EuroCheapo, we’re obviously big fans of budget hotels. But we’re even bigger fans of budget hotels with that “special something.” In our 29 city guides, you’ll find more than 1,200 reviews of budget-friendly hotels, each one inspected and photographed by one of our editors. Some are listed simply because they’re cheap » Read more

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Posted in Amsterdam, Ask the Cheapos, Barcelona, Berlin, Cheap Hotels, CheapoNews, Cheapos at work, Florence, Hostels, hotel crush, Italy, London, Nice, Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna
Calling all travel buffs: BootsnAll’s new paid writing program

Calling all travel buffs: BootsnAll’s new paid writing program

Attention all travel-writing Cheapos! Our friends over at indie travel guide BootsnAll gave us a sneak peek at a new writing program they’re launching next week called “The BootsnAll Travel Writing Platform,” and we think you might want to have a looksie. What is it? As Boots-n-Chief Sean Keener describes it, this program “aims to » Read more

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Friday Round Up: Twitter Travel Edition

Friday Round Up: Twitter Travel Edition

It’s so dang hot outside today that we’re having trouble concentrating.  Our office air conditioner is working over time, squirting water on customers entering the Crate & Barrel directly below, yet somehow the line at our favorite burrito cart shows no sign of letting up. Follow Friday To help treat this heat-induced A.D.D., we’ve turned » Read more

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Posted in CheapoNews, France, Other, round-up, United Kingdom
Flash: We’ve upgraded our budget hotel search!

Flash: We’ve upgraded our budget hotel search!

Pardon the interruption to our regularly scheduled “Daily Cheapo” programming, but we have an exciting announcement: We’ve unveiled a new release of our budget hotel search engine and think you’re going to love it! Our new search engine includes all the Cheapo “bells and whistles” we could dream up to help budget travelers find the best hotel. » Read more

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Posted in Budget Deals, Cheap Hotels, CheapoNews, Cheapos at work, News, technology
How Do You Like Our New Homepage?

How Do You Like Our New Homepage?

Over the last several months, we’ve been quietly toiling away at redesigning the EuroCheapo homepage. After many revisions, tweaks, testing, more tweaks, bug testing and pulling solid patches of hair out of our collective heads, we finally took it live late last night. Hallelujah! What’s with the redesign, you might ask? Well, we loved the » Read more

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4 Cheapo Questions For Sean O’Neill From BudgetTravel.com

4 Cheapo Questions For Sean O’Neill From BudgetTravel.com

Today we’re beginning a new series of interviews called “4 Cheapo Questions For”. We’ll be talking travel with notable travel writers, bloggers, and other travel industry personalities. The format is nice and simple: 4 questions, 1 photo, and maybe – just maybe – a bonus question if we’re feeling snappy. First up to bat is Sean » Read more

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Vote For EuroCheapo, Part Deux

Vote For EuroCheapo, Part Deux

Mashable Open Web Awards Last week we asked Cheapos worldwide to try and help get EuroCheapo on the ballot for the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. Thanks to each and every one of you, we received word that we made it and are now in the semi-final round of the competition! Danke! Gracias! Merci bien! » Read more

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