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More Bad News on Summer Hotel Prices in Europe

When a travel agent is quoted in a newspaper saying, "April is the new June in Italy," you know European hotel prices have gotten out of hand...

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran a story called "Summer in Europe: Easy, but Not Cheap." (Online for subscribers only.) The main slant of it was that while lots of new air routes between the U.S. and Europe are opening up, summer flight prices are still above $1,000 a ticket and hotels are routinely clocking in at over $500 per night.

Besides that "April is the new June" quote, here are some more that will give you heartburn if you're planning a summer trip to Europe.

The average daily rate for a four-star hotel in London has skykrocketed to $213 for this summer, up 22 percent from $175 last year.

A single night at L'Andana, a Leading Small Hotels of the World property in Tuscany...starts at 535 euros ($702) in June.

A standard courtyard room at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London (pictured here) with no meals or extras starts at 435 pounds ($840) per night over July 4. Hey, those bed bug eradications are expensive.

A single room booked at the Hotel Bristol in Vienna for the week of May 16 starts at 410 euros per night ($538).

The Journal's advice on how to deal with all this? Take a cruise or head to Croatia. In our opinion, there's always Couchsurfing.com.

[Photo: Christine(bpc)]