EuroCheapo.com Launches Budget Travel Blog for Europe

Budget travel website EuroCheapo.com announced the launch of its travel blog written by its team of Europe-based correspondents. EuroCheapo's blog provides insider tips and travel secrets to complement it's budget travel advice, expert hotel reviews and travel guides for 21 cities throughout Europe.

New York, NY (PRWeb) March 27, 2007 - EuroCheapo today announced the launch of its budget travel blog (http://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/), as the company continues expanding and diversifying its European travel content. Travel journalist Alex Robertson Textor has been named EuroCheapo's Blog Editor.

EuroCheapo's blog aims to keep travel enthusiasts up to date and informed on all facets of European budget travel, whether they're planning a trip, currently on a trip, or "just staying informed" about what's happening around the globe.

The blog's 10-15 daily dispatches are filed by EuroCheapo's Europe-based correspondents and in-house editors. Posts cover a wide variety of topics of interest to travelers, including practical budget tips, local restaurant recommendations, budget airline and transportation deals, and museum and event reviews. EuroCheapo's readers are able to post comments, subscribe to RSS feeds, and register to receive daily email summaries of blog posts.

"Our goal is to be the most reliable and resourceful blog for people traveling around Europe on a budget," said Alex Robertson Textor, EuroCheapo Blog Editor. "The correspondents we have throughout Europe are expert travel writers and will provide an invaluable local perspective for budget travelers everywhere."

For the launch of the blog, EuroCheapo recruited more than a dozen correspondents based in European cities, including Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, and Vienna. EuroCheapo's blog staff also includes Alexander Basek, who previously served as Editor of the pop culture travel guide Jaunted, and Jessica Gearhart, Editor of London-based Stylebible.com.

About EuroCheapo

Founded in 2001, EuroCheapo.com, is a free Internet guide to budget travel in Europe led by a team of travel experts whom show up unannounced at inexpensive hotels all over Europe, check out the rooms, and get a feel for the place. If they like it, they write a review and list the hotel on their site and provide full, up to date information, so that users can book a room immediately. EuroCheapo also provides users with detailed city guides written by their staff of experienced industry experts with detailed information on rail passes (http://www.eurocheapo.com/train/), budget airlines (http://www.eurocheapo.com/flights/), bus networks (http://www.eurocheapo.com/bus/) and alternative accommodations to allow users to be well prepared and make the most of their travels. EuroCheapo has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and Budget Travel Magazine, among others.

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