UK city ranked most expensive in western Europe for city break – and it isn’t London
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Europe’s cheapest city breaks, revealed
- The cities of Riga and Vilnius offer the cheapest city breaks in Europe, according to research from Post Office Travel Money.
- A weekend in Riga, the Latvian capital, will set the average traveller back £252.63, while two days in Lithuania’s Vilnius will cost £254.32.
- The researchers analysed the cost of accommodation, public transport, attractions, and food in each city to arrive at their conclusions.
- Oslo (£636.20) and Copenhagen (£628.64) were found to offer the most expensive city breaks in Europe.
- Edinburgh is the third-most expensive city for a weekend getaway, costing the average traveller £601.50, of which £399 will generally be spent on accommodation.