How To Use This Site

At EuropeUpClose, our goals are to save you time and money by sharing the knowledge and expertise we picked up during our years as travel agents, and to help you to discover the very best Europe travel planning resources available on the Internet.

Presented within these pages is a collection of useful Europe travel tips and destination information (much of it based on firsthand experience), as well links to the best websites and tools we have found for planning travel to Europe.

You’ll find links and guides showing you how to find great deals and information on flying to and within Europe, hotels in Europe, traveling by train and more. Look for lots of links in every post to the best websites around.

You’ll discover news, tools, opinions and recommendations designed to make your Europe travel planning easier, more fun, and more efficient.

Many of our posts will link you to other websites, which are in our opinion the best sites on the web for that particular topic.

All of our blog posts are organized into the categories you see in the navigation bars at the top of the screen. If you do not see what you are looking for there, try using the search box at the top right of site.

Some recommended categories include:

• Europe Travel Tips - Essential information and advice for planning your trip to Europe.

• Current Travel News - Travel warnings and other timely information that could affect your trip.

• Getting Around Europe - Excellent resources for finding your way around the continent, from flights to trains, boats to buses.

• Timely Deals - We post some of the best deals that come across our desk here.

• Flying To Europe - An overview of some of the best resources on the web for finding cheap flights to Europe.

We strive to present the most useful information without overwhelming you.