A Hotel for €32, Dinner for €8.50 and Beer for €1.50: Tirana Named Europe’s Cheapest Holiday City

Tirana has topped a list of affordable European holiday cities, with an estimated average daily cost of about €59 per person.

The analysis by Thomas Cook examined more than 50 popular European destinations and identified 13 where typical daily spending could remain at €100 or less per person. It included the average cost of a night in a three-star hotel, a meal at an inexpensive restaurant, coffee, a daily bus ticket and admission to paid attractions.

In Tirana, a three-star hotel costs about €32 per person per night. Dinner at an inexpensive restaurant averages around €8.50, while a local beer costs about €1.50.

Bucharest ranked second, at approximately €66 per day. Antalya in Turkey and Warsaw in Poland shared third place at €78. Istanbul followed at about €82, with three-star accommodation averaging €28 per person and inexpensive restaurant meals costing between €8 and €9.

Muğla and Krakow came next at €87 per day, followed by Vilnius and Frankfurt at €90. Lyon averaged €91, Tallinn €93 and Heraklion €99. Porto ranked last among the 13 destinations, at exactly €100 per person per day.