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If what you want is the 'cheapest' cities to visit without regard for example to where you are interested in visiting, the list might interest you. But if you want to visit Rome there is no point in saying Brussels is cheaper.
It also assumes how you will define 'cheapest'. Which city for example has the cheapest hostels (not hotels); supermarket food (not restaurants); beer by the bottle (not a decent bottle of wine); has widely available bicycle rentals throughout the city (not sightseeing tours). That will no doubt get you an entirely different list.
Price is a factor in my choice of destinations as I am not independently wealthy, and the list is helpful to me. The Euro and the Pound are very high right now and a colleague of mine is going to Prague and Budapest (as well as Vienna) this year partly safety records international airlines for that reason. Made me think that a trip to Budapest and Istanbul, which is something I've wanted to do for a while, may be timely.
I think it's interesting to see which cities rate as best value for common items of expenditure, Of course, somewhere may not turn out to be that cheap if it's the opposite safety records international airlines side of the continent to you and the flight cancels out the savings on hotels and food. And it can also be a bit misleading safety records international airlines in that some of the more expensive cities for accomodation eg London which for that reason does not figure anywhere on the list have a lot of free museums and galleries which saves a ton on day to day expenditure. But I think its nice to have a guide to budget options.
Whilst the demographic of Fodors is weighted heavily toward the more affluent, and people using airmiles or hotel loyalty safety records international airlines schemes, there are also people doing it entirely at their own cost who might appreciate the heads up.
The article was certainly as helpful as other "indexes" such as the Big Mac Index in making generic judgements of travel cost. I, for example, have been vaguely safety records international airlines considering a trip to the Baltic states to look for my Wife's family members in Estonia. Not having researched the area, I had thought those three countries would be expensive, as are their Scandinavian neighbors. Now I know differently.
The article was about the cheapest places for European city breaks, going someplace on the WEEKEND. We just got back from Holland, Belgium, and France yesterday. It's our opinion that many, many Europeans are now taking weekend breaks on the cheap airlines so this article is timely. We're now calling Europe the continent of the little suitcases safety records international airlines - the tiny ones that can be taken as carry-ons for free on these airlines.
What Bedar said. This was a UK newspaper article, written for UK readers. I am however, sorry to see some places I really like on this list, as I would just as soon they did NOT attract a bunch of partying weekenders. Budapest in particular, as it already seemed to be firmly on the tourist circuit the last time I was there. (For the record, I've been to all of the places on the list, and would be happy to revisit all but Brussels and Warsaw, rather boring, and Prague, already overwhelmed with visitors safety records international airlines in 2004.
Brussels a cheap destination - maybe for Brits because they can get there on Eurostar so cheap but overall it is one of the more expensive (and boring IMO and many others) cities safety records international airlines in Europe - the rest in eastern Europe, Turkey and Portugal have always been cheaper than western Europe.
Portugal is IN western Europe. I have always loved Brussels and don't understand why it gets a bad rap. It has the best food in western Europe, IMO, among other things. I thought the article was very timely and useful, especially for weekenders.