European Travel Skills with Rick Steves

Steves is great. He does not allow YouTube to advertise in his channel. Great 👌. Thank you.

Steves is the patron saint of travel.

I was watching YouTube and I fall asleep and I woke up with my phone on this

Great tip to stay on the hop-on bus if you like your guide! We stayed the entire loop with Stan in NYC, and Stan was not having a good day, but he was SO FUNNY and so positive about it, his humour was awesome! We had some very rude tourists on our trip, and they could have ruined the whole day, but Stan not only wrangled them, but at the end, he encouraged us that if we were unhappy with the tour, to make sure we aimed our complaints to Blond Stan, because he'd hate brown haired Stan to get fired over anything he had said in the heat of the moment! Hilarious! I stayed on that bus the whole loop, past every fountain in NYC no matter how much I needed to get off to pee lol. A good tour guide will make your day!

Steves is the reason I’ve gone to Europe. Thank you for showing me the beauty of European travel. I’m hooked . Been to France, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary and will be heading to Italy soon 😊

Oh wow how things have changed. Need updated video please (post-Covid).

My husband and I have never gone on a big group Europe tour. We go on our own and do what we want when we want. We have been to Europe 3 times now and just love it. If we want to see something special that is farther away then we go on single day small group tours. From Paris in 2017 we did a full day tour to Mont Ste. Michel, absolutely amazing! There were only 8 tourist plus the guide. It was fantastic! I do most of the planning for our trips, with hubby's input, and I find that doing all the research, finding that our of the way hotel, restaurants, unique hopping shops etc. is just as fun as going on the trip itself!! We are now planning a 3 month Eurail trip in Europe for the start of our retirement. We have never travelled fully by train before so it will be fun. And no we are not taking big suitcases, we are light travellers, we each now have a 36 litre rolling backpack and a good sized sling bag, we pack for 1 week. :)

As a Dutchman who's lived in several European countries for years and traveled across the rest of Europe through and through, I have to say that Rick knows very well what he's preaching. If you follow his tips, you will definitely get the best experiences from your trip, and save a few pennies on the way.

1:20:00 to 1:21:00 is probably the most important mentality every human being has to have when traveling. I am hoping all people to have a chance to travel to at least 2 countries (one traditional and one a unconventional destination) before their 30s, in order to understand what is going on in the world and not get fooled by Media! Traveling is most important weapon against any sort of hate!

I agree with Rick about not worrying about the cost of gas when renting a car in Europe. We were in the UK in August 2022 and the price of gas was pretty high compared to what I was used to in the States and the fuel efficiency of the car made driving a pleasure. Super economical and distances were nothing compared to being in the States. Loved driving in the UK and Iceland.

this dude is the mozart of travelling

November, November, November, NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!! I always travel to europe in November, very low prices for transport and hotels, no crowds and cool, not cold, weather.

The Google Translate mobile app is incredible. It's like something out of Star Trek. You select the language you wish you spoke, speak into the microphone, and it speaks the translation and displays it in huge letters. There isn't support for Cockney yet, though, but I heard that most of them understand English.

I’ve read several of his travel books. It helped us a lot , most places we utilized a private travel guide. Rio, during carnival days, Iguasso falls, Buenos Aires, UAE, Turkey , London, Paris etc.

I had the nice honour of meeting Rick Steves twice in another tourist city (San Francisco) no, not in Europe proper, and used to watch his programmes on PBS until I decided to quit watching American TV altogether in general. He really KNOWS his stuff! Actually I am from Europe, Switzerland living in the City by the Bay for the moment. I have even suggested to many tourists to who I have encountered here of nice interesting places off the beaten path as an alternative to visit, to visit that are cheap and even free! A walk under the Golden Gate Bridge at the old Spanish Fort as well of course walking across the bridge as well. The observation tower at M H DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park is also free (44 m high) and worth it.

Please don't give up....we all are enjoying... it's like your taking us along with you ... and I've seen some people usually delete some videos of their channel but please u don't do that.....eyes are the foremost important sense organ...we must use it to see beautiful world in a beautiful way...there people like us can't roam around world but we could see the all places by your videos.... Thank you...and god bless you...

SOLD !!! Can't wait to get going again. I vow to take a RIck Steves tour this year. Happy 2021

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I also awoke 2 this on my phone/tv, 😆 !!!

Love this video!