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Best European city for a long weekend and good nightlife?
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Hi, me and my uni friends are planning to go away in june to a european city for a long weekend and was wondering where the best places are to go in terms of nightlife and things to do? Preferabley somewhere warm and cheap as well! Places we are considering: Rome, Budapest, Florence, Venice, Athens etc-any other suggestions or recommendations?
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my friend has just been to budapest and she liked it but its not somwhere you'd go for night life -the bars are quite weird.
rome is pretty lively and there are lots fo things to do during the day too.
Berlin is top notch too, as is Cologne/Bonn...where, if you're as brave/stupid as I am, you can go swimming in the Rhine - watch out for the current!
Out of the cities you mentioned I'd probably go for Rome or Budapest, very different cities but they've both got a lot going for them...depending on what you're after.
Vastly underrated, but its cheap to get to, cheap to get around, and has the best beer in Europe. It's cheap, too, unlike more famous and popular cities.
I want to go to the Hofbrauhaus again now :grump:
I know I am biased, but it is one of the best for a weekend trip.
Amazing shopping, incredible nightlife (most places open til 5-6 in the morning), and a generally good atmosphere, and nice aesthethics in the city all around.
Though expect prices to be more or less the same as in London (not for club entrance though - around 5-7 pounds), and the weather is shit at the moment. Quite nice and pleasant in summer, though.
cheap flights, awesome shopping, all the culture you could ever need and a sex museum if you just want to pretend to be cultured.
Without a doubt.
Second choice, Amsterdam.
Or Prague? Cheap accommodation, very very cheap beer, lots of culture and nightlife
my fave city breaks ive been on are probably Riga, Prague, Berlin, Barcelona, amsterdam.
those would be my top 5. all relatively cheap to go to. ive also got Vienna and Bratislava lined up this summer which im looking forward to
Oh please. That's so old. Amsterdam is boring, superficial, seedy and exceptionally overpriced. All in all, one of my least favourite cities in Europe. Full of drunk twattish frat boys and shady Africans selling 'coke'. I hate Amsterdam with a passion. If it's legal weed and prostitution you're gunning for then go to somewhere like the Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht or Antwerp. Avoid Amsterdam like the fucking plague.
Copenhagen is awesome if a little expensive like most of Scandinavia.
Riga in Latvia is great if you want something a little more off the beaten track.
As a complete Slavophile, I would also recomment St. Petersburg but visa requirements seem to put most people off. Other good places in Eastern Europe include Bratislava, Warsaw and Kiev.
Rome naturally has unsurpassable beauty but the nightlife, discarding fabulous restaurants, is a little quiet. Just not the Italian culture of going out and getting pissed. Going out for a drink in Italy means coffee.
Prague sadly has become a victim of the stag night culture that is plaguing once stunning European cities. Not as great as it used to be.
Munich and Barcelona are fantastic but I'd probably recommend either Madrid or Salamanca over the latter. Just personal preferance stemming from the dirty impure Spanish that is spoken in Barca. Plus less tourists in Salamanca which thus makes it my favourite Spanish speaking city on the planet.
Dublin, as people have pointed out, is very overpriced. I would personally avoid it unless you know some locals who can show you the places off the vomit-strewn beaten track.
Belgium is also fantastic. More beers than anywhere else in the world. Just stay out of Brussels.
Pretty much anyone is claiming that they have the best beer but only in Prague this is true.
Madrid es grandeza! :d
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