What did our Family Europe Spring Break Cost?

I used the numbers from www.priceoftravel.com to give me an idea of what we should / could budget for our Family Europe Spring Break trip. There are 2 numbers on that site, a budget and a 3 Star budget. For this trip, I split the difference since we would be in hotels without kitchens much of the time. On our longer trip we will have apartments and do more cooking in.

• Brussels
  • $80 for backpacker
  • $124 for 3 star.
  • I averaged this to $102/ per day / per person
  • $408 budget per day
• Amsterdam
  • $88 on backpacker
  • $135 on 3 star.
  • I averaged this to $110/ per day / per person
  • $440 budget per day
• Paris
  • $81 on backpacker
  • $165 for 3 Star.
  • I averaged this to $123/ per day / per person
  • $492 budget per day

This budget would have to include everything except airfare to Europe.

Brussels Total

• Average $303.32 / day
• Goal of $408 / day
• Result = Under budget by ~$105 / per day

Amsterdam Total

• Average $421.40 / day
• Goal of $440 / day
• Result = Under budget by ~$18.50 / per day

Paris Total (including day 11 which was the flight home)

• Average of $431.16
• Goal of $492 / day
• Result = Under budget by ~$60 / per day

Cost Summary of the trip (rounded to the nearest dollar):
Airfare: $2518
Hotel: $1732
Transport: $679
Food: $822
Activities: $508
Gifts: $110

Total: $6369
Total without airfare: $3851
Daily average without airfare: $385.10
Per Person Per Day Average without airfare: $96.28

I know that we can do better since we ate out a lot more than I plan to on our longer trip.  I feel very comfortable and confident that we can stick to our backpacker budget without too much effort on our trip.  For those out there thinking that this is a ton of money, it is.  We purposely took a trip to more expensive locations where we knew budget travel would be harder to test out the budget goals I set for the trip.