Europe offers a wide range of accommodations: hotels (from small to large, and simple to swanky), cozy B&Bs, characteristic guest houses, cheap hostels, and rental apartments, plus creative accommodations such as monasteries, campgrounds, free couches, house-swaps, and even airport sofas. B&Bs are generally small, warm, and family-run, and offer a personal touch at a reasonable price. And unlike American bed-and-breakfasts, which are usually frilly, fancy places that cost just as much as hotels,