Travel guide celebrates 60 years by giving away trips

Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, Frommer’s has been running a “6 for 60” competition in partnership with holiday rental website HomeAway, offering free trips to the families of six army veterans.

To enter, they have to upload a family photo to Frommers.com/6for60 with a paragraph on their accomplishments and what the holiday would mean to them.

Each winning family will receive a fivenight stay at a HomeAway destination along with airfares for four and $1 500 spending money. The destinations are Rincon, Puerto Rico; Orlando, Florida; Sonoma, California; Verona, Italy; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; and London.

A panel of judges will choose 30 finalists, then the public will vote for the winners. Entries close today and the voting is until June 25. See frommers.com/6for60.

Incidentally, if you’re curious to know how Frommer’s original guide has stood the test of time, in 2012, writer Dick Davis took the book to Europe to figure out exactly that.

He wrote his own book, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day: Then and Now, in which he said, “If I were truly on a $5-a-day budget, I’d still be at the airport.”