Probably not

It sounds like a high school trip to me. All the details would have been provided by the school, not the mother, all the mother had to do would be pay & sign a permission form. & not everyone is a detailed vacation planner, I've been on vacations with my family where we decide on what state were going to & the rest we figure when were there. We'll just drive & drive until we get tired & find a nice, safe hotel to stay in.

Hmm, the lack of interest on the OP's part regarding the details of the trip makes me wonder whether the OP could really handle themselves abroad.

Yep, very bad call on the mother's part. I was just trying to add an extra dimension to this fml ;)

If it was one of those high school trips abroad you don't need to know the details that's all taken care for you just pay

It could have been one of those vacation tour group things. If so, OP would have been given all the information on where she was staying etc from the program. Easy enough for the mother to lie about. Those things are a one payment thing.

RE Your last paragraph... Worst case scenario; mother and daughter fall out and have a strained future relationship. Worst case if she DID go unprepared and clueless? Could end up lost, taken advantage of (or worse) in a foreign country where she might not speak the language or know anyone.

I completely agree, even though it is a school trip if it hadn't been paid for the teacher would have said something about it. They would have been following up with all the kids to make sure they had their passports etc. OP said there we're find raisers if they had participated in those as well as worked they would probably been able fund the entire trip. While I school I never had my parents pay for any of my trips, all were paid by my own pocket, or fundraisers. Seriously by the time you are able to travel outside your own country you are big enough to follow up on wether the trip has been paid for.

Good job completely missing the point.

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That doesn't somehow make you a better person. If my parents offered to pay for a trip around Europe, I'd take it, and so would most other people. Comments like yours really irritate me- it's like when people say that it's awful when parents pay for their child to go to university, when it just isn't.

it sounds like OP pestered his/her mom not that the mom offered it..

The OP pestered, but the mother never said no. "No, OP, I can't send you to Europe for -insert reason-. It's just not happening" Now was that so hard?

29- Way to be a giant dick. No one said OP was as old or older than you, so they might not have been able to pay for theirself.