http://www.budgetshotels.com/Europe/Hotel bookings for any budget from cheap hotels to luxury accommodation hotel reservations Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Geographically, it is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia. Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.