The fees are pretty high right now, i sent a payment worth of $50 about two hours ago, and i paid about $3 for that transaction, maybe it is not a huge amount of money, but it is almost a 8% of what i sent to that guy.
But it is more cheaper than Xapo fees, i just saw them two weeks ago and a Normal Transaction was about $8 each one, that is insane, and the priority was about $12 for each one.
Of course that the fees depends on how the blockchain is going, but i think that all this issue is because the notices that the miners received today.

Oh man, that's horrible.  And I mean that.  Are you using a wallet where you
can adjust the fee? 

It's stuff like this that makes bitcoin a bad currency.  You could just as easily send
someone money overseas using PayPal and pay a very small fee at most.  I just sent
something the other day with a fee of like 0.0007BTC, and the transaction has yet
to confirm once.  It's probably going to get shot back to my wallet and I'll have to
send it again with a ridiculously high fee.  It sucks, I agree with you.

You can always choose to send less yes it won't be as quick to confirm but at the end of the day this is how bitcoin works and will never change. Bitcoin miners need an incentive to pass a transaction and higher fees are going to do that.

If you don't mind waiting a few hours then just pay a smaller fee.

I think that the fee that you are paying is over beyond the average fee that should be paid for your transaction to be included at the next block.
You should be checking out the wallet that you are using, check up the settings, there should be an option to adapt transaction fees based on the current network status.

If you are creating your transactions by your own, you should be checking the following website:

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

It gives you real updates about recommend fee for transactions based on it's size in bytes.

The transaction fees are raging due to several factors.
One is the size of the block in Bitcoin's blockchain, which is limiting the number of transactions that can go through at any given time.
Bitcoin's network is powered by miners, people and companies who use a tremendous amount of computing power to create new bitcoins.
And when there's too many transactions to process which currently happens very often miners will prioritize transactions that pay a higher fee.

Using Altcoin is a good alternative to lower the transaction cost, yes changelly is a good exhanger,
me I used Poloniex as online wallet, 0.0001btc fee for bitcoin transaction.(I don't know how fast the transaction is, i never monitor it)

About 2 days ago mining Bitcoin Cash became more profitable than Bitcoin and miners flocked to Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin blocks slowed down and mempool (unconfirmed transactions) started to increase. Check here: https://blockchain.info/es/unconfirmed-transactions
In about 1 hour 20min Bitcoin Cash will become unprofitable again, so everything will come back to normal.

The solution: if you're not in a hurry you can always lower the fees, it'll take more time, yes, but eventually it will go through. Check out the site bitcoinfees.21.co. Could be helpful next time.

^^100% incorrect..

Unfortunately the problem with high fees is one of Bitcoins biggest problems. They are crazy, I tried sending $50 the other day, and I couldn't because the network fees were super high. Bitcoin is now for the elite. For us broke people trying to make some money, its too late.

What the hell kind of times are you sending your transactions at?

Why are you not setting your own fees and ignoring what Blockchain recommend completely?

I am paying something along the lines of $1 CDN at the absolute worst and when I want something to be done quickly. There is now way that you should be spending that amount of money on a transaction. But the fault is completely on you if you aren't using platforms to their full potential and making sure you're aware of every feature. Most wallets let you set your own fees and make sure that you're happy with what you're spending - Blockchain.info included.

Paying those fees are really such a pain but we've got no choice. Gone were the days that you can send funds to an exchanger free of charge. I often close my eyes upon sending so that I'm clueless about the charges