MarinaFbg
Traveller
62 comments
Posted 10 years ago
I´ve tried to figure out if we are better off bying our 8-yearold single tickets or an interrailpass.
Route for our interrailpasses
Innsbruck-Salzburg
Salzburg-Prague
Prague-Berlin
Berlin-Vejle
Vejle-Helsingör
I´ve been looking at fares for each connection without taking sparpreis or other discounts into account and then the total is about 185€ - childrens interrail is 140€ right? Or does bahn and öbb does not give me the correct price if I only enter a child without no adults?
(For the swiss pass of our journey we will get a family card which means children are for free, and for the part from Switzerland to Innsbruck all family will travel with single tickets).
nltrainer
Traveller
1404 comments
Nationality? In homecountry you cannot use IR anyway-and most people start in their homecountry (except Brits maybe).
In general a child gets 50% off the FULL fare tickets for INTERNational. For domestic it may the same or not-differs in every country and I have never seen a datebase with an overview for that (it was already a giant headache to once make a listing of senior=60/62/64/65/67/70 + discounts). THus the comparison for child vs. normal fares works out exactly the same as adult for FULL fare-but then at 50% off.
In fact it also depends IF you can and are willing to prebook the low saver-fares -and then be tied into that chosen train. In THAT case those tickets may work out cheaper as IR, if you do not intend to make extra sidetrips (which are ''free/included'' on IR mostly.
For SBg->PRa you may also use WESTbahn.at=cheaper and has connecting westBUS Linz-Prahy.
MarinaFbg
Traveller
62 comments
HOmecountry is Sweden :)
We have a schedule which is sort of fixed so I could perhaps get away with booking non-flexi-tickets, on the other hand, it that only saves me a couple of euros - the easy way would be to buy him an interrailpass....
Loiseau
Traveller
231 comments
If you by an interrail pass, you should not forget, that for some trains you have to pay the reservation than. And in Germany as example children under 15 don't have to pay, when they going with their parents.
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
On DB trains children under 15 dont have to pay only when their parents are travelling with regular fare tickets (Normalpreis) or advance fare tickets (Europa Spezial or Sparpreis). This does not apply to parents travellin with InterRail.
Your 8 year old should get 50% on all these routes; the reduction is taken into account on ÖBB and DB website. I think that it will be easiest and also cheaper with an InterRail pass. I calculated roughly 145€ without Vejle - Helsingör.
Loiseau
Traveller
231 comments
Oh thanks,
i thougt that interail is an regular ticket. :'(