Ljubljana to Budapest by night train

anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments

Posted 10 years ago

Hi,

I am planning on using my interail ticket from Ljubljana to Budapest in early June. I see there is a train leaving Ljubljana at 23:55 and arriving in Budapest at 10:49.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/ljubljana-to-budapest[/u]

I need to change at Salzberg (arriving at 4:09 and leaving at 4:34) and I was wondering how this connection will play out on my 10 day interail card: Can I count the whole journey from Ljubljana to Budapest as 1 travel day or will this count as 2 travel days (ie. 1 day for Ljubljana to Salzberg and another for Salzberg to Budapest)?

The rules stipulate:
If a trip on a direct overnight train departs after 19.00 and arrives after 04.00, it is only necessary to enter the date of arrival in the travel calendar boxes on the ticket. This also covers travel between 19.00 and 24.00 on the day of departure, as long as the day of departure and arrival both fall within the overall period of the pass’ validity

This suggests that I would need to use up 2 days and book two separate train tickets, can anyone clarify this for me.... I'm quite confused as this is my first time using an interail ticket!

Thanks.