ghizlaine
Traveller
4 comments
Posted 10 years ago
Hi everyone,
I'm from Canada and my friend and I are planning a Eurotrip this summer mainly during the month of july. We've looked around the internet to find affordable train tickets. We've already booked our Paris-Amsterdam train trip. But for the rest I must admit that i'm a bit lost with all the different prices, all the train passes and all the different web sites. Also I was wondering, is it better to buy tickets by the internet or when we'll be in Europe ?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Ghizlaine
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Ghizlaine.
As you have already your tickets booked for Paris to Amsterdam, it might be the best to continue with point to point tickets. Here are the booking links, have a look on them and decide. I suppose your travel dates are fixed and won't change? If so, it is the best to book these point to point tickets as early as possible to get the special prices. But you are then fixed on date and train you booked.
[b]Paris - Amsterdam[/b]:
from EUR 35
book at [ux]https://rail.shop/beurope[/ux]
[b]Amsterdam - Berlin[/b]:
direct trains
from EUR 39
book at [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] OR [ux]https://rail.shop/nsinternational[/ux]
[b]Berlin - Prague[/b]:
direct trains
from EUR 29
book at [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux]
[b]Prague - Vienna[/b]:
direct trains
from EUR 20
book at [u]https://rail.shop/cd[/ux]
[b]Vienna - Florence[/b]:
from EUR 29
book at [ux]https://rail.shop/oebb[/ux]
These are the links to the national railway companies I gave you. As earlier you book, as cheaper the prices are.
Please use the links above as on some we get a little commission to continue our work on railcc and to pay the servers. For you the price is the same. Thank you for supporting. :)
If you get all the cheap prices, you pay about EUR 150 - definitely cheaper than every rail pass! :)
Peter :)
ghizlaine
Traveller
4 comments
Thanks a lot,
That's awesome and pretty cheap in comparison of what I've seen so far.
You've helped me a lot.
Thank you.
Ghizlaine
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
You only get the cheap prices if you book long time in advance! As closer it gets to your travel date, as more expensive it will be. Also avoid traveling on Friday afternoon and on Sunday afternoon/evening, as these are peak travel times and tickets expensive!
Peter :)
ghizlaine
Traveller
4 comments
ok thank you for the advice .
I have few more questions if you don't mind. When they say escale or stops is it just a simple stop for people to come off and on the train or is it a correspondence for us to go off the train and take an other one? Also do you have an advice for night train from Berlin to Praha ? Is it safe ? Are the beds included ?
Again, thanks a lot for your help .
Ghizlaine
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
What connection are you talking about?
You can travel all connections by direct trains.
Berlin to Prague: no night train available as only 4:30h journey time.
But on Vienna to Florence you can use the direct overnight train - save and nice:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/vienna-rome-en-235/92[/u]
Peter :)
ghizlaine
Traveller
4 comments
oh ok. You answered my question about connections. :D
For the night train it's weird because I found a night train from berlin to Prague.
rail.shop/bahn - link timed out
I dont get it !
Ghizlaine
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
These are not night trains. These are connections with several changes during the night. Definitely NOT comfortable! ;)
Do you see the little word Chang. in the top of the schedules. An behind the connections the numbers 3 or 4 ... these are the number of changes.
Click on the left of the connection on the white triangle in the read square to open the details and you see how comfortable *joking* these connections are.
Berlin and Prague offer inexpensive accommodation. Stay one more night in one of these cities - and enjoy the scenic trip along the river Elbe to Prague (sit on the left).
Peter :)
ghizlaine
Traveller
4 comments
oooooh :(
ok definitively not taking that.
Sincerely thank for your help. You are awesome !
Ghizlaine