Travelling with group that has both EuRail & InterRail pass

teampardo
Traveller
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Posted 10 years ago

Hello,

I'm in the process of organising a 3 week European train based holiday for 4 people. My girlfriend and I are both Australian but have been residing in the UK for a number of years. In January we are planning on travelling with two friends who live in Australia. Obviously we should be purchasing InterRail passes and our friends the EuRail pass. The problem is that as both our friends are over 26 and have to buy 1st class passes, while we would prefer to buy the 2nd class InterRail ones.

If you have a 1st Class pass is it ok to travel in a 2nd class carriage? I know we could get 1st class passes but they are so much more expensive, even more so than what they would be paying. This leads me to my next question....

We both have Australian passports so would be just be better off getting my Australian friends to purchase all 4 passes as EuRail? Would we have any disadvantages? We would be looking at purchasing the 21 day continuous travel option which is obviously better than the 10 days in 22 option on the InterRail and all travel would be 1st class.

Would appreciate any help anyone could give me with this, we definitely will be buying our passes through railcc once we know which passes we will be getting.

Thanks very much,

John