Eastern Europe Travel Advice

anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments

Posted 8 years ago

Hi everyone,

Me and 3 friends are going travelling round Eastern Europe this year, we will be going to the following in order:

Time spent - Country - City
3 nights - Bulgaria - Sofia
2 nights - Serbia - Nis
1 night overnight train
3 nights - Montenegro - Bar
3 nights - Bosnia - Sarajevo
2 nights - Croatia - Split
3 nights - Croatia - Plitvice
1 night - Croatia - Zagreb
2 nights - Slovenia - Ljubjana
4 nights - Hungary - Budapest
2 nights - Slovakia - Bratislava
3 nights - Czech Republic - Prague

We have booked our accommodation in advance, which I know reduces our flexibility with travelling and could potentially give us headaches with delays etc (But we wanted it for piece of mind in case!)

We are also probably going to be getting an interrail ticket as well. However, is better to book each ticket individually?
Is it safe to rely on the interrail ticket or will we be asked to buy different tickets or lots of surcharges etc?

I have seen that Eastern Europe is generally cheaper than western Europe, and we have ordered Revolut cards to deal with the multiple currencies we will be going through. Considering we have already got accommodation and the major travel expenses paid for in advance, how much money would you recommend we should bring for food and smaller travel expenses?
We aren't really the type to buy gifts and go clothes shopping so it is really just for food and entertainment, is £30 a day enough?

Also any advice on where to go in any of the places we are going would be very much appreciated. We are going off the usual tripadvisor etc at the moment!