hedesen
Traveller
5 comments
Posted 15 years ago
We are three friends going on interrail for the first time this summer, and are wondering about these surcharges. According to the route planner there are no free trains between Milano and Venezia, without going from Milano to Dijon, France, and then from Dijon to Venezia, which is a 33 hour trip. All the trains going straight between Milano and Venezia require surcharges. Is this possible or are we doing something wrong? :os
When we were searching for train between Berlin and Amsterdam it was the same thing, up to 30 hour trainride... is this always the case with the free train (without surcharges)?
Thanks in advance,
hedesen
SiDUDe
Traveller
752 comments
[u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-berlin-train/f2346[/u]
and there are lots of free trains between Milan and Venice, mainly via Bologna or Verona
Bjartmar
Traveller
3 comments
Thank you for your answer SiDUDe.
I'm one of Hedesen's friend and the Route Planner is confusing us. We are trying to estimate how long we are from one place to another. Can you, or anyone else, help us understand how we can use the Route Planner properly.
For an example, one of our planned trip is from Amsterdam to Paris. When I search with a different chose in the Whole journey: field (i.e. only regional trains, Without HST + IC/EC + IR/D, etc.) I get travel duration times from 11h 07m up to 25h 35m.
We didn't expect to be sitting in train for so long. :o
Do they serve beer in the trains?
SiDUDe
Traveller
752 comments
Amsterdam to Paris is a difficult one.
When selecting only regional trains etc it wont look for connections using ICE (which is free) or TGV (which is cheap) or Thalys (which is expensive)
Have a look here for a free alternative: [u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-paris-train/f1472[/u]
Most trains in Western Europe have a restaurant/cafe carriage which serves (overpriced) beer
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Split the search into a Amsterdam - Lille and a Lille - Paris part. Go from Amsterdam to Lille by free IC trains, then by TGV (3€, dont go at peak times, it would cost 10€) to Paris.
It's only one hour slower than Thalys ( 5 vs 4 hours) but a lot cheaper and it's at least 2h30 faster than the connections without supplements at all. ;)
Bjartmar
Traveller
3 comments
Thanks for the answers. :P
This has been realy helpful! 8)