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evangelos
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Posted 15 years ago

Hello experienced travelers!

This is our first interrail, we do not qualify as experienced travelers so we need your helps to make things a bit clear for our travel!

We plain to begin from [b]Koln[/b] in 05 July, then go to [b]Brussels[/b] by train, then to [b]Rotterdam[/b] by train, then to Eindhoven by train (just to go to the airport), then to [b]Prague[/b] from Eindhoven by plane (flight date of Eind.-Prague is 9 July). Then to [b]Budapest[/b] by train and then to [b]Vienna[/b] by train. We plain to finish our travel in Vienna at the night of 14 July. We'll have a plane to catch from Vienna to Istanbul at the early morning (15 July - 06.00)

We did not buy the plane ticket from Eindhoven to Prague (9 July) yet, waiting for your advices about whether it is worth of buying it!

My first question is if this route is doable with a 5/10 days ticket or not. And even if it is not doable directly with a 5/10 days ticket, would it be enough saving one of our days by paying a train travel in between (paying the train of prague-vienna for example)?

Secondly i would like to ask whether our subroute of Koln-Brussels-Rotterdam is realistic and worth to do between the dates 05 July (12.00PM) - 09 July (12.00PM)? Did anyone went through a similar route before? Any helpful information about special trains/hostels/staying over would be greatly appreciated!

Any suggestions for a travel route beginning from Koln (05 July Morning) and ending in Vienna in (14 July night) is appreciated too!

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Peter
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replied 15 years ago

Hi ...
If you travel on a GLOBAL InterRail pass like you have, you can also do the route Netherlands to Prague easily either by night or day train (have a stop in Berlin if you want):
[u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-berlin-train/f2346[/u]

The CNL night train has a direct connection Amsterdam-Prague and you save the night in a hostel. If you use day trains, travel to Berlin and then within 4 hours by free IC train to Prague.

For other night train connections have a look at the country topics of the forum .
For hostels use [ux]https://rail.shop/hostelworld[/ux]

And avoid in Benelux the expensive THALYS trains !! Use the free IC trains which are available on all journeys you want to do:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/cologne-brussels-paris-thalys-train/f1471[/u]

Peter :)