anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 15 years ago
Hi, I am thinking of buying an interrail pass for a very short period of time in January. I would start in Barcelona & want to visit Madrid, Lisbon, Porto & Santiago de Compostela, and from there return to Barcelona. Does anyone know on which trains you have to pay supplements?
Also, does it make sense to buy a 4 days in 10 pass for Spain & a 3 days in 10 for Portugal? So that from the border to Lisbon I can use 1 day of the Portuguese pass & same thing from Porto to Santiago...
I have never interrailed before so please help me :)
Thanks a lot!
Maria.
Peter
Traveller
9337 comments
Hi Maria ...
In Spain and Portugal you have to pay supplements for most of the trains:
- [b]supplements SPAIN[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/spain/es[/u]
- [b]supplements PORTUGAL[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/portugal/pt[/u]
Compare it to the train schedules: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Some more helpful information:
[b]MADRID - LISBON[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/madrid-to-lisbon[/u]
[b]PORTO - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/porto-santiago-de-compostela-train/f3558[/u]
[b]SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELLA - BARCELONA[/b]: the best way is to use the night train to Madrid ( [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/barcelona-a-coruna-hot-922/213[/u] ) and from there continue to Barcelona.
About the ticket... depends if you want to use night trains or not ... calculate it right. And always if you cross borders, you will need 2 travel days - so maybe the 5 in 10 days InterRail Global Pass is the better solution for you.
Peter :)