anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 15 years ago
Hello !
I am new to interrail and have a project that is a little complicated.
I am a French resident, and want to travel to Copenhagen and then back to Paris.
I think this will take at least 13 hours of train travelling through Europe one way, so I think that buying an interrail ticket would be the cheapest idea. which one of the passes should I get, though?
I tried to look ways to go, and I think the only way would be Paris-Köln with the Thalys, then Köln-Hamburg and Hamburg -Copenhagen. Does anyone know whether this is the best way of going there?
my last question is whether the pass can be sent to me to the US, because this is where I am studying right now.
Thank you very much !
Nora
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Nora ...
As you can not travel for free in your country of residence (France) - maybe the soloution of buying sinlge train tickets might be cheaper.
If not, use the 5 in 10 travel days GLOBLA InterRail Pass.
For single tickets have a look at the website of THALYS (Google for it) ... search for Paris-Cologne in the late afternoon, there you change to the CNL (City Nigh Line - Google as well for it) night train Cologne-Copenhagen.
If you order early, you will get tickets for 29 EUR (night train) and 48 EUR Thalys - one way.
So you have to decide by your own. ;)
[u]https://rail.cc/en/train/paris-to-amsterdam[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/germany/de[/u]
For train schedules look here:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Peter :)
anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Hello Peter !
thank you for your fast reply !
I checked the trains and they are already nearly fully booked, so all I could find was 186 euros back and forth for Köln -Copenhagen, plus 138 euros back and forth for the Thalys.
do you think it would be cheaper to take an interrail ticket ?
thank you !
Nora
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Nora ...
If the trains are already full (at the moment you can't reserve the night train as there is a change in the timetables on the 11th Dec. - I don't know when online booking will be available again), then an InterRail ticket can be the cheaper solution.
But pay attention as you do not travel for free in France (country of residence).
You can calculate it with the links I gave you.
Delivery of the ticket to the US is possible. :)
Peter :)