stormtrooper
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 14 years ago
The 10/22 for example. Does it mean I can use a total of 240 hours of sitting in the train while I can't use the remaining 288 hours. Or does a 1hour trip from point A to point B count as a whole day spent, because I want to cover a lot of ground and save where ever possible (and 10/22 is about 70-80 eur cheaper than the 22/22).
I know I didn't ask this all that well so answer to the best of your possibilities and I'll just ask more if there are still hopes, ok?
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-global-pass[/u]
Head
Traveller
101 comments
[quote]The 10/22 for example. Does it mean I can use a total of 240 hours of sitting in the train while I can't use the remaining 288 hours. [/quote]
Almost so. To be correct, it's not 240 hours, it's 10x24 hours you can use. With 19.00 rule, each 24-hours period can be extended by 5 hours of the previous evening.
So if you want to pack a lot of travel in 10/22 pass, you need to use each of your ten 24 hours periods extensively. In most cases it can be achieved by grouping big city, where you stay several days, with some smaller place. For instance, you're coming to Amsterdam with a night train, using the 19.00 rule. Using a night train gives you unlimited travel on the arrival day, so you can spend it visiting smaller cities around, like Utrecht, Rotterdam, the Hague, etc - and leave exploring Amsterdam itself for the next days without train travel. If you came with a night train to Milan, use the arrival day to visit say Torino, and so on.
[b]UPDATE:[/b] [u]https://rail.cc/en/first-time-interrail[/u]
stormtrooper
Traveller
2 comments
So if I travel from city A to city B and spend an hour on day 1 and then from city B to city C on the same day, it's still one day. But if i travel from city A to city D on day one and spend and hour and then from city D to city X and spent 15 hours, it counts not as 16 hours, but 1 hour on one day and 15 hours on another day, meaning 2 days
Head
Traveller
101 comments
[quote]So if I travel from city A to city B and spend an hour on day 1 and then from city B to city C on the same day, it's still one day. But if i travel from city A to city D on day one and spend and hour and then from city D to city X and spent 15 hours, it counts not as 16 hours, but 1 hour on one day and 15 hours on another day, meaning 2 days[/quote]
Right.
So if you need to make just a short trip on some particular day (Berlin to Potsdam or Amsterdam to Utrecht or Koln to Dusseldorf), it's sometimes better to buy a regular ticket than waste the day of your pass.
But if you want to make many such short trips during those 22 days, it's probably better just to buy 22/22 pass and not to bother with those calculations.