cre8date
Traveller
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Posted 14 years ago
Hi,
I am using this site for the first time and not doing very well. I am wanting to travel in August with a friend. We would like to travel from London St Pancras to Avignon. After a few days travel on to Nice then Milan, Geneva ,Paris and then home. We will be spending a few days in each city covering 2 weeks in total. I tried to put in the first part but said didn't like my route. Could you please let me know if it is cheaper to book individual city to city tickets or get the 10 day out of 22 pass.
Do all trains have to be booked or can you just get on?
Looking forward to hearing your advice.
Jacqueline
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
The 10in22 is certainly a good choice but you may think about the 5in10 pass as well if you plan your journey from and back home a little in advance. In summer there is a direct Eurostar train to Avignon on Saturdays, have a look at Eurostar website for cheap advance offers. Same on the way back from Paris - book a Eurostar ticket in advance. Eurostar tickets booked in advance usually are same price or even cheaper then the supplement you'd have to pay with InterRail.
If you choose to get those Eurostar tickets that would leave you with the following journey you'd need to make with your InterRail pass: Avignon - Nice, Nice - Milano, Milano - Genève, Genève - Paris. That would even leave you one extra travel day you could use for instance to visit another village at the Côte d'Azur, ie Antibes or Monte Carlo. :)
Just do your journey like this: Eurostar London - Avignon - spend some days there - activate your 5in10 the day you leave Avignon for Nice - Nice - Milano - Genève - leave on the last the of validity of your pass for Paris - Paris - back home with Eurostar.
Of course this is just an example how you could do your journey - if you think Eurostar is too expensive you can also get the 10in22, get to France by ferry and use a TGV to Avignon. Same on your way back.
> [u]https://rail.cc/en/london-paris-eurostar-train/f1805[/u]
You wont neccessarily need to make additional reservations between the cities you want to go, but it is advisable on some routes, especially between Milano and Genève and Genève and Paris. The EC respectively TGV are much faster then the alternatives by regional trains.
Also, if you choose to go down to Avignon with your InterRail ticket instead of a regular Eurostar ticket the TGV (with compulsory reservation) is the much faster option.
Try out the schedule planner to have a look at the different connections between each city:
> [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Here is a list with trains requiring supplements:
> [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
I hope this helps you for the beginning - if you have further questions concerning InterRailing dont hesitate to ask.
And if you decide to go by InterRail and think we're doing a good job here at the website and the forum, please buy your official InterRail pass at [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux] . Thank you. :)
Flo 8)
PS: SInce we are a dedicated InterRail forum I cant give you details about point-to-point tickets, sorry.