jonner
Traveller
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Posted 14 years ago
Hi, I am currently planning a trip around Europe with my girlfriend. I have doubts over whether the IR ticket is value for money for my particular trip. We had thought:
Fly from Dublin to Frankfurt, then
Berlin
(possibly Warsaw)
Krakow
Budapest
Vienna and then fly back to Dublin.
Realistically if we bought an IR ticket we would be getting the 10 days within 22 days. I am 26 yrs old and my girlfriend is 25 so together the tickets would come to nearly €600 (€359 + €239).
What are peoples instincts on the cost for this? Do you think the individual trains between the cities would come to €600 for 2 people without the IR ticket? Also bearing in mind that most of these connections need a supplement or reservation even with an IR ticket.
Any advice or relevant past experience is much appreciated.
John
Peter
Traveller
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Hi John.
The 10 in 22 is a bit too much for this tour you want to travel.
When flying to Frankfurt, stay there some days (but there are much nicer places and cities in Europe - I suppose you are only flying as there is the Ryanair airport in the nowhere called Frankfurt-Hahn?) - and start then after some days in Frankfurt or wherever, your tour. So you already saved some of your travel days.
Frankfurt-Berlin: free, no supplements on day trains.
Berlin-Warszawa: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/germany/de[/u]
Here think about adding PRAGUE... so it is Berlin-Prague-Poland, as Prague is only 3h away from Berlin by free day train.
Krakow-Budapest: by day train or [u]https://rail.cc/en/krakow-budapest-night-train/f3305[/u]
Budapest-Vienna: free day train. [u]https://rail.cc/en/budapest-vienna-munich-train-railje/f4070[/u]
Vienna-Bratislava: [u]https://rail.cc/en/vienna-bratislava-train/f4055[/u]
or directly to the Ryanair airport: [u]https://rail.cc/en/vienna-bratislava-airport-bus/f3291[/u]
The supplements you also have to pay with normal train tickets. I simply think: if you use the 5 in 10, it is okay - for example ending with your IR ticket in Vienna, still stay there for some days, will also save you travel days.
About single train tickets you have to check the websites of the national railway companies as therefore I can't give you details.
Peter :)