Lindsey
Traveller
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Posted 13 years ago
Hope you can offer some advice - I'm having trouble planning a 22 day trip that I'm taking this August. Originally I was going to do the full month but I've had to reduce the trip to three weeks because of work commitments. So now I'm having trouble working out what is best to leave out, and how that will affect my planned route!
This is what I was hoping to cover, originally: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Venice (and possibly Florence). I'd also love to include Croatia, taking the ferry from Dubrovnik to Italy.
I don't mind missing out Amsterdam, as I've already been there twice (was only including it as a 'safe', familar place to start out from!). But apart from that, I'm completely stuck! Is eight or nine locations still far too many? I don't mind travelling overnight as much as possible :)
Peter
Traveller
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Hi.
Your tour should be possible in 22 days. Think about the 10 travel days in a period of 22 days (10 in 22) InterRail Global Pass.
Should fit your needs.
Especially using this rule for night trains: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-night-train[/u]
If you want to skip something, skip Amsterdam as you know it already. But from where do you start. You just fly to your first destination?
As well Bratislava... start in the morning in Budapest, spent the day in Bratislava and in the evening you go on to Vienna.
About Venice: use the night train Vienna-Venice, spent the day in Venice - and in the evening go on to Florence. As Venice is expensive and full of tourists - it's my personal opinion. ;)
You will save a lot of travel time by using night trains like you already said. In summer they are often full, so if you know your exact travel dates you can buy the reservations for the night trains for example already in Copenhagen or Berlin.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
For all routes you travel you can find the details at the country topics: [u]https://rail.cc/en/countries[/u]
Of course there are much more connections available, just use the schedule planer: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
[b]Copenhagen-Berlin[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/copenhagen-berlin-train/f2919[/u]
[b]Berlin-Prague[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/berlin-prague-train/f3361[/u]
[b]Prague-Krakow[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/prague-krakow-night-train/f4027[/u]
[b]Krakow-Budapest[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/krakow-budapest-night-train/f3305[/u]
[b]Budapest-Bratislava[/b]: by day trains - you can also skip Bratislava and travel directly to Vienna, much faster:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/budapest-vienna-munich-train-railje/f4070[/u]
[b]Bratislava-Vienna[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/bratislava-vienna-wien-train/f3972[/u]
[b]Vienna-Venice[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/vienna-venice-night-train/f3671[/u]
.......
I hope this will help you planing your trip ... and if you like the information here at the forum, support us and buy your official InterRail pass online via [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]
Thank you, Peter :)
Lindsey
Traveller
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Thankyou very much for the advice and the links! :) I'm glad that it's not too much to squeeze into 22 days, I was starting to get a bit worried. :)