Lviv - Przemysl - Katowice

anonymous
Traveller
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Posted 14 years ago

Hi. My friend and myself are planning a trip using 5-in-10 pass and since neither one of us has interrailed before, we have some questions - I've been searching quite a lot on the Internet, but couldn't find anything. One of the options we're considering includes Lviv (in Ukraine).

The first question is rather technical: say we're on a train that goes Lviv - Przemysl - Katowice. Now, the Interrail pass doesn't work in Ukraine, so we'd have to get a separate ticket Lviv - Przemysl (or reach Przemysl at the Polish-Ukrainian border by marshrutka or in some other way, but that's another matter).

Now, we'd be travelling this route on our last day: the train leaves Przemysl somewhere around 1am and, after all the connections, we should reach Dobova in Slovenia, which is our final Interrail destination, somewhere around 10pm. In Katowice we'd have about 1.5 hours to make the connection. Now, I don't have any experience with Ukrainian nor Polish railways, and please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems possible to me from some previous experiences that the train would be delayed enough in order for us to miss our connection. So, my question is: Then what? Are we on our own and left to reach whatever point closest to Dobova we can reach in the rest of the day or do we get some kind of paper that our train (which was, at least in the Przemysl-Katowice part, in EU and Interrail territory) was delayed and thus allowing our passage to Dobova with the next train?

The second question is not so technical and so I apologize if it's in the wrong subforum: I've read about the ticket price from Krakow to Lviv. However, we'd like to use Interrail as much as possible and therefore my question would be: what would be the price of the ticket Przemysl-Lviv-Przemysl (+couchette supplement, I understand that's the only option)? Also, I don't suppose Deutsche Bahn would be willing to sell us that ticket in Germany, would it?

The last one is more of a question for someone who is sort of a Lviv expert and it's not really that important. If we decide not to get Przemysl-Lviv-Przemysl tickets, at what time would we have to leave Lviv (using what I assume is the standard, marshrutka to the border, walking across and going to Przemysl) in order to reach Przemysl at, say, midnight?

Anyway, if anyone was willing to help out with any advice on how to get in the cheapest possible manner from Warsaw to Lviv and from Lviv to either somewhere in Poland or Hungary, I'd be very grateful. Thanks once again for any answer to any of the questions. :) I understand questions 2 and 3 don't really belong here, but I didn't want to clutter the forum with multiple posts.