Chinoo
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 14 years ago
Dear interrailers,
me and a friend are going interrail the first time. Now we have a few questions concerning our route. As my friend has to be back at work on monday, he needs to be back to vienna on sunday 29th. He has the 10 days within 22 days ticket...
We start on Thursday evening (19th) from Vienna to Hamburg via night-train, so we arrive in Hamburg on friday morning. We'd like to continue to Amsterdam and Bruxelles. Another city we'd like to see is Paris (where we would like to spend at least two days - would you suggest this is enough?) afterwards, we'd like to go home via straßbourg and munich. at least my friend will, i'm thinking of adding a few days in barcelona :D
The biggest question is if it makes sense to go from Bruxelles via Ferry to England and continue from there to Paris or if this is too much to do for this 10 days? We'd also appreciate any improvements for our route :)
thanks a lot in advance!
best regards
michi
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
With 10 travel days in 22 you can definitely do it to travel to the UK.
Bruxelles - Rotterdam - ferry to UK:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/ferry-netherlands-england/f1659[/u]
London - Paris by Eurostar is expensive: [u]https://rail.cc/en/london-paris-eurostar-train/f1805[/u]
Better to use the ferry: [u]https://rail.cc/en/ferry-london-paris-england-france/f1222[/u]
From Paris to Munich there are these options: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-munich-night-train/f3774[/u]
Or direct day train TGV (which you have to reserve early).
Paris-Barcelona: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-pyrenees-barcelona-le-petit-tain-jaune/f4023[/u]
Barcelona-Nice: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/marseille-to-nice[/u]
Nice-Milano: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/marseille-to-milan[/u]
Milano-Venice (as an example): use the free IC trains instead of the expensive Eurostar Italia trains.
Venice-Vienna: [u]https://rail.cc/en/venice-vienna-night-train/f3672[/u]
Instead of Vienna you can use as well Rome ... all in the Italian country topic.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/rome-vienna-train/f1418[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/forum-italy-train-travel[/u]
Peter :)
Chinoo
Traveller
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wow, thanks a lot for the fast answer :) i've read about le petit train jaune in the forum before, thats why i want to go to barcelona :D looks so great! so, thanks again, and a nice evening!
michi
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
And the Petit Train Jaune is definitely the cheaper way (as using a French night train before) than the direct night train to Spain.
Have fun and do not hesitate to ask if you have some more questions. :)
Ah - one thing got in my mind... your country of residence is Austria? Right?
So you know that you can not travel for free there.
An option would be by night train Vienna-Berlin traveling via the Czech Rep.):
[u]https://rail.cc/en/vienna-berlin-night-train/f3729[/u]
And from Berlin by supplement free ICE to Hamburg (2 hours).
Peter :)
Chinoo
Traveller
2 comments
We've got the Austrian summer-ticket - for people younger than 26 years, so we can travel for free in Austria. I've asked at the station, according to them, this should work. I guess i will have many more questions soon *gg* it's quite confusing to do all this plannigs for the first time... especially the question how much planning this trip really needs :)
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Ah okay... with this ticket you are fine. :)
Don't plan too much ... but have at least a look at the routes you travel to avoid trains with supplements. :)