anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 14 years ago
My boyfriend and I are hoping to interrail in the summer next year after exams and I was just wondering if this route would be possible time-wise or whether there would be a more convenient route we could take to visit these places.
We also would be doing the 10 days travel within 22 days, do you think we are being a bit optimistic with the number of places we want to visit?
Also any suggestions of rail services to use would be very helpful - e.g would you recommend overnight journeys?
Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!!! :D
Thanks in advance,
Sophie
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Sophie.
Think about a route like this:
[b]Barcelona - Paris - Brussels - (Amsterdam/Prague) - Munich - Venice - Rome - Zurich[/b]
[b]A[/b]
[b]Barcelona - Paris[/b] (trough the Pyrenees): [u]https://rail.cc/blog/little-yellow-train-video/[/u]
[b]Paris - Brussels[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-brussels-bruxelles-train/f3992[/u]
Brussels - Amsterdam: [u]https://rail.cc/en/brussels-bruxelles-amsterdam-train/f3994[/u]
Amsterdam - Berlin: [u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-berlin-train/f2346[/u]
Berlin-Prague: [u]https://rail.cc/en/berlin-prague-train/f3361[/u]
[b]Brussels - Prague[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/brussels-prague-train/f5410[/u]
[b]Prague - Munich[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/prague-munich-train/f5109[/u]
[b]Munich - Rome[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/munich-rome-night-train/f2872[/u]
[b]Rome - Venice[/b]: by day train. If you want to save money, avoid the direct Eurostar Italia (ES) trains with a supplement of EUR 10 (journey time 3:45h).
Use the free IC and Regional trains. Usually one change. Journey time: 6 hours.
[b]Venice - Zurich[/b]: first by supplement free IC train to Milano, then by EC train (supplement EUR 5-10) to Zurich.
[b]B[/b]
Like A Barcelona - Paris - Brussels
[b]Brussels - Zurich[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/brussels-luxembourg-strasbourg-basel-zurich-train/f2915[/u]
[b]Zurich - Venice[/b]: first by EC train (supplement EUR 5-10) to Milano, then by supplement free IC train to Venice (journey time: 7h).
[b]Venice - Rome[/b]: by day train. If you want to save money, avoid the direct Eurostar Italia (ES) trains with a supplement of EUR 10 (journey time 3:45h).
Use the free IC and Regional trains. Usually one change. Journey time: 6 hours.
[b]Venice - Munich[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/venice-munich-cnl40236/36[/u]
[b]Munich - Prague[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/munich-prague-train/f5108[/u]
Of course you can travel as well with other trains in an other order. These connections are only examples.
The stops in Amsterdam and Berlin are only optional - they might be too much with a 10 in 22 InterRail pass.
I just mentioned them as they are on your route and easy to reach.
Peter :)
anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Thank you that answers a lot of questions!
Which route would you recommend considering we need to do the dover - calais trip? oh and sorry to keep asking questions but what sort of cost do you think a journey like this would cost for two people? So we need to know how much to be saving :)
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
As you are coming by ferry from the UK think about this ferry as well:
Harwich - Hoek van Holland: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/from-london-to-amsterdam-with-the-dutchflyer/[/u]
If you want to save travel time, a flight to Barcelona would be as well a good choice and then to start from there interrailing.
As budget calculate PER DAY:
- food: EUR 5
- accommodation: EUR 20
- beer: EUR 5
- extras: EUR 5
TOTAL PER DAY: EUR 35
TOTAL COSTS: 22 days X 35 Euro = ~ 700 Euro plus the ticket.
It really depends on you - if you sleep sometimes somewhere in nature or you skip the beer, you will save a lot of money. ;)