anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 14 years ago
Hi All
I have 16/17 days holiday in April and would like to travel to Europe with my hubby.
our initial plan are travel from London-Paris-Barcelona-French Riviera-Pisa-Rome-Venice-London.
1. Do we have enough time to travel to all these places?
2. How much should I spend in each place? are there any destination that i need to stay longer?
3. Did we miss any places in between our planned destination that worth dropping by?
4. any good hotel that you would recommend?
5. any place that i must visit?
We not not really into night life but more to great sight seeing and eating nice local foods.
Any comments will be greatly appreciated
thanks
Wesley
Traveller
25 comments
When in April? If it's in the week before Easter, you can't pass by Barcelona without visiting Sevilla with its Holy Week processions: a magnificent celebration, a well-balanced mixture of party on the streets and intense devotion. You could either take the high-speed train from Barcelona or even find a low-cost airline that gets you there. Just Google a bit for information on the subject (search words will typically be Semana Santa Sevilla), take a look at some Youtube films...
I'm hooked on Semana Santa :D .
On the other hand, it is already a tight schedule for just 17 days... just my rough estimation as concerns the absolute minimum amount of days to spend in these cities in my opinion:
Paris: 3 days
Barcelona: 2 days
French Riviera: depends on where exactly, and what you want to do
Pisa: half an hour (seriously, the Piazza dei Miracoli with the tower and all is nice, but for the rest: not much to do in Pisa)
Rome: 4 days
Venice: 2/3 days
That will leave you with 12 days already filled, and that is not counting the Riviera nor the time to travel. I'd suggest you save Rome for another time, as it is quite far off the route and by itself easily merits a week-long trip. But you should definitely go to Rome one day, let me be clear about that ! :)
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Like Wesley said, it might be a bit too much for 17 days.
For hostels simply check this link: [ux]https://rail.shop/hostelworld[/ux]
There you will find a lot of hostels with rankings, comments, etc...
If you want to stay in double bed rooms not in dorms, also check websites which only list hotels, as a double bed room in a hotel is often cheaper than in a hostel - they are more specialists for cheap dorms.
Peter :)
anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
wesley, how many days should i stay in Sevilla, i have google the Semana Santa is between 17 to 24 April 2011
i will be travelling from 16/4 to 2/5.
what about travelwise? I am new to InterRail Global Pass and understand stand i can use it in 30 country and i believe i can use the 10 days of travel to be used within a period of 22 days. is that correct? sorry that i haven't started the research yet :| Will it be cheaper to buy a interrail pass then buying the air tickets?
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
The 10 travel days in 22 days is valid in 30 countries (except your country of residence).
[u]https://rail.cc/en/how-to-interrail[/u]
ONE travel day is from 00:01h in the morning until 23:59h at night.
You can use as much trains and cross as many borders as you want on such a travel day.
There is a special nice rule for night trains:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-night-train[/u]
If you start in London and you second station of your trip is Sevilla, then it might be cheaper to use a flight - as you know your travel dates and can book early - then start using your InterRail pass in Sevilla ... and on your way back to the UK have your stop in Paris.
Cheaper means: you save travel days on your ticket, you save travel time and you save on supplements which you need for some trains going down to Spain.
A lot of travelers (especially from the UK) do it the to fly to a destination and then travel back home.
Information for traveling UK to France and return:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/london-paris-eurostar-train/f1805[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/ferry-london-paris-england-france/f1222[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/blog/from-london-to-amsterdam-with-the-dutchflyer/[/u]
Peter :)
Wesley
Traveller
25 comments
Semana Santa in Sevilla has over 60 processions throughout the week, roughly equally divided over the days (only on Easter Sunday there is just one procession), so any period will do. The absolute height of the celebrations, however, is in the night between Thursday and Friday, when the two most prestigious processions leave their churches for the Cathedral (la Macarena and Esperanza de Triana). And when I say night I do mean night: la Macarena leaves its church at 00:30 and return at 14:00, for Triana it is something like 02:30 - 13:30.
I once did not even bother to book accommodation for that night, but that proved to be unwise around 11AM Friday morning...