BillBones
Traveller
3 comments
Posted 13 years ago
Hi!
Bit of a newcomer to all of this so I'm sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum or if it has been asked somewhere else.
Anyway, going interrailing tomorrow and will start by Berlin - Prague - Budapest, and from Budapest we want to travel to Pula, Croatia. Is this possible in one day? I was thinking:
Budapest-Keleti pu Dep: 0630 | IC train - supplement EUR 2,50: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/hungary/hu[/u]
Zagreb Glavni Kolod. Arr: 1259
Zagreb gl kol 1321 - 1610 Moravice
Moravice 1620 - 1811 Rijeka
Rijeka 1920 - 2000 Lupoglav
Lupoglav 2017 - 2148 Pula
Obviously not the nicest day of our trip but is it possible? Are the trains running and so on?
Thanks in advance from Sweden
BillBones
Traveller
3 comments
Hi again,
would really appreciate some help if someone knows something useful. it should work, shouldnt it? thanks again
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
Yes, the connection is running as you've described. Please ask locally at Budapest station if the supplement is really neccesary - I have read several different reports about that. However, ~20 minutes connection time is rather short in Zagreb, I hope the Budapest train wont be delayed.
Flo 8)
arniemillsaps
Traveller
5 comments
Hi
I will be going from Budapest to Croatia also this summer and I had considered Pula, only for a friend who had already been there to advise me against it. They didnt like it at all and packed up early and headed for italy. My girlfriend and I have now decided to go to Split as reviews etc seem much better.
Aaron
BillBones
Traveller
3 comments
No, we didn't really like it either, mostly because the weather sucked though. It was an all right place I guess, but like... not worth visiting. Very touristy and not very much to do. But if wou wanna go sun-bathing and swimming it should be a good place.
to be honest we, seriously, only chose pula over other places in croatia because in swedish pula means to finger someone. too funny not to go there
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
[quote]Hi!
Yes, the connection is running as you've described. Please ask locally at Budapest station if the supplement is really neccesary -
Flo 8) [/quote]
This is NOT a supplmt-it is simply the price to pay (actually 550HUF) for the seat-reservation that is obligatory in all/any HU-IC train. They also have a few InterPicy (=small in Hungarian) tiny trains (doing add-on runs from IC to minor towns) that costs less, but still need to be done. RES for IC-local HU trains can only be done when in HU and they are not in any international bookings system
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Oh I think it isn't really worth to make such a big difference between reservation fee and supplement to state it with a big NO. Sorry, but this is a bit ridiculous.
The question here at the forum are asked in the sense of: do I have to pay something extra or not?.
The reservation (or supplement in the definition of an extra price to pay on an InterRail pass) is only required on national trains. International trains (for example the Railjet) don't need them.
So always use direct international trains (expl. Railjet Vienna-Budapest) and not connections where you change somewhere in Hungary in between.