MILAN - MADRID: easiest / fastest route ?

Flo
Traveller
10724 comments

Hi!

Well, this is certainly the best connection regarding comfort (only one change) and travel time. Other connections require several changes and include many trains for which you need a reservation.

However, the Milano - Barcelona Elipsos night train is very expensive itself: :arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/milan-barcelona-en-11274/166[/u]
But you save the costs of a hostel. To get to Barcelona from Milano during the day reservation cost sum up to ~ 22€.


Flo 8)

Peter
Traveller
9336 comments

Hi.
Avoid these kind of apps you mentioned (I removed it not to get people confused).
Better use schedule planers in connection with the information here.

Schedule planers: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-train-route[/u]

Information about (also free) routes: [u]https://rail.cc/en/latour-de-carol/latour-de-carol-enveitg-railway-station/l56[/u]

Peter :)

EDIT: Flow was the fater one. ;)

Karoline
Traveller
25 comments

I just want to say that you guys are so fast and extremely helpful! Thank you, I will check it out, Nice and Petit Train Jaune sounds wonderful though! Maybe skip Milan and go to Nice instead.. I just want to go to one more city after Zurich/Lucerne and before Madrid! :)

Hetman
Traveller
364 comments

and what about Barcelona?

Karoline
Traveller
25 comments

If you look at my other post which I linked too, there's talk about the AVE trains which have a €10 reservation fee but are quite fast. I'll probably go for one of those :)

Hetman
Traveller
364 comments

[quote] I just want to go to one more city after Zurich/Lucerne and before Madrid![/quote]
yes, I've heard something about AVE yet :)
but I asked about Barcelona because you are looking for some city after Zurich/Lucerne and before Madrid! ;)

Karoline
Traveller
25 comments

Ohh! I see, sorry for being slow. Well I have been to Barcelona actually, and would love a city in either France or Italy that is kind of on the way from Lucerne to Barcelona. :)

Hetman
Traveller
364 comments

well, so, as you can see, the connections in south of France are not comfortable.

from Zurich you also can go, with one change in Paris, to north of Spain:

TGV Zurich - Paris (8euro)
night train Paris - Irun(also Bilbao, San Sebastian, etc.) [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/paris-irun-icn-4053/112[/u]

Karoline
Traveller
25 comments

Do you recommend the north of Spain then, like Irun? Anything fun to see there? I would rather get there quicker and spend more time there than changing the train so many times and stuff..

Also, maybe I'm missing something, but how do you get from Nice to Petit Train Jaune?

Hetman
Traveller
364 comments

[quote]Do you recommend the north of Spain then, like Irun?[/quote]
why not!? :)
[quote]Anything fun to see there?[/quote]
i have no idea. i have not been there but the coast should be nice i think
look here may be: tourism.euskadi.net/en/

Karoline
Traveller
25 comments

With my time frame and everything, I think it sounds like a really good idea. Then I can go straight from Northern Spain to Madrid as well. So you are saying TGV from Zurich to Paris will only cost me 7 euro??

Hetman
Traveller
364 comments

8 euro :)
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/paris-irun-icn-4053/112[/u]