Gerganaval7-
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Posted 1 week ago
Hello I want to ask you a question if there is a train from Sofia Bulgaria to Amsterdam but it is direct with a train without changing
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Gerganaval7-
Traveller
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Posted 1 week ago
Hello I want to ask you a question if there is a train from Sofia Bulgaria to Amsterdam but it is direct with a train without changing
Arend7
Traveller
634 comments
Impossible. See www.bahn.com,
nltrainer
Traveller
1390 comments
Of course not without many changes-has never been. You need at LEAST to change in Bucuresti-B´pest or Wien and also have to make REServations for all these trains. Rakes at least 3 overnites. The old classic route-shorter- via what once was Yugoslavija is no more.For more info+advice: seat61.com. This forum still gets shown by dr. google but has since many years lost its value.
MisterSteve
Traveller
1062 comments
You don't have to reserve for all the trains - but the key to the journey is NZ472 from Bucuresti to Budapest, which does need reserving and without that the whole journey falls apart. With that it is only 2 nights, one of which might be on Arnhem station but a hotel in Düsseldorf would be a better idea! But buying a ticket for the whole journey will be a problem because I can't see anyone who can sell it online with the reservations that are required, and if you went to the ticket office in Sofia they would probably calculate at the international fixed rates and not use the cheaper Sparprie tickets in Austria and Germany.
Seat61 is alway useful IF they show the journey you want to make, but in this case they don't. They use connections that work for travel to London and don't mention that you can leave Sofia and hour earlier than they say and arrive Budapest 4 hours earlier - and then carry on to Düsseldorf in the same day.
These long, complicated journeys will rarely be cheaper than flying, especially if there are extra costs for the overnights.
Something which has lost value in recent years is nltrainer who only seems to post here in order to moan about this forum and is not up to date about european travel.