JonRoberts84
Traveller
3 comments
Posted 13 years ago
Good Evening,
Just looking for some advice as we start planning a trip to Europe in July 2012.
We are hoping to do the following:
Spend a night in London before catching the Eurostar to Paris.
Spend a night in Paris then travel to Mont St Michel and stay there for one night.
Travel to the Loire Valley (unsure of best place as of yet) and spend 2 days there, the 2nd night possibly finding an overnight train to Spain.
Visit Barcelona for 1-2 days
Travel back to Marseille / Cannes / Monaco for 1-2 days
Travel to Rome, spend 2-3 days there then spend 1-2 days in Milan.
Spend 1-2 nights in Switzerland, unsure of where yet or doing what!
Visit the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany and possibly spent a day/night in Berlin to see the wall.
Then back through Holland / Belgium and catch the Eurostar back from either Brussells or Lille.
We were going to do this on the Interail month ticket, will this be long enough? We are starting to plan this early as we've never travelled like this before, so any advice (even places of interest, or suggested alterations to the route) would be so appreciated!
Thanks,
Jon
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi Jon!
With a one month ticket you will have plenty time to visit all places - and even fit in other places if you want. For the Eurostar I'd recommend to book regular early bird ticket instead of the discounted InterRail ticket.
Mont St Michel is not directly accessible by rail, you can either go to Rennes and then by bus or to Dol.
In the Loire valley you can use railway from Nantes via Angers to Tours - Blois - Orléans. Or from Tours to Vierzon.From Orléans you can catch overnight trains in direction of Spain
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/orleans/train/c[/u]
I'd recommend to go to Perpignan or Latour de Carol and then with the Petit Train Jaune
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/paris-to-barcelona[/u]
:arr: Barcelona - Nice :arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/barcelona-to-nice[/u]
Nice - Roma
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/nice-to-rome[/u]
Then from Milano I'd recommend to go via the Berninabahn to Switzerland
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/tirano-to-st-moritz[/u]
The rest is easy...maybe have a look here for the beginning: :arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/first-time-interrail[/u]
And if you want to support our railcc project please buy your tickets via our partner at :arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-train-route[/u] thank you. :)
Flo 8)
nltrainer
Traveller
1416 comments
save money:
1.as flow noted, just book advance on €*=cheaper as IR-supplmt.
2.Then your IR needs only start when leave paris-in Summer-so tell when you go, or look at voyages-sncf, SNCF runs a special fast coach connecting to Mt Michel-that is payable for the bus. there is NO accomm. nearby-but enough in Rennes or other nearby palces.
|make a special saving fro Swiss-as the CHF has skyrocketed up, anything you buy there is extremely expensive now. but trhe trains with their spelndid views are free on your IR.
You may want to buy a shorter and thus cheaper IR-i count 13/14 days from Paris-and book on [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] an all-in ticket back to LON or via nshispeed from any station in NL 9from 49€/single). You could-even cheaper as couple, travel via germany using the cheap landes or weekendtickets.
JonRoberts84
Traveller
3 comments
Bump..
Still thinking of doing this, has anything changed that I should be aware of?
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Not really. :)