Distfer
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Posted 13 years ago
Hi, total newbie here. I would appreciate any help with reservations and with Barcelona-Nice.
This itinerary will be for two people over the course of 25 days starting late April. I'm considering flying from Venice to Prague and dropping Vienna.
I'm planning on a 5 days/2 months (youth) Eurail pass. Should I feel the need to get reservations online before departing, or will I have no trouble getting them in the station (i.e. no risk of passholder seats running out)? For international trains how do I handle the reservations that are required for the legs that are entirely in the next country?
[b]Barcelona - Nice[/b]:
This is clearly a very discussed route. The travel routes topic ( [u]https://rail.cc/en/travel-routes-proposals/f6629#p26130[/u] ) shows a Barcelona-Cerbere train that leaves 8:46, and the city connections pages show one that leaves at 9:16, but I can't find either of these on Renfe or Bahn. All of the Barcelona-Nice routes I can find on Bahn show compulsory reservation for every leg. What am I missing?
[b]Nice - La Spezia (Cinque Terre)[/b]:
No reservations
Nice Ville dep 10:26
Ventimiglia arr 11:13 dep 11:50
La Spezia Centrale arr 16:59
[b]La Spezia - Venice[/b]:
Reservations required
La Spezia Centrale dep 10:07
Pisa Centrale arr 11:00 dep 11:11
Firenze SMN arr 12:00 dep 12:25
Venezia Santa Lucia arr 14:33
[b]Venice - Vienna[/b]:
Euronight train, dept 21:05 arr 8:22. I'd probably splurge on a double sleeper. Perhaps I should get the Eurail youth pass for just Spain/France/Italy, and buy tickets for Venice-Vienna and Vienna-Prague?
[b]Vienna - Prague[/b]:
No reservations, dep 8:25 arr 13:18
Thoughts? Thank you very much for any help!
Flo
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Hi!
First, the Youth passes are only available for persons aged under 26. If you are older (as I have seen in your profile) you'd need to get an Adult pass which are only available in first class.
BCN - Nice: Peter has updated a route completely free of supplements: :arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/venice-vienna-en-236/97[/u] The sleeper is certainly a comfortable way to go, although somewhat expensive.
I think it will be more convenient to get a pass that covers Austria as well, and then you could get a normal ticket for the last leg to Praha.
Regarding reservations. You probably wont need many anyway, the only important one that you should get some days in advance is the one for the night train to Wien.
Flo 8)