keeks12345
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 12 years ago
Hi, I hope someone can help with some advice as im getting extremely confused about what the best thing to do is. My husband and I are intending to travel around Europe for approximately 3 months, we are going to take a ferry from the UK to the Hook of Holland to begin our travels in Amsterdam, but beyond this we don't want to make any plans. We have no idea which countries we will end up visiting , or how long we will spend in them, so should we get interail passes, or just pay as we go ? If you think we should get passes which ones ? Would it be crazily expensive to make our way round just buying train, bus (possibly even air tickets) as we go ? Im not having much luck finding websites that can tell me the price of tickets as examples, and I dont what the best thing to do is !
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Difficult to say. But rail passes are usually a good solution if you make a lot of kilometres.
Maybe think about an Interrail Pass 10 travel days in 22 days for the beginning. And afterwards decide spontaneously.
Peter :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
Prices can usually be found-for DOMESTIC travel on the various websites of the national trainsystems.
If you are Brit and if you think that the Brit system for traintix is the same anywhere, you are abundantly wrong and in for a good surprise. In many countries it is just like postage stamps: 1 price for all (but by distance) no matter if you buy 3 month, 3 weeks, 3 days or 3 mins before dep.
The further you go in Europe-the cheaper it gets. For the price of a london bus (GBP 2,30) you may even be able to travel like 50-100 kms in local 2nd cl in some countries.
Also: in 3 month you are unlikely to train it every day-seems more fit for point to point tickets with some pass in between for expensive countries or long trips. This way you can also easily catch buses-eurolines or the cheap budget flight, EZRyan and its many lookalikes. The most imptt thing is to make up your mind first-travel way you want to see or just training for the sake of it?