KasperS
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 12 years ago
Dear all
This summer I am participating in a summer school in Rome arriving on July 16th and departing July 30th. Apart from these to dates, and the fact that I won't be using an aeroplane as I hate flying, nothing is fixed. But I suspect that an interrail 10/22 ticket might soon become the cheapest solution - especially since I consider throwing in a bit of holiday as well around it - my personal finances permitting.
So instead of taking the most direct route I decided I will go for the ICE Århus H-Hamburg Hbf having a good part of the day free for a spot of sightseeing there before taking the night train to München Hbf and from there the EC to Italy and then Eurostar the final leg to Rome - thus able to enjoy the scenery by passing Brenner in daylight.
Then I fabulated a bit and decided to see how it goes by throwing in a couple of days revisiting London as well, nothing fancy, as I have spent all my money on a summerschool. ;)
So my question is what would be the economical although reasonably comfortable (couchette, not to many changes) way to travel from Rome via Munich where I may be visiting a friend for a day or two, to London and back to Århus?
Edit: I should perhaps add that I am a Danish citizen and thus eligible
Best regards
Kasper
nltrainer
Traveller
1404 comments
just proposals:
1.use 2 IR of 5/10 days-for before and after, but read on.
2. DO realise that using an IR on the €* trains Tunnel to LON is VERY expensive-booking NOW the cheapest via eurostar will work out lower priced. they also do singles LON-any NL station from about 50GBP, then use citynightline. to Kolding/or so and DSB home (I Guess you know best what is cheapest on DSB). DURING the Olympics forget any trip to London, unless millionaire and willing to become poor doing that.
If it is too much-use bus: eurolines or megabus (new bus LONdon to AMS and Paris, from 1 GBP/single.
Also now the nighttrains It-Paris are THELLO and thee are private and do NOt take IR-so booking straight is the best, seats go from 35 eur/not from Roma.
3. IF you can prebook and find still reasonable prices, then do it NOW on [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] and do in 3 steps (this is due to CNL=that nighttrain cannot be intercombined): to HAM and from MUC-CAN only do so on the thru trains as far as Verona or Firenze-then either trenitalia or the new italo (private, NO IR taken), HiSpeed to Roma. This means you must stick to those trains or loose the kroner. Alltogether probably about same price as 5/10 IR for <26, but on that card you have to pay extra for the bookings. EuroStar IT is NO more-it is now frecciarossa or so-trenitalia.
KasperS
Traveller
2 comments
Cheers, I'll keep it in mind!
[quote]DURING the Olympics forget any trip to London, unless millionaire and willing to become poor doing that.[/quote]
I'd forgotten that! Well, I'll visit other places instead!
Thanks again for the advice!