The best website for timetables: www.bahn.com/en .
But it seems a very okay itinerary, stops at reasonable distances. Nice tour around Europe.
Best get your Eurostar (London-Brussels, and the return from Paris) reservations as soon as possible, they can sell out. Best way to get them is via www.raileurope.com (but you have to click “add raillpass” to get the correct booking fees, should be 30 EUR per person / seat).
You can avoid the (excessively expensive) reservation fees of Eurostar between Brussels and Amsterdam by simply taking the ordinary IC-train. Bit slower, but much cheaper.
Same for the TGV Lyria from Switzerland to Paris, you can avoid it’s expensive fees by just hopping on a regional train to the first station in France, and continuing further.
Get your night train reservations also in advance, as they are popular but have limited capacity. Be wary of delays (especially when travelling through Germany), don’t plan tight connections ( less than 2 hours, when travelling by night trains).
Your hotel idea seems okay, the busiest travel season will be over. Although you might want to check hotels in advance the very touristic areas (Amsterdam, Venice, Cinque Terre,...)
I’lld suggest to take a look at following webpages:
https://www.seat61.com/european-train-travel.htm
https://www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a-eurail-pass.htm (especially the reservation section)
And after that you’ll know everything to make it a nice holiday :)
Hello @Carol N
Please note that Interrail Passes cannot be used in Switzerland for most mountain excursions and lakes. You have sometimes reductions. Reservations are mandatory or recommended for the Panoramic Trains, but you have local trains on the same lines without reservations.
https://www.interrail.eu/content/dam/_new-structure/doc/res/See_Switzerland_by_train_2024_Geltungsbereich.pdf
I would say Venice deserves more than a partial day if possible.
In terms of which order to do things in, Munich seems to be a bit out of the way of the main itinerary, and Cinque Terre > Nice > Lucerne > Paris is very zig zaggy. You could pick Nice or Lucerne if you want to speed things up?
Amsterdam - Prague is a good option for a sleeper train.
Cinque Terre to Nice is easy, then sleeper or TGV to Paris.
I would be tempted to skip Munich, or perhaps put it in between Vienna & Venice.