Hi,

I suppose you already know a global pass covers 33 european countries so every areas are covered indeed. However, some trains like Eurostar or Frecciarossa (Firenze > Napoli) require mandatory reservation you have to pay. Except Eurostar, you have free regional train on the same route, just slower ...

Thank you so much and appreciate your response.

You're a bit ambitious I'm afraid. You're not counting travel time.

Paris - Milan is a full travel day: leaving at 8am and arriving at 6pm. You won't have much time to sightsee, especially as the sun sets at 4pm at this time of year.

Rome - Vienna is another full travel day. You'll arrive when all shops and museums are closed.

The route doesn't make a lot of sense either, sorry.

It's a large detour to go back to Switzerland after Prague. Instead stop in the country on your way to Milan and then do Prague - Berlin - Amsterdam/Brussels.

I'd suggest you rethink your itinerary to have a doable plan. Skip a few cities on the list.

I might spend more time in Italy than elsewhere as the weather is grey, dark and gloomy in Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam this time of year.

Thank you so much for your wisdom, really appreciate, may you please help me with a better itinerary, try to squeeze everything will explain to you offline

Let me suggest:

- London 3 nights

- Paris 3 nights

- Strasbourg (popular Christmas market) 1-2 nights ?

- somewhere in Switzerland 2 nights

- Bernina Railway into Italy, the most beautiful way to enter the country

- Milan 1-2 nights (optional)

- Florence 2 nights

- Rome 3 nights

- Sorrento 3 nights

You might add a night or two in these destinations or even add Cinque Terre (which is almost empty in winter!). Venice could be an option too.

Skip Luxembourg and keep Benelux, Berlin, Prague and Vienna for another trip in spring/summer.

This will keep distances and travel time down. You'll only have half travel days, there should be a few hours of daylight when you arrive hopefully.

Also, to add that Eurail is not valid on most city transport so plan to only use it on the days you travel between places, for days when you only travel within cities you will need local tickets.

You guys are genius! Thank you for saving me

We will take a train from Sorento to Naples to catch our flight back to South Africa 

Don’t forget you can also use night trains.

https://www.eurail.com/en/plan-your-trip/trip-ideas/trains-europe/night-trains

It means extra fees but you can spare a night hotel and you spare daytime too.

Love the night train idea, thank you

Naples  Sorrento, is a local train (think overground metro), not covered by the pass, which is 2-3 Euros a trip. Pompei is a short trip from Sorrento. Approx 2 Euros single.