Checking if others have made a similar journey to see if an interrail ticket for a family of 4 (1 youth, 1 free, 2 adults) makes sense if travelling from Cardiff to Gothenberg via Brussels, Hamburg and Copenhagen this July.
How do you work out if it's worth getting an jnterrail ticket? Does anyone have experiences to share?
What do you mean with ´worth it´ If it would be cheaper? We do not do the math-you have to check yourself if booking a row of normal advance tickets would work out cheaper. The prob is that on a pass you will need to pay for expensive extra seatREServ. on €* and maybe for the Kobenhavn-Sweden train. To LON and from BRU it is not mandatory-but you run the terrible risk of not being able to find a free 4-seater for your family. Best advice for booking is -as always-on seat61.com, it will also describe best way of choosing trains. It may also be that the child has to pay (discount) for some sections on advances.
MIN for an IR-pass is 4 days-you can quite easily do this single trip in 2 days-with a break in f.e. Hamburg or around. This month passes are 10% discounted-start using can be later.
We start with the math :)
Check each leg and compare the conditions cheap advance fares are often not exchangable or/and refundable.
You may split the Journeys ;)
Cardiff - London - Brüssels (note that eurostar neeed a reservation on top of the railpass and a seat is per person arround 35€ :/ ) From Brussels to Hamburg you can use the reservations of german rail for 8€ in 2nd class or 10.60€ in 1st class for 2adults and up to 3 kids/youths (the reservation is optional but highly recomened if you wanna sit together)
Hamburg - Copenhagen is usally reservation compulsory in summer adds another 4€ per person
From copenhagen you have several trains to Gothenburg :)
Between Kiel and gotheburg operate a daily ferry that offer a small discount for Railpassuser (maybe it worth it to travel from Brussels via cologne/Hamburg to kiel and wake up the next morning in gothenburg by using the ferry.
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