You have two traveldays where you can travel in your country of residence. These outbound and inbound traveldays shall take you out of your country and back home again. If you for some reason need to travel for more days in your country of residence you will have to buy separate tickets for those trips.
In all other 32 countries you can travel as much as you like with all trains/ferries that are included in the pass.
You only need to make a reservation if you will use a train that requires a reservation. Otherwise you just create the trip in your pass and jump on the train.
You have two traveldays where you can travel in your country of residence. These outbound and inbound traveldays shall take you out of your country and back home again. If you for some reason need to travel for more days in your country of residence you will have to buy separate tickets for those trips.
In all other 32 countries you can travel as much as you like with all trains/ferries that are included in the pass.
You only need to make a reservation if you will use a train that requires a reservation. Otherwise you just create the trip in your pass and jump on the train.
Hi Anna,
Thank you for your answer. Does it mean, I can simply book an outbound ticket to the boarder (Let’s say Cologne Germany), then I’m free to explore all Europe? When I feel like to come back, I just need to book an inbound ticket from wherever I will be to Amsterdam?
Hey,
you have only one out- and one inbound journey to the Netherlands. Outside the Netherlands you can make as many trips as you want during those 3 months.
If you go back to the Netherlands more then one time you will need to buy a ticket from the border (but German railways doesn’t sell it anymore, so in that case from the last station in Germany or Belgium) to your destination in the Netherlands.
About your scenarios:
- It is still valid, but you will need extra tickets to enter the Netherlands as written above
- You can continue your trip from wherever you want. Doesn’t have to be Vienna.
Hey,
you have only one out- and one inbound journey to the Netherlands. Outside the Netherlands you can make as many trips as you want during those 3 months.
If you go back to the Netherlands more then one time you will need to buy a ticket from the border (but German railways doesn’t sell it anymore, so in that case from the last station in Germany or Belgium) to your destination in the Netherlands.
About your scenarios:
- It is still valid, but you will need extra tickets to enter the Netherlands as written above
- You can continue your trip from wherever you want. Doesn’t have to be Vienna.
Thank you Martin! I bought the pass and look forward to the summer 
IF you plan to do many shorter time trips (I did some 8 last autumn on a 2-monthpass) then its likely best to check-you are big enough to do that yourself- what NS offers in ride-at-will tickets, like weekendvrij or the like. Then its all covered. It will be extremely hard to buy tickets ONLY for the NL part till border and always incur a 7,50 ´service´ fee so till 1st stop over is cheaper.
IF you happen to be stud with OV-stud, then you could even use that for border trips.
BTW-as you mention going to TR; trains on the Balkans are very, very sparse and the overnight=only possibel train Sofia-IST (Halkali!!) runs only summertime. The routing via old Yugoslavija is cut off-you can go via Romania. IN TR the TCDD also has suspended most of its ´yolcu´ trenlerinde-it seems only the few hi-speed run for now.
BTW-as you mention going to TR; trains on the Balkans are very, very sparse and the overnight=only possibel train Sofia-IST (Halkali!!) runs only summertime. The routing via old Yugoslavija is cut off-you can go via Romania. IN TR the TCDD also has suspended most of its ´yolcu´ trenlerinde-it seems only the few hi-speed run for now.
Could you please stop posting wrong information on this forum?
The Sofia-Istanbul restarted in April this year after the corona break, but it is running all year (if corona is not against it again in winter). The Bucharest-Istanbul direct coach is a summer season only offer (but with changing trains you can do that route also all year round).
Also the information about traveling in Turkey is completely WRONG. Almost all trains are running normal (with the usual delays). Only 2-3 trains don’t run due to construction works or because the government doesn’t want to run them.
