Sanne Post wrote:
rvdborgt wrote:
AnnaB wrote:
Angelo wrote:
With Thalys/Eurostar you have to pay till the station you exit the train.
I remember reading something about a special fare for Thalys when you have a national ticket for part of the route. I might be wrong though. @rvdborgt Is there a special fare on Thalys if you have a NS card?
Thalys and Eurostar do not have fares for passengers with passes for only part of the route. You need to have a valid pass for the complete route you are using Thalys or Eurostar. The mobile pass won't let you add the journeys into the Netherlands after having used both your inbound/outbound days.
You can use the hourly intercity though and but a separate ticket from the border tariff point (use "Vrij reizen op traject in België” on the NSI website), Hazeldonk(gr), or use an NS network card from there. You should not check in or check out with your chipcard, not even for domestic trains. Depending on which subscription you have, that can even cost extra money and you don't want that.
Okay so if i understand it right this should be possible?
travel 1:
venlo - milano
verona - venlo
travel 2:
arnhem - frankfurt
frankfurt - arnhem
travel 3:
arnhem - prague
budapest - arnhem
travel 4 outbound inbound:
rotterdam - london
london - rotterdam
travel 5
roosendaal GR. (belgium) - paris
paris - roosendaal GR. (belgium)
Travel 1 will already take both trips from the in-/outbound one… You need a ticket from Venlo to the borderstation in this case (shouldn’t be expensive, but not sure if NS is selling this).
Travel 2 would also need a ticket to/from the border. Travel 3 as well.
Travel 4 is OK
Travel 5 is OK.
And yeah, in general I recommend paper pass, just more convenient if you have to do “special” stuff.
For a basic Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague-Budapest-Roma-Paris Interrail trip a mobile pass is fine.