There’s a direct TGV Paris-Munich. So travelling via Paris seems a good option well.I checked prices via DB in about a week, and it gives 168 EUR (one way). The cheapest global pass option with surplus reservations will be quite similar I think for the options DB Navigator gives.
To make reservations in Finland, you need to do it in the station ticket offices or you have to Call VR (Finnish railways) on +35 89 2319 2902 (Opening hours: 7:00-22.00; local time GMT+2) English speaking staff available.Didn’t travel in Finland before, so I don’t really know what the (Interrail) prices for the sleeper are.
Well, that’s a broad question. You can get thousands of different suggestions 😅.It all depends on your preference and how you want to travel and when. See as much as you can, or more easy going and get to know the places you stay in a bit better? What’s your budget? Stay in cities, balancing between city-nature or more nature?Do you want to know very well known places, or quieter and lesser known places?With a little bit of extra information from you, we can give you a more concise suggestion list ;)
If you’re under 26 you have very beneficial travel options in Belgium.A trip on a train will never cost you more than 6,6 EUR (Youth ticket or youth multi 10 trips for 53 or 55 EUR).During weekends, weekend tickets are usually beneficial (half priced fares, starting from friday 19h and you can return on the same day, or saturday or sunday.) More info: https://www.belgiantrain.be/frI see you’re Canadian. Sure you don’t plan any other trips in the next weeks/months after your outie to Bruges?Which days you are looking for to travel? If it’s still long in the future, you don’t plan any other trips, don’t buy a pass. Sometimes a pass is more beneficial, if you do last minute trips. Prices are higher closer to your travel date on (international) long distance trajectories.In general, your cheapest option will be:Take an ordinary ticket Paris - Lille (maybe even Tourcoing) via: https://www.sncf-connect.com/.Then a short border crossing ticket Lille/Tourcoing - Mouscron and then an ordinary d
To answer your question @Sh TanBoth connections have hourly (direct) trains between each other.Information about schedules and (ordinary) ticket prices are found here: https://www.bahn.com/en.
@Patrick-oliver In about two weeks the Belgian schedules will be available. A bit later than usual. So you can check again then :)
The new timetable is not yet in the planner (also not the Belgian planner on the link @Angelo gave).21st and 23rd of december are weekdays, so there shouldn’t be much difference to the pre December 11th schedule. On weekends there are often works, although usually not on the Christmas weekends.When you book your reservations, avoid Thalys (very expensive) and take the ordinary IC-train (no reservation needed). You can expect the direct trains from Antwerp Central to Bruges at +/- hh:06 and takes one hour and a half. The new timetable usually only changes times with a couple of minutes. You can take other trains to Gent-Sint-Pieters and change there for trains to Bruges. Doesn’t take much more time, but a bit of a hassle if you have lots of luggage.Don’t forget to admire the station of Antwerp Central, trains to Ghent-Bruges-Coast leave on the upper level. ;)The ICE services seem to be a bit more reliable again the last weeks. The rain of cancellations stopped. This summer they were an
@MartinM Not 100% sure. It was just from the top of my head. There was a train to an airport that wasn't included in the pass at a given moment. But I kinda doubt which one it was. 🤔
You don’t need national express on that route. You’ll be travelling by South Western Railway (London Waterloo - Basingstoke). They accept Eurail passes.I think only Heathrow Express doesn’t accept Interrail/Eurail in the UK. For the rest the UK is a superb interrailing country, with excellent value for money, all-over acceptance of the pass and free reservations (when needed).
It depends from what you want to do and how you like to travel. If you want to see other places than aforementioned cities?If you want to be very flexible (or less planned) and you just want to stay in the big cities but do daytrips and drop by the Alps, Black Forest, other natural areaus, to smaller towns and cities, the seaside,...? And Then I’lld suggest a monthly continuous pass for a month.If you plan strictly and have a really good idea of what you want to do, then just count the days you’ll do the biggest distances on trains and choose a flexible pass according to the days you need :)
In Belgium the schedule for next year has not been fully released yet.Domestic trains in Belgium, are not reservable.There are plenty of trains between Brussels (Eurostar arrival point) and Bruges. On weekdays 4 trains an hour. It takes about an hour, and won’t change substantially with the new schedule. On weekends there are often engineering works on the line, in which you’ll probably be better of via Lille. But much to early to know something for engineering works for april next year.Like @mcadv said, you can go via Lille/Rijsel to Bruges, but that involves 2 interchanges. And the train Lille-Kortrijk is only hourly. Brussels-Bruges is usually the better option.
Your oxygen concentrators are probably medical? There’s no problem at all to travel with them. There are no security checks. You’ll be travelling on trains, not planes. The exception being Eurostar, with some secutainment before boarding and because of leavinge the Schengen-zone/EU. Just bring a medical certificate to be sure, but probably nobody will ask about it on every other rail company than Eurostar. PS. Eurail is the company that sells the passes, but doesn’t drive the trains itself.
Indeed, no need to “book” anything. Just put your journey in the pass and generate the code. That’s your ticket on you’ll be able to jump on any (reservation free) train. The options @EdM gave are very good, but they take time. Much more, but if you like trains and a bit of adventure along less known places, it’s very enjoyable.There are two direct TGV trains from Brussels to Strassbourg as well. They are usually well filled with Eurocrats travelling between the two EU parliamentary cities. But you’ll need reservations of course.Domestic trains in Belgium are not reserveable. Just show up on get on them with a valid pass. On weekdays there are three trains an hour from Bruges to Kortrijk.When are you planning to travel?Please note that there are engineering works between Moeskron/Mouscron and Lille Flandres this semester. (This is the route your reservation free train takes). Some trains get replaced by busses.More info is only available only in Dutch in French: https://www.belgiantrai
I don’t know for Deutsche Bahn, but in several countries there’s a night break (like Belgium), which forms the barrier for the use of your ticket. Which means you can take a train after midnight, with a ticket from the day before. Usually there are not many trains, and the trains that are going usually started their trip before midnight. You’lld better ask at a DB information point, what the specifities of those rules are.
Ondertussen heeft snfc op hun website gezet dat boekingen voor deze treinen op 9 november starten. Is dat dan echt om middernacht op post? Of vanaf een bepaald uur? 😊 @BrendanDB ,enig idee om welk uur dit zou open gaan? Bedankt! Dag @Sofie MoeyaertNormaal is dat inderdaad om middernacht. Ik heb weet van die-hards die tot dan opblijven om te boeken.Geen idee of dat een vakantieperiode is ergens in België of Frankrijk, maar mocht het in een vakantie vallen zou ik wel paraat staan om middernacht. Buiten een vakantieperiode zou ik er mijn slaap niet voor laten ;)
@BrendanDB I meant to update you! Your first comment actually gave me a brilliant idea and I decided to stay a night in Annecy and somehow…. My app actually gave me a route and ticket all the way to the station in les lèchére!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😱 we shall see if it actually pans out lol I’ll report back. But it basically broke it up so I wasn’t spending seven hours again on transit and not sure if I would make it to the town without a taxi! So thank you thank you for your brilliance also I love that you gave me ideas for a little towns to visit because I love the little towns that no one knows about actually I had never heard of Evian or Thonon. I actually only discovered it because I was looking on Booking.com for places cheaper than Lausanne and Montreux! Also all my God you’re right… I actually haven’t experienced the strikes …. But I got updates. knock on wood… But that would be horrible! Does that mean the trains just don’t run? Good, splitting up always helps to bring cl
For your trip today: you could also use this planner https://www.ter.sncf.com/auvergne-rhone-alpes/se-deplacer/horairesThis states more clearly when you have replacement busses. But again, only in French.
If you have no specific plan I think you’ll be best off with a one country pass France indeed. Since you start to get the hang of the flexibility of the pass, and if you stick mainly to local TERs, you can really consider the extra pass! A five or six day pass maybe?You have very ambitious plans, for only 4 days left on your pass. You’re gonna do quite some distances, so I doubt that on the go tickets will be cheaper. It’s also very dependent from region to region.In Hauts-de-France you can take a TGV “TERgv” without reservation between Lille and the coast, for a bargain. In Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) ordinary trains are a lot more expensive.I would caclulate the amount of days you want to do extra, and buy a one country pass. For other regions the price system is a complete riddle: I just can’t find ordinary prices for your trip today for example. France and easy, simple to use transport and ticketing are often not synonymous 🙄On TER there’s no first class, so better not buy
Indeed, you do want to reserve your seats on the longer distance trains from and to London (for free!) via https://www.gwr.com/your-tickets/seat-reservations or https://www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/make-a-reservation/
Now that’s a challenging one ;)I think you go best via the transport planner of the région (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): https://www.oura.com/Unfortunately only available in French.I think the closest station is Gare de Notre-dame-de-Briançon. A bit of a walk to your hotel (about 35 minutes), or you have to call a very local taxi. Knowing France a bit, pavements in this area, can be a bit tricky.There seems to be a bus stop, which is not uncommon on the TER network. Some TER-trains get replaced by busses, because of works or “temporary” shutdowns (usually because the lack of investment in the rail infrastructure). You might just want to call your hotel Radiana and ask if they know more? It probably won’t be frequent if it’s a bus.Or you might ask them if they want to reserve the taxi for you. The taxi drivers probably don’t speak English ^^If possible you best ask in a (bigger) station like Annecy, Chambéry or Albertville.Itinerary information in France is very spread out, alas. Can be diffi
HelloIndeed. Timetables so far forward are difficult to access, because of the big yearly timetable change on December 11th. A lot of planning is still being done in many countries. Some minor changes happen as well throughout the year, mostly because of engineering works.In many countries, it’s only available 3-4 months in advance (France). Some even less (Spain, Italy)Always check your journey again on the national train companies websites, a couple of weeks, days before you go. The planner on the Eurail app, doesn’t update very often. Last minute adaptations are always possible.If you have more concrete questions about connections, routes, or you want tips and tricks, the community will always be glad to help :)If you already want a rough overview of the possibilities, you should use planners just a couple of days ahead of today. Then you’ll be able to estimate how much time it takes to get from A to B, what kind of frequencies you can expect,… but for proper itinerary making, exact
Then there’s no suitable solution for your wishes here with Interrail. Nobody can use a pass in one’s own country (except to travel in or out, or to the nearest ferry port or airport).Perhaps some rail savvy fellow countrymen can help you to find a proper solution for your wishes? I guess there will be some creative solutions with domestic tickets, to do a railtour.
Do you want to have a railtour in the UK itself or start in the UK and go to the rest of Europe?As a European you’re limited to interrail passes. With global passes can only use two traveldays in your own country. To get out, and to get back in. You can take as many trains as you want though, on those two days.If you have another nationality, you should be able to use the Eurail global pass, and then you can cruise around the UK too, without limits.
Should Paris-London be fully booked, try Lille-London. It will mean an extra interchange in Lille, but often helps for last minute travel wishes. Fridays and sundays are usually very popular, with a higher risk of being fully booked.Also be aware that for Eurostar you need to be well in advance in the station for passport and security checks. About 45 minutes, best time is indicated on your reservation once you have it.If that doesn’t work out, the ferry Calais-Dover also takes foot passengers at some sailings.
You can take every train you want in the UK with the pass you have.The overview on the website only gives the most popular -very touristic- options. I have travelled to many, more obscure and lesser known locations in the UK with passes, and almost everything goes :). It’s one of the countries where a pass is a real pleasure to use.If you need to reserve seats on trains, do so on https://www.gwr.com/your-tickets/seat-reservations. Reservations in the UK are free, although many trains don’t require them! On longer distances it’s recommended though.The QR code doesn’t work well with ticket gates, but just show it to a member of staff and they’ll let you in or out.When are you going? For which dates did you look for?It might be possible that the train times are not yet uploaded in the rail planner app. The schedule changes on december 11th. You can also check on the GWR-website or any other UK train operator to check where you are going, if you’re confused with the rail planner app.
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