Speaking from a strictly personal point of view: If you are an adventurous sort of person and have an adaptive approach to your holiday then please feel free to come over and have a great time. If however you are one who likes everything just so and dislikes disruption to your plans then maybe you would be better on an organised tour. Of course there are disruptions, but with such a diverse and comprehensive network there is always an alternative approach and with the flexibility of a global pass costs are minimal. The community is a focal point for those who have issues but many pass users have a trouble free experience. Using a Global pass can be a little confusing, especially the strange relationship between reservations and “tickets”. However once understood (with the help if needed from the community) you. can easily and cheaply cross Europe from end to end. The strange relationship with global passes is that, unlike when you buy a ticket for busy trains with included reservatio
For THIS trip alone-no other ones, a pass is bad value and not needed. Just buy either locally or advance via a neatly working site. Ams-BE: book at least 1 week advance for lower price via NS-international. Use the hourly slightly slower local BeNeLux train, not the Thalys. Can use any of those trains that day, not a specific one. Can even break en route to admire f.e. the railway cathedral in Antwerpen. Br->BR; just buy from machine on the day itself-2-3 trains/hr in 55 mins. IF you are ju/se-nior, then there are much discounted single return fares. Br-Paris: choose-try to avoid that Thalys (superfast trains NL-BE-FR): use again local train-change Kortrijk-to LILLE (first main stop in FR)-order online via b-europe. Use hourly French SNCF TGV LIlle (other station-10 mins walk) to Paris: via connect SNCF-this pays to do advance on a more quiet mid-day time, but ticket tied to that day/train then. More info and comforting advice: seat61.com Thank you! I took a screen shot of this ad
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