Hello @Brizzall ,It’s been a year already, but I think we used the made up one.
Hi all!Back from our 5 weeks European trip and wanted to give you an update. :-)First, it was very well worth it to get the Eurail pass for us all (7). It was a 7 days pass for 30 days, and we had 7 days of trains, so it was perfect for us. Taking the First Class pass was also a good idea, since it was not much more expensive and we were able to benefit from it a lot. It was not as easy as expected to take the trains. There were last minute plaform changes, instructions were ot always clear and there were some delays. The staff at DB were very kind and helpful. It was a great trip, we visited 8 cities we never visited before, in about 5 weeks: London, Amsterdam, Copenhaguen, Stockholm, Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels and Antwerp. Our trip from Amsterdam to Copenhaguen, on the same day on Dec 22nd, was not fun at all. It was supposed to be Amsterdam to Osnabrück, Osnabrück to Hamburg and Hamburg to Copenhaguen. There was an accident (on the road I think?) about 60 minutes on our way to Osnabr
Thanks a lot @AnnaB .I reserved our Eurostar seats from London to Amsterdam as soon as I read your message this morning (Montreal). Thanks for reminding me of the urgency, I’m glad we managed to get our reservations! Got them as was recommended from https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish About this:For making the reservation for the Swedish day train you can use the same PCN. The demand for seats on trains to Stockholm on the 23rd of Dec will be very high.Looks like we have to wait Nov 9th to make the reservations for the high speed trains, will look from time to time though to make sure we do not miss the chance.Will try to find some time tonight to buy the Mobile pass, get my own Pass Cover Number and book some other trains in the next few days.Thanks!
Thanks a lot @AnnaB , very useful.As you suggested above, looks like the Plan A is now traveling by day, and not take a night train.Our initial/OLD plan mentioned in my first post (above) was the following:From Montreal(Canada) to London(UK), arriving in London on Dec 17th 2022 (plane tickets already bought) From London to Amsterdam with Eurostar here. (Dec 20th) From Amsterdam to Hamburg on Dec 22nd From Hamburg to Stockholm on Dec 22nd too (night train with SJ, info here)Here is the latest plan then between London and Stockholm.From Montreal(Canada) to London(UK), arriving in London on Dec 17th 2022 (plane tickets already bought) - SAME as before From London to Amsterdam with Eurostar here. (Dec 20th) - SAME as before Whole day spent in Amsterdam (Dec 21th) From Amsterdam to Copenhaguen on Dec 22nd. Looks like a long whole day trip. Found on Bahn. Spend the night in Copenhaguen From Copenhaguen to Stochholm (about 5 hours, high speed train form sj.se) on Dec 23rdWe want to be i
Hi, again, thanks for all the help. With all your explanations, it now seems less complicated than I previously thought. We all will be buying mobile Eurail passes for this trip then. 😊 I thought there was only one company offering night trains from Hamburg to Stockholm (https://www.sj.se/en/travel-info/sj-euronight.html) but I understand now that there is also https://www.snalltaget.se/en/berlin by reading carefully the message from @mcadv message. From what I can see though on https://www.snalltaget.se/en/berlin is that Dec 20th 2022 is the last train before Christmas, so it would not work out for us. From what I understand, https://www.sj.se/en/travel-info/sj-euronight.html is our last chance for a night train on Dec 22, that we can only book starting Nov 9th at sj.se . Am I missing something here? Talked to my parents this morning (Montreal time), and 1st class seat it will be! 😊Thanks @Yorkie Thanks for the help about the differences between the pass and the reservations. So he
Again, thanks for the help.@Al_G , oh, thanks for the https://www.snalltaget.se/en/berlin link. We will move our trip from the 22nd to the 21th to go from Hamburg to Stockholm then, if of course we manage to get a night train for that date..@AnnaB and @rvdborgt , you are totally right (of course), we can check availability on https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish without a pass. Thanks.@AnnaB , wow, what you wrote here is very useful : “You only need one pass cover number to make all reservations. “ I was afraid we would all need to make our reservations individually. So if I understand correctly, let’s say I make a reservation for 7 people on bahn.com. To do so, I will enter one of our Pass Cover Number to get a 7 people reservation from bahn.com. Then I guess that each of us 7 will need to enter the reservation number in our Eurail Mobile Pass? @mcadv and @AnnaB , you were right about the prices. I looked at the sites mentionned above (Eurostar, sj.se and bahn.com) to c
Wow, thanks for all these answers, this is very useful. Very glad I wrote here!@AnnaB , I forgot to write that the plan was to leave London on Dec 20th from London to Amsterdam. Can you tell me if there are pass holder seats available on that day? I cannot find the information from https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish since I still do not have a Eurail pass.Will try to spend some time tonight (Montreal/ET time) calculating how much money the passes will save us and will write it back here for those interested. Still not sure if it will be the best way to go. At some point in the trip there will be 7 of us traveling together, so managing 7 mobile passes and lots of reservations might be confusing (Activation, all of us with a different pass cover number, each with our own reservations, etc.)Thanks again!
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