For anyone else stuck, entering “I11111111” worked for me. How safe is this for having a mobile pass? Will they not try and cross reference the pass? Trying to book 2 seats for Naples → Florence and running into this issue.
@BrendanDB Just a general question to you regarding bags. Do you have any recommendations for a good bag that’ll contain all the items we plan on bringing for the entire month trip? I know a very popular brand is Osprey, but they’re quite expensive with a lot of their bags coming in at €150+. Is there any bag suggestions you have for a bag around the €40-70 mark that would be good enough for a month long trip?
I just want to make an extra to not tie yourself too much to big cities. Otherwise you’re cramming 10+ city trips in one holiday, which is in it essence always quite expensive. An interrail pass also helps to discover lesser known, cheaper, smaller places. Especially in summer you might just want to get out these scorchingly hot cities to cool off 🙂. If the summer is comparable to the last summers, you can often expect 35° C + for most of your destinations below the Alps and in Central Europe that time of the year! You just want to do nothing and stay in the shade with those temperatures at midday. For Italy, Spain and France timetables are usually available 3-4 months in advance. Sometimes even less. Spain is notoriously difficult to find timetables. Don’t stress when it doesn’t show up. Just wait a bit, but don’t be scared to book your accomodation. The rest of the other countries’ timetables should be available much longer in advance. The rest of your journey seems doable btw, but
It’s a bit tricky indeed to do it in one go. The fastest way Barcelona-Milan, over Paris has an extortianate reservation fee, adding an extra reservation fee to Milan and you’re at the cost of a hotel night for 2 persons. And choosing for regional trains, than you’ll need to have an overnight stay what so ever if you dont want to spend 24 hours continuosly on trains. And the ferry costs the same anyway. Whatever the option, price will be more or less the same. A catch 22. But you’re early to book, I’m sure you can find something very reasonably priced somewhere between Marseille and Nice for July, in relative proximity to a station. You can take whatever train and get out anywhere you want. The flexibility of a continous global interrail pass it is sometimes too nice too handle.😅 That does sound amazing haha! I haven’t really looked into just how flexible the pass is. I get that it’s like….you just add the train journey to your phone and then away you go but that always just sounds w
I think you’ll find cities like, Nîmes, Montpellier, Avignon a bit cheaper than Marseille. If you’re really adamant on Marseille, it’s a good middle point anyhow. You probably can find cheaper accomodation in the outskirts or something like Aubagne. Marseille has a good tram system. I wouldn’t be too scared of hostels too if your budget is tight. Most have a selection of seperate bedrooms, without the chaos and snorrers of a big dormitory. ;) Or the ferry, Barcelona - Genua. It has the cost of a reasonably priced hotel night, and you travel sleeping at night. And you skip high season prices in the south of France 🙂 But you do lose the nice views. Choosing is losing alas! It’s not so much that Marseille is a real bucket list place for me, it just seems like the best middleground place between Barcelona and Milan. Our main focus really is just that getting from Barca to Milan. It’ll be nice seeing the cities of France like Montpellier etc. But I just think our budget and the time we wa
All Trenitalia are covered Inc VM to Milan. Re flying between Mad and Mil why? You can easily find a double for well under 100 per night and travelling by regional and IC train from VM to Milan is only 3 euro each. The routing is picturesque and relaxing. You have 2 days of adventure. Assuming you have a fixed number of days away you have the same food bill. One place worth a stop is Cannes rather than Nice. Smaller and station is in centre of town. Trains to VM from there.. I was having a look at Cannes, And flying would be from Barcelona to Milan, it would just say costs on things like food on the train journey from Barcelona → Milan. Personally I’d love to do the whole train route, but me and my partner are just trying to remain conscious of our budgets and we’re not sure how much the cities that we need to stop in between Barcelona → Milan are going to eat up.Ye Cannes seems a lot nicer, I haven’t heard the best of things about Nice I won’t lie lol.
For me that last point sounds sacriligious indeed 😅. But your budget is what it is. You probably will have some luggage, so you’lld better factor in a bit of an extra cost too. You will travel in high season, so prices will be getting higher qutie soon. The dark, cold and wet january months usually helps people to book their summer trips ;) The route you mentioned is quite slow though. A quick check on the train planner, on a random Thursday for this month (without High speed trains) has a long travel time in one go. More than 20 hours. You might want to split it in smaller bits. Montpellier, Nîmes, Avignon, are nice smaller cities. Or even in a much smaller place that has a station… But, it’s high season anyway, so don’t expect modest prices anywhere. Or you could try to get a TGV to Valence from Perpignan, Narbonne, Montpellier or Nîmes, change to a TER there to Chambère, and take another TGV to Milan. That can be done in +/- 12 hours with a milder reservation cost. Or -with a mont
“An alternative approach, especially starting in Madrid would be to use regional trains from Barcelona, there are 2 routes but the obvious one is via Port Bou into France, and then regional and Inter City trains to Milan. It obviously takes a bit longer but saves about 60 to 80 euro on TGVs to Paris and then to Milan.” With regards to this would a lot of these regional trains be covered by interrail or would they be of extra cost to us? The regional train are covered by Interrail and you don't need to pay any reservations. Perfect ok thank you AnnaB and BredanDB, that helps a lot! I suppose the proposed route using regionals then from Barcelona would be:Barcelona → Port-BouPort-Bou → MontpellierMontpellier → MarseilleMarseille → NiceNice → Milan via Ventimiglia?Does that sound like that would be correct? I thought I remember seeing somewhere that the Ventimiglia → Milan was no longer covered by inter-rail since 2019? Not sure how true that is but. So would that route be a go
Important that you be clear whether you are considering using the railway as a mode of rapid transport between cities or more of a sedate journey of exploration. Using high speed trains as you would use short hop airlines is fine, but many of the countries you are planning charge mandatory reservation fees for those trains, which can rack up a few hundred Euros. An alternative approach, especially starting in Madrid would be to use regional trains from Barcelona, there are 2 routes but the obvious one is via Port Bou into France, and then regional and Inter City trains to Milan. It obviously takes a bit longer but saves about 60 to 80 euro on TGVs to Paris and then to Milan. As Seewulf points out there are direct services from Bologna, Verona and Venice through the alps to Munich. At this stage I would advise keeping your plans reasonably flexible and, depending on budget, I would suggest you consider a flexible pass that allows you unlimited travel days during the pass validity. Yo
I’m going to reply with the proposed route here. Some of the cities here have no stay days as we plan on using them to bridge us to other cities, but if you think there are better ways feel free to edit and send it back :)https://www.interrail.eu/en/tripplanner-map#youth=2&start=2023-07-06&end=2023-08-04&travelDays=16&trip=254ES03%2C3unES02%2CaxsFR00%2C2zeFR01%2C30iFR00%2C3dzIT02%2C3g7IT02%2C3clIT01%2C3dfIT01%2C3dzIT00%2C36wDE01%2CavCZ03%2C245DE02%2C24fNL02%2C236BE01%2C240FR03%2C39eGB02
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