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Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Sparcheine Komfort obligatory?

Thanks, all clear again. We will start puzzling our trip together this week.

1 month ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

Mmmmhh I can’t find the Frecciarossa on trenitalia.com either… a few high-speed trains are actually missing that day (and that week). Possible explanations : engineering works at that time (unlikely but we never know) timetable not available yet for whatever reason As a further proof I’m not able to book any .italo (Trenitalia’s competitor) tickets that week. I’d wait a few days or weeks, these high-speed trains won’t sell out a long time in advance. At the moment the 14:20 train is available on trenitalia.com (for regular tickets) but not tickets.oebb.at… Edit : I’m glad that you were able to book the night trains ! Thanks again! I will wait a few weeks and than try again. Hopefully the Frecciarossa will ride those weeks, a big part of our journey is based on those timetables… :-) Another question that came up during reservations. I added the train home to my trip, but it says IC60402. The obb app says NJ 402. I found these are actually the same trains, but the NJ is the part of the

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

You could also board the train in Arnhem at 22:02. IC ‘s-Hertogenbosch 20:54 - Arnhem 21:37 Nightjet Arnhem 22:02 - Zürich HB 08:05 There is a supplement for couchettes and sleepers (book way in advance, they sell out quickly). As @rvdborgt said, don’t count on the 8-min connection as Nightjets are notoriously late. I’d recommend going as far as Zurich, you could maybe sleep a little bit more on the train. EC Zürich HB 09:33 - Milano Centrale 12:50 11€ seat reservation Frecciarossa Milano Centrale 13:10 - Roma Termini 16:49 10€ (or the 13:58 train which arrives 21 min later but gives you more time in Milan) Edit : As @ralderton suggested, you should board in Arnhem. But the Nightjet is already full for the dates you mentioned (I could just get my tickets last weekend for 5th August) so you’ll need to adapt your journey. And btw the Italian timetable has not been yet published for summer. You can check for the next days and it certainly won’t change much Dear travellers, I have boug

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

I don't know why I've linked the sleeper map while you've booked couchettes. My bad ! Yes they are together. If it was a 6-people couchette the numbers 55 and 56 would be used but then it's all for you. (unless I'm doing something wrong but I don't think so) https://www.seat61.com/images/sleepers-couchettes2-large.jpg Thanks for the late night reply. We can go to sleep now. :-) We didn't quite figure out your first map, but that makes sense now… ;-)

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

You can book a 4-people couchette and you should be together -> see the couchette numbers you get after checkout. If they're not together (carriage map here : https://www.seat61.com/reference/trainseatplans/amsterdam-zurich-ab33.jpg ), you could always cancel the booking free of charge, as it's a flexi purchase. Done, we got:coach 157Couchette berth 51-54in a four person couchette. So that would be all in the same couchette wouldn't it?

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

Travellers, Another question that came up during making reservations for the Nightjet. As I told above I'm travelling with my family (wife, kids of 12 and 13). Booking a private couchette is pretty expensive. But if I make reservations for the four of us in a 4 or 6 person-couchette there won't be any guarantee we sit in the same couchette, will there? Leaving our children on their own in a couchette with 5 strangers for the night is also a bit questionable for us. How are your experiences with reservations in these couchettes? Is it possible to swap places with other travellers perhaps (if we find anyone who is willing to)? Thanks again, almost there! :-)

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

For the return journey there are more Nightjet options (but be aware that it won’t stop in Arnhem on selected dates due to engineering works) : Basel SBB - Utrecht Centraal 23:13 - 09:22 176€ for a (private) 4-people couchette (for example on 19.08) I’d leave Naples at 10:30 and this journey will enable you to see another area of Switzerland : Frecciarossa Napoli Centrale 10:30 - Milano Centrale 14:58 EC Milano Centrale 15:20 - Basel SBB 19:32 You then eat dinner somewhere in Basel before catching the night train at 23:13. :) You could also travel via Simplon/Basel SBB on the way to Italy and back via Gotthard/Zurich as you prefer... Nice, so it is possible in 1 day. Utrecht works fine for us! :-)

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

Also thanks Ralderton for your answer. So Arnhem (or Amsterdam, travelling from Den Bosch is about the same time) is a better place to start our journey? Offcourse we can pay the ticket from Den Bosch to Arnhem or Amsterdam ourselves so it won't take up our outbound journey.I haven't planned the way back home. It will probably start at Naples than, not in Rome. Perhaps it is still possible to get the Nightjet from Basel to Arnhem and only use one (inbound) travelday.

10 months ago

Hanno MaasKeeps calm and carries on

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Uncertainty about travelling days for global pass

Thanks for the fast reply, about the travelling days is quite clear now. I will check some prices and compare those to an extra day within the global pass. I saw your advice about making reservations on oebb.at in another conversation in this community, also very helpfull. Also thanks for the trip-advice. At the moment I cannot see any travel-times in august (we plan to leave around the 5th or 6th). The trip in my question came up when I was looking for possibilities, ofcourse there are other options. Unfortunately a lot of them had lots of changing time at certain trainstations (I'm not looking forward to spending 6 hours in Chiasso waiting for our next train during the middle of the night). At the moment the train that arrives in Basel at 6.20h seems to be the first one, but I can imagine changing time of 6 minutes on such a long travel is uncertain indeed. I will probably look into our definite travelling plans later when it can be found here.

10 months ago

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