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Itinerary

  • Amsterdam to Brussels May 16th - no reservations/supplemen
  • Brussels to Paris May 20th - no reservations/supplement
    • Versailles day trip - no reservations

In addition to @thibcabe extensive answer:

  • Amsterdam to Brussels, for a reservation free itinerary make sure you take the hourly IC to Brussels, not the Thalys high speed train.
  • Brussels to Paris is possible to do reservation free, if you go via Charleroi and Maubeuge to Paris via TER. A bit slower, and connections are more limited. About possible about three times a day. It would look like something like this:
    But much cheaper than Thalys of course, and always availability.

 

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- Brussels - Paris : the direct Thalys (1h22) has expensive mandatory reservations (32€ 1st class). Or IC train to Kortrijk, regional train across the border to Lille and then TGV to Paris (limited 10€ or 20€) : 2h longer, for example Brussels 07:39 - Paris 11:14

- Paris - Versailles : Eurail Pass not valid on RER trains. There are TER trains from Paris-Montparnasse but way less frequent. Otherwise buy regular tickets.

- Paris - Nice : limited 10€ (or 20€). Book either on eurail.com (website only) : 2€ booking fee per person per journey or https://travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWish (4€ booking fee per order, so could be Lille - Paris + Paris - Nice)

- Nice - Monterosso : a few options

- Nice - Ventimiglia reservation-free

- Ventimiglia - Monterosso al Mare RE trains all the way (reservation-free, quickest way) or IC train for part of the journey (3€ on tickets.oebb.at)

- Monterosso al Mare - Venice : depends on the route (always on tickets.oebb.at). For example :

- Monterosso al Mare - Viareggio 09:07 - 09:58 3€

- Viareggio - Firenze S.M.N. 10:14 - 11:52 reservation-free

- You could spend a few hours in Florence :)

- Firenze S.M.N. - Venezia S. Lucia 12:20 - 14:34 10€

- Venice - Salzburg : best option (15€ supplement incl. seat reservation -> tickets.oebb.at)

- Venezia S. Lucia - Villach Hbf 09:56 - 13:11

- Villach Hbf - Salzburg Hbf 13:16 - 15:48

- Cologne - Amsterdam : reservation recommended, train can get pretty busy. It's free anyway on tickets.oebb.at

 

tickets.oebb.at will be very helpful to you from Italy onwards. There's no booking fee and it gives free 1st class optional reservations.

For mandatory reservations add Eurrail/Interrail as a discount and select one-way tickets.

B-europe requires pass cover numbers. You can use the pass cover number generator found on the forum. tickets.oebb.at only requires the name of one traveller, nothing else.

Let us know for any other questions :)

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