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How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass?
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:24:57 -0800 (PST), Nicole Owens wrote:
How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? Used to depend on the number of days, try a Google search. |
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Nicole Owens wrote:
How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? The Eurorail pass is the most expensive one! Of course, I don't try to see how many coutries I can count coup on in a single trip, but if you want to take a closer look at a single country, there are single- country passes that are a small fraction of of the price of Eurail passes. There are also cheaper passes for two or three countries on a single pass, or at least were, last time I looked. If you're determined to use the expensive option, it's still going to be only a fraction of the cost of tge trip. You'll need to eat and sleep as well. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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Erilar wrote:
Nicole Owens wrote: How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? The Eurorail pass is the most expensive one! Does it allow you to go between London and Manchester on any train? That would pay for itself in a journey or two... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |
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On 23/02/2012 11:44 AM, Irwell wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:24:57 -0800 (PST), Nicole Owens wrote: How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? Used to depend on the number of days, try a Google search. I did it close to 20 years ago. It wasn't cheap but it was my wife who booked the trip over there and the pass, so I was just going along for the ride. And what a great ride it turned out to me. At the time (1993) the Eurorail pass for three of us travelling as buddies (?)... we had to be travelling together, for 15 days unlimited travel was $1500 Cdn, a little over $1000 US at the time. There are several options for varying numbers of days of travel over different periods of time. Anyone thinking about getting a pass needs to consider several factors, like how many days you will be travelling, how long a period you need it for and consider the costs of the different passes. Our pass worked out fine for us. I was torn when we contacted some relatives in Switzerland and got hijacked for three days. I sure can't complain about the wonderful hospitality but they insisted on us staying there for three days, so that was three days of travel we missed out on and by the time we got to Venice and had to start heading back to Paris we ended up giving up time in Italy in order to get back to Paris before our pass expired. We might have been better off with a set number of days over a longer period. It was a great way to see Europe. We were able to stay at a friend's place in Germany for a week and to make day trips and over-nighters from there. We started of in Paris, spent some time in Strasbourg, Baden Baden, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Gimmelwald, Lausanne, Venice and Nice over 15 days. The only real snag we had was finding ourselves on a railway to Lauterbrunnen that was a private rail and not covered by the pass. |
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Why ask here ?
Go to the site. "Nicole Owens" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : ... How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? |
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How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass?
The Eurorail pass is the most expensive one! Because there have been passes with similar names, it is important to get the exact name right in order to be talking about the same thing. The correct general name for the family of passes is "Eurail" passes and http://www.eurail.com is their web site. "Eurailpass" (one word) is a former name for what is now called a "Eurail Global" pass. "Europass" is a former name for what is now called a "Eurail Select" pass. "Eurorail pass" has never existed. Of course, I don't try to see how many coutries I can count coup on in a single trip, but if you want to take a closer look at a single country, there are single-country passes that are a small fraction of the price of Eurail passes. There are also cheaper passes for two or three countries on a single pass... Eurail offers "Eurail One Coutry" passes for one country (but see below), "Eurail Regional" passes for two adjacent coutries, and "Eurail Select" passes for 3, 4, or 5 adjacent countries. For these purposes Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg count as one country that is adjacent to Ireland. None of the passes cover the UK (that's England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), and in Switzerland only some railways are included. One important point is that if you are over 26 years old, then Eurail passes are only available for first-class travel. Railways in different countries may offer their own passes as well, covering their own country and in some cases adjacent countries. If you will be traveling in the UK or if you only want a pass for second-class travel, then you should look into these. Some of the passes are only available for things like "10 travel says within 2 months" while others, including the Eurail Global Pass, are also available in continuous form, like "every day within 21 days". At one time the first type was called a "flexi" pass, but Eurail doesn't use this term any more. I think it was misleading, because it's really the continuous pass that offers you the most flexibility: the other type is useful if most of your long-distance travel will be confined to a few days of the trip. (For example, if you want to spend a few days in each of a sequence of cities.) If you're determined to use the expensive option, it's still going to be only a fraction of the cost of tge trip. You'll need to eat and sleep as well. That's true. On some of my trips to Europe I've judged that it probably wasn't worthwhile getting any sort of rail pass. However, on my most recent trip I was wrong. We traveled from Paris to Brussels, then to some other points in Belgium, then to Koblenz and Heidelberg, then around Switzerland for a while and finally back to Paris. We traveled mostly secnd class and paid $1,270 (Canadian dollars) per person for the tickets. Of this about $240 was on Swiss railways that Eurail doesn't cover, but the other $1,030 would have been covered by a 21-day Eurail Global Pass that currently costs $838 (Canadian). (A 4-country pass would have been even cheaper but might not have offered enough travel days.) On the other hand, (1) if we'd had a Eurail pass, we would have missed our first train of the trip, because we didn't get to the train station (at CDG Airport) until it was already boarding, and a Eurail pass has to be validated at the ticket office before the first use. By buying an actual ticket in advance (through our travel agent), we were able to step right on. And (2) we were partly making up the route as we went along, and didn't know until well into the trip that we would return to Paris within 21 days. The next longer pass would have cost significantly more. The more you know about where you're going to go, the better you figure out which pass you want, if you want one. -- Mark Brader "You mean he made love to you?" Toronto "Well, he went through all the emotions." -- EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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David Horne:
Does it allow you to go between London and Manchester on any train? That would pay for itself in a journey or two... "Martin": or Bristol to London, which I am told can be more expensive than Nice to Bristol Eurail passes do not cover Great Britain at all. Britrail passes do, and can indeed be used on any train there. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | Canada... likes to sit up there looking harmless, | like the USA's hat... --Anthony McCarron |
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Mark Brader wrote:
David Horne: Does it allow you to go between London and Manchester on any train? That would pay for itself in a journey or two... "Martin": or Bristol to London, which I am told can be more expensive than Nice to Bristol Eurail passes do not cover Great Britain at all. Britrail passes do, and can indeed be used on any train there. Spoilsport! -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |
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Martin wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:56:00 +0000, (David Horne) wrote: Erilar wrote: Nicole Owens wrote: How much is it to travel around europe with the euro rail pass? The Eurorail pass is the most expensive one! Does it allow you to go between London and Manchester on any train? That would pay for itself in a journey or two... or Bristol to London, which I am told can be more expensive than Nice to Bristol Top price for Bristol to London is £179 in standard class. Manchester to London is £296. I would only pay £296 to fly to Nice if it was for business, and at the last minute. Gawd, we're going to Delhi on holiday soon for £400... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |
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