Eurail Passes - Suggestions?

Question

Hey guys

I'm headed to Europe in November, starting in Germany and hoping to hit Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK, Poland and possibly Scandanavia (scanrail).

I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the Eurail pass system. I'm under 26 so I qualify for the youth pass, and I'll be there for at least 4 weeks, hopefully up to 6. I feel like the Global is too many (18 countries) so maybe I should just go with the Select and just eat the cost of a ticket to go into Poland one day?...

Anyway, does anyone have any experience with the system and how it works? Any suggestion as to what arrangement worked for you?

Thanks!!

Renny

Answer 1

Poland has relative cheap railways, so it is not useful to buy an expensive pass to cover the country.
The UK is not on the Eurail pass, but it has a pass system of its own, as many countries do.
Most of the one country passes seem to be the same or almost the same as the passes they sell in the countries.

You might also want to look into the prices of the tickets if you buy them city to city, specially as the international ones are multi stop and valid for 2 months. You could look into the cost of a Munich to Edinburgh ticket via Paris, to take an example, and just use train passes in the countries where you travel a lot. These tickets also come with a huge discount for those not yet 26.

I never used Eurail, and when I had interail (alike but for European citizens) I used it only for 4 countries mostly. But they did not do select passes and country passes at that time.

Google for train info and the country you are interested in for train sites in the different countries.
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/passes/eurail_index.htm
This site has a train planner for most of Europe.
And the next one is one of the better national ones for international travel.
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/international/englisch/international_guests.shtml

Answer 2

There are fees to prepare it in lots of situations. In optimum of Europe, a fee cost tag for a prepare isn't a matching ingredient as a seat reservation. On some trains, you do not might desire to purchase a seat: you ought to take a seat down in any open (unreserved) seat on the prepare, or contained interior the aisles or hallways or stand in between autos regardless of if it is finished. (in case you're traveling midday on weekdays as a tourist, you likely do not might desire to rigidity approximately seat reservations in those situations.) generally, besides the actuality that, you're required to purchase a seat reservation. The Eurail bypass will conceal the fee of the fee cost tag, yet not the fee of the mandatory seat reservation. in case you propose on traveling on in one day trains then a reservation ought to be the two required and intensely severe priced. regardless of if a Eurail bypass is a sturdy deal relies upon plenty on the area you're going. in case you're in eastern Europe, I say do not purchase it in any admire: the trains there are extremely shrink priced and it quite is shopper-friendly to purchase tickets on the stations. In Western Europe, it could make subjects much less of a concern and in case you're traveling for the time of extra beneficial severe priced Euro-zone international places then it is outstanding worth it, too. So according to which of those is your widespread holiday spot, i might have very distinctive strategies for you. besides the actuality that, even in Western Europe, i might very heavily verify out distinctive Europe's suited-worry-free fairly-shrink priced airlines. I honestly have been given Ryan Air tickets for, at distinctive situations, a million British pound and a million Euro, not mutually with taxes. So frankly, it quite is generally extra beneficial reachable to fly around the country than it is to take the severe-severe high quality, relaxing trains.