Is there a Vienna-Paris train that goes through Cologne and Brussels for a 1 way ticket with stopovers?

Question

We (2 adults, 2 children) need to travel from Vienna to Paris in Nov. I'd like to see Cologne and Brussels, too. We were told that if we buy a single ticket, we could make as many stopovers as the route allows. Any ideas of the best prices and schedules? Thanks!

Answer 1

Ask for a ticket Vienna-Paris via Cologne and Brussels.
It will not be one train or even one train company, but you can get tickets even worse than that.

Here is a train travel planner that covers all of Europe:
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/fares_schedules/index.htm
But they may not be able to sell you the tickets, as they are for selling passes.

Here is the travel planner for Germany:
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/international/englisch/international_guests.shtml
Belgium:
http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/index.php
And France:
http://www.voyages-sncf.com/dynamic/_SvHomePage?_DLG=SvHomePage&_CMD=cmdHomepageUK&WB=HP&rfrr=4685ac17fd2e7656e4918c53b246a3f7

The German travel planner is able to come up with a travel plan for all the journey, but I got high speed trains in it, which would require you to book a seat for a specific train when you book your ticket.
It is posible to travel normal trains all the way, but to work that out you need to use all different travel planners and try several times.

To buy a ticket like this through internet is going to be difficult, but you might be able to do it by phoning a railway company in Europe, I think again the German site is your best bet.
If you get a person or computer voice only speaking German, stay on the line (and do not push any numbers,) till they hand you on to an English speaking person.
All these offices have most people speaking English well enough to help you.
You should have your travel plans worked out at precise as you can at hand, to reduce the time it will cost.

If I can find more details I will add a bit to this post, I am not sure I will find enough to be useful to you.

Added:
In the German site you can chose means of transport, there select without ICE/IC/EC and do not select trains where the red dot for compulsory reservations comes up.
Best break the journey into parts for Vienna-Cologne and Cologne-Paris via Brussels.

Added 2:
For the Brussels-Paris part, best use the Belgium or France site, those are better than the German one for that leg.
Added 3:
Correction, I can not find the button for no High speed trains on either the Belgium nor the French site.
I know it is posible to travel without high-speed and so without reservations between Brussels and Paris, but I can not get the sites to tell me how.
It did involve a change at Lille.

Answer 2

The Eurostar provider is the circulate-channel provider in basic terms. in case you connect a convention at Calais for Paris it is going to likely be a French enjoyed ones provider, no longer a Eurostar. you may walk in the time of a footbridge and into Calais city, or capture a bus from the ferry terminal, or take a taxi. then you definately take a community practice from Calais Ville station to Lille (the place you circulate to TGV for Paris).