Will be travelling from North-west France to Bari, Italy over a 3 week period from the middle of August through the 2nd week in September. The route is straight forward enough; Cherbourg – Caen – Paris – Dijon – Bern – Milan – Venice – Florence – Rome – Bari. Obviously looking at doing this as cheap as possible (we’re on route to the Middle East and I know it’s cheaper but we’ll still be trying to keep most of what little money we have for that region). My question is, having looked at EURail options (the prices of which scare me!) is it better to get say a 3 country pass or just get the tickets (either bus or rail) as we go? Which, in your opinion will be more of a saving? I’ve travelled a lot in Asia and but trying to figure out a budget in my home continent of Europe is giving me a migraine. Thanks guys… any help much appreciated.
Since train travel in Italy is relatively inexpensive, I didn't take the time to compare point-to-point fares for your routes with the cost of a raillpass that would include Italy. I'm siimply assuming that a pass won't save you any money. You can check the fares yourself at www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html.<BR><BR>Instead, I used the SNCF site and the Swiss Rail site to compare the cost of point-to-point tickets for Cherbourg-Caen, Caen-Paris, Paris-Dijon, and Dijon-Bern (via Lausanne) with a four-day France-Switzerland Saver pass. That pass costs $314 US. The total for 2nd class point-to-tickets for those routes, converted from euros and Swiss francs to dollars, is $194 US.
You would do well to check the fares and do the math yourself, but my conclusion is that point-to-point tickets is the way to go.
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