OK, so I'm hoping to go to a few coutnries by rail after my semester in Rome ends. I can only stay for two weeks tops so i'm thinking 10-day InterRail Pass... Now, I have to get back into Rome for my flight back to the States - that's impossible to change. Is it feasible to do Zagreb (maybe), Vienna, Prague, Munich, Paris, and Nice OR Marseilles and then go back down into central Italy in only 10 days? I mean clearly I'd end up sleeping on the trains, on the move all the time, so it would mean only one day tops in each city. But... is it feasible? Anyone know how much it might cost (museum entrance fees, a quick bite to eat, etc.) overall for this loop?
I'm already planning a trip to Budapest for a weekend, MAYBE going to Amsterdam, and trying to get into Prague to get that out of the way, but besides that, I feel like I will have wasted my time here in Europe if I don't go to Vienna, Germany, or France...
Any tips or suggestions and possible price ranges that it might involve?
Do you want to spend your ten days looking at 'Europe' through a dirty train window? If so, go ahead with your itinerary. If not, ditch the rail pass idea, shorten your itinerary and get off the train and explore a little. Sure, it's feasible. Most things are in this day and age. Advisable? Probably not.
Yes A train pass will not do much good, if you don't give these towns a reasonale three days in each place. The point of travel is not really just to say you've been there.
Go slow, enjoy, and learn something by talking with folks at leisure in cafés too. Things that can't be learned from books. Unless you research for weeks.
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yeah i'm actually cutting it down to Vienna and Bratislava, Prague, Berlin, and Paris, and probably going to do 3 days for Vienna and Bratislava together, and the rest: 2 days each. If I can switch my flight schedule to come out of Paris into Rome for my flight back, I'm all set. That's 11 days and not all those days would be spent traveling anyway.
That any better, you all think?
And, in any case, of course it's not advisable - but I'm a freakin student on a budget, this whole SEMESTER IN ROME was not advisable, but hey.
Yes, it's better but it still means three days or so out of your eleven days spent on travel.
Bratislava - Prague takes about 4 hours on the train. Add an hour either side for transferring from/to your accommodation, checking out and in, unpacking, and so on. That's a six-hour journey door-to-door. If your train departs at 11.00 a.m. that's practically a full day on travel.
The same applies to Prague - Berlin: the train journey takes about 4.5 - 5 hours.
Berlin - Paris. Have you checked the journey times? It's a minimum of 8.5 hours on the train. So that's a complete full day on travel unless you take the overnight train which will cost you more.
That leaves you with eight days to visit four cities.
Have you included your final departure day as one of your eleven days?
You even write in a panic!
You're going to need quality rest, which doesn't happen on trains. You need a day or twoo off, to digest the constant sensory overload. Including the new turns of fraise. Takes brain work and more questions.
Have you bp'ed to Europe b4?
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To be honest, if you're on a time saver, they are great cities to put together, but Bratislava is tiny - you can easily see it all on one day - so make Bratislava and Vienna two days if you're rushing it - Blaguss do fab buses in and out of Vienna to all over Europe - so look them up and see what you can get.
This is still a crazy hectic itinerary though. I'd leave out Paris if I were you. Not because it's not worth seeing, but it is a huge city - and you'll miss so much just by travelling. There's plenty of time to come back and do some more Europe, cos if you're a student I'm guessing you've got plenty of life in you yet. Maybe you could get a flight from Berlin to Rome to get yourself home?
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well, the itinerary i have right now has cut out rail pass altogether.
right now it's basically:
April 24th - afternoon flight out of Rome into Bratislava airport then go to Vienna; gonna spend that evening, the days of 25th and 26th in Vienna, and the next day is basically a day trip in Bratislava since my next flight is out of Bratislava airport as well in the evening of the 27th
April 27th - evening flight from Bratislava airport to Prague
night of 27th until morning of May 1st will be in Prague
May 1st - noon/early afternoon flight to Berlin
May 1st until the night of May 5th is in Berlin
May 5th - Berlin-Paris Night Train, so that's a good 11 hours that will get me into Paris in the morning so that'll be perfect.
I'll be in Paris until either the night of May 8th at which point I'll take the RyanAir penny flight into Rome, try to bum around until the next mornign when I can pick up my suitcases at my school and then head over to Fiumicino for my afternoon flight back to the States.
so i've scrapped the europe by rail idea because it would be insane to do in the time i have
i've put together the costs for the whole transportation part of the deal and it came out to about $350ish... (unless i add Barcelona which adds another $50 or so total). that's of course minus shuttles between airports and the cities and taxi fees.
so that's basically a NIGHT traveling, which is better cuz it's like a moving hostel for me, plus a total of about 9 hours tops i think on the planes. sure i'll be exhausted by the tiem i get on my flight back home but it is what it is
do u seasoned travelers think that's a better schedule?
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