Interrail ticket worth the money?

This link could help you to decide if the pass worths the money.

Seems like too long in Bratislava and Zagreb to me.

Why not go down to the Croatian coast from Belgrade via Sarajevo and Mostar? Then go up the coast to Slovenia (personally I wouldn't be bothered missing Zagreb all together....)

Sorry I know that was not what you asked. Bear in mind that trains on the Croatian Coast only go as far as Split.

The only way to know is to add up all the individual tickets and see if that comes out more or less than the inter-rail pass. I would expect that point to point tickets are cheaper in this case. Plus not having an inter-rail pass gives you the option of taking buses.

I know you didn't ask about route but I would agree with Tryfan. Sarajevo and Mostar and both amazing places and that route means you won't be backtracking through Croatia. Bratislava is worth a day but 3 nights is too many.

I agree with anilos, read the maninseat61 website for help deciding. You are still going to have to do what james2020 suggests.

For me the biggest negative about rail passes is the psychological pressure to 'get your money's worth'. It tends to result in moving too much instead of spending time IN places. With point to point you can choose not to buy a ticket and move if you feel like staying a bit longer somewhere. I never pre-book anything.

Thanks for all the replies it's much appreciated! I've spent the last few days looking into Sarajevo/ mostar and it does seem like a much better idea. I will have to sit down one day soon and work out point to point costs to decide whether the ticket is worth it, and the option of taking busses could make it cheaper again.

With regards to length of time spent visiting places, what changes would you make to our plan?.... After reading a bit about Bosnia i was thinking 2/3 nights in Sarajevo then either 1 night in Mostar, or getting there early one morning as a day trip before making our way down to Split...again, any advice from those who have gone before is always helpful and taken on board!

It's hard to say as we have no idea what you are interested in, what time of year you are going and what things you want to do and see. Just read up on all the places, decide where you want to go and then work out a rough number of days for each place. Don't book anything except your flights and accomodation for the first city. Then just book everything as you go along (all the places you have suggested have plenty of accomodation you should have no problems). Your plan was 4 days in Budapest but you get there love it and want to stay 2 extra? well then do it. So what if you end up missing Slovenia and going straight to Milan, you can see Slovenia in the future. I would say that you should consider a stop in Kotor, you can get there direct from Mostar and then work your way up the Croatian coast from there.

My plan would look something like Munich (3 days) - Vienna (3 days) - Budapest (4 days) - Belgrade (3 days) - Sarajevo (2 days) - Mostar (1 day) - Kotor (2 days) - work my way up the Croatian Coast - Slovenia - Venice - Milan.

However I wouldn't necessarily stick to that once I set off. Basically, have a plan but be flexible and if needed completly change it along the way.

I appreciate you don't know my interests etc. Was just looking for a general thought on the matter ( for the record I'm mainly interested in just exploring the cities themselves, and we plan to arrive in Munich on the 3rd of June)...kotor looks incredible, it never really crossed my mind to travel through Bosnia or Montenegro, and it looks like I'd be missing out on so much just around the corner from where I'll be, so thank you for you input!

As I said, we aren't really on any sort of time scale, toying with the idea of going to rock en seine festival in Paris at the end of august, but other than that we have nowhere to be, so including your suggested Places could work fine for us.

I'm assuming it is relatively easy/cheap to catch a bus from mostar to Kotor and from Kotor to Dubrovnik/split?...

Thanks for the replies, this has really helped me with some important decisions and I feel this advice will help the trip be even better now so thank you again!

Fair enough skate.
"Was just looking for a general thought on the matter"

But the only sensible answer to that is 'it depends'. ;-)