Interrailing 2014 - where to go

Duff

Hey guys,

Myself and 3 others are thinking of going on a 30 day interrailing trip this Summer. Just looking or some advice on where to go? We're thinking of flying to Berlin and going from there. Also, I see some places offer all inclusive type packages with accommodation and breakfast included in each place you go. Are these worth while or would it be cheaper just buying the pass and getting a hostel on the day you arrive in whatever city?

Cheers.

justme112

Did it a few years back and still the best trip I've done to this day. Are ye gonna head east or west from Berlin? The prices in western europe can be very steep. When we went we flew to Amsterdam and kept going east from there.

We all had inter rail passes we got full value out of them. One of the lads lost his interrail ticket and from what I remember the train from Berlin to Prague cost him over €100 so if you plan on doing 5 train trips or more I recommend getting the pass. We just kept booking hostels 2 or 3 days in advance in the next city, never had any hassles. Got caught for 1 night in a kip in Berlin alight but it was our own fault as we decided to stay another few days there that we hadn't planned on - but if you're anyway organised a day or 2 in advance you'll have no problem getting a half decent hostel for cheap

Duff

Planning on heading East. I'd like to see Prague, Krakow, LjubLjana and Split and wherever else on the way. Anywhere else you'd recommend seeing?

justme112

We did Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, LjubLjana and Split and Rome.

Rome was a serious stretch at the end being honest. We didn't do any of Poland but you'd basically be following the same route on the way down to split. Getting to split is a night train - its actually good craic, just book ahead (about 5 or 6 days ahead) so you get a sleeper cabin and stock up fairly well on gatt and its 14hours well spent! Split is fairly class for chilling out and its a good way to wind it down, spent 4 days and basically parked ourselves in a bar that was 5 metres from the sea for the few days. I recommend it alright just for that alone.

Ljubljana is tiny but defo worth a stop over for a night or 2.

Duff

Sounds perfect. Thanks for the info.

josip

A few years ago (ahem) we flew to Paris and then trained to Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, (Boat to Vienna using Interrail ticket), Prague, Munich for Oktober fest, Interlaken for bungee jump, Geneva and home.

Berlin to Warsaw is flat, long and uninteresting and Warsaw at the time was a bit of a hole. We'd booked nothing in advance and spent the first few hours walking around to find various hostels. Tiring, but a good way of getting your bearings in new city. Prague we stayed in some granny's apt who spoke not a word of English and we followed form the trains station. If you're staying in a hostel, stay in an independent one rather than a youth hostel. The youth ones all have(had) curfews.

Was in Ljubljana last week for the first time in a few years. It's a lovely place but after a night and day you'll have seen nearly everything and can move on.

First Explorer

Myself and two friends went a few years ago, (more than i care to remember now), we flew to Frankfurt Hahn, stayed a night, then went to Berlin for a couple nights. From there we caught the train to Warsaw to start our inter-rail pass. Our route from there was Warsaw -> Krakow -> Prague -> Bratislava (this wasn't planned, two girls we'd met along the way were there and Celtic happened to be playing Artmedia Bratislava that night so we took a detour, Celtic lost 3-1) any way then on to Budapest -> Zagreb -> Dubrovnik -> Trieste (Italy) to catch a Ryanair flight home.

Zagreb was a mistake, the train dropped the last four carriages and continued on without us . This was announced a few times but never in a language we could understand we spent that night in the train station.
We spent about 2 nights in Dubrovnik then went to Split and got the ferry to Hvar for 2 nights and then the other Island there. We generally planned the next city we'd go to about a day in advance and booked our hostel that day online and never had a problem (that's not to say we didn't stay in some dives) but the craic we had in the hostels made up for all that, we met some characters. We didn't book anything for the Croatian islands, when you get off the ferry there are plenty of old women trying to get you to stay in their house, just bargain with them a bit.
Have a plan, but don't be afraid to change it as you go, we didn't book a flight home till a couple days before as we didn't know where we'd be (was expensive to fly from Zagreb so we went to Trieste). We hoped to make it to Bulgaria but it wasn't to be, the last thing you want is to have to spend two or three days straight on trains just to make your flight home. Still probably the best holiday i've been on.

usa2014sanfran

myself and a few friends went interrailing 2 summers ago!! best experience ever!! we got the 21day pass (i think thats the length it was) started in paris - amsterdam - krakow - berlin - budapest - venice - florence - rome. we just booked hostels as we went along.. we had the first 2 hostels booked before we left - then just booked as we went along from then.. your plans can change - we hadn't got our route fully planned out before we went. don't try and fit too many places in, its not worth it. make sure you book overnight trains in advance to get beds!!

we did a second interrail trip last year - with just the 10day pass. did dubrovnik - split - hvar - vienna and then prague!!

WanderingElk

Myself and one of my mates went last summer for thirty days. Route was something like Madrid - Barcelona - Montpelier - Lyon - Geneva - Milan - Florence - Venice - Munich - Budapest - Bratislava (not recommended) - Vienna - Prague - Warsaw - Berlin - Frankfurt - Paris - Brussels - Amsterdam - Maastricht. One thing id say is dont try to do too many cities. We ended up going to a different city nearly everyday which good craic for a couple of days but you end up being wrecked and dont really see much of the cities. Also dont go near the packaged stuff. The best part of interrailing is the freedom, so to have something preplanned would ruin it. Websites like hostelbooker or hostelworld are the best for accommodation. Also nighttrains are really cool so if they are available take them. Wish i could head off again soon Anyway pm me if you want any info on places to stay etc

theboywonder

usa2014sanfran wrote: »

myself and a few friends went interrailing 2 summers ago!! best experience ever!! we got the 21day pass (i think thats the length it was) started in paris - amsterdam - krakow - berlin - budapest - venice - florence - rome. we just booked hostels as we went along.. we had the first 2 hostels booked before we left - then just booked as we went along from then.. your plans can change - we hadn't got our route fully planned out before we went. don't try and fit too many places in, its not worth it. make sure you book overnight trains in advance to get beds!!

we did a second interrail trip last year - with just the 10day pass. did dubrovnik - split - hvar - vienna and then prague!!

hi friend and i thinking of doing a ten day trip would u recommend the places u went on on your ten day trip?
thanks

s.ronan

Hi there, there's three of us going inter-railing for 3 weeks in july and the route we've planned (in our head) is Berlin, Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Florence and Rome. Do you think we'd be able to fit in another city?

Also, for the people who have been to Rome before, is it really worth it (i am mad to go to Rome) but it seems very dear to fly home from there. Do you reckon it would be worth our while maybe getting a train to Milan (or another city) and flying from there?

Thanks !!

sarkozy

You can go anywhere. Just think about where you want to go and work out your route. For my interrailing experience, I went north. Scandinavia. Really great, but expensive, so I didn't get to do much.

Years later, I managed to get in a lot more travelling in separate railway holidays, e.g. (Vienna, Prague/Rome, Perugia, Orvieto/Bordeaux, Biarritz, San Sebastian, Santander/etc.)

My advice: wherever you go, go for the longest time you can and stay for longer in each town/city, and do try to stop off in smaller places.

MarkyByrne90

Hey Dude.

I done the interrailing trip two years ago with 5 of my pals and I must say it is a fantastic experience. So much fun!

My advice to you would be to travel by night train, this will save you money on accom and I personally thought it was a good way of traveling to countries that had long train journeys between them.

This is how my trip went. Started off in Poland, we went to the Ireland and Croatia match at Euro 2012. Spent 4 days in Poland 2 in Krakow and 2 in Poznan.

Then after Poland we went to Berlin for 3 nights,Prague for 3 nights, Vienna for 3 nights, Lake Bled (Slovenia) for 3 nights then our last stop of was Budapest for 4 nights.

Fantastic trip I would gladly do it again tomorrow.

Have a great time wherever your adventure takes you.

MarkyByrne90

s.ronan wrote: »

Hi there, there's three of us going inter-railing for 3 weeks in july and the route we've planned (in our head) is Berlin, Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Florence and Rome. Do you think we'd be able to fit in another city?

Also, for the people who have been to Rome before, is it really worth it (i am mad to go to Rome) but it seems very dear to fly home from there. Do you reckon it would be worth our while maybe getting a train to Milan (or another city) and flying from there?

Thanks !!

Hey this is the same route i did on my interailing trip. I've been to Rome too on a seperate occasion.

Ok first of all the route your going on is awesome. These cities are beautiful and packed with loads to see and do, my personal favourites were Prague and Budapest.

Be warned that Berlin is expensive! We went over our budget here but It was all well worth it.Berlin wall is cool!

When your in Vienna be sure to head to the Travel shack bar. Believe me its awesome! great music, people there drinking beers, socialising interacting and just having a good time from all over the world.

As for Rome, Rome is just stunning! best way of describing it, make sure to go to the Colloseaum and the Vatican, oh and the Trevi fountain too. again like Berlin, Rome is expensive!

Enjoy your trip. I had an unforgettable experience doing these cities.