Inter Rail

Blisterman

Anyone else here doing it this summer. I'm doing it with some of my friends. I'm really looking forward to it. Has anyone here done it before. I'm looking for advice on where to go, what to bring etc.

We're definatly going to amsterdam. Other than that, we have no plans.

Ruu_Old

Kind of did it last summer. Booked a cheap flight to Dusseldorf and had picked a few cities to go to in Germany and used interail to book the train tickets, stayed in each city 2-3 days with cheap hotesl. Try here thats where we booked ours from, best of luck anyway.

breadmonkey

I went interrailing last year, and if there's one thing I learned, this is it...

If you intend to camp anywhere , bring a ****ing airbed!

That is all.

(I'm deadly serious by the way)

deedee lepoopoo

Went a few years back. Buy the Thomas Cooke train timetable guide (it gives all the train times for the next year across Europe).

Defo go to the usual suspect places but a few that are off the beaten track and are fandabbydozy are:

1)Krackow in Poland
2)Salzburg in Austria
3)Bern in Switzerland
4)Berlin if you can
5)Ceske Krumloff (just outside Prague) in Czech Republic and you can go to Ceske Budavoicie on the way (the place when the orginal Budvar drink was brewed).

Always good to buy a lonely planet guide beforehand

breadmonkey

Yeah, Krakow is supposed to be great. Also, remember that you can live like a king/queen if you stick to Eastern Europe

Always good to buy a lonely planet guide beforehand

Defo

Lisapeep

www.hostelz.com is the best website to bear in mind when you're interrailing. You can book your hostels online and it also features comments from people who have stayed in the hostels before so you can pick up great tips from it!

Annecy, in France, near the border with Switzerland is absolutely gorgeous in the Summer. Surrounded by mountains, it's situated on Lake Annecy so you can go swimming or rent bikes etc. Beautiful!

bovril

I'm planning on going this year too mainly around eastern europe.. I want to go to the baltics too (lithuania, latvia and estonia). I know these are in Zone D (I think thats the zone with hungary, poland etc). How does it work if I was to get a train from warsaw to vilnius (lithuania). Is this covered by the zone fair cos I start in poland or do I have to pay the full fair cos I am travelling outside the zone?

thanks
B

HarryD

Did it in 1997.. excellent time..
Advice:
-Bring Mosquito Repellant.. (if during summer) especially for Venice/Bruge
-Make use of Train Couchettes (overnight sleepers) but book well in advance
-Make an effort to spend some time apart from your travelling companions
(24/7 exposure can result in strained relationships)
-Western Europe is pretty well trodden. check out Eastern for s'thing different

Enjoy, you'll have a ball.

Lisapeep

bovril wrote:

How does it work if I was to get a train from warsaw to vilnius (lithuania). Is this covered by the zone fair cos I start in poland or do I have to pay the full fair cos I am travelling outside the zone?

If your journey starts and finishes in the one zone, and you have an interrail ticket for that zone then you wont have to pay anything extra. If you travel from inside your zone to a country outside your zone (or vice versa) you will have to pay a supplement, not the full fare. Supplements are usually very small, especially in eastern europe. They'd normally be a few euro, but it depends on the situation. You also have to pay supplements on certain trains (eg. the fast TGV train in France) but these will usually be in or around the 5 euro mark!