Me and my friend are travelling from Amsterdam to Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Germany, Germany to Switzerland and then a flight home from Milan, Italy. We are spending about 3 days in the capital of each country. I am wanting to no if it would be cheaper to buy train tickets whilst travelling or to buy an Interrail pass. I am aware that there are charges on top of Interrail pass and can work out more expensive. Thanks for any help.
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Have you thought about flying? EasyJet and RyanAir are really cheap to fly in Europe!
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The only way to work out what is cheaper is to find train tickets on the days you want to travel and compare them to the price of the InterRail pass you want to buy. You will also have to think about getting reductions because of your age (if you are younger than 26,) and the fact that, for the cheapest tickets, you will have to buy tickets for a certain date and will not be able to change your plans. Netherlands to Luxembourg you can find on this site: http://www.nshispeed.nl/en A good site for travel from and to Germany is: http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml For Switzerland this is the site: http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en And for Italy: http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3fdbe14114bc9110VgnVCM10000080a3e90aRCRD A good overall site, with a lot of information, is the man in seat sixty-one: http://www.seat61.com/ And last but not least, the InterRail site: http://www.interrailnet.com/ Read the FAQ, specially if you plan to use a flexi pass. You do not write where you are from, so remember that InterRail is only for European residents and in your own country where you buy it you will still have to pay (part of) the fare. If you are Dutch, it will cost you 50% of the fare, and if your station is like mine, รข‚¬3,50 cost on top of that. For me it was worth it to buy an InterRail pass, even when it may have worked out a bit more expensive, because of the flexibility. In some countries you can use the high speed trains at just a reservation fee, in others you have to pay a surcharge, but if you have the time you can use the normal trains without having to pay big surcharges. The German website I mention above is good for finding the normal trains, choose 'no ICE' or something like that, on the second page or when you have a journey and select 'new travel.' The fees that you have to pay for a seat in an overnight train are not too big. But even if you pay for a couchette you will likely not pay more than you would for a night at a hostel.
