Best Bets for rail travel in Europe?
I am planning a 6 week trip to Europe, beginning in England and ends in Italy. I want to visit many of between both countries major cities or small towns. I'm wanting to know what is the cheapest and best offer is for travel by train. Should I get a Rail Pass, a Eurailpass, or buy tickets from point to point? I'm not sure how many days I plan to travel around or how many days are going to have to do to travel. I do not, and probably does not have plans in stone as a plan to go anywhere whenever I want. I'm 23, well within the price range cheap. Please give me your suggestions. Im looking specifically for travel by train … not travel by plane, but its cheaper
It is difficult to say which would be the best option – point to point, probably end up being more expensive than Eurail, without knowing how much you want to move, I'm not sure Eurail Pass you should get. If you want to visit a lot of places in six weeks, is likely to move every couple of days, so an unlimited number could be useful, even if it is the cheapest option … I did almost the same trip in 10 weeks, and he certainly needs the unlimited. Do you know if you're going in a more or less straight line or meandering a bit? Probably not … It will have two passes, independently, a BritRail and Eurail one (although if you're only doing, for example London and its environs, you can get a point by point, if you're doing something more than a couple of trips, or go to other parts of the UK, would get a pass). Check out the Thorn Tree Lonely Planet Forum, you may be able to find others with better advice, my trip was very well planned.
