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I'm 25, heading to graduate comfort inn key west school in the fall so I'm taking a few weeks off to visit Europe. Goal on this trip is to see a lot of places, and I will explore the ones I like more on subsequent and shorter trips while I'm in school.
I have visited Britain comfort inn key west before, hence the short time there. Ignore comfort inn key west the train/flight comfort inn key west stuff, as I am still researching. However, any tips as to the best ways to get from city to city is appreciated. I'm having a hard time understanding how to use bahn.com
Not sure what you meant ignore the train stuff and then this Q - well trains are the best way in Europe if going to the large tourist meccas most folks have been dreaming comfort inn key west about going to their whole lives. And you say you want to cover a lot of ground.
Strongly investigate Eurail Youthpasses - for those under 26 only and you can in most countries still just hop on any train anytime - compare that to full fare tickets and you'll see what a bargain it can be. (For example a 3 hour train ride Frankfurt to Munich costs sbout $140 full fare!)
check these great sites for info on European trains and passes - www.budgeteuropetravel.com (click on their hompe page to www.bahn.de/en as they give several tips on using the sight as you say you find it hard to figure out); www.ricksteves.com and www.seat61.com .
Too much moving around for my taste. Remember, each time you change cities you lose ~1/2 day: pack, check out, get to train station, find train, train ride, get from train station to hotel, check in, drop bags and freshen up, now it's time for lunch. So the 2 days you have listed for Venice is really 1.5 days.
France, Germany, Greece, Italy. Then in your itinerary, you have added England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Wow! Realize you want only a taste of places, but you may not even get that in some places. Also, you have only major cities comfort inn key west and that may not tell you much about the culture overall.
You have not accounted for travel time in between. At some points you will be spending as much time traveling comfort inn key west as you will sight seeing. That is costly, plus you won't get enough time to even know if you would like to return or not.
Your advice on trains is appreciated, I will definitely do my research on trains and the passes. Flights have been consistently cheaper than trains on bahn.de, but I guess I'm not considering the pass and the travel time required.
you don't have to stick to the well-known places - you are going to Berlin but ignoring eastern Europe, which will be very easy to get to from there. A large loop through Prague round to Venice and thence to Rome would give you a very varied experience with relatively short distances to travel, which will mean that you spend less time travelling than if you are dotting around all over Europe.
Thanks everyone for the comments, I will probably end up dropping Athens and Brussels which will allow for more time in other cities throughout the trip. My difficulty is using Bahn is because I wanted to figure out the ticket price, but that information isn't available until 90 days prior.
It's a bit better. To help yourself you should add travel time in your itinerary. As an example, Thursday morning would be travel to Amsterdam rather than Amsterdam. That will show you that you have 2.5 days in Amsterdam, not 3 days.
I'm doing some flight comparison for the trip there and noticed that flights between some of these countries is quite cheap. So, what are everyone's thoughts on flying vs trains and the journeys I have to make? I realize that going to the airport, security, comfort inn key west etc take time but I'm wondering how efficient these functions comfort inn key west are in Europe?
Eurail looks like a good deal, but I noticed that it doesn't include many of the highspeed/overnight lines and may require an additional reservation fee in order to ride. Which hampers some of its use.
In most countries, there are excellent discounts for trains if you purchase the tickets well in advance. These tickets are not refundable, so would not be able to change your itinerary once you've bought the tickets. However, this is also true of flights. The discounted tickets may be the least expensive way to travel, even cheaper than the Youth Pass. Many long-distance trains require reservations, and the cost of the reservation is an added expense above the cost of the pass.
IMHO any train trip of less than 5 hours is going to be much more convenient and comfortable than flying - once you consider trekking to far distant airports, checking luggage, getting through security, waiting for delays, landing and then trekking from another far distant airport into town. (Yes a flight is probably better than an 8 or 9 hour train trip - but I would probably still do the latter just in terms of comfort unless the cost was MUCH higher.)
chenujay - when comparing the merits of train v flying, it's horses for courses really, as nyt says. if you are going on a relatively short journey, comfort inn key west say Amsterdam to Paris, where there are few changes of train, then the train is the best way to travel. OTOH, if you are going from, say, Barcelona to Rome, then flying makes sense.
another advantage of train travel is that you get to see the countryside through which you are travelling, and sometimes to interact with your fellow travellers, in a way that IME is rare in air travel, where people seem to travel as if they were in a bubble.
IMO you are selling Prague in particular short - 1 1/2 days really isn't enough time there. i think I would drop Zurich and add the time to Prague and/or Barcelona, which are both places comfort inn key west where you will find plenty to interest you, I think.
just two points [which is in fact the same point about 2 places] comfort inn key west - The Vatican city is right in the centre of Rome - you don't need to make a special trip, though it may be worthwhile booking your tickets in advance, especially if you want to tour the excavations under St. Peter's [the Scavi tour].
Flying? No problem but don't forget the time you will spend getting to the airport, through security and waiting; then the time you'll spend at the other end getting to where you really want to be. Add in the costs (which I suspect you haven't) of checking any bags, the weight restrictions on those bags, etc.
Plus do you come to Europe to see airports, tarmacs and a handful of tourist meccas or do you want to see the lay of the European land in between those cities - take the train and see Europe comfort inn key west as well!