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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Swiss & France
« on: September 20, 2009, 10:45:29 am »
First of all, Swiss pass can be considered as pretty worthy option only in case person intends to do a lot of train travel for middle and long distances. In case of Zurich-Luzern-Interlaken route it is fully useless.
Regular one-way fare Zurich-Luzern is 23 CHF, while Luzern-Interlaken is 30 CHF per person (for additional cost you can add City Transport ticket to your rail ticket). And no need to book anything in advance whatsoever - just purchase your tickets before departure.
For the child take a look at http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/en/reisemarkt/services/fuer-alle/familie/juniorkarte.htm

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First of all about straight forward fares (if you buy at the station before departure):
Vienna-Bratislava (14 euro - EURegio ticket, regional trains from Wien Sued.), Bratislava-Budapest (one way 12 euro, return - 16 euro), Budapest-Krakow (app. 60 euro ticket + 9.4 euro 6 berth couchette), Krakow-Prague (37 euro ticket + roughly same 10 euro for 6 berth couchette)
As you can see there is only one pretty much "expensive" part of the journey - BP-Krakow, but you can avoid paying such price with two possible options:
1) In case you will stay more than 3 days in BP you can try to purchase special discounted Spar ticket Budapest-Krakow (39 euro, couchette supplement already included)
2) Do a really simple trick - while in Bratislava purchase return ticket Bratislava-Budapest for 16 euro + Bratislava-Krakow ticket for 45 euro (you will use it on your way from BP to Krakow). And all you need to do additionally in Budapest is to purchase couchette supplement BP-Krakow.
Unfortunately for you there is no chances to purchase tickets for your journey online directly from train companies - neither Hungarian, Slovak, Polish railways sell it in such way. The only tickets which you actually buy online is for journeys originating from OEBB or CD - Vienna-Prague, Vienna-BP, Prague-Krakow, Prague-Bratislava/Budapest etc.
But actually the fact you can't purchase it online isn't that big of a problem - trains in Eastern Europe isn't that full, so I would not worry at all, especially due to the fact, that you will need seat/sleeper reservations only for two legs of you journey (BP-Krakow and Krakow-Prague)

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: From Austria to Czech.Rep and Poland
« on: September 13, 2009, 12:02:30 am »
Assuming that you you plan trip Vienna-C.Krumlov/Prague-Warsaw the best options for you are - purchase in advance discounted Spar ticket from Vienna to Prague on the OEBB website (link you will find here - http://europetrainsguide.com/200907166/Countries/Austria/Austria-OEBB.html), it will cost you 29 euro.
From Prague take either train (248CZK one way or 447 return - valid two days) or bus to C.Krumlov. Come back to Prague and purchase one way Prague-Warsaw ticket - 42.4 euro
Other option is to go directly from Vienna to C.Krumlov - if you are traveling alone it makes sense to look at EURegio ticket Wien-C.Budejovice (22 euro), from C.Budejovice just take a short train ride to C.Krumlov, afterward Prague etc.
If there are at least two of you than it worth looking at Einfach-Raus-Ticket (28 euro) till last Austrian station Gmund NO, afterward just purchase Czech domestic ticket on board of a train C.Velenice-C.Krumlov - 189 CZK
In case you want to come back to Vienna after visiting Warsaw, than probably it will be cheaper not to purchase one way Prague-Warsaw, but to buy Bohumin-Warsaw-Bohumin (34 euro)+ domestic ticket Prague-Bohumin(445CZK) and while in Prague domestic ticket from Bohumin to Breclav (239 CZK) + Brno-Vienna ticket for 9 euro for you return journey from Warsaw to Vienna.
For all the timetables in order to plan exact route, train changes etc. see - http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/
Good luck

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Intercity ticket
« on: September 10, 2009, 06:03:02 pm »
1) is this Intercity ticket available all year round and easy to get on the day of travel? Can we pay by credit card or cash? what is the currency?
Yes, all year round (but prices might change slightly from mid December - new timetable and maybe new fares). As far as I recall you can pay with credit card too. Slovakia uses Euro, but in case you pay with card it doesn't actually matter (your card will be charged with certain amount of money equal to sum in EUR with a help of the official currency exchange rate)
2) I plan to have a stopover at Melk and cruise to krems then train back to vienna. This involve a bus transfer since krems is not on the main train line. Do i need to purchase additional ticket for this transfer?
You can take a train for Vienna-Melk route only once (and Melk-Vienna as well once) with CityStar, so in case you plan go Vienna-Melk(train)-Krems-Vienna(bus)-Vienna-Salzburg(train) your Vienna-Melk part would be already used on your trip from Vienna to Salzburg (Melk is in the middle between Vienna and Salzburg) - means need to purchase new Vienna-Melk ticket+ after Melk use old CityStar ticket.
In order to avoid buying new ticket you either need to do Vienna-Melk-Krems-Vienna trip fully by bus or go as was said earlier Vienna-Melk-Krems-Melk(by bus)-Salzburg...

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Intercity ticket
« on: September 10, 2009, 09:14:18 am »
1) 108 euro it is regular tariff (one way+one way tariff) - no need to purchase that. Once again - you need specifically CityStar ticket ZSSK-OEBB. The info about those Citystars aren't that easy accessible and most of the railway companies websites don't show fares for such "complicated" tickets. In your particular case you might try http://www.slovakrail.sk/index.php?id=city-star---zlava-pre-kazdeho (unfortunately only in Slovak)
2) Buses... hmmm... Try http://www.eurolines.at/en/home/ ; http://www.postbus.at/de/Regionen/Wien_-_Niederoesterreich_-_Burgenland/Fahrplan/Flughafenbus/Flughafen_Bratislava/index.jsp etc.
3) Melk is not a problem at all since it is located on the main line from Vienna to Salzburg, so you would anyway transit it. But Krems (assuming you are talking about Krems Donau) is located on the other line (check railway network map of Austria on our website)l. So if you are desperately want to visit Krems you have two options:
a) make a side trip to Krems from Vienna or St.Polten (will require additional tickets, for instance Einfach-Raus-Ticket)
b) in Bratislava you can try and purchase "tricky" CityStar with not direct route "Bratislava-Vienna-Krem-St.Polten-Innsbruck-Bratislava", but since Krems is not on the main line you might have some problems with ticket office in Bratislava, but you never know - you might succeed. The price of it nevertheless will be the same - 81 euro for 2.

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Intercity ticket
« on: September 09, 2009, 10:28:11 am »
Yes, CityStar ticket is a return ticket (in your case Bratislava-Innsbruck-Bratislava). And you can use it for any part of the route selected only twice (there and back), but you don't need to to do it necessarily. In case you don't want to you can easily terminate you journey in Vienna instead of going all the way till Bratislava.
General advice on European timetable is http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:& or in your case you can as well use similar on OEBB website (http://www.oebb.at/en/index.jsp)

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Intercity ticket
« on: September 07, 2009, 05:20:42 pm »
Yes, taking into consideration your choice of cities to visit cheapest way will be "vienna - Bratislava - Salzburg/Innsbruck - vienna". Talking about tickets - the thing you need is called CityStar ticket Slovakia-Austria (ZSSK-OEBB), it can be purchased at any station in Slovakia (in your case Bratislava) for 54 euro one person or 81 euro for two of you, it is valid for two month and you can make unlimited stopovers on your way.
As a result such Citystar will cover Bratislava-Vienna-Salzburg-Innsbruck-Vienna part of your journey and the only thing you need additionally is to purchase quite cheap Vienna-Bratislava ticket (better to use trains from Wien Sued.Hbf, because those are much cheaper)

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: UK to Budapest
« on: September 06, 2009, 09:54:45 pm »
First of all you will need to decide what are you really interested to see on your journey? Is it town architecture, religious places, scenic nature or railway infrastructure of different countries etc. A lot depends on your preferences ;)
Once you have done it, then it’s the time to plan exact route. Routes can be rather different – from the fastest/shortest one to the longest. You can go via France, Switzerland, Austria or via Netherlands, Germany, Czech republic and Slovakia etc. – the range of routes are really huge as well as number of destinations you can visit .
In case of train tickets, in our opinion, you have to major options:
1)   Look for discounted fares and offers (mainly requires purchase in advance and bound for exact timing and train). With minimum stops (let’s say 2-3) you can do the whole route quite cheap in such case (generally saying in less than 100 euro)
2)   If you are more into looking around (as you mentioned) than you might consider purchasing one regular international through ticket. It allows you to make unlimited stops on your route and valid for up to 2 month – like a railpass, but for specific route, which you should specify to the cashier while purchasing it. For example, such ticket for Calais-Budapest routes start from 200+ euro one way.

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Russia question?
« on: September 06, 2009, 03:27:10 pm »
Probably the best option for such trips can be Slovak CityStar ticket (ZSSK-RZD).
Until December 2009 it will cost for two of you only just over 200 euro + sleeper supplements (Kosice-Kiev app. 20 euro per person, Kiev-Moscow depends on train (much cheaper in Ukrainian UZ carriages), Moscow-Vladivostok app. 220 euro per person in "kupe").
It means that cheapest train journey "any station in Slovakia"-Vladivostok and back together with all the sleeper reservations will cost app.700 euro for two of you. While regular domestic tariff one way ticket Moscow-Vladivostok for one person today costs app. 18500 RUB or 410 euro (train #2). I think the correct choice here is obvious ;)
The only thing you need is to get from Budapest to any Slovak station and purchase there CityStar + sleeper reservations for the first leg of your journey. Probably faster and easier it will be to go from BP to Kosice, but Sturovo or Bratislava works as well

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The best thing to do about finding out best prices is to look for special offers like "Sparpreis"/Promo/Superpromo etc., mainly all the Railway companies in Europe got couple tariff stages - first they sell those promo tickets for less, afterward go for more expensive ones until it reaches regular tariff fare.
You can easily search for cheapest offers on the selected route really simply - try picking any dates from one to three month in advance and take a look at best offers at that date, then take a look at the other day etc. In such case after checking couple different dates you will exactly know the best offer available ;)
Rothenburg, Dachau and Fussen all in Bavaria, so Bavaria ticket works for all those places - no need to worry here.
Golden pass route is pretty good, so go for it. Concerning tickets - you just need to mention your exact route while purchasing ticket (if it will be international ticket Innsbruck or Fussen-Zurich-Luzern-Interlaken etc.). If you will try purchasing discounted tickets like Europe-Spezial from Germany to Switzerland or Supersaver tickets for domestic Swiss travel just make sure you "connect" tickets to your timetable in order to avoid long stopovers and delays.

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Basically you have two possible options (both will be cheaper than Eurail Pass):
1) "Hunt" for discounted tickets for the most expensive parts of your route (Brugges to Rothenburg (start from 49 euro) and Innsbruck to France), if you travel in January you've got enough time to buy those online in advance. Plus you get "tricky" tickets for the rest of you journeys - Bavaria ticket for Rothenburg-Munich and partly for Munich-Innsbruck (till the border). Tickets within France and from Amsterdam to Brugges better to buy as well online and in advance.
2) Simply purchase regular international ticket for almost whole route (besides Rothenburg-Munich-Innsbruck part). Such international tickets issued with a help of TCV tariff work almost like a pass - valid for two month and allow unlimited stopovers on the route, plus can be bought any time - even 10 minutes before departure . For instance Brugge-Rothenburg ticket will cost app 90 euro. Innsbruck-Carcasonne app. 150 euro
So our suggestion - if you plan to stop a lot on your way from one place to another go with option #2, if you just want to travel between those place you mention directly without any stops go for #1 (since it will be cheaper)

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For a day trips on budget to places like Graz and Linz probably the best option can be Einfach-Raus-Ticket (more info - http://europetrainsguide.com/200907166/Countries/Austria/Austria-OEBB.html). You pay only 28 euro for both of you and travel as much as you like on whole OEBB network (but you need to avoid IC, EC, Railjet and ICE trains)
Other option for journey to Graz is to purchase Spar tickets from Vienna to/from Slovenia (from 29 euro), but get off/board the train earlier in Graz. In such case you will be eligible to use faster IC trains. But even such trick will not save you a lot - regular fare Vienna-Graz is 33.7 euro vs. 29 euro for the Spar ticket.
So truly big bargain is only Einfach-Raus-Ticket, but be ready to spend more time in trains - regional trains aren't that fast and you will need to make some changes as well.
Same story with Salzburg and Hallstat - either Einfach-Raus-Ticket or purchase in advance international Spar discount ticket (for instance Vienna-Munich or Vienna-Zurich for 29 euro) and get off the train earlier.

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: vienna-prague-krakau-vienna
« on: August 25, 2009, 11:56:56 am »
Vienna to Prague part can be done cheaply in couple ways:
1) buy in advance on OEBB website Spar ticket (from 29 euro), but those not always available Spar tickets have limited availability
2) purchase EURegio ticket to Vienna-Znojmo (12 euro) or Vienna-Ceske Budejovice (22 euro), those tickets can be bought any time. Afterward just get Czech domestic ticket till Prague -  323 and 211 CZK respectively per person, but if there are two passengers you are eligible to receive group discount - 25%
3) Get Einfach-Raus-Ticket (28 euro for both of you) for you travels within the Austria until last Austrian station before Czech border - Gmund NO (take a look at Austrian rail network map on our "Austria" page), afterward  once again domestic Czech ticket till Prague.
Prague-Krakow:
1) get CD eTicket Praha-Krakow - 19 euro (https://eshop.cd.cz/international/info.aspx?lang=E)
2) get domestic ticket from Prague to Bohumin (445 CZK per person - 25% discount for the group) and buy Bohumin-Krakow-Bohumin return ticket (19.2 euro) - you will need return part of it on you way from Krakow to Vienna.
3) or simply purchase regular one way Praha-Krakow - it is not the expensive - 36.8 euro
Krakow-Vienna:
1) there are Spar tickets from Krakow to Vienna for as low as 29 euro, but you need to purchase them in advance (3 days) and only in Poland (not online)  - guess it's not an option for you. But you can try asking for Spar ticket Krakow-Vienna in Vienna - OEBB might sell it.
2) use return part of your Krakow-Bohumin ticket + domestic Czech ticket Bohumin-Breclav (239 CZK)+ discounted Brno-Vienna 9 euro ticket (https://eshop.cd.cz/international/info.aspx?lang=E)
3) regular fare Krakow-Vienna ticket - app. 60 euro (seems to much)

You might as well try switching the sequence of your travels - go to Krakow first (here you can purchase Spar ticket Vienna-Krakow for 29 euro), Krakow-Prague is not that expensive after all + Praha-Vienna only for 19 euro (https://eshop.cd.cz/international/info.aspx?lang=E)

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: POland
« on: August 24, 2009, 07:14:04 pm »
You purchase it in Kostrzyn or from the conductor on the train.
You can buy it even in Warsaw, but then it will be issued with a help of regular international tariff (TCV) - means more expensive.

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: POland
« on: August 24, 2009, 03:15:15 pm »
In case of any trips from Poland to Berlin you need to take advantage of one general tip - use Polish domestic tariff for maximum distance possible (instead of more expensive TCV tariff).
While planning overnight (or daytime) trips from Warsaw/Krakow to Berlin get polish domestic ticket till last Polish station before German border - Kostrzyn and commuter train from Kostrzyn to Berlin (11.8 euro).
In your case it is 62 PLN (15 euro) for Krakow-Berlin part. Train from Krakow arrives to Kostrzyn at 6:31 am, afterward wait till 7:05am and board commuter NEB train from Kostrzyn to Berlin. You will be in Berlin at 8:28am
As a result you will pay only app.27 euro for the whole journey from Krakow to Berlin, instead of 50+ euro for the full ticket Krakow-Berlin. And what is more important timing of your trip will be almost the same.
Same tip applies for travels from Northern part of Poland, but there you can as well break your ticket via Szeczin too.
 

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