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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Vienna-Budapest-Krakow-Prague HELP

« on: July 23, 2012, 09:54:59 am »

Hi! I'm terribly sorry for reviving an old thread, but I kind of need help again now that I'm actually ready to book the tickets. I realised that the Slovak railways website requires an ID number for booking of tickets online with max 10 digits, do I have to enter a Slovak ID? Terribly sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do. Thanks!

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Vienna-Budapest-Krakow-Prague HELP

« on: June 17, 2012, 07:25:57 am »

Hi again, thanks for all the great help! Yea, I understand what you mean by the straightforward matter. Don't get me wrong though, I really appreciate your help. I'd just like to check, though, regarding the various options -

Regarding the first option, if I get a seating carriage for the first Krakow-Bohumin portion and I book a couchette from Bohumin to Prague do I just go to the couchette after I reach Bohumin? Or does this mean I have to stay in the same carriage? I am sorry if this seems a little dumb, I have literally taken only 1 train trip in my entire life so I'm not really sure if it works like air travel where we are allocated our seats. It just seems strange that I don't have to get off at all, do I just take my luggage at Bohumin and move to the new carriage for the Bohumin to Prague portion?

Regarding the last option, if I book from Zilina to Prague, how do I get from Cesky Tesin to Zilina, or did you mean book a ticket from Cesky Tesin to Prague?

I realised as well that the Czech Railways shop also doesn't allow me to book so early in advance, so unfortunately I might have more questions when the time eventually comes...I'm so sorry about that!!

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Vienna-Budapest-Krakow-Prague HELP

« on: June 14, 2012, 05:31:31 pm »

Wow, thanks!! You have been a great great help, it's a relief to know that I'm too early instead of too late.

Regarding the Krakow-Prague route, is it pretty much guaranteed to get a ticket from Krakow until Bohumin? As you can tell I'm the sort who frets about this kind of thing aheh, would really suck to be there and realise I can't get into Prague. That said, I'd really love to go with the cheapest option which doesn't seem THAT complicated, however -

cross the border by foot to Czech part of the town (Cesky Tesin) and board your #440 train (at 22:38) with the SparNight ticket you already have

I'm just wondering, how do I cross the border on foot? Pardon me, because I'm not even from UK or Europe, I'm not sure how border controls work over there. Is there some sort of customs clearance or something?

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Vienna-Budapest-Krakow-Prague HELP

« on: June 13, 2012, 04:22:36 pm »

Hi, first of all, thank you very, very much. I've been fretting over this for so long, and I know there's tons of threads and resources already but I tried sieving through them and it's quite a lot to take in.

Basically my trip is a flight into Vienna on the 10th of September and flight from Prague on the 21st. It's a little tight, but I'm planning to bus to Budapest via Orangeways on the 12th (1800 bus), train overnight into Krakow on the 16-17th and the train overnight into Prague on the 19-20th. My most important consideration is cost; comfort isn't that much of a big deal to me but cost is because I'm actually starting college after this and really want to save. I was intending to bus all the way then found out about SparNight which seems like an awesome deal.

From what I've read, there's SparNight offers for Budapest-Krakow and Krakow-Prague, but I can't for some reason book anything on the MAV website. Following the guide, I can get to step 2 fine and see the timetable, but I can't get any prices at all after customizing my seat and D.O.B no matter what type of seat I choose. Is it because I'm too late and they are all booked up, or because I'm intending to purchase a one-way ticket instead of a return ticket?

Thank you for helping, I really, really appreciate this. It's pretty much the first time I'm going overseas on my own and I'm getting a little flustered by the planning. Thanks!