Interrail Sale

[Former member 95219]

Hi all. Sorry not strictly camino but sort of relevant as sure many folks do a Camino and then do other Euro travels!

Interrail is celebrating their 50th anniversary and have launched a rail pass sale with 50% off certain passes for sale until 10th May.

Best value is a 3 month continuous pass down from €902 to €451 and you can activate the pass anytime up to 11 months. I have just bought one and will use next European spring. Covers 33 countries. Some countries (including France and Spain) you pay a seat reservation fee of €10 ish per sector but most countries (i.e.) Germany you do not or it’s tiny.

One month (€335) and 2 month ( €366) also available.

Also first class is available too.



Thank you

 

[Bradypus]

Thanks for the heads-up! Way back in the dark ages when I was a student first time round I was far too short of cash and timid to do the popular Interrail summer tour. When the pass was opened up to all age groups I bought one as a 50th birthday present to myself and travelled almost to the Iranian border and back. Maybe it's time for something similar to mark becoming officially "senior" this summer

 

[SabsP]

Ah. Memories of my youth indeed! When life was simple.When you called your parents once a week to tell them where you were ( approximately ).No cellphone but a too heavy backpack.
But still well behaved to keep away from the funny cigarettes!

 

[Former member 95219]

Thanks for the heads-up! Way back in the dark ages when I was a student first time round I was far too short of cash and timid to do the popular Interrail summer tour. When the pass was opened up to all age groups I bought one as a 50th birthday present to myself and travelled almost to the Iranian border and back. Maybe it's time for something similar to mark becoming officially "senior" this summer

Great! Love a person who extracts maximum value as you did! I had a 3 month pass this past European winter but some trains weee cancelled due covid including those down to Turkey! .

It may well be time. No better way to travel!

 

[David Tallan]

When I was a youth, I didn't qualify for Interrail, coming from North America. It was Eurail for me. I needed three months worth of rail pass. As it happened, there was a three-month first class Eurail pass, but the second-class one came only in one-month and two-month versions. It ended up being only $60 more for a three-month first class pass than for a two-month and a one-month second class pass. I figured it was worth $20/month to upgrade my pass to first-class. This was great for night trains, when the first class seating compartments were pretty much empty (real first-class passengers preferring beds or couchettes). But you could pull the seats together across the compartment to make the compartment into one big bed. I took a lot of night trains. Free accommodations to take me from city to city whenever the hostel was full.

When I was planning my European trip with my daughter for the summer of 2020, almost 40 years later, I looked for some night trains to take us from city to city, but discovered that they are more or less a thing of the past and are few and far between now.

 

[NorthernLight]

Before everyone gets excited, just an FYI for non-Europeans, only EU residents can use Interrail passes. The rest of us have to use Eurail passes, which generally cost more.