Mastodawn

This time I must not forget to actually buy an #Interrail pass during the sale. Just some hour left.

... except that the interrail.eu site seems hopelessly overloaded now.

I bought a pass through allaboard.eu instead. Same price, same conditions. (Usually allaboard.eu offers better conditions, full refund for the whole period while the pass can be activated (11 months), but not for this offer, so only reason to choose them now was because their site worked.)

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Ylönën 1d ago

@tml Hopefully? Hopelessly?
At this point I can't wait to get to use my Interrail pass bought during the previous slightly-better-price sale. Still some six weeks or so to go.

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Tor Lillqvist 1d ago

@paavi Ah yes, thanks for spotting that. I have used flexi passes (some number of travel days per some time) lately, now I got a two-month continuous one. Will be nice to not have to optimise travel days usage. (Still have one flexi pass waiting to be used: ten days in two months.)

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Ylönën 1d ago

@tml We seem to prefer staying somewhere for more than just a night, so so far it's been flexi passes for us. Also when one of the areas to be explored offers day passes for less than a day's worth interrail pass travel... So two weeks' holiday might do with just 10 days' flexi pass.

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tops 1d ago

@tml If you are going to use SNCF or Trenitalia a lot there is an argument for buying your pass from RailEurope as they will waive their reservation fees if you buy your pass from them. I do not recommend Happy Rail, meanwhile, on account of their shonky customer service and attendant insouciance.

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Tor Lillqvist 1d ago

@tops For Trenitalia reservations I have used ÖBB. But good point about SNCF, will keep that in mind in the future.

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Jon Worth 1d ago

@tops if you buy a pass from RailEurope there is a 7,50 Euro charge when you buy it. So you need at least 4 SNCF or Eurostar reservations from them (saving €2 each time) to make this break even.

As @tml points out for IT and IT-CH reservations have no extra fee from ÖBB

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tops 1d ago

@jon thanks, good to know! I forgot to mention Eurostar. London to Barcelona, my regular schlep, usually needs at least four reservations for a round trip so I will stick to my plan to buy from RailEurope later this year (bought five passes in the last Autumn sale(!)) unless things change... again. @tml

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Jon Worth 1d ago

@tops @tml Right, in your situation it absolutely makes sense! For me it is more borderline as I am usually heading to non compulsory reservation countries!