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Eurail: In countries with multiple stations, which one does the rail travel to? Amsterdam to Brussels?
Hello,
Next month myself and some friends will be traveling to Europe for the first time and we are having some trouble. Any help is greatly appreciated:
- We are traveling from Amsterdam Central to Brussels North. However, whenever we are on a website to buy tickets, they only allow us to select which country, and not which station. Does a train from Amsterdam to Brussels stop at every station in both countries or is there only one station in each country that we can travel from?
- We are traveling from Amsterdam to Brussels to Germany in less than 5 days. We are all under 25…should we get the Benelux-Germany youth passes or is their a better deal?
- We have selected which trains we want to ride on and have a very specific schedule. We want to make sure we don’t miss or get bumped from a train. We should make reservations to ensure we receive these seats correct? What is an inexpensive place to make this reservation?
Thank you very much.
‘whenever we are on a website to buy tickets, they only allow us to select which country’
Which website are you using? That is a shitty website. Use one of the official ones, say http://www.b-rail.be/ or http://www.ns.nl not some third-rate travel agent overseas.
‘Does a train from Amsterdam to Brussels stop at every station in both countries’
Depends upon the train. Slow local trains stop everywhere, fast trains stop only at the important stops.
‘We are traveling from Amsterdam to Brussels to Germany in less than 5 days. We are all under 25…should we get the Benelux-Germany youth passes or is their a better deal?’
Depends. The cheapest Benelux-Germany Youth pass is 184 EUR. To make it worth you’d have to travel all over Germany from Amsterdam to Berlin and from Berlin to Munich, from Munich to Hamburg, from Hamburg to Cologne and from Cologne to Brussels.
Since you already know which trains you are going to take you should check how much these tickets would costs if you bought them at the train station 5 minutes before the train departed. You can find this out at
http://www.b-rail.be/
http://www.ns.nl
http://www.reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
http://www.jizdenka.cz
Compare with the price of the Eurail pass. Also note that there are special offers for travelling in Germany. This is especially true if you are in a group. If you travel on a Saturday or Sunday you can use the Happy-Weekend-Ticket, it costs 37 EUR and is valid for a group of up to 5 people. You can travel on it all over Germany on slow regional trains, from Aachen to Berlin or from Berlin to Munich for example.
‘We want to make sure we don’t miss or get bumped from a train. We should make reservations to ensure we receive these seats correct? What is an inexpensive place to make this reservation?’
For most trains there is no need to make reservation. Exception: Thalys trains, night trains and ICE Sprinter. If you look up the connections on http://www.b-rail.be/ or http://www.bahn.de/ you can usually see whether reservation is mandatory. And for some trains it is recommended that you make reservation because the seats might be full. But unless a train is as full as Tokyo Underground at rush hour conductors will not kick people with a ticket off a train. That means you can always travel on a train, you just might have to stand or sit on your bag. The best place to make a reservation is usually the ticket office at the train station.
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