Europe travel by train 1 adult 2 kids

DCFC79

indigogirl wrote: »

Some excellent ideas.
Exactly the sort of info I was hoping for.
Great tips about booking French tickets and Yh family rooms.

It seems that its not the travelling part but the eating part that might make it prohibitively expensive

for eating out at night theres places like flunch and its like a buffet or it was last time i went,

lunch time eating you could buy some bread from a bakery/supermarket, some cheese and drink and you have a little picnic for less than 5 euro id say

Oldernotwiser

DCFC79 wrote: »

Hotels in france in order of quality(could have been improved over the last 6 years or so), some of them include breakfast in price of room or its a little bit extra

formule 1
etap
villages hotel
ibis
premier classe

ive stayed in a couple of hotels from each brand and they are perfectly acceptable and the majority(from experience) of them are reasonably(walking distance) close to a shopping centre with hypermarket, place/s to eat etc

HTH

The Premiere Classe (despite their name) are very basic and would come just above the Formule 1 in your list.

DCFC79

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

The Premiere Classe (despite their name) are very basic and would come just above the Formule 1 in your list.

would they mmm ok you could be right(maybe f1 have changed the rooms to a better standard), they werent in any particular order though, was going to order them but was too much hassle but thanks

cannyscot_2

In Paris there is a couple of accor hotels with family type rooms called suitehotels. They have a grand weekend offer you pay 229 euros from fri noon till mon noon. The room is a double bed and 2 singles that can b aprtioned off by a curtain. They have a fridge and microwave so economical and in the morning there is free croissants and coffee. They also sell basic food in lobby that is quite child friendly. We have also used campanile which is usually pretty good and tends to have a food place attached with kids meals. The other we have used is formula 1 which is one of those double beds on the bottom and a single bed over the top and is very basic- not as nice but super cheap.

Ponkle22

indigogirl wrote: »

It seems that its not the travelling part but the eating part that might make it prohibitively expensive

You are correct - the eating part is the most expensive, particularly in main cities. However, if you post about this on Trip Advisor for the locations you are going to stay in you get some great replies about cheap local places to feed the children. Trouble is, in reality when its hot and the children are suddenly overcome with tiredness they need to eat 'now' and you end up not travelling any further to find these cheap places to eat because they cannot walk another step - even when its only about a 7 minute walk away in the heat.

It Italy you can buy takeaway pizza slices (a quarter of a large pizza generally) or go to a mini market and get them to make up paninnis of your choice (bread, cheese/meat) to take away.