Eastern Europe by rail

moatmeister

Need to strt planning expedition to czech republic. Would like to go by train know about seat61.co.uk any further advice please?

GlennTheBaker

www.bahn.co.uk is a good place for tickets, inc Eurostar

landsberger64

moatmeister wrote: »

Need to strt planning expedition to czech republic. Would like to go by train know about seat61.co.uk any further advice please?

What specifically do you want to know about?

bahn.de is good for timetable planning (you can change the language to English if needed), or avail yourself of the printed Thomas Cook International Train timetable - available (albeit reluctantly) at Thomas Cooks, and some larger WH Smiths in the travel section, or online.

You can also buy tickets online at bahn.de if the journey starts in Germany - they do something called Sparpreis tickets that can cost as little as €29 one way for international journeys, including reservations and supplements.

Probably easiest for you if you want to go all the way by train would be London - Paris, Paris to Munich (stay the night or two in Munich), then Munich to Prague, or vv. You could come back via Cologne and Frankfurt and take the ICE train from there to Brussels, and Eurostar back from there, if you wanted some variation.

Let me know if you need anything specific.

Note: Czechs and Slovaks are not terribly keen on being referred to as "Eastern European" - central European is what they prefer. If you do it, you may end up with a lecture about "how far east Vienna is, and no-one calls that Eastern Europe etc etc"

GlennTheBaker

I travelled to Prague by train a few years back. Booked all the tickets at www.bahn.co.uk. Got the Eurostar from London to Brussels, the ICE from Brussels to Berlin, stayed a night in Berlin and then onto Prague on a Deutsche Bahn train. Stayed in Prague for about 4 days and then did the trip in reverse, ending with a couple of nights in London.

The tickets were very cheap and were all bookable online, although I could only print my own tickets for the Berlin-Prague-Berlin part of the journey. I paid a small supplement to get the others sent through the post. The good thing is that even the Eurostar portion was fully cancellable with only a 15 Euro fee.