Train Help!

[eyespy]

I am having some trouble again. Below is my route.

Brussels
Munich
Salzburg
Vienna
Krakow
Prague
Berlin
Amsterdam
Brussels

I've been using RailSaver.com and got good numbers but now am confused.

If you'd like to help please start by inputing my route into RailSaver.com

It should give you a 140 BeNeLux + Germany pass which is new this year, and I found for 140 over at europrail.net. I found the prague pass for 35 through RailSaver.

Now the problem comes with the other parts they describe. They give you a good breakdown of the ticket prices from different spots, but I am confused because RailEurope is giving me much different prices from point to point. Some are only a few dollars more but some are almost double. When I use the site suggested by RailSaver (which I assumed is where they had their prices drawn from) the prices were cheaper than RailEurope but still higher than quoted.

Does anyone know which site they may be drawing these numbers from?

Off-Topic : 3 or 4 days in Berlin?

[eyespy]

BTW, if those prices would be accurate while buying at the stations I'm ok. I'm just worried because I can't seem to figure out which site/place they got that info from.

[WillTravel]

From my experience with the two sites, RailEurope seems to mark up prices more than RailSaver, but I believe both of them mark up prices over what they cost at the train station. I would ignore RailEurope's high point-to-point prices.

I know there's a link at the bahn.de site that could help you plan the trip directly from the country train sites themselves - that might help you get the true costs.

[eyespy]

Ok thanks a lot. I was a little worried when I saw such different prices and such since I'd been basing my numbers on RailSaver.com

Dumb question, but should I buy tickets ahead of time (say on the net) or just purchase them in the cities as I go? (in the summer)

Thanks for your help

[WillTravel]

If you buy them from those sites, then you will pay a markup fee and shipping fee. On the plus side you save the time you would spend in line buying it at the station, but I didn't find that a big deal.

Did you figure out if you should get a rail pass for any part of your journey?

[eyespy]

Oh yeh, I used RailSaver and so long as it all works out I got it worked out.

Am going to use the new BeNeLux + Germany 5 day pass and the Prague Excurtion pass. Those two will cover a lot of my travel and will leave little to pay from pocket.

Should work out well, and thanks for the info on the tickets.