Eurorail Select Saver??

[travelingtrio]

1st time to Europe and I'm overwhelmed w/the endless possibilities of transportation available.

Traveling to Germany and Italy to visit friends. Trying to decide if its worth it to purchase a Euro Pass Select Saver for 3 country/5 day ticket.

Also, are these tickets unlimited travel in each country and how does it work?

For instance:
if we used it to travel from frankfurt to munich -- is that considered 1 day?

then from munich to venice -- traveling at night

then returning from venice to frankfurt.

Just trying to grasp this train system. Lived in Japan for 18 years...I can understand that system, but not Eurail -- go figure!

Thanks!

[me]

go to railsaver.com/railsaver.asp and plug in where/when you want to go by train. (ie, omit any flights or busses you plan to take.)

any day on which you use the Eurail pass to ride a train, it counts as a day. the exception is a night train - if the train leaves after a certain time, don't remember if that time is 7 (or maybe 8) in the evening, and you don't change trains before midnight, you only need put the day you arrive at your destination. (eg, if you board a night train departing Munich at 23.40 <11.40pm> getting to Venice at 7.36 the next morning, you'd only need to mark one day on your pass - the day you get to Venice.) so, if you felt up to it, you could make day trips from Venice that day & the train would be covered by the railpass!

does this clear it up any?

- d

[travelingtrio]

i think i understand...so even when it says "unlimited"travel w/in country -- it must be done w/in a 24 hr. period. for example...if we took the train in frankfurt to munich and then decided to go down to fussen -- and then back up to munich -- all needs to be done with in 24 hrs before its counted as another "day".

[herrbert]

yes, that is precisely what it means, you could travel from Munich to Hamburg and back if you want to, as long as you do that in 1 day. München - Füssen - München is fine. As David explained, nighttrains have slightly different rules.

But also take a look if it is worth it to use a pass. A returnticket from München to Füssen and back costs 41.60 euro according to www.bahn.de. Also Deutsche Bahn is having 'sales' of tickets to travel unlimited within Germany for 1 day for just 29 euros. (but last time I checked it was only on the German part of their website: www.bahn.de/p/view/preise/aktionspreis/dauer_spezial.shtml)