{"id":6716,"date":"2022-10-15T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:58:06","slug":"europe-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/europe-by-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe by Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I plan more travel for 2023, the train is looking more and more comfortable. It&#8217;s not cheaper yet but sometimes with Eurostar, an interail ticket is cheaper than Eurostar&#8217;s prices, particularly if I want to travel on. Here are some notes and links. &#8230;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interrail.eu\/en\/interrail-passes\/global-pass\">Inter Rail&#8217;s pass prices<\/a>, they are offering \u20ac221 for a 4 day pass <em>15 Oct 2022<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurostar.com\/uk-en\/train\/cheap-eurostar-tickets\">cheaper tickets on the <strong>Eurostar<\/strong><\/a>, also their home page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurostar.com\/uk-en\">Eurostar<\/a>, and how to reserve a seat on <strong>Eurostar <\/strong>for an inter rail ticket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurostar.com\/uk-en\/deals\/interrail\">by Eurostar<\/a>, and by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seat61.com\/interrail-and-eurail-passes-on-eurostar.htm\"> the man in seat 61<\/a>. Reserving a seat requires paying a fee, which the man in seat 61, reports as \u00a330, each way! And the seats are limited. FFS &#x1f635;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deutsche Bahn<\/strong> have <a href=\"https:\/\/int.bahn.de\/en\">a web site<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=de.hafas.android.db&amp;hl=en_GB\">an android app<\/a>, called DB Navigator and probably an iphone version too. I found logging in to the app to be a bit odd and found <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.sailfishos.org\/t\/howto-login-into-android-app-db-navigator\/9063\/9\">this thread<\/a>, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">implies <\/span>that you need to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">set the cookies using a web browser<\/span> but the android implementation of chrome doesn&#8217;t work. I have fixed this by using Firefox to login to the site, and then the app works. Very Odd. Now, how to complain to DB. Or stick with the web interface.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interrail.eu\/en\/support\/reservations\/how-do-i-make-seat-reservations\">reserve seats in the rest of Europe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Hints on getting them cheaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secretsofparis.com\/practical\/getting-around\/cheaper-eurostar-tickets\">https:\/\/secretsofparis.com\/practical\/getting-around\/cheaper-eurostar-tickets<\/a>\/ recommends getting tickers from Parisian suburban stations,and also looking at,\u00a0 sites such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrainline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trainline<\/a><\/strong> (a third-party seller which isn\u2019t cheaper but sometimes more convenient when booking multiple train trips) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sncf-connect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SNCF Connect<\/a><\/strong> (formerly OUI.sncf, this is a subsidiary of the French train network SNCF and sells tickets on the Eurostar, Thalys, and Deutsche Bahn), or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raileurope.com\/en-gb\">Rail Europe.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are other search sites, which I may add later.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I plan more travel for 2023, the train is looking more and more comfortable. It&#8217;s not cheaper yet but sometimes with Eurostar, an interail ticket is cheaper than Eurostar&#8217;s prices, particularly if I want to travel on. Here are some notes and links. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[79],"tags":[2209,1833,1834,2210,1832,108],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-db","tag-eurostar","tag-interail","tag-sncf","tag-train","tag-travel-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/eurostar-cc-dfl-2022-BY.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}