Venice to Paris using a Eurail pass

Here is a link to the suggestions from the man in seat 61 website. If you have never checked out this website, I think you will find it quite interesting.

http://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Venice.htm#Venice-Paris

If you do end up having to buy a ticket, an alternative option would be to fly using

http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Booking.mvc. Flight time is 1 1/2 hrs with fares as low as 32 euro.

Do you want the night train, where you make a valiant yet likely unsuccessful attempt at sleep or do you want the long and occasionally scenic day journey? Either way that's a fairly longish time to be on a train.

There are various possible routes, and there are various flavours of the pass.

So a couple of questions, please, to give you the correct focussed answers.

First, have you already bought your Railpass? If so, what type is it? Select? Global? Something else? If Select, what countries have you bought? Depending on your answers, certain routes will work and others may be more difficult.

When is your trip? If it is far enough in the future and you haven't yet bought the pass we may be able to save you money.

How many in the group, and what age ranges, please?

Where will you be before Venice, and where will you be after Paris?

Your other previous post (did you see the answers there?) was about Greece and Turkey. Is this part of that trip?

Let us help you.

The overnight train does not accept rail passes. See also:

http://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/transportation/trains/france-rail-passes

http://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/transportation/trains/italy-rail-passes

http://www.ricksteves.com/travel-help/rail-faq#paris-italy or link to same from our Eurail Global and Select pass pages.

If you want day time trains with a connection at Milan, then break up the request and reserve each leg separately at http://ricksteves.raileurope.com/us/rail/point_to_point/triprequest.htm. The recommended connection from Venice via Milan leaves at 12:50, but you could depart any time earlier to give yourself more connection time at Milan. Milan-Paris TGV trains run only twice/day.

Routes with an additional connection at Geneva or Basel are much more expensive to reserve (and would assume that your pass covers Switzerland), so avoid them, if possible.

Look at breaking it down to Venice-Milan-Zurich-Paris.
Milan- Zurich offers 7 direct services per day (4 hours).
Zurich-Paris TGV offers 6 direct services per day (4 hours).

Zurich is a possible connection point, but not the fastest one suggested on DB train schedules. They put the fastest Swiss connections at Geneve or Basel, depending on departure time. But Switzerland-France TGV reservations cost more and crossing Switzerland has to be either on your pass or a separate ticket.

I would stick to one connection in Milan, as long as you can get a reservation for that train.