Wanting to travel between Paris, Vienna and Athens. Thoughts? Will be traveling with children ages 6and 10. Train vs air flight? If train, overnight routes?
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London, United Kingdom
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Do you already have experience with overnight travel? Some people simply cannot sleep in a moving vehicle, and children especially may be extra hassle. You definitely need to fly to Athens, as all international rail services into Greece are currently suspended as a government cost-saving measure.
Posted by
Whittington
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' Thoughts?' There is no train journey Paris to Vienna less than 11 hours and some minutes. Any journey by train from Vienna to Athens, and I can be corrected, would be convoluted and I suspect approaching 24 hours. Have you ever taken an overnight train? Overnight travel, even by a dedicated train with a bed chamber without changes of train is rarely comfortable, not romantic and is likely to leave you feeling like c...p the following day. Plus what will you do deposited in a strange city at an early hour. I certainly would not be doing this with children, unless for some reasoning you want them hardened to travelling.