My husband and I are traveling to Europe in June. We are flying into Brussels on Wednesday, where we will travel to Tilburg, Netherlands for a conference. On Friday, we will go to Amsterdam. Sunday we may go to Harlaam or the coast for a daytrip. On Monday we will travel from Amsterdam to Bacharach via Cologne. We will stay for two days in Bacharach and hope to get over to Burg Etz. We then will go back to Brussels via Cologne and Aachen. I've tried to do the math for whether point to point tickets will be cheaper, and I think they are substantially the same (If I'm reading things correctly.) If that's the case, I assume that having the rail pass would be best due to convenience. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Posted by
Vancouver, Washigton
10 posts
My wife and have travelled numerous times using a rail-pass after checking the cost of point to point tickets. On our last trip we bought a Benelux-Germany-Austria pass for the number of days we would use the train and it was great. The pass is First-class and very easy to hop right on. On a few segments via hi-speed trains a reservation might be needed depending on route and day. Saying that, for a short trip on a particular day it might be cheaper to buy a point to point ticket and not use up a rail-pass day of travel for the short trip like Amsterdam-Haarlem.
Posted by
Tilburg, Netherlands
2829 posts
Very unlikely a pass will save you money, since you ahve many short routes where the cost is well below the daily cost of a pass.