Granada, Spain

Rail passes are not the simple question that they were 20 years when two or three train rides would pay for the pass. Now you have to do you homework and price the ticket point to point. Rail passes now require a supplement fee for nearly all trains except the regional trains. So that has to be added to the rail pass cost. The short answer without doing the homework would be doubtful that the pass you save you any money given the limited train schedule that you are doing. There are also advance, discount tickets now available which makes the pass less of a good deal.

Much the same as Frank. There is little likelihood of value in any rail pass in Spain if planning ahead and taking advantage of as much as 60% discounted fares purchased direct from the national rail operator RENFE. See this concise guide for purchase from RENFE - http://tiny.cc/0gpnv and this - http://tiny.cc/5ynb6 - if necessary covering all known trials and tribulations with the website. You are the only one who can confirm value or not of a pass by doing a maths. comparison - rail pass cost plus supplements against point to point purchase of tickets for your desired journeys (discounted or not). I cannot, at the moment, see the logic, spending near 24 hours on the train Granada to Paris (but I do not know anything of flights available or cost).

The experience of most posting here is that flying between Granada and Barcelona is far cheaper than the train. Going from Granada or Barcelona to Paris would also probably be cheaper by plane. Madrid to Granada or Madrid to Barcelona is about a wash between plane and train. Keep in mind that while things are improving, rail service to/from Granada and between France and Spain is not great. Limited runs and longer trips than normal European rail service.

We took the train from Granada to Madrid 2007- Great although 4 hours. The airport in Granada(we dropped our car their) is about 1/2 hour outside - 35Euro cab ride into the centre of Granada and the train station is very near the centre. Consider this when deciding what to do. I were you I would fly into Barcelona - then take the train to Granada and then train to Madrid and then fly from there to Paris.
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Do you have to go to those destinations in that order? If you have not looked at a map, you should take a quick glance at the location of these cities. The order you mention involves a lot of doubling-back, which will certainly waste a bunch of your time and money. Avoid that if you can. Of course, it depends on what exactly your plans are before and after this portion of the trip, but assuming this is a vacation and you'll be coming from the US and returning afterwards, and you have the freedom to choose the order, I'd do the following: Fly open-jaws into Madrid (from the US, it probably offers the most options) - it also gets the hottest part of the trip over first. Take the train or bus to Granada (I like the train, but I believe the bus is more direct, and cheaper). Fly to Barcelona (it's a long way; it's doable on the fast train, but may cost nearly as much as flying and certainly takes longer). From Barcelona, fly to Paris. Fly home from Paris. Depending on which part of June you go, it's going to be either hot or really uncomfortably hot in much of Spain, so I would work from south to north, ending in Paris. Probably no reason for a rail pass, but as others have said, you have to do the math. Have fun.