Eurail Train Pass or Individual Tickets??

If you use passes you will have to pay extra money$$ for the mandatory reservation fees on the following legs: Munich Rome Rome Florence Florence Venice Venice Munich and then Munich Paris
Paris Zurich but not Zurich Munich If you buy tickets instead of passes the prices will include needed reservations. If you buy non-refundable non-changeable tickets well in advance you can get high speed train tickets for as little as €9 per leg per person. Also can you use the Eurail pass to travel in the metro/ bus etc inside the cities? Nope. I assume that when you say My parents are visiting me in Munich and I am planning to travel with them. you are using the present tense to describe an activity in the future? Or do you mean they are with you now?

To compare passes and individual tickets, YOU need to find and add up the costs of individual tickets using YOUR travel dates and YOUR passenger information. No one else can know your prices since they do not have this information. For trips between Italy and Germany, France and Germany, or Switzerland and Germany: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en (I've traveled between Stuttgart and Zürich for 19€ on advance-sale discount tickets.) For trips within Italy: http://www.trenitalia.com/ Not sure whether the French site can help with the trip to Zürich, but here it is: http://www.sncf.fr/ I would also suggest looking into a flight between Germany and Rome instead of a rail ticket. I've flown Ryanair between Frankfurt Hahn and Pisa for next to nothing. Ryanair also flies between Memmingen (near Munich) and Rome.

In Germany, the Eurail pass is valid on the S-Bahn in cities but not for the U-Bahn, trams, or buses. In Paris, I believe, the pass is only valid for the metro from CDG. I don't think the pass is valid for the metro in Rome. The Eurail website, www.eurail.com, lists the pass benefits (eg, use of in-city transit) for each country under "Countries". If you use the Bahn website to order advance purchase tickets and specify an S-bahn station in Munich as the start or end point, your ticket will include travel by S-bahn between any train station in Munich and that station.

Dear All, Thank you so much!!!!! @Nigel they are visiting me in August and I shall be travelling between 8th and 20th August :) I will look into the tickets :) Also figured that since I have been in Munich for 8 months now I cannot use the eurail pass I have to get the interrail pass anyway. Thanks again Cheers,
Sunny

Booked NOW on the sites given by Russ, you should be able to get discount fares for most, if not all, of your routes. That includes the direct CNL night train from Munich to Rome, the direct CNL night train from Venice to Munich, and the direct CNL night train from Munich to Paris.

Thank you!!!