Hi, my wife and I have a EuroRail pass for our upcoming trip to Prague, Vienna and Budapest. We already have our tickets booked and reserved for the long haul trips, but were wondering if we could make a stop between those locations for a hour (or however long the next train would be). Our current idea was to get on our Vienna to Budapest train and stop at Gyor for an hour or so before getting back on a train to Budapest. Is that something we can easily do or will our reservations and pass make that too complicated? Thanks.
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
For traveling from Vienna to Budapest, early morning travel could be on a EuroNight train coming through. I suspect that you will need reservations for these trains. If you want to be on these trains, you might want to get ticketed to Gyor and not Budapest if you want to get off. For slightly later morning trains you could be on the nice Austrian RailJet trains. No train changes to Budapest on some runs. If you want Gyor, you should ticket it that way. Seat reservations are not required on the Austrian RailJet trains. You can reserve seats if you want, however, at 3.50Euro per seat.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
Your post is a bit confusing. If you have a Eurail pass, that IS your ticket. You only need to buy mandatory supplements (some routes have these), reservations (mandatory on some routes, optional on others), or sleeping accommodations. Italy and France are minefields of mandatory supplements and mandatory reservations; I don't know about the route you posted above. If you have reservations and want to stop over, you need to have your reservations booked that way. In other words, a reservation from Vienna to Budapest is not going to work with a stopover; you'd need two reservations, one from Vienna to Gyor and the second from Gyor to Budapest. You don't have to buy new tickets, just new reservations (much cheaper). But if you are traveling without reservations, you can just hop on and off as you wish.
Posted by
Eastern Iowa, USA
8058 posts
I think you are indicating that you purchased reservations. If that is the case, then not tsking the train at the presrcribed time means you lose that reservation. However, since you have the pass, you can find a train (a regional or other train that does not require reservtions) and hop that, or just pay the small reservation supplement on a trin that does.
Posted by
OP
Washington, DC, USA
2 posts
Thanks, the replies have been super helpful!
Posted by
Eastern Iowa, USA
8058 posts
I think you are indicating that you purchased reservations. If that is the case, then not tsking the train at the presrcribed time means you lose that reservation. However, since you have the pass, you can find a train (a regional or other train that does not require reservtions) and hop that, or just pay the small reservation supplement on a trin that does.