Overnight Trains to Prague/Venice

[airbolt]

I'm not very keen on flying and want to travel to Prague and/or Venice. I understand that there are Sleeper Trains from German Stations to both these cities .

Has anyone ben on these services ? How did you find them? I would be travelling on my own BTW

[Buenchico]

I've not travelled on these trains but ALL European rail timetables are available on the German National Railways website:
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

Chris

[Buenchico]

PS: That site can combine journeys across Europe. So, if you live in say, Leeds. just put in Leeds to Prague and it will work out the entire journey for you. (You don't need to work out the times for lots of individual sectors of your journey).

PPS: To pre-book European rail travel, don't use the UK National Rail booking system (because they'll charge you a �10 booking fee). Instead, book through Die Bahn's UK office:
http://www.deutsche-bahn.co.uk

Chris

[KebabMeister]

Overnight trains are more expensive.

I've actually been looking at train journeys from Munich (I live in Munich) and to Prague there's an offer on at the moment which will cost �98 return.

Venice is only �58 return at the moment. The summer special offer finishes on 10 December 2005.

I'm not sure on sleeper prices but Venice is around 7 hours from Munich whereas Prague is around 6 1/2. Other cities are usually around the 4 - 5 hours.

If you go to this page http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?program=esi you can view which German cities go to which city destinations (note destinations are in German).

[KebabMeister]

Incidently, Munich does cover other cities but the website link is only listing the �29 one way 'Europe Special' offers.

BTW airbolt, airmess mean anything to you?

[KebabMeister]

I've just booked tickets to Prague for Fri, Sat & Sun next week. They've got an offer on that's only �58 return from Munich! Not bad at all!

[airbolt]

Thanks for the info Buenchico and Kebabmeister. I shall go and explore those sites.

I haven't heard of airmess, i'm afraid. i just invented the name airbolt cos of how it sounds.