anonymous
Traveller
2467 comments
Posted 11 years ago
Hi! 8)
We're a group of four girls and need some advice with the organisation of our trip to England in august. We would like to stay for two or three weeks and would like to see both interesting cities and beautiful sceneries. Does anybody of you have some experience? We're planning to stay in youth-hostels. We're especially interested in the south of England as well as Wales, Lake District, Oxford, Cambridge, ... What's the best way to visit these places? Thank you in advance! :D
Flo
Traveller
10723 comments
Hej,
first question: do you want to go to/from the UK by train as well? Or do you prefer to take the plane?
Depending on how you go there you have the choice between a Global Pass or an One Country Pass. If you you to the UK by train, you should allow two days each way, which would leave you with only six travel days if you'd go with the 10in22. So a 22continuous might be a better idea - or you just fly there. Another option of getting to the UK would be using prebooked Sparschiene/Europa Spezial-Tickets until Paris and then get a ticket for Eurostar.
Anyway, let's talk about the UK. As you want to visit quite a number of different places you are going to need many travel days so a 8day One Country Pass probably is a good idea. This would be 218€ for <26, equivalent to 27,25€ for each travel day. Since regular tickets are rather expensive in the UK this is quite a good deal - you might get similar prices if you buy regular advance fare tickets but these would be fixed on a certain train and date and you'd therefore lose a lot of flexibility.
In the south of England you could think of visiting Brighton; Cornwall is also quite beautiful and has good rail connections to many small resorts, for instance to St Ives and Looe.
The railway network in Wales is rather sparse, depending on where exactly you'd want to go. Without knowing exactly how you will get to the UK/back home it makes not much sense to give you more detailed advice regarding in which order to visit all places.
In general, the UK still has quite a dense railway network with frequent connections and it is really fun to travel by train since you do not have to worry about reservations as you have to in some other countries. Just hop on a train and sit down... :)
Maybe also have a look at this map which might help you with planning your route: :arr: [u]http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/map.php?file=maps/british-isles/british-isles.gif[/u]
Flo 8)
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nltrainer
Traveller
1333 comments
as an alternative-if you fly in-or go by much, much cheaper bus-eurolines, is the BRITrailpas, as these are cheaper if you buy them for just ENGland - or just Scotland. Often they also have extra's -like 1 day extra or reduced price for group, but mostly not in hi-season summer.
About any tourist region in the UK has local-area only rover or ranger tickets-often quite cheap, but you can never travel before 9.00 or 9.30 on them. Nationalrail.co.uk should have the full list somewhere-some are only summertime.