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diamantenstein
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Posted 16 years ago

I'm a 20 year old student from Germany and I plan to travel through Great Britain in March 2008. Therefore I consider to buy the InterRail Great Britain Pass. But at first I have a number of questions and I would be really happy, if you could answer them for me ;)

1) Do I have to plan my journey to Great Britain and back to Germany for my own (buy a ticket for train or plane to come to this country?)

2) Can I buy the Youth ticket 2nd class for 90 - 140 pounds (i have read that the youth ticket is available for people younger than 25)

3) I dont understand how lang I am able to travel. I want to travel for 3 or 4 weeks, but the ticket is only available for 8 days. So can I only travel 8 days, or can I travel 8 days and stay the other time in one place? for example I start traveling in London, stay there two days, then i travel one day to the middle of GB and stay there one week, then I travel again? So you count only the days of traveling? and if i only want to visit two places the 3 days ticket would be enough?

4) what if i want to visit a friend in Northern Ireland? am I able to go by ship over the ocean? Does it cost more or is it in the price included?

5) Can I combine the GB and the Ireland ticket?

6) Am I only allowed to travel by train, or can I use busses, too?

Quite a lot of question, I know. I hope to receive an answer, that would be very great! I hope to start my journey next year!!

Greetings and thank you for answering!

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Peter
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replied 16 years ago

hej hej ... :)

here are the answers you need...

1) yes... you have to plan it on your own, as InterRail is just a normal train ticket. To arrive at the point where your InterRail ticket starts or is valid, you have to find your own way. I think the cheapest way will be to fly by Ryanair or Easyjet from Germany to the UK.

2) yes, you can buy the Youth 2nd Class ticket as you are 20 years old.

3) if you buy the InterRail Flexi Ticket for the UK valid for 8 days, you have 8 travel-days within one month.This means: you can chose 8 days for free within 30 days you want to travel. You are flexible like the name of the ticket. :) And the best: if you travel by night-train, which is leaving after 19:00h in the evening, fill in your ticket the date of the following day and you can travel by this night-train and the full next day until midnight! :) A travel day is always from 0:00h in the morning until 24:00 in the night.

4) when using a ferry between England and Northern Ireland, you have to pay extra. but you will get reductions. have a look on [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/united-kingdom/uk[/u] ... it is not very expensive to use one of these ferries.

5) yes, you can buy an InterRail Felxi Ticket UK and an InterRail Felxi Ticket Rep. of Ireland ... no problem to combine them. but remember, when you use a train going from Northern Ireland (belongs to the UK ticket) to the Rep. of Ireland, it counts as two travel days - on on the UK-ticket and on of the Rep.Ireland-ticket.

6) As the InterRail ticket is a train ticket, you can use it only for traveling by train. in some countries you can use buses, but these a special buses operated by train companies... this is not the case in the UK+Rep.Ireland.I hope this answers will help you !!

have a lot of fun and buy Interrail here: [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]

Peter :)

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diamantenstein
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replied 16 years ago

hey,

thanks for the very fast answer;) so i will try to find more information about the places i want to visit. im not sure if the infrastructure is so well there, in other words if i can travel enough by train, for example going to scotland and things like that. but i think this can be easy seen on the internet on maps or other things:)
greetings ad have a nice day!

diamantenstein