Eurail Passes

All six of the Eurail passes listed below and on p.216 are good throughout the seventeen Eurail countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain (except private railways), Sweden, and Switzerland (except private railways). Note that Great Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic, and other Eastern European countries are not included. Fortunately, train or bus travel is very cheap in all countries not included, except Britain.

Also included with the train travel provided by these passes are “free” or discounted ferries between Italy and Greece (see the section on flying within Europe in Chapter 6, “Getting Around,” though), France and Ireland, ferries inside of Denmark, from Denmark to Sweden, Sweden to Finland, and several more combinations of the above. Remember the warning about “free” offers, though; anything “free” will cost you a day or force you to validate your pass. You can find Eurail on the Web at ©www.eurail.com.