Subject: Eurotrip !

No, I never did eurotrip, but a friend of mine used to travel a lot by train. I know she saved a lot of money by checking the prices in each country, she never used a europass.

If I look in a few of those sites I find these prices:

raildude eurail global pass 1 month continuous (youth, aged 12-25) €547
InterRail Global Pass Every day within 1 month (youth, aged 12-25) €409
eurotrip Eurail Global Pass 1 month (Youth 12-25) $790 (Prices in USD)

So very different prices :) It's smart looking for the cheapest 1.
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thanks you very much hill is really helping, and i have 3 options:

1)Euro rail pass: i have seen that the "interrail" have the best offer (10 days in 22 days all the countrys 249euro.

2)Flying by easyjet and ryaner: i am looking for flys but they are really expensive, but i think because we are on july, in october everything will be with lowcost :)

3)Taking slowers rails: i dont know the coast but its maybe the cheaper of all the ways.

what you say about money, take a mastercard, cash or maybe an card that i charge from here with money?

Mastercard should be okay.

The good thing about a one-ticket-covers-all-expenses is, that you don't have to plan anything ahead. You can just jump on a train to whereever, whenever you feel like it. To get the cheapest tickets for train and plane, you really need to book in advance. I wouldn't recommend it, when you're visiting Europe. Keep your options open - you'll appreciate it, when you're here. :)

About money I'd say bring your Mastercard, and you should be ok. Use it to pay as often as possible (restaurants, shops, museum tickets, whatever) and make a cash withdraval now and then for when it's not possible to pay with Mastercard. Ane cashmachine at any bank should take it. Make sure there's good credit on it though, so you don't run out of possibilities. Europe can be quite expensive.

Also bring a laptop, preferablty netbook or iPad to save weight and space. It'll come in handy for checking train departures, booking hotels and getting an idea of the must sees whereever you are. It'll save you a lot of time and money. Free hotspots are found everywhere - cafes, libraries, hotels and so.

Last tip:

If you're travelling longer distances, try to make use of night trains. It might cost a little extra fee, but it'll save you a night at a hotel and give you more time to spend in both the city you're leaving and the one you're getting to.

oh, not a topic about that epic movie :p

That last tip (night train), you can forget that when you come to Belgium, no such thing exists here.

There aren't many night trains left. It's mostly between major cities - and often crossing borders.

and probably only in bigger countries :)

Brussels - Hamburg/Hannover should be possible. :)

Guide to European night trains - for ampri.
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you must visit to Budapest, and check our night pub life:)

thanks every one again, some points, i think i will bring a samsung galaxy for the internet.
Traveling you shure isnt cheaper to take flys in the last minute from the airports ? (more fastly too)
and how much coast a bus or a slower train ?

and how much days you think i need be in every country? i think something like that:
Italy 7
shweiz 6
germany 3
netherland 4/5
belgium 2
france 2/3
spain 6/7
portugal 4

maybe i will go to another countrys but i dont know if i will have time, i want 1 month and half and my girlfriend want only a month, what you say ?

maybe do
Shweiz and Netherlands 1 day less
and go to the UK :)

Buying airline tickets in the last minute is usually a guarantee to pay the most. Discounts are for long time planners, as far as I know. Maybe you're confusin regular airline tickets with "charter travel"? That's something else.

And if I were you, I'd cut that list of countries in half. If you've only got a month, there's no way you're going to see all of Europe. And with only 2-4 days in many countries, you're going to watch most of it from the seat of a train. And you're going to return to Argentina with a sensation of having only experienced a tiny fraction of the things you wanted to experience, while you were there.

In my opinion it's much better to spend about a week in four different countries with longers stays in selected major cities, such as Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Berlin or Amsterdam - and then return later in life to see the rest.

Italy, Spain, Portugal and France could be a nice combo, if you want to make the return flight from Italy also. For more diversity (those four countries are all Southern European/Mediterranean in culture, climate, language etc.) you could travel north from Italy, maybe flying home from Stockholm, Sweden, Amsterdam, Holland or Warsaw, Poland.

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I found some info about buying tickets at the airport but that won't save you any money, in fact, it's more expansive as booking in advance: Google - buy tickets at airport.

And in the Netherlands you have different trains (Intercity, Sprinter, Stoptrein and ICE International), but only the ICE International will cost you more (but isn't faster as a Intercity). All other 3 cost the same, but intercity trains are (a bit) faster as the other 2. If you travel short distances, for example Amsterdam-Utrecht, it won't make that much of a difference which 1 of the trains you use. The moment you travel from, for example, Amsterdam-Groningen (north of the Netherlands), or Amsterdam-Maastricht (south of the Netherlands), it will make a lot of difference and you should always use the Intercity. But still this won't cost you anymore money when using the Sprinter or Stoptrein, it will only cost you a lot more time. The only thing that will cost more is if you travel first class in stead of second class. I recommend second class as these are pretty good seats and enough space.

4/5 days in the Netherlands can be enough to see some cities as you don't need to travel long distances. As I already wrote, Amsterdam-Groningen and Amsterdam-Maastricht are the longest distances but this will only take about 2 and a half hours by train (1 way, not the return, that is twice that time).

But as MontyBurns wrote, overall it's not that long for all those countries.

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