Hi RDX

First Option:

buy ticket from brussels to Brugge at Station I think it’s somewhere around $20
Buy an at least 30 day advance Thalys ticket from Brugge to Paris = $35 (same if going from brussels) (www.thalys.com)
Right now raileurope.com/.ca has a select pass promotion of 7 days for the price of 6 with that
get the 7 day 5 Country Select pass for $418
Pass breakdown (this is what I figured out)
Day 1: Munich to Villach, Austria (then buy a ticket from Villach to Zagreb should be at most $80)
Day 2: Budapest to Vienna
Day 3: Vienna to Prague
Day 4: Prague to Berlin
Day 5: Berlin to Amsterdam
Day 6: Amsterdam to Brussels (I take it you taking a Eurostar train to London)
Day 7: is open

Option 2:

Benelux/Germany Pass 5 day Youth Pass = $269
European East Pass (Covers Austria, Czech Rep., Hungary, Poland, Slovak Rep.) 5 days = $224
Advance (at least 30 days) ticket from Thalys.com – Brugge or Brussels to Paris = $35
Purchase a Night train ticket Paris to Munich (from www.bahn.de) = roughly $90-$100 (6 Couchette includes reservation)
if you don’t mind being on a train for a day you can get a 35 Euro ticket from Munich to Zagreb otherwise there is a night train that according to raileurope.ca is about $167 but from what i have been told you can get it cheaper if you buy from the station. Anything for Croatia and Bosnia buy at the station.
in Total :
Rail Passes = $493 for 10 day in total
Advanced Purchased Tickets = $135 unless you include Munich to Zagreb = $302 at most
plus addtional city to city tickets covering Croatia and Bosnia

my breakdown of the passes would be something like this
Benelux/Germany Pass:
Day 1: Brugge to Brussels or vice versa
Day 2: Dresden to Berlin (Buy at Station Prague to Dresden)
Day 3: Berlin to Amsterdam
Day 4: Amsterdam to Brussels
Day 5: is open

European East Pass:
Day 1: Salzburg to Villach
Day 2: Budapest to Vienna
Day 3: Vienna to Prague
Day 4: is open
Day 5: is open

I hope this will give you some ideas

You should be able to get the same special that raileurope offers on a rail pass from any travel agency that sells rail passes — including this site. It is extremely rare for an agency to offer a deal or discount that isn’t available regardless of where you buy the pass. This site guarantees low price, so should match raileurope’s price.

I wasn’t trying to say that it wasn’t anywhere else. I was just stating the website in which I found the “actual wording” for the promotion. No where on this site does it say anything about that promotion. and if “It is extremely rare for an agency to offer a deal or discount that isn’t available regardless of where you buy the pass” then why doesn’t this site offer the European East Pass. I looked everywhere for it and couldn’t find it. Also as an example this site doesn’t offer the Benelux/Germany Pass with a 2nd class saver option and although I know that it is the same price as the youth pass because I have done my research with other sites, other people will not and i can’t take the chance that on the pass somewhere it says youth and then I get screwed over in the long run.
Although I was originally going to buy my passes from this site I can’t due to the fact that it doesn’t have European East Pass, I can’t select the 2nd Class Saver Benelux/Germany pass. and the fact that since I have over $400 worth of products cause I am buying for 2 people I also get free shipping and no exchange rate costs if I buy with raileurope. Every Dollar counts right.

I believe this site only sells the basic eurail passes — not the one and two country passes or the European East pass (some of which aren’t technically “eurail” passes as they’re offered by the national rail companies in the countries involved as opposed to the eurail group). You could e-mail them at rail@eurotrip.com to see if they sell passes in addition to the ones they offer on this site.

van- just send an email to the address that oldlady posted above and they’ll help you out You can also check out our sister site http://www.railsaver… .

Thanks guys for the help. One more question though. If I were to buy the select pass and say I chose germany/austria. If I wanted to go from Munich to slovenia that can count as a day correct? I do not have to purchase any other ticket? Only time I would have to buy seperate ticket would be if I was passing through a country not chosen?

If your pass doesn’t cover Slovenia, you’d have to buy a ticket from the Austrian border to your destination in Slovenia. A rail day is a calendar day, midnight to midnight — with a special provision where most overnight trains only count as one day (arrival day) even though you travel on two different days. If you make it from Munich to Slovenia in the 24 hours between midnight and midnight it’s only 1 day. You could go From Munich to Ljubljana with a 6 1/2 hour stop to explore Salzburg on one rail day.