Their prices are $10 to $12 lower than the standard price for railpasses, but they charge a $12 “handling fee.”  Everything I checked was basically the same price as every other site.  Lower prices for a trip from Paris to Amsterdam may be because they’re selling basic tickets which aren’t honored on the Thalys trains — which means making 2 or 3 connections.

I believe that the $12 is only for totals under $300. Our total would be $345 including shipping. I hadn’t found any reviews for this site from travelers, so I didn’t know if it was just a big rip-off. Know what I mean? Maybe I will try tomorrow at the library or somewhere, i.e. a computer not my own (in case it is just my computer giving me troubles with accessing the site). Have you ever bought anything from there?

Thanks,

Kara

P.S. Thank you for the fast reply

Maybe you were looking @ something different than I was when you said the prices seem to be the same on other sites. I wasn’t looking at passes, just the tickets. I did not check the prices of the Eurorail passes, so I don’t know about those in comparison with other ones. If you compare the prices from Raileurope.com and Eurorailways.com, round trip from Amsterdam to Paris and back, then there is a $300 difference in the cost. Everywhere else besides Eurorailways.com has a $600+ pricetag for 2 youth tickets on the Thalys between Amsterdam and Paris (round-trip). That is why I was wanting to get from Eurorailways.com

I noticed some special fees on regular tickets, too.  The tickets will probably still be cheaper if you buy them at the train station in Europe.  I checked Berlin to Munich which was $224 plus a $40 reservation charge on eurorailways, $153 on www.railpass.com and as low as 29 euros if you bought directly from the German railsite: bahn.de