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Mon, 04/18/2011 - 11:31

snl

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What a great site!

I’ve entered an itinerary called Spain to Italy and have some questions about the trip planner tool.

First, I don’t see how to take into account the following situation.
We will spend the night in Barcelona. In the morning, we will train to Carcassonne, FR for a half day, then train to Toulouse, FR to spend the night. When I enter this it counts Carcassone as a day/night and Toulouse as a day/night. But we’re hoping (I’d appreciate advice as to this plan’s feasibility timewise) to just spend the day at Carcassonne and the night in Toulouse.

Second, I cannot get the Rail Pass recommendation to work in Firefox (invalid error). It only works in IE. Further, it recommends a global 10 day pass. Why would it say this when it seems clear that a 4 country 10 day class would do the same thing but be cheaper. So, how does this tool calculate the optimal route? Can I adjust how it calculates? I’m not sure I trust it given this discrepancy (especially since the clunkier Railsaver.com tool recommends the 4 country 8 day pass). Regarding railsaver.com, I was unable to book tickets there.

Thanks for any help!
SnL

Spain to Italy

I am leaving from Dallas with $3200 for 31 days
Madrid, Barcelona, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lauterbrunnen, Como, Florence, Assisi, Spoleto, Naples, Rome

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Mon, 04/18/2011 - 11:53

snl

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One other question: what is the best way to indicate on the Trip Planner that an overnight train is desired?

Spain to Italy

I am leaving from Dallas with $3200 for 31 days
Madrid, Barcelona, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lauterbrunnen, Como, Florence, Assisi, Spoleto, Naples, Rome

Requesting help with Transport, Budget, Food

Mon, 04/18/2011 - 15:06

mim

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snl — thanks for the bug report! not sure what the issue is, but I will go ahead and forward this to our tech guys and see if they figure out a solution.

Turkey and Georgia On My Mind

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Thu, 04/21/2011 - 10:24

snl

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Thanks for the response, mim. Do you have any answers to my other questions?

Also, I’ve tried to book my rail passes through your site but I cannot get past the “add to cart” stage. I’ve tried with IE and Firefox. I’m loading up Chrome to try with it. Please advise.

Thanks!
SnL

Spain to Italy

I am leaving from Dallas with $3200 for 31 days
Madrid, Barcelona, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lauterbrunnen, Como, Florence, Assisi, Spoleto, Naples, Rome

Requesting help with Transport, Budget, Food

Thu, 04/21/2011 - 13:22

oldlady

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You are staying/traveling in 5 countries (Spain, France, Benelux, Switzerland and Italy), thus a 4 country pass isn’t adequate. Your stopovers (don’t enter them) mean it looks like you’re traveling on about 15 different rail days. I think the “rail days” will work out to more than 10, although you might find point to point tickets are cheaper than extra days on the railpass
1. Madrid/Barcelona
2. Barcelona/Toulouse — stopover in Carcassonne won’t be an extra day if you arrive in Toulouse before midnight, which you can do with about an 8 hour stopover
4. Paris/Amsterdam/Den Hague
5. Den Hague/Amsterdam/Geneva
6. Geneva/Lauterbrunnen
7. Lauterbrunnen/Como (or is Como just a short stop on your way to Firenze?)
8. Como/Florence
9. Day trip or overnight to Assisi (again, may be cheaper to buy a ticket and not use the railpass)
10. Another day trip or overnight to Spoleto? (ditto on using the railpass)
11. Florence/Naples (I’d cut Naples or visit it as a day trip from Rome)
12. Naples/Rome

Fri, 04/22/2011 - 11:02

snl

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Thank you for taking the time to look at our trip and respond, oldlady!

The original recommendation was to skip putting Spain on the pass and use point to points for Spain. However, I priced our travel and Spain and thought it worth while to go with a 5 country pass. I wasn’t sure if we would be able to make all the overnight connections work on a single day, so I ended up purchasing the global-21 day consecutive. I thought the price would be pretty close to a 5 country 10 day pass with extra point to point purchases. And we had long stays in Madrid and Rome on each end of the trip for which we wouldn’t need passes.

The reason Naples is on the itinerary is because I lived there for three yeas as a boy and want to show my wife. I doubt we would stay there otherwise.

Thanks again!

Spain to Italy

I am leaving from Dallas with $3200 for 31 days
Madrid, Barcelona, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lauterbrunnen, Como, Florence, Assisi, Spoleto, Naples, Rome

Requesting help with Transport, Budget, Food

Fri, 04/22/2011 - 18:22

mim

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snl sorry about all the bugs! were you ever able to get it to work?

Turkey and Georgia On My Mind

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