Thanks Choc for the links - we will check them out for sure.
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Originally Posted by Sara
I travelled around Belgium, France and Spain with Interrail in 2001 and I remember that I was really supprised by the extra fee on the TGV's in France - it was less than I expected. The extra fee for Paris to Marseille was less than 5 Euro for example.
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That's good news
We will be going through France, and it's good to know that it isn't too expensive...
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But, travelling by train in Holland isn't cheap, neither are the extra fees. Compared to the TGV's in France I had to pay much more for the Thalys from Amsterdam to Paris (just checked it - that was an extra fee of about 20 Euro). I don't really know if there's a standard rating for the fees though...
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Fortunately we won't be going to France from Holland...
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As far as I know you only have to pay extra in Holland on the Thalys from Amsterdam to Brussels & Paris and the ICE to Germany. All other trains are free with Interrail (unless you'd travel First Class, but you don't want to do that). I believe there are no more overnight trains leaving from any city in Holland to other countries, so there's no problem with extra fees on those...
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That's good to know, thanks Sara.
We won't be using Thalys, but we will arrive in Amsterdam by IC - is that also as expensive as Thalys? In Finland, the IC extra fee is around 5 euros - can we assume that it's quite the same in Central Europe?
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I hope this helps you a little - I know I searched a lot two years ago on the WWW for the extra costs, but couldn't find them anywhere. It's kind of hard to tell what the costs are exactly and the prices I just mentioned are from the pre-Euro era, I guess they changes quite a bit as well.
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It does help
It's a pain to find any exact prices for nearly anything from the web, especially train fares.
Btw, Sara, we're looking for hostels in Amsterdam right now (Taija is sitting on a computer next to me).
Looks like there are a lot of cheap options - thanks for your help before!
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