Reply To: LCY expansion opposition

[Londonsteve]

TGLoyalty wrote:

You can get a flight cheaper than £400 and probably far faster end to end. Even if you include the sitting around before your flight

£400 misrepresents the price as this is for a 1st class Interrail. You can save a lot by going second class. I think the point he was making is that your travel within Europe needn’t ever cost more than the cost of a 2nd class Interrail pass, even during peak season when flight prices to popular destinations can be sky high, even when booked months in advance.

A lot of people assume that travelling by train takes forever but it’s remarkable where you can get to from London in time for dinner. Prague, Munich, Vienna, Nice, Milan no problem. The Interrail pass conveniently neutralises the expensive Eurostar price for a flat 30 Euros booking fee each way, but, you have to want to use 4 days of rail travel in a month, it doesn’t work if all you need is 1 or 2 days.