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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] I have reappeared and appreciate the concern. As Geoff noted our overseas trip was phenomenal. There were Cathedrals and Castles, Trains and stations, hotels ranging from 'old-fashioned but appealing' to charming to full service. I was pleased that we experienced no problems with our hotel reservations and we stayed in 7 different hotels in 4 different countries. Pleased is an understatement..... I was thrilled because I made the hotel arrangements myself through direct contact (and reconfirmation a month out) with each hotel. The itinerary held for the most part. We did have a couple of train cancellations.....one rectified simply catching the next ICE from Dusseldorf an hour later and the other by an SNCF bustitution from Chambery to Geneva. One story from our trip - Some background first - we traveled using separate rail passes - a 7 day German pass and a 3 day Swiss Rail pass. The segments of our trip which passed through Austria, Italy, and France were accomplished with pre-purchased single segment tickets. This arrangement did save slightly more than $500 over purchasing a Eurail Pass BUT we primarily did this because we would be riding trains operated by the narrow gauge Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn each of our three days in Switzerland. The MGB accepts the Swiss Rail pass as a 'show and go' document but only offers a 50% discount for passengers using the Eurail Pass. This brings us to the train we rode from Zurich to Buchloe, Germany (final destination of the train was Munich). We needed 5 travel documents to ride that train - 1) the Swiss Rail pass, 2) the German rail pass, 3) separate tickets for the 20 minutes the train spent passing through Austria, 4) our seat reservation vouchers, and 5) our passports. Our conductor came through and, after a heated discussion with the Russian lady across the aisle, charged her additional fare for something not correct with her ticket. He turned to us with a not very hospitable "Where do you wish to go?". I said "Buchloe" and handed the wad of documents over to him. He carefully inspected items 1-4 but just waved the passports back to me saying "Everything is in order here....thank you." He seemed surprised that an American had figured it out. As he walked away I whispered to my wife "Nailed it!" There is a separate thread with a link to a Facebook album of European Rail photos... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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