A Guide to Interrail (My Experience, Best Routes, Saving Money, Packing + Tips!) | Jack Edwards
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- My ultimate survival guide to Interrail 2018! I went Interrailing around Europe last summer (vlogs linked below) and had the most incredible time EVER, so wanted to share my top tips, money saving hacks, best routes, and general tricks that I picked up en route. We travelled from Paris, to Munich, Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Budapest, Vienna, Cesky Krumlov, Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Let's make your trip more Interrail than InterFAIL.
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Corona really be destroying my hopes of travelling
I am going next Monday! Just following all travel advice and avoid busy places :)
@@1270lyn sadly that's quite difficult if you want to travel by train
@@lucam9806 yeah, now it is... but when I went back in September it was still kind of possible. Lots of coutries were code orange, but still some yellows, so that is where we went. I had an awesome month, despite Corona :)
@@1270lyn Sounds great! I'm waiting for all this covid stuff to end so I can finally go on an interrail trip. Until then, planning where I want to go and watching TH-cam videos is all I can do :)
@@lucam9806 believe me, its worth the wait. Plus planning is like half the fun ;) lets just hope it all ends soon so we can discover new places again :)
THIS WAS SO USEFUL! 🙌
gotta get those gap yah plans 💪🏼
True Jade Bowler
i guess I'm quite randomly asking but does anyone know a good place to watch new tv shows online ?
@Dax Omari i use Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
@Braylen Wyatt Definitely, been watching on FlixZone for since april myself :)
i’m trying to think of train puns but i just keep getting side tracked...
i wish i could go back in time and put this comment on the screen for the entire video
that was punny mate, i also enjoy making shit jokes.
That was a RAILy good pun
Yiv hit the buffers eh
Oooohhhhhh mannnnnnnn
I went interrailing last summer at the end of my A levels too! i went to paris, marseille, florence, rome, venice, budapest and vienna! if i had gone for longer or if i were to do it again i would love to go to amsterdam, berlin, munich etc... i loved interrailing so much, I'm a very anxious person but doing this really helped me chill out. Even though we hit a few walls we always made it in the end!!! i only went with one person and next time i will definitely go with a group but it's such a great way to travel and see some amazing places :) loved hostels, the sights, the food, the trains. all of it was amazing and looking back i will remember it forever!! also wish i had this video before i went its soooo helpful!!! xx
Hey, I'm thinking of interrailing and the end of year 13 and have some questions! How did you find travelling as a woman - did you feel safe in hostels? And how did make money to go interrailing?
hey girl, what type of interrail pass did you get? Xx
Do you have any tips for inter railing whilst being an anxious person? 😊
Hi emily, did you stop and spent few days in any of the countries you visited? Just curious cos i dont know how interrail works..or did you just spend the whole journey riding the train non-stop!!! I prefer spending at least 2 days in each country before jumping on another train to another destination!!!
I've interrailed 8 times now. I'm a very anxious person too and I do find it stressful at times because as you say you inevitably hit a few walls but in the end it makes you more confident, more organised, more broad minded etc
Overnight trains also cut the cost of hostels for the night ;)
But where do you shower? Or put your bags when exploring?
In the lockers
@@hoyeshibg1370 u don't lol
Hoyeshi BG baby wipes. Any beach showers / public showers after maybe in a hotel / hostel.
If I can make a suggestion based on my personal experiences of traveling in Europe, don’t eat or shop around the touristy areas. Those are usually higher in price and are less authentic. When I was in Italy, I went down so many side streets in Bologna, Rome, and Florence and paid significantly cheaper for food and the food was much more authentic. Plus the small bars found down side streets are sometimes much more fun. I went to one in Rome (reply to this comment if you want to know which one) in Trieste and it was such an amazing experience. It was incredibly cheap. The drinks were amazing. The bartender was friendly. The patrons were accepting and just chill. I went there twice in 1 night. 1 time before a group dinner (I was on a week long study abroad trip with my history department) and me and like 4 other students went back for round 2 later that evening before hitting the clubs.
Also, check where the taxi drivers eat at. That is always the best value.
Thanks for recommending Interrail Planner, Jack!
My pleasure!!! You were SUCH a life saver when planning my trip - thank you so much!
My friends and I are saving up at the moment so we can travel from the Seattle to Europe for our first interrailing trip this summer, AFTER BEING INSPIRED BY YOUR INTERRAIL SERIES!!
I’m going interrailing this summer after my a-levels so this was super helpful! xox
ahhhhh literally did this exact thing last year - HAVE AN AMAZING TIME
Me and a bunch of friends are going interrailing this summer and we still have a lot to organize but this was really helpful! Thank uou so much🙌👏
ahhhh i'm so jealous! have the most AMAZING time!
this comes perfectly on time :D I am going on interrail this summer ^^
waheeeey have the most incredible time, i'm so so so jealous!
last year i visited ljubljana and lake bled it was honestly such an amazing experience, so beautiful!! im sad that you only had 24 hrs in vienna it's one of my favourite cities, so many hidden cute cafes and museums!! once again amazing video jack 💗 (ALSO YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO 30K WHAAT)
omg slovenia is literally the most beautiful country ever - so so so underrated!
agreed, i don't regret going! It's definitely a must visit!
♡♡ I study medicine in Budapest and I'm planning on doing an interrail with some friends this summer! This video was so so helpful and I remember subscribing after watching your first interrail vlog hahah
ahhhhh that's insane - thank you! definitely do it, you're in such a good location to start in Budapest!
Jack’s channel is where you find the best puns 😂👌 Would love to do this in a couple of years it looks so good 👍
waheeeeey buzzing with that reputation 😂
I thought it was so kind of you to laminate copies for your friends and parents, I’m sure they really appreciated that!! Also, in this video you celebrated almost 30k followers and now you’re at 1.3 million!! CONGRATS!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
big up Jack Edwards with the brilliant adviceee
waheeeeeey!!
I want to go interrailing next year after a levels so this is the best possible video for me!! Thank you 😘😘
do it!!!! get organised as early as poss to save the stress though :)
I'm planning on going interrailing when I graduate in 2 years, so I'll definetely check out this video again, cause you were brilliant!
This is such a helpful video! I've been dreaming about going interrailling for a few years now, and now that it's my gap year, I some how decided to make other plans... I'm hoping to go in a summervacation sometime when I'm in uni and then I will definitely come back to this video!
I DIED WHEN I SAW UR NOTIFICATION & OMG UR SO CLOSE TO 30k!! Congratulations!! ❤️❤️
0:44 I’m crying rn at your eye roll
HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG
honestly take a shot every time i roll my eyes in this video
Dangerously close to 30k subscribers you say? Haha!! 971k and going strong! Congrats and well deserved. Such a good informative video this!!
Really useful tips Jack! Gotta go InterRailing before uni next summer for sure. Awesome video as always!! 😊
yessss - perfect time to go because it's such good prep for uni being away from home and being self-sufficient!
IM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS! I cannot WAIT to go interrailing, mostly due to your vlogs haha, Thank you so so much!!!!! - also loving the patriotic bedding hahaha - xxx
waheeeey have the best time ever - i hope this video helps! (the bedding is a pun on my name because it's a union JACK lmao i'm so lame)
Milla Hamm French how was it? Any tips?
Omg, Lake Bled looks amazing, I need to visit Slovenia this year, such a green and beautiful country!
So useful!! All the things you normally hear once you've already left and wish someone had told you beforehand! Absolutely A1, and you're so watchable too, you seem so sweet and lovely!
Always happy to see one of your uploads 😃
always happy to see a lovely comment like this (thank u!!!) ❤️
I went interrailling this summer🙌 We went to Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Andorra (it is not in EU), Barcelona, Marseille, Cassis.
Does anybody have any questions?😊
im going from London to Amsterdam to Brussels to Paris,,then take a flight to Mardrid do u think i need a pass for those 3 or buy them individually
I'm probably going on an interrail next summer, this is actually the most helpful video I've seen this far
When I’m old enough, not broke and I find some friends... deffo gonna consider it xxxxxx
(ALSO YOU’RE LIKE 156 AWAY FROM 30K NOW WHAT🤯🤯🤯)
Sky Simpson omg same let's go together
mars curie omg okay ahahahaha
wow did you guys just become best friends???????
Jack Edwards POTENTIALLY ??? AHAHA
You honestly don't need friends to do it like it sounds lonely but honestly you can just fucking go on your own and it's just as good
Been waiting for this video!!! Will be great use for me next summer as me and my friend are hoping to go interrailing.
waheeeeey do it!!! honestly the most fun you'll ever have!!!
I am going interrailing this year, so this video was perfect !!! especially the attractions segment was great !!
That spreadsheet is GENIUS!! I will def use it next summer on my trip!
Very usual video and gave lots of good recommendations which I hadn't thought of. Defo gonna make a spreadsheet.
This makes me want to save money and travel around Europe! Superb!
I’m so glad you’ve filmed this! I’m going in June after my A levels!
This was incredibly useful!! My sister and I have only really started looking into and planning our interrailing trip and this answered so many questions we didn't even know we had 😂 so thank you!
I literally filmed a vid on how to plan a gap year that's being uploaded right now! 😂 I really, really want to go Interrailing - maybe this winter ;)
ooooohhhhhh i'm excited to watch! definitely do it!!!
Thank you for making this video!! I’m going to Berlin, Vienna and Prague and this was really helpful :)
omg have the best time E V E R. Prague is one of my favourite places in the whole entire world
Jack Edwards thank you so much! I’m very excited and will definitely be rewatching your off the rails videos for some ideas of things to do :) I love photography so I’m hoping to get some nice pictures too😄
One annoying thing about the InterRail rules is that there's no allowance for day trains arriving after midnight. There is the 19:00 rule for overnight trains, but nothing for day trains. This is different from national tickets which often are valid into the small hours (e.g. UK ones, including national/regional rovers and rangers, are valid until 04:29).
Thanks so much for this! I’m going inter-railing next month with my friend and these tips are so helpful😊🤙🏼
Haha I had no idea for what can I do during this summer :D
Merci beaucoup ça fait plaisir ☺️ !!!
this is SUCH a good idea for summer holidays because it's a month-long trip so doesn't take up too much time, but you get to see so many incredible places all in one go!
Hi, me and my friends found this so useful!
Travel is the only way of life, keep up with these amazing videos young prince x
came straight to your channel after seeing you on jade's channel, I absolutely love your content + your attitude towards life is so refreshing!! Lotsa love x
Such a useful video thanks for this!! I hope I get the chance to go interrailing next year, it looks absolutely amazing!
if you get the opportunity, DEFINITELY take it - you won't regret it!
Yas immediately clicked as this was what I needed right now :)
Such a useful video and came at such a good time as I am currently looking at interrailling next summer!!
do it do it do it do it do it!!!!!
Young Jack 950,000 subscribers and a university degree ago.
I went interrailing back in 1983, and I agree with so much of what you said. The best thing to do is manage with as small a rucksack as you can possibly get away with. If you can jog with it on your back then you're well ahead.
Lay out everything that you need on a bed, and then throw half of it away. I managed with little more than just 3 T-shirts, jeans, a sweat-shirt, swim trunks, and probably no more than 3 pairs of underpants and socks (it's a long time ago, I forget, but somebody on the trip once advised that you can get away by turning them back to front, and inside out, and then you get 4 days out of them - I didn't try this!). The rest of it was a cotton sleeping-bag liner, water purification tablets (for Morocco - water wasn't safe then in North Africa, and even in Seville in 1983 the water was cut off for half of the day for some reason), an empty water bottle, a book, a phrase-book/language dictionary or two, and little more (when you've read the book, you swapped it with another interrailer). If you can get your bag to under 10Kg, you're onto a winner.
Like you, I learned so much about myself, and life, in little more than a month, and picked up communication skills in Spanish and Portuguese that I can still remember to this day. I could still get by in both countries for years afterwards and later decided to learn both languages a bit more thoroughly in my 40s.
I love the fact that you can now have an online planner. Yes, back in my day, you took a folding map which gave you some idea of the layout of the lines in Europe and just relied on the fact that stations would have timetables and that you would meet somebody who had come from the other direction who could give advice - we just hoped for the best and it usually worked out.
The unique thing one has at the age of 17 to 25 is TIME - you will never have as much free time as you do at that age. Just make the most of it before careers take over.
It's interesting that you managed with £1000. Back in 1983, the cost of the interrail card was £115 (yes, I know!), and I managed to spend a month travelling on little more than £200 which kinda equates to £1000 today.
I wish any young people luck with interrailing and I despise the older people of my generation who voted for Brexit that will reduce your chances to travel
Love
Brexit has Zero effect on Inter rail !! Also , budget airlines are selling
record number of flights at moment. Incessant Remainer whining is one of best reasons to
get away from.Britain !
Thank you! Just what I needed, the lockers advice is going to be super helpful
Best video ever honestly so helpful I know I’m late haha but thanks!! Interrailing sounds beyond exciting
OMG thank you for making this vid coz I never knew about interrail and it sounds SO FUNN xx
Jack, this video is so perfect and helpful. YESSSS!!!
AYYYY thank you so much! I'm glad 😊
Also quick question... how far in advance did you book and plan :)
Super helpful, thanks!
Dearest Jack,
thancc.
Yours, Finch
You're quite the intellectual finch.
Very very helpful, gave me more ideas and ways to make things easier planning my trip. Thank you!
Thank you for this video, it’s pure gold 🙌🏼
Thank you that was really helpful. Ill do it next year and im soooooo damn excited 😍
This was so useful! I'm a bit put off by all the planning though, I prefer to be adaptive and go with the flow! To do an interrail trip would it be possible to have a rough idea of countries you want to go to and maybe how long for but change as you go? Basically do you need to plan it or can you just go for it and see where you end up lol
So so helpful!! thank you very much. starting to plan now... finding it hard to understand which trains are valid with the interrail pass and how you know what company it is on rail planner?? x
My opinion. Interrail pass is sometimes useful but not worth the money. However, it really depends on the countries you are visiting. The interrail pass does a terrible job at explaining which trains accept the pass and which you can use. They list the names of the train companies that accept it, but in reality you don’t always know which train is owned by which train company because it does not specify. The train timetable on the interrail app is not always accurate. If you’re are near Germany, Austria, Budapest etc then you can use the OBB trains. In Italy you can use Trenitalia. Don’t waste your money on a interrail pass because you have to pay to reserve seats for fast trains anyway.
For many destinations we ended up using FlixBus instead. The journey was far quicker and more convenient. For example, Budapest to Zagreb by train would have been 12 hours with 5 changes. Plus the train that accepts interrail pass was not clearly indicated on the timetable. FlixBus straight to Zagreb in 5 hours.
been waiting for this video for so long! loved your series so much, this was a great add on. are you going again? hope durham is treating you well!
Fabulous video Jack. Thank you ! Loved it. Great tips. :)
So cool!!! Would love to go interrailing next year
30K!!! Congratulations!
Such a good video, Jack!
I just have one question - did you have to pay some extra money on those sleeping trains - for the bed or reservation or something like that?
Also congrats to 30,000, keep that great work,I like your videos!
I think by lute he means revolut. SUPER useful
Great video Jack!!! 🤩
Thanks for sharing with us your experience and tips . Glad you enjoyed and learned 😊. FOOD ❤😍. Wow it was cheap and a wonderful expirence ... i can tell. You are an organize person, keeping tracking
You are literally my fave person 🙈
right i think i love you
A quick question. Does the travel days count as full days where you can travel on as many trains as you want or does it mean one journey on a train a day?
Btw. Great video🎉
it means you can take as many trains as you want
soo useful!! I'm also going to Ljubljana, Budapest, Prague and Berlin this July and can't wait. Did you have to book all of your trains in advance as well as having your interrail pass? Currently trying to decide if it's worth getting the pass or if i should book the individual tickets
This was so informative, Thank you !
such a useful and detailed video thank you!
Great video!
Omg so close to 30k!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK
"I had all of my passports and train tickets in one bag" - so you could lose them all at once??
Haha
Hi!
How are you?
Fab as usual and I actually want to go traveling so this is usual and omg ahaha the interail joke made me laugh so much 😂👌
Hey! I'm all gooood thank you, how are you???
Jack Edwards Hey!
That's good and you're welcome 🤗
I'm stressed tbh 🙈😥😭👌
Can’t wait to do this one day
Really good video, great advice
My route. London to Amsterdam
Flix night bus to Paris
Paris to Strasbourg day trip to small town in Germany
Strasbourg to colmar
Then to bern Switzerland
Switzerland to Geneva
Then to kandersteg
From there to Zermatt
Then to Milan then Venice
Then sleeper train to Vienna then Bratislava for the day
Then Budapest and flew back to Luton
This is so useful thank you!
So jealous! Defo want to do this soon, as I’ve been doing Camp America for 2 years and I’ve seen like so much of USA!!
And I am now stuck between Interrailing or travelling SE Asia..:/
Great video and lots of information
This was so helpful, like beyond helpful 😂
I'm going Amsterdam - Berlin - salzburg - Prague - Vienna - Budapest!!!!
oooooooooh insane - have the best time ever!
HELP! You all who already have gone, how many liters on a backpack is recomended for a month trip? 65 or 55l?
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Im 15 and im going this summer
By yourself
Thx for this very usefull video, congats mate
This was so helpful!!
Missed it in the video, how long were you away for?
Another masterpiece 😃
you're the best!!!
Ahh thanks mate
I love travelling!! It’s so amazing how how we can see so much of the world, and inter railing is an amazing way to do that, do you have any more big travel plans coming up or not ?!
omg 100000% - you get to see so many places in such a short time! i'm travelling South-East Asia this summer :)
Jack Edwards Cool! Do you know what country’s specifically?!
Thanks for your tip to use interrailplanner.com! I've been trying to plan my train by looking up every train trip manually. So, definitely a relief to use the planner. One question though: how long did you go on a trip? I plan to buy the unlimited 1-month-ticket and so far, my trip seems A LOT longer than yours. Am I planning to much or did you have a short trip?
Been planning this for a month now but won’t go till next year (hopefully)... I’ve persuaded 13 of my friends to come with us to travel for 2 and a half of months✌🏻✌🏻just a pain to organise everything 🤯 ps (this was the one I voted for on your twitter feed 👌🏻)
woaaaaaah 13???? that'll be NUTS but sounds incredible 🙌🏼
(ps just remember that interrail passes can only be used for a month!)
Jack Edwards yeh half of us are buying two and deciding on the last 2 weeks
so about how much was the full thing with food and everything per person
2020 Pass! Thanks for the tipps
Did you book hostels / airbnb's in advance of the trip? Or on the way, great video!!
yessss just to be safe as the hostels in Europe are very very popular and were often fully booked!
That spreadsheet 😍😍😍😍
really helpful. Thanks 🙏🏻