Eurail is expanding its regional Europe offering, which is expected to be popular with Kiwi travellers embracing slow rail travel, and looking to less-crowded parts of the continent.
The company says nearly 4000 New Zealanders travelled with Eurail in the first six months of the year, and it adds that it wasn’t the capital cities seeing the strongest growth year-on-year. This title went to Florence for the Jan-Jun period, compared to the same time last year, with France’s Narbonne also seeing growth, as well as Karlsruhe and Nuernberg in Germany and Belgium’s Brussels and Ghent. With Kiwis showing interest in quieter European destinations, Eurail highlights some of the new regional routes it has recently added which are likely to appeal. This includes the Zagreb-Ljubljana-Pula regional train between Croatia and Slovenia, the line between Poland’s Jelenia Gora and Karpacz, the Toulouse to Luchon route in Southern France, the line between Zaragoza and Canfranc in Spain, and Germany’s Gerolstein and Cologne route.
. . . Sep Sale
Eurail has 20% off all Eurail Global Passes in both first and second class, for bookings 03-09 Sep. The adult Eurail Global Pass (with three months’ continuous travel in first class) is from AUD1748, while the cheapest adult Eurail Global Pass (four days of travel over one month in second class) is from AUD407.20. Passes are valid for 11 months from the date of purchase. International Rail, Rail Europe, and Rail Online have details.
