Choosing a Eurail pass

A Eurail passes simply gives unlimited travel on all the normal scheduled train services run by the various European country train networks. However please note that High speed and night trains require seat and sleeper reservations at an extra cost.

You can choose from four types of Eurail Passes:

• Global Continuous pass or Global Flexi pass: the most popular Eurail passes, valid in 21 countries.
• Select pass: valid in 3, 4 or 5 bordering countries.
• Multi-country pass: choose from 25 regions.
• Single-country pass: pick from our list of 17 countries.

Here are some guidelines to help you select your perfect Eurail Pass.

1. How many countries do you want to see?

Use our Europe rail maps to pick your countries.

2. How old are you?

* A Saver pass is for 2-5 people travelling together at all times.
** Railways assume that a baby can sit on an adult’s lap.

3. Number of travel days

Do you want to travel by train almost every day, or do you only need some travel days within the time of your holiday ?

• When you choose a Select pass or Multi-country pass you will have a number of travel days within a period of  2 months. You can choose yourself when you want to have a travel day. You can use them non-consecutively.
• The Single-country passes have the same system: some travel days within a period of 1 or 2 months.
• With the Global Continuous pass or Global Flexi pass you can choose whether you want the travel days to be continuous or not. The options are 10 or 15 travel days within a period of 2 months, or 15 days, 21 days, 1,2 or 3 months consecutively.

4. Classes

Some Passes, like the Global Pass Adult, are only available in 1st class, others just in 2nd class and sometimes you can choose which class you prefer.