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Originally Posted by Wormius
I am thinking of getting the Eurorail Global Pass for our family during our stay. My question is, I know you can get to a plethora of cities, but how close can you get to hiking destinations? I wasn't planning on renting a car, but if you want to do a day trip to the mountains, is that possible on the train systems alone?
Also, it seems like there are other benefits with the train pass. When I checked some stuff in Switzerland, it said if you show your pass you get free boat rides around Interlaken. I can't seem to find an extended benefits page on the Eurorail website.
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Rail passes, especially for a whole family are expensive. Given your itinerary, you may want to rent a car. I've found rail can be really convenient, but you are also beholden to schedules. If you have lots to see you may want to plan portions with rail, and others with a rental.
For instance, we flew into Amsterdam, took a train to Berlin, rented a car and drove to Prague, Salzburg, southern Germany and Northern Austria to Munch. Then took a train to Paris, train to London, then rented a car and did Southern England Wales, to Manchester and flew home, all in 3 weeks. Looking back, if we had done trains we wouldn't have seen as much and would have lost time to train schedules. The will get yo were you need to go, but often not on one train, or in the same day. It was also far far cheaper than doing all of it by rail.