Comments on: Take the Train, Not The Plane.

By: 21 resources for budget travel | plonkee money

21 resources for budget travel | plonkee money — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:04:43 +0000

[...] take the train, not the plane – possibly the most civilised form of transport available. I love taking the train when I’m on holiday. My current favourite trip was from Budapest to Vienna, so cheap and so easy. One of these days I want to travel on the Trans-Siberian express from Moscow to Beijing. [...]

By: Knittlebittle

Knittlebittle — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:56:47 +0000

Is it realistic to travel by train in the US? I have two kids. We would like to travel from Colorado to Illinois. The ticket price is the same as for air travel. We would leave just before bedtime and arrive the next day (or so) at 2am. We wouldn’t be able to see any of the country, I’d have two exhausted kids, and sleeping next to strangers with my kids would have me on edge.

If we were to bump up to a sleeper car, we’d be several hundred dollars more than the airlines even with carbon offsets. My young daughter could easily sleep next to me or her older brother but Amtrak forces us to purchase the “family sleeper” because we have three people.

I’m hopeful that train travel will become better for us in the near future. I do keep a close eye on it.

By: Air flights

Air flights — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:59:39 +0000

There’s no doubt that the Eurorail spews out fewer carbon atoms, but it’s not cheaper. Booking a month in advance Eurorail costs some 155 pounds, whilst BA or Air France cost about 70 pounds from London to Paris.

By: Luke Tipping

Luke Tipping — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:46:01 +0000

This is true. It only takes 4 hours to get to Amsterdam by train now, too!

The strange thing is, whilst Europe is getting closer to the UK, UK is getting further away from the UK.

Internal train timea are getting longer. That’s the next challenge. Unless you a big believer in downshifting that is!