How does the "10 days within 2 months" Eurail pass work?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 1 Aug, 2023
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With a ’10 day within 2 months’ pass, you can travel on any 10 days within a two months period. It does not matter if the days are consecutive or not.
A travel day lasts from 12:00 midnight to 12:00 midnight. If you travel on a train ‘across’ midnight, the trip generally counts as two days. There is however an exception, the so called ‘7PM rule’:
If you board a direct night train that departs after 7 p.m. (19:00)
and arrives at its final stop after 4 a.m. (04:00) then only the day
of arrival needs to be entered into the travel calendar.
Note that the applicability of the rule depends on the initial departure and final arrival of the train, not when you board and leave the train. There are no direct night trains from Lyon to Munich and I can’t find any other connection where the 7PM rule may be applicable, so if you want to travel over night from Lyon to Munich, you will have to use two travel days.
The pass is not automatically activated when you buy it. If you know your exact travel dates when ordering your pass, you can provide these and the pass will be issued with a ‘valid from date’ as provided by you. If you don’t know your travel dates, you will have to go to the ticket office at a railway station in one of the participating countries and have the pass activated before first use. Be aware, that in some European countries it may actually be difficult to find a staffed ticket office even at larger stations.
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