{"id":91,"date":"2010-03-16T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-03-16T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:20:19","slug":"travel-to-poland-trainflight-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Travel to Poland &#8211; Train\/Flight Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches don&#8217;t appear to be an option for this &#8211; they are much slower than rail.<\/p>\n<p>See these flight price examples from <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/flight-london-warsaw-expedia.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/flight-london-warsaw-expedia.pdf\">Expedia<\/a><\/strong> and <a title=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/flight-london-warsaw-opodo.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/flight-london-warsaw-opodo.pdf\"><strong>Opodo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCompare with this example for a train fare from <a title=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/rail-london-cologne.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/16\/poland-travel-fares\/rail-london-cologne.pdf\"><strong>London to Cologne<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Booking trains online to Europe seems a nightmare compared to flights. I could not find fare prices to Warsaw at all! The best route seems to be <strong>London-Brussels (Eurostar) &#8211; Cologne (Thalys) &#8211; Warsaw (overnight train).<\/strong> From what I could glean, the Cologne to Warsaw fare is around <strong>\u00a380.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means that the all up price for a train is roughly <strong>\u00a3200<\/strong>. The all up flight price is less at roughly <strong>\u00a3150<\/strong> &#8211; all depending on when you book. The train takes longer &#8211; leave some time late morning, then take the overnight train in the evening and arrive next morning, so nearly 24 hours. Plane takes 4 hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>The positive news is that the train\u00a0does not cost\u00a0not a lot more. You can take bikes on the train (presumably not on the flights without loads of extra cost), but a tandem is only going to be possible if it can be folded down to the size of a single bike, then ideally put in a custom bike bag of some sort. Bikes can typically be taken in a bike back on the luggage space, or if hand carried as a folding bike, they more or less count as hand luggage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/bike-by-train.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/bike-by-train.htm\"><strong>Seat61<\/strong> <\/a>has some useful information about taking bikes. It also has details of travelling from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/Poland.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/Poland.htm\"><strong>London to Poland by train<\/strong><\/a>, (including details for Warsaw).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches don&#8217;t appear to be an option for this &#8211; they are much slower than rail. See these flight price examples from Expedia and Opodo Compare with this example for a train fare from London to Cologne Booking trains online to Europe seems a nightmare compared to flights. I could not find fare prices to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,22,24,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}