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How expensive is such a trip?

by 3rd3 12y ago

poldoga 12y ago
Curious too how much a trip like this would cost
jzwinck 12y ago
"The Man in Seat 61" has all the info you need. Start here (warning: you may spend as much time on the site as on your trip): http://seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares http://seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares
grecy 12y ago
Just got this email from my friend All in, it was just under £10k (for two people) Trains London to St Petersburg London to Brussels - £100 Eurostar Brussels to Cologne - 58 Euro - Bahn.de (about £45) Koln to Prague - 138 Euro - Bahn.de (about £109) Prague to Krakow (three trains) - 488PLN - Polrail.com (about £92) Krakow to Warsaw - 140PLN - Polrail.com (about £26) Warsaw to Minsk - 698PLN - Polrail.com (about £132) Minsk to St Petersburg - £284.72 - realrussia.com Accommodation Krakow - £68.22 lastminute.com Accommodation Warsaw - £38.76 lastminute.com Other nights from London to St Petersburg were on trains Tour - £5995 -all trains from St Petersburg to Hong Kong -all accommodation from St Petersburg to Xi'an -more than half the meals (apart from when on the train) -transfers to and from all stations -all guides and tours -all visas Accommodation Hong Kong - £304.96 - Not sure where booked Spending money - £1640 Flight HK to Melbourne - $HK9076 (about £746) Travel Insurance - $AUD324 (about £172) Total: £9753 Polrail.com and realrussia.com are agencies and so added about 25-30% on top of the ticket prices, but the Polish and Russian rail websites aren't in English so didn't have much choice there. The Polish accommodation was pretty swanky and right next to the stations, there were much cheaper options, but splashed out a bit. Travel insurance was required for our visas; we had trouble finding anyone to insure us because we weren't finishing where we departed from. Spending money was under what we budgeted. The tour was obviously the big expense, doing it ourselves would have been a lot harder, but would have saved a lot of money, but then we'd have to have gone and lined up to get visas whereas they did that for us. Also having someone standing on the platform with a sign with our name on and then being driven to our hotel was pretty cool :)

How expensive is such a trip?

by 3rd3 12y ago

How expensive is such a trip?

poldoga 12y ago

Curious too how much a trip like this would cost

jzwinck 12y ago

"The Man in Seat 61" has all the info you need. Start here (warning: you may spend as much time on the site as on your trip): http://seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares http://seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares

grecy 12y ago

Just got this email from my friend All in, it was just under £10k (for two people) Trains London to St Petersburg London to Brussels - £100 Eurostar Brussels to Cologne - 58 Euro - Bahn.de (about £45) Koln to Prague - 138 Euro - Bahn.de (about £109) Prague to Krakow (three trains) - 488PLN - Polrail.com (about £92) Krakow to Warsaw - 140PLN - Polrail.com (about £26) Warsaw to Minsk - 698PLN - Polrail.com (about £132) Minsk to St Petersburg - £284.72 - realrussia.com Accommodation Krakow - £68.22 lastminute.com Accommodation Warsaw - £38.76 lastminute.com Other nights from London to St Petersburg were on trains Tour - £5995 -all trains from St Petersburg to Hong Kong -all accommodation from St Petersburg to Xi'an -more than half the meals (apart from when on the train) -transfers to and from all stations -all guides and tours -all visas Accommodation Hong Kong - £304.96 - Not sure where booked Spending money - £1640 Flight HK to Melbourne - $HK9076 (about £746) Travel Insurance - $AUD324 (about £172) Total: £9753 Polrail.com and realrussia.com are agencies and so added about 25-30% on top of the ticket prices, but the Polish and Russian rail websites aren't in English so didn't have much choice there. The Polish accommodation was pretty swanky and right next to the stations, there were much cheaper options, but splashed out a bit. Travel insurance was required for our visas; we had trouble finding anyone to insure us because we weren't finishing where we departed from. Spending money was under what we budgeted. The tour was obviously the big expense, doing it ourselves would have been a lot harder, but would have saved a lot of money, but then we'd have to have gone and lined up to get visas whereas they did that for us. Also having someone standing on the platform with a sign with our name on and then being driven to our hotel was pretty cool :)