Overseas visitors: touch down in East Europe first
One reason why I try to suggest the visitors from overseas to touch down in the East part of Europe first is to buy your train tickets. The more people traveling together, the bigger is the saving, even disproportionally big.1) RAIL+ costs only 25 Euro here, in the West rarely less, than 40-50 Euro.2) There is no problem to get even most complicated through tickets, written "by hand" - while in West Europe you have to push hard the agencies to do you a favor3) We have extensive CITY-STAR discount system, not available in the West4) The contingent with the "space limited" tickets (typically 29-39 Euro) to/from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary if bought in Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary is much bigger than the same thing in the "West"5) The local discount between the cities of East Europe is very big, typically 10-30 Euro will buy a long trip. If for some reason there is an offer in Slovakia not...
