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Explore the passport mapFour rules for planning a trip
Pick the shape before the dates
Loop, line, or hub-and-spoke. The shape decides whether you need one flight or two, whether you backtrack, and how many transit days you burn.
Choose lodging by transit access, not nightly rate
A cheap room 40 minutes from the station costs more than a dearer one beside it once you price two taxis a day and the hour you lose each way. Our rule: within a 12-minute walk of the line you will arrive and leave on, or it does not go on the list.
One buffer day per week, unallocated
Not a rest day — an unbooked day. It absorbs the cancelled ferry, the strike, the place you did not want to leave. Trips without buffer do not fail gracefully; one dropped leg cascades through every booking after it.
Budget in three lines, not one number
Bed, movement, days. Movement is the line people forget and the one that ruins the average — a cheap dorm run means nothing on a route with four long train legs.
What to book firstChoose the bookings your trip needs.
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Uncheck anything your trip does not need.
