Night train compartment all to myself! 🚆
📍 Abisko, Swedish Lapland ➡️ Stockholm, Sweden
⏰ 16 hours, 40 minutes
💰 HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? 💰
Booking 2 weeks before:
£292.24
Booking 2 months before:
£263.77
However, I was using a 2 month Interrail Pass and so it only cost me…
£80.19!!!
And I could book that rate at any point, as long as there was availability.
💰 BUT HOW MUCH DOES THE INTERRAIL PASS COST? 💰
I bought my 2 month Pass back when they had a 50% off sale to celebrate their 30th anniversary and so it only cost me £307 for unlimited travel for 2 whole months.
However, there are plenty of cheaper Passes that would work for this journey.
For instance…
There is a ‘5 days within 1 month’ which costs:
Child (4-11) - 2 free when travelling with 1 adult
Youth (12-27) - £191
Adult (28+) - £254
Senior (60+) - £229
You may need to pay a mandatory seat reservation fee for some trains as well, or opt to upgrade your seat to a bed like I did!
💰 HOW DOES THE 5 DAY PASS WORK FOR THIS JOURNEY? 💰
Remember that you don’t have to do the travel days consecutively, you just need to use all 5 days within one month and the general rule is, the day the train starts is the day that’s counted.
DAY 1
• Train to London
• London to Brussels Eurostar
• Brussels to Hamburg
• Hamburg overnight train to Stockholm
Reservation fees - from £70.32
DAY 2
• Stockholm overnight train to Abisko
Reservation fees - from £4.30
DAY 3
•Abisko overnight train to Stockholm
Reservation fees - from £4.30
DAY 4
• Stockholm sleeper train to Hamburg
Reservation fees - £18.50
DAY 5
• Hamburg to Brussels (or you’d have more time to do via Paris on the way home!)
• Brussels/Paris to London
• London to home!
Reservation fees - from £27.44
💰 WHAT’S THE TOTAL COST? 💰
Let’s say you’re an adult, the cost of this mega ‘5 day’ train trip would cost you:
Adult Pass = £254
Reservation fees = from £124.86
Total cost = £378.86
If you wanted a private compartment for the Abisko to Stockholm leg BOTH WAYS, then your total would be £530.64
If you booked a private compartment between Abisko and Stockholm BOTH WAYS without the Pass that would cost you… £527.54!!
That’s the price for just 2 trains - it doesn’t include all the trains to get you to Stockholm and back!💪
