On the Rails Around the Alps: A Comprehensive Guide to Travel by Train (On the Rails Around)

Rating:
Summary: Great book, too bad it�s out of print.
Review: My husband and I have always wanted to travel on the Glacier Express and he suggested that instead of making it a two day event in a week long trip, that we make traveling the train the whole trip. I didn�t see how we could turn an 8 hour train trip into a week of vacation. Fortunately, I found this book.

It starts as many guide books do with the essential travel information. It give you average temperatures and rainfall for given time of the year, the electricity requirements, customs, etc., etc.

The second section of the book is concerned with traveling by train. The third gives a country by country breakdown of travel hints, again it lists consulates and valuable tourist info.

But the real value of this book is the next section. It lists all the really great train journeys through the Alps. The wonderful thing about this book is that it covers the Alps, not just Switzerland. So not only to you get descriptions of the Swiss rail trips, but you also get descriptions of trips that go across country boundaries. So this book covers, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland. For each route, the book supplies you with the route, where to change trains, the time of travel, places to stay, places to eat and places to see. The places to stay, eat and see may need a little supplementation from another source, but the route info itself is worth the price of admission.

Rating:
Summary: Great book, too bad it's out of print.
Review: My husband and I have always wanted to travel on the Glacier Express and he suggested that instead of making it a two day event in a week long trip, that we make traveling the train the whole trip. I didn't see how we could turn an 8 hour train trip into a week of vacation. Fortunately, I found this book.

It starts as many guide books do with the essential travel information. It give you average temperatures and rainfall for given time of the year, the electricity requirements, customs, etc., etc.

The second section of the book is concerned with traveling by train. The third gives a country by country breakdown of travel hints, again it lists consulates and valuable tourist info.

But the real value of this book is the next section. It lists all the really great train journeys through the Alps. The wonderful thing about this book is that it covers the Alps, not just Switzerland. So not only to you get descriptions of the Swiss rail trips, but you also get descriptions of trips that go across country boundaries. So this book covers, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland. For each route, the book supplies you with the route, where to change trains, the time of travel, places to stay, places to eat and places to see. The places to stay, eat and see may need a little supplementation from another source, but the route info itself is worth the price of admission.