Prepurchase Rail Passes

Sometimes I feel like a fly on the wall. I learn a lot from listening to the agents in our office as they talk to customers.

Yesterday I overheard a conversation with someone who is planning a trip to Europe and they were discussing rail service. I learned that pre-purchasing rail passes is advisable because there are discounts if they are booked before the trip and it protects against having them be sold out. New technology has made it much easier to book point-to-point trips well in advance. In the last few years, sales of European train tickets to North Americans booking their trips from here have increased almost 20% per year. With new high speed trains like the one from Paris that begins commercial service June 10, trips to more than a dozen cities in Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and northeast France will be even easier and more comfortable.