What clubs/bars are a must go in Europe?

I plan go to europe in february 2011...amsterdam-frankfurt-pra…

• i plan go to europe in february 2011. 24 days amsterdam-2days -frankfurt-1 days praha-2days wien-2days budapest-2days bratsilava-1 day venice-3days munich-2days back to amsterdam few more days i'm single backpacker..i'm from indonesia and booking from hostelbookers.. and i first time go to europe and i have some question 1) how weather ? where the coldest country in february? 2) i use eurail,i buy pass 5 country for 6 days about 380 $...are guarantee i can got my ticket every time i go to station? 3) where best time to make reservation? 1 day before or i can just go to station,sit,show my pass and go? 4) hostel/hotel in europe winter...are easy to find and rent? if i make no reservation before...just come and inn? i think february no holyday season 5) ther is my plan...any advice from my plan? where city or country i must add or changed? 24 days to rock n roll in europe :) please your advice

• Answer:

  The weather will be cold. In February the average daily temperature can be below freezing, in all of the area you will be traveling. Weather in Europe is not predictable, we sometimes have weather that is warmer than average, other times it is much colder, but even in Amsterdam where the weather is often mild we do have February days with a top temperature of -10 C. More normal for Amsterdam is a top of around 5 C. Venice is having like temperatures. The other cities all can have colder temperatures. And this winter has been a cold one so far, it is likely to stay cold. To translate that into temperatures you are familiar with, at best you can expect the temperature that is inside a fridge, at worst the temperatures that is inside a freezer, but that all the time you are outside. So bring warm clothes, buy thermo underwear and wear a few layers on top of that. With an Eurail pass you can travel without reservation and extra fee on the slower trains and day trains, but for a tight schedule as you have planned, you will want to travel overnight and with the fast trains where available. Those trains do book up, specially in the weekends, as they are used by people who travel for winter sport holidays. And for the fast trains you will often need to pay a surcharge, for the night trains you will need to pay a small amount to reserve a seat of a bigger amount for a couchette (kind of bunk) or sleeper (hotel car.) On this site you will find much more information about rail passes, read the 'should I buy a rail pass or point to point tickets' 'how do Eurail passes work' 'Will I need to make reservations or pay surcharges' and any other bit that sounds like you want to know about it. http://www.seat61.com/Railpass.htm To work out whether you can make your schedule try to find trains for each journey, a site where you can do that is this: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:& It will also show whether you need to make a reservation. Enter the names of the cities in the bars, remember that sometimes local spelling or German spelling might be needed. There are two different marks for reservations, one means reservation advised, the other means reservations compulsory. If reservations are advised you can find a seat without reservations on it and sit down, showing your rail pass when asked for a ticket. Be aware that reservations are not always shown and that if someone with a reservation shows up, you will have to leave the seat and find an other one. If it is a reservation compulsory train you will have to make a reservation before you go to the train, best as early as you are sure you want to use this train. In the reservation fee there is sometimes a surcharge, the seat 61 site shows you who and where to make the reservations. I think the latest you should try to make a reservation is a few days before you actually want to travel, but in some cases you can still get them while the train is already in the station, ready to go. For your places to stay there is something like that. Some cities will fill up, even in winter, others will have plenty of space. If you go to a hostel booking site with reviews, there are many on internet, start making a reservation for the cities you plan to go, do it now, and if you find that there is not much choice left, you will need to make a reservation as soon as possible. If there is a lot of choice, specially in the cheaper options, you will be good not to make reservations. Keep an eye out for the next few weeks. Some cities will have events going on, Carnival or whatever it is called, can fall in February, and if so, all hostels and cheap hotels and most expensive hotels will be booked solid, often months in advance. Venice is known for its Carnival season, 26th Feb. 8 Mar. 2011. An other thing you will have to be careful about, February is winter sport season, and as such all places that have easy access to mountains are likely to fill up. I do not expect your chosen cities to be affected, but I have not been in all of them, certainly not in winter. Keep your schedule as it is now, or cut out a few cities if you find that the time in the train to get there is too long. (I guess Venice will be a hard one to fit in, in the time you have.) It might be easier to move a few cities around, to make an easier travel schedule.