Traveling to experience new places and cultures overseas is considered a worthwhile investment. Because in addition to seeing beautiful sights with our own eyes and taking a ton of pictures to show the world. We will also learn the way of life in different cultures or even see opportunities to bring innovation from a more advanced placed and apply in our life or create business opportunities. And one of many popular destinations that most people aiming to visit once in their lives are countries in Europe.

Europe is a land that stands out in both ancient and contemporary architecture, landscape and the beautiful nature are different from our home and had many world-class famous museums with a collection of the world's most sophisticated objects. Therefore, most people when visiting Europe, they will plan to see several countries in one trip.  Fly to Europe is a long journey of about 12 hours, as well as the cost of air tickets, is quite expensive. Therefore, travel to Europe often plan for 10 days long and plan to visit many countries, many cities in the same zone.

Traveling across the city or country in Europe by train is a simple, convenient, fast and safe way. When compared to renting a car, because driving in Europe may not be easy for Thai people because of Europe, driving is a left-handed steering wheel as opposed to Thailand. Including unfamiliarity with directions, language. And also hard to find parking spaces in many cities and the parking fees are expensive too. Traveling by train is a good choice because the European railway system covers almost every city, especially in the main cities both routes and schedules are very varied. The train is clean, comfortable with many facilities like bathroom, Wifi, battery charger, luggage space, dining table, and a coat hanger. Some trains have private glass rooms for those traveling in large groups or have small children without having to pay extra money. A long-distance train also has a food wagon to serve food and drinks as well. Anyone who fears that if going to some countries that do not speak English as their primary language, then it will be hard to get on and get off. Don't worry because he has both a running screen and announcing when each station arrives in English as well. And the very impressive thing is trains in Europe are mostly very punctual and often arrive and wait at the platform before the actual departure time.

In conclusion, take a train is comfortable, sit back and enjoy the beautiful scenery on both sides, sipping coffee, eating sandwiches, upload pictures on social media, enjoying the moment and you will to the destination with ease.

When choosing to travel to Europe by train, there are two main ways to choose from. The first one is to buy on a trip basis, point by point? How many trips you go will book separately. By specifying the exact date, time and the train number. Many people recommend this method. It is recommended to book in advance about 2-3 months before traveling because they will receive a cheap promotion ticket. But the caution of the promotion ticket is cannot be canceled cannot change time. Or even regular price tickets have conditions for canceling or changing trips as well. And regular price tickets are quite expensive.

The second type is the purchase of a pass or package ticket called Eurail Pass.
Which is a train ticket within the European Union which covers 31 countries and over 40,000 destinations. Which is sold to only those who are not citizens of the Euro countries. Can travel by train with an unlimited number of trips and distance within the specified time or number of times. With a variety of styles to choose from, including One Country Pass for one specific country and Eurail Global Pass that can be used throughout Europe. Both types have a variety of forms and duration to choose as appropriate. Can see details at https://www.eurail.com/en

Why should use Eurail Pass and it is suitable for whom? The very obvious advantages are the value and flexibility of travel. For travelers who have plans to travel to many cities or even many countries in one trip and especially those who do not want to move frequently. Therefore choose to stay in one of the cities in the middle and travel around the cities as a one day trip, it will be more rewarding. Because at least will take 2 train trips in one day. And the advantages that are very obvious when compared to buying a ticket point by point ticket is travel flexibility. Because the single ticket must only be used on the specific trip but if using a Eurail pass, can go anywhere at any time and this makes traveling more fun and more flexible. And almost every train operator in Europe whether it is Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, there will be an application that you can check the train schedule at any time. Or you can choose the app that checks the train schedules of all countries in Europe, such as TRAINLINE EU or RailPlanner, making traveling by train in Europe very easy.

For example, I traveled for 11-day travel, 11 cities in 4 countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France. By choosing to stay in the hotel in 4 cities, the first city, 2 nights at Bregenz, Austria, the second city, 6 nights at Frankfurt, Germany, the third city, 2 nights at Strasbourg, France and the last night at Zurich, Switzerland to fly back the next day. Which requires trains to travel almost every day because choosing one city as a hub for day trips to other cities around. Before the trip, I compared prices between buying a point by point and buying a pass (Can easily check the ticket price from the website or train app of that country). After calculated I found that traveling in my style buying a pass was more worthwhile, so I decided to buy the 10-day Eurail Global Flex Pass, which can be used for 10 consecutive days. Any day in 3 months, the price is 11,000 baht each or 1,100 baht per day. Which when compared to the point by point cost, the pass was much cheaper. For example, from Frankfurt to Stuttgart, which takes just 1.30 hours, one-way ticket costs 67 Euros or about 2,500 baht. If going back, it's 5 thousand baht. Pass is much cheaper, buying a pass is the right decision. And when compared to the past trips to European that I purchased point by point tickets. In addition to the price, using the pass is more convenient and flexible. Don't worry too much about time and can change your travel plans as you want.

Eurail Pass can be purchased with agents in Thailand which has many agents to choose. Try to compare prices first because each place offers a different price. Including the euro currency rate in that period, it also affects the price because the price will be adjusted throughout the currency value. And in certain periods, there will be promotions, discounts, free gifts or buy tickets for the 1st class at the price of 2nd class price, etc. So anyone planning to go to Europe and calculate that buying a pass is worth. Then try to check the price continually because pass can be purchased 3 months in advance before the activation date. I also bought my pass on promotion as well. You can order online with an agent and pay with a credit card. But have to admit that when seeing the price, it is quite high because we have to pay a large amount before As for me, for one person is 11,000 baht (including the ticket issuance fee). Then for 2 people is 22,000 baht, this is quite a lot of money. But SCB has a solution, we can divide the payment into smaller amounts. After paying via credit card, can change that amount into monthly installments instead with SCB Dee Jung. By registering easily via SCB Easy App or anyone without an app can call SCB call center to apply.

Let's go out and explore the world to open a new perspective. Don't let the money pull you down. Because SCB has a solution to make it easy to travel. The value from the experience we received is memorable.