Originally Posted by
mmmddd
Thanks for the tips. Will surely help a lot. If I buy a eurail select 8 day pass.. that counts toward internal travel in italy too? e.g. rome to florence or florence to venice...
The Eurail select covers internal travel as well (with the exception below). Of course if you only do a short trip on one day it 'eats up a day', so if you are short on days it may pay to buy tickets for short local trips seperately. Looking at your itinarary you dont have that problem.
There are a few exceptions: some of the 'scenic mountain railways' in Switzerland are excluded (although you will get a discount). These are operated by private companies, not by the national railway company (SBB in German, also three letter acronyms in French and Italian). The Eurail website lists these exceptions.