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Old Oct 20, 2014 | 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Gagravarr
Based on the Seat 61 page on Hungary, one option from Budapest to Slovakia is probably train to Vienna, then onwards from there into Bratislava
I think this is the opposite direction from where I'd want to be going though. If I could at least make it in the Kosice area then we could head towards the mountains. The way you suggest is I think too far out of the way for our itinerary. It's what we were originally thinking of doing, but then we decided we'd rather see the eastern part of the country.

Originally Posted by Gagravarr
As for everything dissappearing in 2 months time, that's to be expected. Early December is the launch of the next Europe train timetable period, and train bookings are only just opening beyond that horizon. (France was last week, as was Germany, not all open yet). I'd suggest trying again in a few weeks, once the rest of the January-June trains have been announced + loaded into the various booking systems
This is good to know, thanks. Is it really standardized across all countries? Aren't the rail operators different by country? When would things for late summer (Sept.) come online?

Doing a bunch of side research and searching across the web, it seems that quite a number of threads have been born with "I want to go from Budapest to Krakow" and have gone to their graves unresolved. Seems to be one of the intractable problems of mankind.
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