{"id":521,"date":"2007-01-29T00:27:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/2007\/01\/521"},"modified":"2015-03-29T06:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T22:58:15","slug":"looking-for-travelmates-to-europe-in-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Looking for travelmates to Europe in Oct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for 4-8 fellow SilverHairs, game to go on a 15-day travel, via the Eurail Global Pass. The 1st class Global Pass Saver allows unlimited consecutive-day train travel, throughout 18 European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euraildirect.com\/\">http:\/\/www.euraildirect.com\/<\/a>.&nbsp; Online booking on Internet is USD <strike>539<\/strike> 555\/pax for two to travel (USD 655 if travelling alone).&nbsp; Airfare on KLM (checked on 1 March 2007) is SGD 1200 per person.&nbsp; Not cheap.&nbsp; Got to look around.&nbsp; Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuji.com\/\">www.zuji.com<\/a> and Qotar airline.&nbsp; Now, we should look for a travel agent to provide for a group of 8 people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> ETA Amsterdam 30 Sep&nbsp;&#8211; ETD Amsterdam 14 Oct 2007(confirmed). This period is the end Autumn season, low peak period, beginning of cold season, some snow in some countries, Oct Festival in Germany and cheaper travel than in the summer period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Costs:<\/strong> Participants buy own ticket Sin\/Amsterdam\/Sin. Every two participants buy the Eurail tickets together. No hotels and no expensive restaurants. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong> Legs got to be fit. You walk 7am &#8211; 9pm everyday for 15 days. Plenty of castles, meuseums, huge department stores, scenic views, rivers, etc. Cannot be food fussy. Buy local food and drinks from supermarket.&nbsp; Travelmates must not impose on other travelmates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily schedule:<\/strong> Arrive 6 &#8211; 7 am each day at a different city. Brush and bath at clean, safe and dedicated restrooms. Towels, soap provided. There is a small fee.&nbsp;&nbsp;Put big luggage at the Stored Luggage at railway station, and pack a small bag to carry around throughout the day. Spend whole day in the city. Totally free and easy. Select the next city, and take the next train in the evening. Sleep on board.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not done EuroRail style travel in Europe, this will be fun.&nbsp; So, if you are interested, please drop your name here. We will organise a few meetings to get to know one another better, before actual trip.<\/p>\n<p>1st chit chat and get-to-know one another: Wed, 4 April 2007, 1830 &#8211; 2030 hrs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Confirmed ETA Amsterdam Sun, 30 Sep, ETD Amsterdam Wed, 14 Sep.&nbsp; Participants can extend, own option.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Some adjustment agreed to spend more days in the same city.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terence&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for 4-8 fellow SilverHairs, game to go on a 15-day travel, via the Eurail Global Pass. The 1st class Global Pass Saver allows unlimited consecutive-day train travel, throughout 18 European countries. Website http:\/\/www.euraildirect.com\/.&nbsp; Online booking on Internet is USD 539 555\/pax for two to travel (USD 655 if travelling alone).&nbsp; Airfare on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking for travelmates to Europe in Oct&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19179,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/19179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}