Get there early to avoid the tour buses if you can. There are also plans to include discounts on tours, activities, transport and entrance to tourist attractions. A new series of articles on Eurotrip will therefore aim to take you through the etire process from applying to a passport through to finding hostels in a foreign language. I would recommend leaving a little more breathing room prior to the flight when flying from Europe to the United States. Security measures are elaborate and time consuming.
Lines are long.
I thought that once I bought my Eurail pass, all my transport costs were settled. I had a surprise coming. Many times you still have to pay additional for reservations and sleeping cars, so you should budget extra for transportation costs. That often comes up to a pretty penny. Train seats are pre-numbered.