hi everyone!Im student in ukraine wanting to travel in summer.I'll be in Lvov on the 2rd/3rd of july.I would like to travel around and be back in lvov by the 19th.Now in this short period of time,is it possible to travel to these 4 places?(prague,vienna,munich,berlin).If yes can someone help me figure out the easiest,fastest,cheapest way?is it better to travel by train?bus?plane?As for busses and trains,wch website can i check the availability,prices,schedules?I really wish someone could give me a hand here.:)Thanks in advance!

Train: start looking at
www.poezda.net
www.bahn.de

Buses
www.eurolines.com

Wizz Air is starting flying to/from/within Ukraine
www.wizzair.com

hey. I did my trip from Lvov last year. What i did - i bought a bus ticket Lviv-Prague, last year it was 270 UAH approx 55 USD - you may buy it before your trip - usually buses are not that full to Prague - at the main bus station in Lviv, but be aware that bus leaves around 14:00 - just don't be late. From Prague - it's better to buy a cheap airticket with www.skyeurope.net...if you get in sale - you will be able to buy it for 30 Euros only, from Vienna to Munich i would recommend to take a Eurolines - it's cheaper then train: check out their website www.eurolines.com. From Munich to Berlin better check this one www.germanwings.com. I know a very good website where you can choose many discount airlines: www.whichbudget.com. From Berlin back to Ukraine i would recommend you to take a cheap flight to Poland and then to get to Lviv back by bus or by train. If you need more tips - mail me to dasjad@hotmail.com. I like travelling :) cheap travelling and i will be glad to help. Cheers.
Dasha

Thanks nhoolb n dasha!Im embarassed to say that i posted the previous message without doing any research :) .Ive read past threads now and found out very interesting ways of saving money on train trips.For now I have decided to start the trip from Lvov-Vienna-Prague-Munich-Berlin-Lvov OR the other way round.

My problem now is to find a bus/train from lvov to vienna and from berlin to lvov.
I hope someone can shed some light on this.

And Dasha,I see that u live in Kiev?I live in Simferopol and go to kiev for weekend breaks.Any chance of us meeting and exchanging stories in the future?;)cheers!

Forgot to add Ive already checked at DB Bahn but the fares arent available.I wonder if anyone knows approximately how much a ticket would cost?

of course :) i can help you...but i am often out of city as well :))))
you have my email address :) drop me some lines when you want to go to Kiev.
D.

Hi there,

I am having the same problem. I am trying to get a train ticket from Warsaw to Lviv for Friday Semtember 12th,2009.

DB.DE doen't tell the price, but I understand that, if I had more time their customer service would fix me a ticket.

I registered to Polish site, but there I can buy and print a ticket only to the border (Przemysl 96z(=30Euro)). http://rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en?

By now one travel agency in Warsaw has emailed me, that they don't sell train tickets any more. The others??

This web site: http://www.polrail.com/ tells that they can fix tickets, but the prosessing time is maybe more than 7 days.

I suppose I need to do the same as last summer. We bought the tickets right when we arrived to Poland. No problem in buying, but we nearly had a problem with mixup with two trains which were running late...

On the Ukrainian site (www.uz.gov.ua) I can find prices only inside Ukraine. Time tables even to Berlin (But notice that there more Berlins than one!)

Last summer I took one of these busses: www.bus.com.ua from Lviv to Germany. I DID LIKE THE RIDE, but it is not too easy way of travelling:
On the site I reserved the ticket and I was happy, all settled (I thought).
When I went to buy the ticket at the bus station, the lady told that the perticular bus company doesn't give tickets to the bus station. So I managed to find the office of this company. They told that they don't work with bus station system in the summer time! Great! Any tickets? No, the buss is full. Then I decided to take any ticket, so I ended travelling to Dresden, not to Berlin. My bus had started from Kiev, so in Lviv after 555km it was late one hour. Eventually the bus was HOURS late in Dresden, because first the Ukrainian customs and finally Polish boarder guards at the German border hadn't got their sallaries/pribes or something! To save time, the bus had it stop in Dresden in the outskirts of the city (which is understandable on trips for more than 2000km).

Well now getting ready for this years autumn adventures ;-)