Has anyone done an inter railing holiday as an adult?

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Just that really, considering this for me and teens this year but no idea how viable this is. We’d get the Eurostar to Paris and have about 2.5 weeks in Europe. Really like the idea of a sleeper train somewhere along the way too.

would love some ideas if anyone has done this?

There is a better fb group interrail & EU travelers. Interrailing for the older crowd is pro Brexit

I'm in the Interrailing for Older Crowd FB group and find they tend to stick to the topic and delete Brexit type threads.

I was with the same group but got fed up with seeing posts made by people referring to the impact of Brexit being deleted
for example
in some of the countries covered by interrail travel is free for over 65s if you are a EU citizen
In France at certain banks you get charged additional fees when withdrawing money because the UK is no longer in the EU
The queues are long at passport control due to no longer being in the EU

These topics are relevant to interrail travel which is why I switched to the other larger group eurail and interail travel which covers all aspects of interrail travel including the impact of the UK not being a member of the EU

We did it as a family of 4 last summer for 3 weeks after GCSEs/A Levels. The children had different requests, so to make it work, we needed to add in some flights.

We flew to Munich, then trained to Salzburg, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest. We then flew to Turkey, had a short beach break and finished in Istanbul and flew home. We didn't want any train journeys that were too long or overnights. Germanic countries were fabulous, punctual, clean, cheap. We had Interrailing passes, but it may not have been the cheapest way of doing it, some tickets would have been super cheap as standalone fares. We interspersed hotels with AirBNBs to,allow for washing, and everyone had to be able to carry their own luggage.

It took A LOT of organisation. Tonnes. But it was an amazing holiday (albeit not terribly relaxing!).

I came back from interrailing yesterday. I love my interrailling (I go every year and have been to most countries) but the trains in Germany can be a problem (high demand and insufficient investment). The train I caught last year from Frankfurt broke down 3 times, This year I dealt with train cancellations, routes being shut due track reparations and also bus replacements, Leave plenty of time between connections never reply on one train

We are sort of interrailing next month - I will buy passes - but we have a planned route and destination: Brussels - Innsbruck - Rimini - Bari - Monopoli - Bari - Verona - Munich - Brussels. I have my seat reservations done and also my "supplement" each way to cover the Brenner Pass route between Austria and Italy. I am a bit nervous about the German trains. They seem to have gone from super reliable to a complete nightmare of cancellations. We planned to go to Xmas market in Aachen in December and train was cancelled at the last minute. And I hear lots of tales on the interrail FB groups. Still i have from 6.30 in the morning to get to Innsbruck one way or another