Interrailing with toddlers

[hannahmcc03]

Already looking at 2027 holiday ideas.
We’d love to do interrailing - Ideally in June or September. Kids will be 1.5 and 3 (turning 4)
Would love to hear itinerary ideas for between 2-2.5 weeks!
We want fo do a nice mix of everything - sight seeing, kid friendly tourism, coastal area or at least a nice lake/river etc, will be wanting to do a mix of accommodation types, etc etc
But basically would like ideas for a good route - starting and finishing at either Southend airport or Eurostar/London trains
Thanks!!

You could look here for itinerary ideas www.railbookers.co.uk/destinations/europe/france?page=4

look at Byways or PlanetRail - both travel agents specialising in trains

There’s a really good Interrailing for families Facebook group - loads of info on there

OK, leaving aside that I wouldn't go anywhere with toddlers that age (personal preference- I know that some have and survived...):

How about a direct Eurostar to Amsterdam, then maybe a nice chilled North Sea resort for sandy beaches, then Hamburg for Miniatur Wunderland? Down to somewhere pretty in the Rhine Valley/ Black Forest, then back via Koln/ Aachen and Brussels?

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Good luck. If I were you I strongly suggest seeing how you are all coping with every day life, let alone interrailing, by then.

I think better to frame it as travel by train rather than interrailing as you want to minimise lots of journey time/ changes at stations due to kids ages - very busy stations, you will have a lot of luggage to carry and presumably one in a push chair. Long walks down the platforms (up to 19 coaches in euro trains).
Pick 2 destinations and go eurostar to Paris/ Brussels/amsterdam then connect to stop A, one week, connect to stop B then home. All kids that age want to do is play on a beach, play in a playground, play in the woods. Tourism unlikely to interest them - but there are child friendly museums/science museums in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Valencia and Alicante also child friendly. Eurocamp type things might be good accommodation
manfromseat61 website has all the info you will need