Could someone kindly tell me if there's a
high speed train that goes from Prague to
Budapest? Or how long would the regular train
take from city to city and how safe it is.
I'm traveling with my mom, this trip is her first to Eastern europe and thought maybe we can take the train ,rather then flying which I would prefer.
Also is there a website, besides the eurorail,someone could recomend. thanks.
mile.

I would try the German site. It is usually good for main line trains for other than Germany.
There is an English version. Look in the upper right section of the screen for the word English.
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/d

There are two trains in the morning that take about 6 hours and 45 minutes.
(No high speeds)
They leave at 8:26 and 12:29
There are no faster schedules available.
The train makes 10 stops during the trip.
The track is not fast and the stops are frequent.
The TGV it is not.
By safety you mean hold ups and robberies?

Hi mile,

There is also a train with sleepers departing at 23:34 and arriving at 8:08.

There is no true "high speed" service akin to the TGV, Thalys, or ICE services, between Budapest and Prague. You may, by leaving at certain selected times, get service that stops in fewer places, but that's all. The usual IC services run on that route.

I can offer a couple of points on safety. At Prague Hlavni station (but not at Prague Holesovice) pickpockets work in gangs of three. The solution is for one of you to carry your railway tickets and a little money in a purse in front of you on a strap across your body and the other to carry nothing. Passports and other valuables should be deep inside a big piece of baggage: you can take them out once you are seated in the train. The second point is that the trains may have travelling thieves. So by night you need a sleeper, where the door has a lock and an internal fixed door chain, so you are safe. By day if (as I hope) you go along to the restaurant car you ask a fellow traveller kindly to keep an eye on your bags.

Otherwise, I add that you can board your sleeper at Prague from about 2300, and so gain a longer night s sleep. There is a good survey on rail travel at http://www.seat61.com/, and there is a note on getting the best from sleepers and couchettes at http://www.twenj.com/tipsnighttrains.htm/.

Please write if I can help further. Welcome to Europe.

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