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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 30, 2010, 03:05:11 pm »

mm, sorry, are you SURE that there is such bus to Michalovce??? i haven't find it in timetable...
if it really is, it's very good. now i'm looking for trains from Michalovce to L.Mikulas...
p.s. when does this bus arrive to Michalovce???

and one queston more: Are students discounts on ZSR applying for international students with ISIC card???

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: KOLN to Vladivostok price

« on: May 30, 2010, 02:54:50 pm »

heh, if you want cheaper, you can book "plackart" ticket on RZD cite. 5000RUR only. there will be SO MANY Impressions during this week... Such kind of extreme
p.s. suggest you not to buy return ticket, if you will go in "plackart", because after this week you will be disgusted with one kind of this train...

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 30, 2010, 02:44:39 pm »

i know about this train. it arrive to Lviv on 04.55, so i can be in Uzhgorod only at 12.30 and this time there are no buses to Slovakia...

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 30, 2010, 10:32:18 am »

1. 99th train arrive to Uzhgorod at 07.49, and bus to Cosice leaves bus station at 7.40 so I do not have time...
p.s. but who bothers me to buy tickets on RUSSIAN 15 train in RUSSIA, where the prixe will be less than in UA.
2. About "direct" Minsk-Lviv train: this, 47th train is russian, and it only passes through Belarus, so tickets will be in Minsk only for 24-48 hours before arrival. So, i'll buy it in Russia from the nearest border station...
But if you know ways cheaper than 45Euro... i I'll be glad to listen.

p.s. Может быть на русский перейдем-таки;)?

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 29, 2010, 11:13:24 pm »

i asked to 11 of july.
it is very strange that it is impossible to book ticket out of Cis... but some year ago my friend have booked tickets to Vilnius in that way...
nevertheless, 114Euro is too expensive for me... i'll try to go by this route, but with a lot of changes: Minsk-Lvov by 47train, then Lvov-Uzhgorod by 15train, then Uzhgorod-Cosice by bus and then to L.Mikulas by train. 47Euros for all... Neither more nor less, but it is cheaper in 2.5 times...

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 29, 2010, 10:15:37 pm »

I try to book this ticket on rzd.ru. there are NO tickets at all. Then i called to Kyivsky Rail Station. There are NO tickets too.
And this is not only on this train. Tiskets Minsk-Warszawa, for example, appear only for 45 days... This term is everywhere: In Belarus, in Russia, in Ukraine...

p.s. Can anyone explain me this paragraph:

But there is a good trick to save some money. Main secret is in the use of foreign/international train tickets for domestic Russian routes. Best offers here from Slovakia, Serbia and Bulgaria. All this countries sell CityStar tickets to Russia. Here some numbers for the most popular Slovakia-Russia CityStar (via Ukraine): CityStar itself costs 134.4 euro (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th person of a group travelling together pays additionally only 67,2 EUR or half out of basic price). So return ticket any station in Slovakia-Vladivostok- any station in Slovakia for two people costs only 201.6 euro. But you still need to buy sleeping car reservations (specific place in specific train).

Zilina-Moscow (Zilina it is the first train station from were run train to Moscow via Ukraine) reservation costs only 24 euro; Moscow-Vladivostok 220 euro (Moskva – Irkutsk 148 EUR; Irkutsk – Vladivostok 127 EUR etc.). Two full tickets Moscow-Vladivostok-Moscow will cost you only 201.6euro+220*4= 1081.6 euro while domestic Russian tickets for two for the same route and the same train cost – app.1500 euro. You save more than 400 euro out of nothing + you can use your ticket from Bratislva/Kosice/Lviv/Kiev etc. (in this case you save even more)

specially about Zilina-Moscow for 24 Euro...

And one question more: are there RUSSIAN cars on this international trains??? I mean usual russian "kupe" and "СВ" but not european 2 or 3 seats cars. Are there a "plackart" maybe?

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 29, 2010, 09:54:44 pm »

45 days - is the max. term to buy tickets in CIS countries, even on international trains...
now i guessed, why there are no tickets even for 45 days: all tickets were purchased by europeans for 60 days

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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Bratislava - St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow

« on: May 29, 2010, 08:27:08 pm »

hi.
if i will buy ticket on Zilina-Moscow car in Slovakia, how much will be the price??? and can i book ticket on this train, because in Russia there are no tickets even for max. period: 45 days.