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« on: November 01, 2010, 07:22:03 am »

I am trying to book tickets for my family to travel from Salzburg to venice. The ÖBB online booking site allows me to choose the 15-16yr option for my son but not the 14yr option for my daughter.  If I have read the information on the site correctly it seems that 14year olds travel free to italy.  Is this correct? Do I need to book her a ticket and if so how do I go about doing this? Thank you for your help.
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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 10:58:50 am »

I am trying to book tickets for my family to travel from Salzburg to venice. The ÖBB online booking site allows me to choose the 15-16yr option for my son but not the 14yr option for my daughter.
Actually it allows to choose any age, here is the screen from OEBB online ticketing page:
If I have read the information on the site correctly it seems that 14year olds travel free to italy.  Is this correct? Do I need to book her a ticket and if so how do I go about doing this?
There are three things to say here: 1) Family offer works only if accompanying adult purchases full standard fare (rather expensive) + you need to remember that it is one adult=one child; 2) "The Family Special offer can be bought at the Trenitalia ticket desks and authorised travel agencies." (no internet purchase as you see) - quote from TrenItalia website (http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=bbb425ef095ba110VgnVCM1000003f16f90aRCRD), probably the same applies for OEBB, and that is the reason why you can't purchase it online; 3) it is not free travel, you need to pay 7 euro per child

In the light of all these it might just make sense simply to purchase SparSchiene tickets Salzburg-Venice for everybody*. Tickets start from 29 euro and can be bought online.

*Example: standard adult ticket Salzburg-Venice for the overnight train cost 49 euro + 7 euro for the child with Family offer=56 euro, while two Spar tickets cost 29+29 euro=58 euro. So the choice is yours from here ;)
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2010, 01:11:00 am »

:) Thanks for your help.  Although the option to choose "14years of age" is there as you have shown when I actually choose it I get the following error message
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Travellers not eligible for a ticket. Please book separately
  I am not sure how to do this so I will probably go with the option of purchasing SparSchiene tickets for everbody.  Thanks again for your help
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