CityStar ticket is good solution for Transsiberian travel, but I was wondering is it possible to buy CityStar ticket from Slovakia to St. Petersburg via Ukraine and Moscow?
If it is, how much will be the cost for sleeping car reservation Moscow - St. Petersburg or seat on daytime trains (new Sapsan high-speed train)?
It's cheaper with Slovakian CityStar, because CityStar Srbija - Rusija via Romania is 180EUR for RŽD<1500km and 216EUR for RŽD>1500km.
As you sad that reservation is much more expensive for Russian cars then for Ukrainian. There is train 53D Harkov Pass - Vladivostok on which there are Ukrainian cars. Maybe reservation with CityStar ticket for this train is much cheaper then with Russian train. Do you know something about that?
And also, there is a direct sleeper Berlin - Novosibirsk (and maybe al the way to Irkutsk at summer months). Do you know how mach the reservation for those cost?
Is it possible for CityStar ticket Slovakia - Russia that there is different route going to Russia and going back (including different border point between Ukraine and Russia)?
Do you know will Berlin (Warsaw) - Irkutsk sleeper run this summer?
In case it starts running will it be the same reservation cost as for Berlin - Novosibirsk (60eur) or little bit more?
It's not shown here: http://pass.rzd.ru/isvp/public/pass?STRUCTURE_ID=5129, but it's noted here, on bottom of page: http://pass.rzd.ru/isvp/public/pass?STRUCTURE_ID=5126>>Поезд № 013Й/014Й Москва – Берлин с беспересадочными вагонами Москва – Париж, Санкт-Петербург – Берлин, Иркутск – Берлин.<<
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.
45 days - is the max. term to buy tickets in CIS countries, even on international trains.
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)
I try to book this ticket on rzd.ru. there are NO tickets at all.
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?
specially about Zilina-Moscow for 24 Euro...