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Train fares and tariffs / Buy seat resv and pay TGV supplements at foreign stations or online in hostels
« on: March 27, 2012, 02:26:50 pm »
I'm going to be moving about Europe--mostly eastern Europe--using a Eurail Global Pass all of April. I don't want to make specific resv for specific trains ahead of time if I can help it; I want to wing it as much as I can.
But when I'm already in Europe (I haven't left yet) doing stuff online at hostels, how do I actually GET the reservations and supplements I may need to pay for, in addn to whatever my pass covers? I don't mean how do I order it and pay for it online; I'm assuming I can figure out how to do that; it's the confirmations I'm thinking about; the pieces of paper saying I have the resv or I've paid the suppl) When I've searched websites here in the US, such as bahn.de, I have NOT always found that I could print them out online at home! I am still waiting for a paper copy of a sleeper resv to arrive from DB by USPS! Hopefully before I board my flight to Europe next Tuesday! Because that's the only way DB would send it to me!
So if I'm in, say, Ljubljana, and I find a trip starting there that I want to take, and I want a sleeper to Munich and then I want to switch in Munich to a TGV that requires a seat resv plus a supplement, how do I actually DO all that from a computer in a hostel in Slovenia!?
I'm looking at a four-train trip: Ljubljana-Munich (I'll want a sleeper); Munich-Strasbourg (TGV seat resv and suppl reqd); Strasbourg-Valence (TGV); Valence-Narbonne (TGV). All 3 TGVs might require seat resv and supplements; I'm not sure, but this is enough detail for my question here:
Is it likely that I could find the "international tickets" window in the Ljubljana train station and buy the sleeper resv from Ljubljana to Munich and the seat reservations and pay for the supplements I'd need for the TGV trains from Munich to Strasbourg and Strasbourg to Narbonne, all while I'm at the ticket window in Ljubljana?
But when I'm already in Europe (I haven't left yet) doing stuff online at hostels, how do I actually GET the reservations and supplements I may need to pay for, in addn to whatever my pass covers? I don't mean how do I order it and pay for it online; I'm assuming I can figure out how to do that; it's the confirmations I'm thinking about; the pieces of paper saying I have the resv or I've paid the suppl) When I've searched websites here in the US, such as bahn.de, I have NOT always found that I could print them out online at home! I am still waiting for a paper copy of a sleeper resv to arrive from DB by USPS! Hopefully before I board my flight to Europe next Tuesday! Because that's the only way DB would send it to me!
So if I'm in, say, Ljubljana, and I find a trip starting there that I want to take, and I want a sleeper to Munich and then I want to switch in Munich to a TGV that requires a seat resv plus a supplement, how do I actually DO all that from a computer in a hostel in Slovenia!?
I'm looking at a four-train trip: Ljubljana-Munich (I'll want a sleeper); Munich-Strasbourg (TGV seat resv and suppl reqd); Strasbourg-Valence (TGV); Valence-Narbonne (TGV). All 3 TGVs might require seat resv and supplements; I'm not sure, but this is enough detail for my question here:
Is it likely that I could find the "international tickets" window in the Ljubljana train station and buy the sleeper resv from Ljubljana to Munich and the seat reservations and pay for the supplements I'd need for the TGV trains from Munich to Strasbourg and Strasbourg to Narbonne, all while I'm at the ticket window in Ljubljana?