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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Eurail or tickets for France, Italy and Spain?

« on: June 09, 2011, 07:24:23 am »

Hey, thanks a LOT for all of those helpful tips!!! I'm printing and saving them for our trip.

One question:

Actually for your date www.tgv-europe.com website offers discounted tickets for 82 EUR (including reservation) with one change in Dijon. The only nuance is that you need to input "your country" as one of the EU states, thus it won't redirect you to agency website.

Is there any problems if I select as my country one of the EU states? How will I receive my tickets? (sorry for the "noobness" of this question).

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Train fares and tariffs / Eurail or tickets for France, Italy and Spain?

« on: June 08, 2011, 09:42:47 pm »

Guys, I'm new here and I needed some help (please forgive any spelling mistakes I make as english is not my native language).

Me and a group of friends are going to Europe for a month between July and August. We will be moving from several cities and we are travelling on a budget.

We were told that our best option was to buy an Eurailpass for each of us so we could just take the trains we needed. But checking the "reservations" cost, I'm not sure it's the best option for us.

Please, could you help us? Please note that wherever possible, we prefer to move on the night (so we can sleep while moving and we don't lose days to visit Europe).

On august the 3rd we are moving from Paris to Florence. I found a ticket wich costs 76E and runs during the night.

On august the 5th we are moving from Florence to Rome. I found tickets starting from 30E but there were also some tickets from 45 E in trains that took much less to do this trip.

On august 11th we are moving from Rome to Lyon (we are visiting the city of Ars). I found many many tickets for a night trip. One of them was for 103E.

On august 13th we are moving from Lyon to Lourdes. We found that our best choice was to take a train from Lyon to Toulousse, wait 7 hours there and the next day take a train to Lourdes. I don't have a price for this one trip (and if anyone has a better suggestion, please! say it!).

On august 15th we are moving from Lourdes to Madrid (I only found a daylight trip. I understand our only option is to take a train from Lourdes to Hendaye or Irun and from there another train to Madrid). (I don't have a price, but I think this can be 150E).

This sums to 359E (except for the trip from Lyon to Lourdes because we don't have a price, but I guess another 100 E is a fine approximation): 459E.

If we bought an Eurailpass, it would cost us 218E (5 days, 3 countries) and would allow us to make all of this travel except for the one from Lyon to Toulousse.

But we have two problems with the passes:
1. Our schedule is quite tight. We would prefer to have all of our trips confirmed and reserved from our home country.
2. We don't know how much will each of those reservations cost.


Guys, we need your help. Are there any cheaper/faster options?

Thanks!!