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Train fares and tariffs / Re: Domestic border-to-border tickets for internatinal trains.
« on: September 15, 2011, 09:21:54 am »
Just come back and a few remarks:
Tickets was checked both ways by Hungarian inspectors (they get off/enter the train in Subotica).
Cross-border ticket Kelebia-Subotica bought in Warsaw was EUR 2.
We have a very serious problem with Hungarian inspector in Ivo Andric train:
first - claimed OSShD ticket as unvalid (passed after couple of calls to his "supervisor")
second - claimed cross-border ticket as unvalid (he repeated magically "one train - one ticket").
Basically Hungarian inspectors seem to undersand English only when they claim they are right.
What you give serious reasons for your right they suddenly start not to understand any foreign language.
Eventually for return journey we bought Budapest Special for EUR 15 to have a rest.
To have the best views off-season on Belgrade-Bar-Belgrade I do recommend to get night train from Beograd or/and day train from Bar. They cross the most scenic section during the day.
Albanian trains are to some extent much more better than Serbian and Hungarian ones
.
But this in another topic quite later.
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One more think - we bought Subotica-Beograd ticket from the Serbian inspector for ~ 850 dinars
(whith a receipt) when according to ZS website it should be 480 dinars. Do you thing it was some
on-board surcharge or we were simply cheated?
that is not very correct thing to advise, but MAV conductors in any case will get off all the trains in Kelebia, while ZS officials will board it only in Subotica and check tickets already after departure, thus on segment Kelebia-Subotica there would simply be no one to check your ticket
Tickets was checked both ways by Hungarian inspectors (they get off/enter the train in Subotica).
Cross-border ticket Kelebia-Subotica bought in Warsaw was EUR 2.
We have a very serious problem with Hungarian inspector in Ivo Andric train:
first - claimed OSShD ticket as unvalid (passed after couple of calls to his "supervisor")
second - claimed cross-border ticket as unvalid (he repeated magically "one train - one ticket").
Basically Hungarian inspectors seem to undersand English only when they claim they are right.
What you give serious reasons for your right they suddenly start not to understand any foreign language.
Eventually for return journey we bought Budapest Special for EUR 15 to have a rest.
To have the best views off-season on Belgrade-Bar-Belgrade I do recommend to get night train from Beograd or/and day train from Bar. They cross the most scenic section during the day.
Albanian trains are to some extent much more better than Serbian and Hungarian ones
.But this in another topic quite later.
------------
One more think - we bought Subotica-Beograd ticket from the Serbian inspector for ~ 850 dinars
(whith a receipt) when according to ZS website it should be 480 dinars. Do you thing it was some
on-board surcharge or we were simply cheated?