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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2010, 06:45:52 pm » |
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Usually your train journey is covered by two part travel document - one is ticket itself (for specific route) and the other is seat reservation (for specific train on a specific date). In many countries (like Switzerland) you mainly don't need this second part (reservation) since it is not compulsory, all the trains have free seating. In some (like in Italy) most of the trains require seat reservation, thus you obliged to buy it. Ticket itself usually valid for quite a long period of time, especially international one. So, TCV (or as it now also called SCIC-NRT) is exactly this ticket part and this is what you can purchase in Prague (as well as in Switzerland). But in case you want to use InterCity or EuroStar train in Italy you will need this additional seat reservation. The only type of trains that doesn't require seat reservation in Italy is "Regional", thus you can board them using the ticket part (what you buy in Prague), no need to buy anything extra. So, as far as we understood, ticket cashier was kind of warning you, that if you want to use ticket bought from him without any additional supplement, you'll must use regional trains (those are slower, run for shorter routes etc.)=thus you'll need more changes in order to travel for your desired routes. But in case you want to use faster trains, just buy seat reservation in Italy and board the train with Czech ticket, in such case you will be fully covered and have in hands both required part of travel docs.
p.s. just in case, if you decide to use just regional trains: Como-Venezia can be done only with one change, Venezia-Florence - at least one change required. Florence-Rome - no changes required since there are regional trains running full route.
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