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Booking SNCF tickets On Line
I'm having problems at the moment booking tickets from La Rochelle to
Biarritz on line. I've already used SNCF's facility to book and print my own tickets from Lille to Nantes, and from Nantes to La Rochelle, but when I tried to book from La Rochelle to Biarritz, it's only offered me the chance to collect the tickets from an SNCF office or have them sent (presumably at my own, not inconsiderable expense) by courier to the UK. Breaking the journey down into its component parts, I note I can buy and print out my own tickets from La Rochelle to Bordeaux (where I would have had to change anyway from a Corail to a TGV), but the TGV train from Bordeaux to Biarritz appears to be the dog in the manger, not offering the ability to print out my tickets. So...anyone with experience of using SNCF's system i) is there a booking horizon before which tickets can't be booked - I had kind of assumed 2-3 months? ii) any other suggestions as to why I can print out my tickets from Lille to Nantes, and from Nantes to La Rochelle, and La Rochelle to Bordeaux, but not Bordeaux to Biarritz ? Many thanks in advance of any advice you can offer me. Ric |
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they have changed the system, looks like
own printing is no more desirable you must print the tickets while in the "gare", before departure No disrespect meant, but I don't think this is the case. I can print tickets for the leg La Rochelle to Bordeaux, but not from Bordeaux to Biarritz. If what you said were the case, then I couldn't print tickets at all. Similarly, I have (yesterday) just bought tickets from Nantes to La Rochelle. I think the answer lies in some sort of seat allocation to the TGV train from Bordeaux to Biarritz - I cannot buy a PREM ticket on this particular train, and that seems to be the problem. |
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:58:22 -0000, wrote:
I'm having problems at the moment booking tickets from La Rochelle to Biarritz on line. I've already used SNCF's facility to book and print my own tickets from Lille to Nantes, and from Nantes to La Rochelle, but when I tried to book from La Rochelle to Biarritz, it's only offered me the chance to collect the tickets from an SNCF office or have them sent (presumably at my own, not inconsiderable expense) by courier to the UK. Up till now, SNCF have always sent tickets via the post at no additional cost. Regards, Rian -- Rian van der Borgt, Leuven, Belgium. e-mail: www: http://www.evonet.be/~rvdborgt/ |
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Booking SNCF tickets On Line
Up till now, SNCF have always sent tickets via the post at no additional cost.
And completely disclaimed responsibility if they were lost in the post, as I recall from previous postings. The former is now a reasonably regular occurence and I don't want to waste €160 of my own money on tickets SNCF may or may not post to me from France when it might be possible to print them out. |
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Up till now, SNCF have always sent tickets via the post at no additional cost. And completely disclaimed responsibility if they were lost in the post, as I recall from previous postings. The former is now a reasonably regular occurence and I don't want to waste €160 of my own money on tickets SNCF may or may not post to me from France when it might be possible to print them out. Your other option is to select collection at a station with your credit card. -- Phil Richards, London, UK 3,600+ railway photos since 1980 at: http://europeanrail.fotopic.net http://britishrail.fotopic.net |
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Your other option is to select collection at a station with your credit
card. Which, in the end, is what I did, with a very helpful screen guide in English. However, when I put my Amex card in the machine, it instructed me to go to the ticket office, who helpfully issued me with the tickets. |
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