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Post by travelingprofessor on Jun 15, 2008 20:16:24 GMT -5
The NY Times had an article today about a new Rail Europe travel option within France. You buy your first trip for $199 (yes, USD) and each subsequent trip costs $50. It's for 1st class travel (including TGV). Here is more info:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/travel/15COMfrance.html?ref=travel
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Post by mez on Jun 15, 2008 20:36:22 GMT -5
I haven't travelled through France on trains in years.
Obviously, you would need to look at point to point travel costs to compare, but if you were doing 2 trips, would $150 per ticket be a good price?
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Post by Anne on Jun 16, 2008 2:01:29 GMT -5
Well, so one trip would be $199, two $249 ($125 per trip), three $299 ($100 per trip), etc ... right ?
It is very difficult to compare this with SNCF "normal" prices, since there are hardly any normal prices anymore : it all depends on the day and hour that you plan to travel, the day when you buy your ticket (yes !), the category of ticket (reimbursable or not) that you want to buy, etc ...
To give you an example, if I bought my ticket for OP get-together right now, my Saturday trip to Paris (about 340 kms in TGV) would cost in 2nd class between 17 euros (not refundable nor exchangeable ticket) and 56 euros (flexible ticket), and in 1st class between 30 and 101 euros (same categories as for 2nd class) . "Reasonnably flexible" 1st class ticket is 50-60 euros . My return ticket will be more expensive because Sunday evenings are considered as peak time . Also TGV Est is the most expensive TGV per km because it is the most recent one .
So you see, it is very difficult to compare generally speaking, but I would say that you would need a few trips to make this travel option a profitable one, not just two . It also depends whether you really care to travel 1st class .
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