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Budget TGV fares in France
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Not sure if this has already been highlighted on snowheads but I found this useful bit of information on the connexionfrance.com website. Cheap train fares to the East and South of France. Looks useful for me with fares from Lyon to Montpellier from 10 euros. Also fares from Lyon to Disneyland Paris from 10 euros.
As customary with a lot of French websites the English version of it is not working yet.
See
www.ouigo.com
to book.
NEW low-cost TGV trains – with no first class section, no restaurant and limited luggage allowance - launch in April with adult tickets from €10 and children’s from €5 for a single.
Copying Ryanair’s use of out-of-town locations for its big city gateways, the SNCF’s new Ouigo service will head from Marne-la-Vallée (better known as the ReR stop for Disneyland Paris) to Marseille and Montpellier via Lyon-Saint-Exupéry Airport in a service that will undercut the market leader in low-cost air fares from April 2.
Like budget airlines, they will charge extra for luggage – with one item for free and a maximum of two other cases at €5 each – plus €2 extra for using a power point and €1 for a confirmation text.
The refurbished sky-blue and bubble-gum pink TGVs have been stripped of unnecessary furniture to fit extra seats and will carry 1,268 passengers compared to 1,000 in a typical double-deck-er.
Tickets are only available via the Ouigo website, which will have 400,000 €10 seats available with a further one million at €25 with fares rising to €85 for a single. Fares for under-12s are just €5 and groups of more than four can get tickets at €20.
Ouigo will also serve Lyon directly with six trains a week heading to Lyon Part-Dieu and some commentators have noted that it will make a visit to Disneyland easily do-able in a day, especially with the children’s low fares. Even with a ticket from the centre of Paris to Marne-la-Vallée costing €7.30 from Châtelet, the three-hour service to Marseille will still be much cheaper than alternatives. A typical TGV Loisir ticket to Marseille costs €72 and Ryanair €40.
SNCF chief executive Guillaume Pepy said, however, the service was not intended for people living in the capital. “They are already well served, this is more for people in the suburbs.” He said they were targeting the 75% of people who do not use TGVs and were doing so with tickets that challenged the usual argument of trains being too dear.
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isn't a real person
looks like a really good idea. Shame about the English website - Southern Railways French website is first class.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
skichampcouk
, ...very interesting post....
....thanks goodness, finally the train companies wake up to what it means to compete with the budget airlines. But I bet that transnational routes - eg into italy and CH - are not included. The rail companies have been languishing in their own myopic bureaucratic world whilst the CO2 rises from airlines. We would use train from Cambridge to Sierre (change at Kings Cross and from GDN to GDL then TGV all the way) but the prices are punitive.
But this sure is a step in the right direction.
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Wait till the winter. It will cost a fortune to take ski/snowboard gear!
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I take the train to get away from budget airline nonsense. eurostar's baggage rules are irritating enough
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