 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm looking to do a 3 night trip to Tignes in January. The last time I did this I took the Eurostar to Gare du Nord, transfered to Gare d'Austerlitz and on to BSM. From memory we went on a Thursday night (about 17.00), arriving Friday am (7ish) and returned on Monday night, departing around 9.00 in the evening.
So what's the problem?
Can't seem to find any combination that will allow this. Well there was one that only had Business class available which was a budget breaking £380.00 return!
Anyone know if things have changed? I can't believe the options have already been booked up.
Thanks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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?
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Ok cheat,
Paris to BSM return in a couchette using a Prem fair is arround £67, London to Paris Return is £59 return as long as you have one night away, use the raileurope website and book the two trips rather than London to BSM total cost under £130 return or about 1/3rd the price, by the way I just checked these fairs using 2nd week in Jan
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Mark Hunter, something odd is going on with the Rail Europe site.
If you try and book the whole journey with Rail Europe my fair came to £437!!
But if you book each stage individually, then the Eurostar to Paris is £59 return, and Austerlitz to Bourg is £69 return, making a total of £128.
Warning: the Austerlitz fare is about to rise by £10 each way (according to the site).
So book it that way Mark.
Whoops: young Orf beat me to it. As he did, I went for out on Jan 12th, and back on Jan 16th.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ray Zorro, D G Orf, Jonpim, thank you gentlemen.
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Thanks for the info! I've opened a new thread specifically about weekend trips. I've called it Weekend Trips.
Originality rarely a strong suit with me...
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magriggs, for PREMS which are the special offers they can be booked netween 14 - 90 days prior to the last date of travel. They do get booked out quickly. You can also book via the SNCF website www.sncf.fr there is a English translation but the system is very old and cluncky and presupposes a knowledge of SNCF journeys and likely train times, they don't make it easy.
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they dont make it easy for a london accent full stop !!!
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I know from booking the trains for the boys to come out to Serre Che in December that the fares weren't online until 60 days before. I found fares on SNCF that weren't available on RAil Europe, and othes on TGV site that weren't on SNCF.
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sncf fares are bookable ~90 days before.
Euro* fares are bookable ~60 days before.
The SNCF site often shows journeys that are not available to book yet whereas the Rail Europe site tends to show only those which can be booked.
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