• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Search results

  1. I

    Italian travel issues

    It seemed quite hard to get the app to update but I did and, indeed, as you say, the timetable info is back in there.
  2. I

    Reliability of TER 18544 Chambery to Lyon

    On my way back from Greece and currently in a rather chilly but sunny Domodossala. I've got reservations for 1100hrs Lyon to Lille on Sunday and wondering whether to stay overnight tomorrow in Chambery or press on to Lyon. I'd probably rather stay in Chambery but I'm aware that if the Sunday...
  3. I

    Buying a Eurostar return ticket as a gift

    I'd like to buy a ticket for a young person so that they can take the Eurostar for a return journey to Paris or Amsterdam. I don't however know when they'll want to go. Obviously I don't want to just buy them an expensive fully changeable ticket so does anyone have any thoughts on how to...
  4. I

    Bari / Brindisi to Lyon

    Thanks again for your input - there are some useful pointers therein. My draft plan at the moment is: Thursday - Depart Greece, arrive evening in Brindisi and stay overnight or stay on a different ferry overnight to Bari Friday - To Bologna from Brindisi or Bari Saturday - Bologna 0930 -...
  5. I

    Bari / Brindisi to Lyon

    Has anyone here done the bus substitution necessary from Turin to Chambery? How long is it? Also am I reading it correctly that there is a similar bus requirement from Geneva to Lyon at Bellegarde?
  6. I

    Bari / Brindisi to Lyon

    Many thanks everyone. Reference the hotel prices in Lyon, I see that I could stay in Chambery and still make a reasonable connection in Lyon before Lille & London.
  7. I

    Bari / Brindisi to Lyon

    Thanks for your thoughts. I'm more into routes and places to stop than the particular type of train but that route sounds good. It looks like the closest to Lyon that I can get to from Reggio Calabria is Turin. Does anyone have any thoughts on the getting from Turin to Lyon bit?
  8. I

    Bari / Brindisi to Lyon

    I'm in Greece at the moment and need to be in Lyon for Saturday 18 May to get the Sunday morning train to Lille and then Eurostar back to London. I've got interrail reservations for that bit (although the Lyon - Lille part could be cancelled without charge). I'll get the boat to Bari or...
  9. I

    TGV seat reservations

    The purchasing of SNCF Interrail reservations on Rail Europe appears to work very well.
  10. I

    TGV seat reservations

    I booked a last minute reservation from Strasbourg last year and everybody was wedged in downstairs. So I went upstairs which was only 60% full so plenty of places to change to and no risk of being asked to move as Paris was the next stop.
  11. I

    Eurostar refund

    Would the change up to an hour before apply to booking Interrail reservations maybe?
  12. I

    Italian travel issues

    I often check various sources when planning but I used to use the Interrail App as a starter. However now, apart from a list of stations, it has no built in timetable that I can see. It always says, "Enter journey manually"
  13. I

    Italian travel issues

    Thanks. Yes all going to plan as I type - due into Bari in about 80 minutes. The TTPER regional train from Milan was very crowded but I managed to get a seat - it was taking at least 5 minutes at each stop as people tried to get on and off (mainly, on) so we arrived at Bologna 25 minutes late...
  14. I

    Italian travel issues

    Thanks for everyone's comments. With the benefit of that input, I now have a 1240hrs Rimini to 1727hrs Bari reservation and before that a plan to take the Regionale 2455 Milano Centrale (07:20) - Bologna Centrale (10:10) and Regionale 3913 Bologna Centrale (10:34) - Rimini (12:01) So assuming...
  15. I

    Italian travel issues

    I find myself in Milan overnight today, thinking I would be getting a ferry to Greece tomorrow. I thought I could just stroll into the ticket office to get my Interrail reservation for Bari for tomorrow so I could get there for a 1930hrs sailing. But no, for some reason all the trains are booked...
  16. I

    End of the line for Paris’ iconic metro ticket

    The Eurostar buffet was advertising that they had them last week but on asking, I was told that they no longer sold them.
  17. I

    Renfe Reservations for Interrail

    sure and the nuance under discussion is that if a train goes from A to B to C and all the odd number seats are taken from A to B and all the even number seats from B to C, then there will be no availability from A to C despite the train only ever being 50% full...
  18. I

    Renfe Reservations for Interrail

    It must be an issue for long journeys where any company insists on pre-booked tickets only. They lose sales from someone who would be happy to move seats part way through a long journey.
  19. I

    Renfe Reservations for Interrail

    Just for general information, I paid €6.85 for Madrid to Irun plus €4 each for Merida to Puertollano and for Puertollano to Madrid.
  20. I

    Renfe Reservations for Interrail

    So does that suggest that, when I was at Irun in the morning, and overnight a ticket had become available for Madrid to Merida, that there should have been an Interrail seat reservation available too? (I should have asked at the ticket office but was keen to grab the ticket when I could, even at...

Top