Since I'd been looking at the booking site anyway, I had a quick look at this option and found that Paris to Toulouse next Saturday night is currently €36 in a reclining seat or €59/€65 for a couchette.The sleeper from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux/Toulouse might be an idea. Seats can be had for around €20 (remember a sleeping mask though!) with couchette berths from around €35-40. Might be a bit more at relatively short notice, mind.
A "Prix casses hauts de France" for Saturday gives a days unlimited TER, including Calais to Paris, for 20 Euros. Then take an Intercites 100% eco to Bordeaux, Limoges, or Brives, then another TER bargain, such as a 20euro billet petit Prix from Bordeaux to Hendaye? TER often has excellent offers, very well hidden, with each region calling pretty much the same thing something different
That particular ticket is for TER Haut De France only, but will get you to Paris. Then there's TER centre- Val de Loire, then TER Nouvelle Aquitaine...only 3.Thanks. Your mention of the €20 TER day ticket begs the question, "how many TER regions are there between Calais and Hendaye?"
I'm in no hurry but need to go from Calais Ville (or maybe Dieppe) to Hendaye this coming weekend. Does anyone have any thoughts on the cheapest way? As I say, no hurry and I don't mind paying for overnight accommodation on the way..
Sorry, my post with poor/misleading wording. I meant that it was not train-specific, only limited to TER trains on the route selected, in this case Calais-Paris, on the day selected, not that it was a rover-type ticket.As some time has now passed, how did you get on?
I learnt something new in this thread and purchased some "Prix casses hauts de France" for a forthcoming trip. However, these tickets appear to be advance purchase single tickets that aren't train-specific, as opposed to being a day rover for unlimited travel, which is how they were described in one post. Perhaps they've changed recently?
A special offer I noted last yr (check if its still there) is in the Languedoc/Roussillon region (Toulouse and Montpellier): ANY local monthly can be extended for 20 € to have weekend-only all-region validity-the cheapest such season is about 30 €, so 50 eur pays for 5 weekends! And its a scenic and tourist-heavy area too. Info on this is well hidden and only in french, I saw it from a leaflet picked up when passing through.
Sorry, my post with poor/misleading wording. I meant that it was not train-specific, only limited to TER trains on the route selected, in this case Calais-Paris, on the day selected, not that it was a rover-type ticket.
Oh-BTW, its too late now anyway, but ian99 probably also would like to travel back to UK and perhaps also travel a fair distance on exBR/ATOC to get to LONdon. In that case the cheapest 3 day InterRail, even lower priced for junior/senior and also with 10% discount in that time, would have been much more cost-effective and also allow much more flexibility.
As some time has now passed, how did you get on?
I learnt something new in this thread and purchased some "Prix casses hauts de France" for a forthcoming trip. However, these tickets appear to be advance purchase single tickets that aren't train-specific, as opposed to being a day rover for unlimited travel, which is how they were described in one post. Perhaps they've changed recently?
Usually I enjoy the challenge of finding good/interesting options, but navigating SNCFs site with different pages for each TER, Intercites 100%ECO, and plain vanilla pages is a PITA. Sorry I didn't get far, but did find that TER Normandy has weekend rover/ranger tickets for weekends around Easter for 20 Euros for two people,supplements for more. Useless for you but interesting in the light of other comments that regional rovers few and far between in FranceAt this notice I doubt you'll beat that, assuming the cabi on the Etretat is OK price wise.
Oui.sncf are saying EUR142 for the throughout trip
There are basically no PREMS tickets left over the weekend, and the only way of saving more than the odd Euro is by using the OUIGO to Massy or Montparnasse in the evening and catching the Sunday afternoon sailing from Le Havre (other ferries are available, but the only cheaper one is Dieppe-Newhaven and it's sold out for Sunday evening).
Or use the Blabla Car online ride-sharing service, if you like that sort of thing. (Sharing a stranger's car would be torture for me...)the cheapest way is probably to hitch-hike.