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Prices for long distance trains are mostly okay. It's very rare that you have to pay the incredibly high standard fee when you book in advance. Prices for shor
by cJ0th 10y ago
Prices for long distance trains are mostly okay. It's very rare that you have to pay the incredibly high standard fee when you book in advance.
Prices for short distances are making me angry, though. Here blablacar et al are indeed preferable. I once had to travel a route that was about 80k long regularily. It took me almost 2 hours and I had to pay ~ 20 € when traveling with train. Offerings on blablacar gave me the same route for 5 € and a travel time half as long.
- pluma 10y agoThis, exactly. It takes me at least two and half hours, though generally more like three hours (if I don't miss a connection) to travel the same distance that would take me an hour and a half by car. ICE is great if you want to e.g. travel from Cologne to Berlin to Munich, but that's not what the majority of train trips in the nation look like. Even Flixbus etc offer a better and cheaper experience.
- Kankuro 10y agoIn France, for a 5:30 hours ride, I pay most of the time 75€, 40€ in off-season, as sometimes as much as 100€. The most painful experience is buying a ticket for Christmas season when everybody is trying to buy at the opening of the sales: a few seconds late and you lose 10€. I once lost dozen of euros when my card was refused. It feels like these riots-like black Friday I sometimes see on tv...