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25€ is not dirt cheap, unless you're planning on taking 4+ trips on a single day. In Belgium, a prepaid ticket for 10 rides, each from/to any station in the cou
by icebraining 7y ago
25€ is not dirt cheap, unless you're planning on taking 4+ trips on a single day. In Belgium, a prepaid ticket for 10 rides, each from/to any station in the country, costs just 75€ (valid for one year).
- j605 7y agoI guess the issue is more for intercountry rail travel.
- magduf 7y agoAs an American, 25 Euros is absolutely dirt cheap. We can't travel between nearby cities for anywhere near that cheap here. The 75 Euro deal sounds really cheap too.
- icebraining 7y agoAccording to the Amtrak site, you can go from NYC to Washington DC for $53. That's more expensive, but not tremendously so.
- magduf 7y agoI've looked for fares like that and never see them at convenient times. At 4AM 3 months from now, sure. That's not convenient. I tried planning out a weekend trip from DC (where I live) to NYC on Amtrak, and I couldn't make it work. The goal was to travel to NYC without flying, and without having to take time off from work (I work normal 9-5ish, flex hours). The only way to get fares cheaper than by airline is to take the train at 5AM or so. But the train station is downtown; I can't get downtown in time to catch the train by Metro (subway), because the Metro doesn't run that early. So I'd have to take a Lyft/Uber, which is expensive. If I go at a more convenient hour, the rates shoot way up, so it's more expensive than flying. Sure, I could take a day or two off from work, but that defeats the point. If I wanted to travel between Frankfurt and Munich on a weekend without taking time off from work, or between Tokyo and Osaka, I could do it more cheaply and easily than DC-NYC.