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Your flight arrives at Marignane though, taxi to Marseille is around 40€ and half an hour. I don't know how long and expensive is the journey to London's airpor

by seszett 11y ago

Your flight arrives at Marignane though, taxi to Marseille is around 40€ and half an hour. I don't know how long and expensive is the journey to London's airports.

switch007 11y ago
I understand. It's a point often made - as if the other differences of travelling by train don't exist. For me, it's not any /more/ of a concern than the others, e.g: - Departure: how to arrive, time, expense. - Journey: duration, connections, time of day, day of week, comfort, baggage, expense. - Arrival: distance from destination, time, expense. I think arrival is less of a concern as you're quite likely to be going to the inner city, and in Europe it's almost a given that there are reliable and frequent connections to the city.
- seszett 11y ago
  > in Europe it's almost a given that there are reliable and frequent connections to the city Well I don't know... I live in France, and the lack of reliable, fast and cheap connections is exactly why I often take the train even when it's more expensive and slower. The last time I arrived at Marignane, at 1am because the flight had been delayed by two hours or so, I had to wait for 1,5 hour, along with a few fellow passengers, for a shuttle to come even though it had been supposed to show up 20 minutes after we started waiting. The driver then explained us that "you're in Marseille, that's normal!". And he was kinda right. The shuttle was also late for the return flight, actually, just not too late.
  - switch007 11y ago
    You pick 1am to refute my claim? Well, OK, YMMV... I probably generalised too much with 'Europe'.
    - seszett 11y ago
      Well, I don't have much experience with pre-1am shuttles, except the one for the return flight which left maybe just 30 minutes late. But when the 1:30 shuttle shows up at 3:00 and tells you that you should have expected it, I think it does tell something about the reliability and frequency of connections to the city. The other systems I have experience with are Paris' RER, which is... okay, I guess, Copenhague's metro which makes the journey really easy, and Budapest's public transit which takes 1 hour and several changes. Copenhague is the only one I would consider reliable.

by seszett 11y ago

Your flight arrives at Marignane though, taxi to Marseille is around 40€ and half an hour. I don't know how long and expensive is the journey to London's airports.

switch007 11y ago

I understand. It's a point often made - as if the other differences of travelling by train don't exist. For me, it's not any /more/ of a concern than the others, e.g: - Departure: how to arrive, time, expense. - Journey: duration, connections, time of day, day of week, comfort, baggage, expense. - Arrival: distance from destination, time, expense. I think arrival is less of a concern as you're quite likely to be going to the inner city, and in Europe it's almost a given that there are reliable and frequent connections to the city.

seszett 11y ago
> in Europe it's almost a given that there are reliable and frequent connections to the city Well I don't know... I live in France, and the lack of reliable, fast and cheap connections is exactly why I often take the train even when it's more expensive and slower. The last time I arrived at Marignane, at 1am because the flight had been delayed by two hours or so, I had to wait for 1,5 hour, along with a few fellow passengers, for a shuttle to come even though it had been supposed to show up 20 minutes after we started waiting. The driver then explained us that "you're in Marseille, that's normal!". And he was kinda right. The shuttle was also late for the return flight, actually, just not too late.
- switch007 11y ago
  You pick 1am to refute my claim? Well, OK, YMMV... I probably generalised too much with 'Europe'.
  - seszett 11y ago
    Well, I don't have much experience with pre-1am shuttles, except the one for the return flight which left maybe just 30 minutes late. But when the 1:30 shuttle shows up at 3:00 and tells you that you should have expected it, I think it does tell something about the reliability and frequency of connections to the city. The other systems I have experience with are Paris' RER, which is... okay, I guess, Copenhague's metro which makes the journey really easy, and Budapest's public transit which takes 1 hour and several changes. Copenhague is the only one I would consider reliable.