marimonda
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 7 years ago
Hello everybody,
I am new here, I hope you can help me.
We are from Zagreb, Croatia and are travelling from Budapest, Hungary to Romania by night trains.
Night train EN 473 Budapest – Bucharest (Sighisoara), March, 3rd
Night train EN 472 Bucahrest (Brasov) – Budapest, March, 11th
There is 8 of us, we bought, or to put it better, we reserved tickets via MAV company and we received the codes - the ten-digit-number - with which we must print our tickets in Hungary, Keleti train station.
We must find those ticket vending machines and print them out, with the ten-digit-code. In our case it is 16 train tickets, eight people, reversible direction.
I have red forums and blogs regarding this Hungarian train ticket topics, but I have not come across an important question:
Is this train ticket printing system easygoing?
WHEN should we do this?
Can it be done the day we travel??
As we don”t live in Hungary, can we just come to the Keleti train station that very day, Saturday, March, 3rd and print out the tickets couple of hours before the train leaves?
Or, the system is rather complicated, not reliable, and it would be better for us to have the tickets printed couple of days earlier, which means that we have to ask a friend in Budapest to do it: give him the ten-digit-code so he goes to the station, prints out the tickets, keep them for us and then comes to the station again, the day we are travelling to Romania, to give us the tickets.
I mean, it could be arranged, but it means taking somebodies time, twice ...
Did any of you have experience with this procedure, printing out train tickets on ticket vending machines??
Thank you very much for your time and answer.
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
The last time I used print-out-online-tickets from MAV (Hungarian Railways) was last summer; it worked quick and easy. The machines are easy to operate and print the tickets quickly. How many codes did you get - just one for all tickets?
There are several ticket machines at Keleti so if you print out the tickets when you come to Budapest Keleti (do you take the first train from Zagreb?) wont be a problem. :)
Flo 8)
marimonda
Traveller
2 comments
Thank you :)
The MAV (Hungarian Railways) software allows you to buy five tickets at once.
And there is 8 of us, taking 6-couchette berth. It did not offer 4-couchette berth, so I can easily book two of those (maybe such don"t exist on that very train; never mind), and the software allows you to buy only five tickets at once. Meaning that, if you take one 6-couchette berth, the two of your friends are kind of left aside. And you still have to fill out the "companies web site form" twice.
Also, the software does not recognize the option that you can go from one destination (for example, Budapest - Sighisoara) and come back from another destination, (for example, Brasov - Budapest), like in our case.
So, considering all this :))), I divided the group at half, 4 +4, in two 6-berth-couchettes.
And I had to type and type, filling out the software data:
4 people going from Budapest to Sighisoara = one software platform = one ten-digit code (email_1)
4 people going from Budapest to Sighisoara = another time = one ten-digit code (email_2)
(in Romania we cover three towns, we do a triangle, not coming back to the original destination, it"s a waste of time and money)
4 people going from Brasov to Budapest = another software platform = one ten digit code (email_3)
4 people going from Brasov to Budapest = another time = one ten digit code (email_4)
The company, as you know, sends you ten-digit-codes on your email address, so I got a total sum of four digit codes, covering eight people in two directions. Or, to put it simply, we have to print out 16 train tickets.
Well, if you say that is not a complicated procedure, the machines are normally working, etc ..., then we can do it the day we come to Budapest Keleti station, couple of hours earlier ... print them out, have coffee and catch the train.
From Zagreb we are travelling by two cars and we"ll leave them in Budapest.
Thanks for your help :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Yeah, it sometimes can be a bit complicated... ;)
I\'d calculate an hour or so to have enough time to get your tickets. There are 13 (yellow) ticket machines at Keleti: [ux]https://jegyvasarlas.mav-start.hu/eTicketV2/jegyatveteli_pontok/jegyatveteli_allomasok.jsp?Lang=DE&allomas=keleti[/ux]
marimonda
Traveller
2 comments
Thanks :) :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Did everything go well? :)