christianmilano
Traveller
8 comments
Posted 13 years ago
Hello,
I was able to get a reservation for the Talgo de Jour (train number 463, going from Beziers to Barcelona Sants, departure on 20th May 8:04) for 6.50 €, rather than the 18 € listed on this web site and on the official reservation fee table that came with my pass.
Any idea how it could have been cheaper than what the Internet and official printed documents say? Not that I'm complaing (almost all other reservations I wanted to make so far turned out much more expensive), just wondering... and spreading the information for others :)
By the way, this was at an Austrian ticket counter. The lady first told me the train was fully booked, but I insisted that I would not believe that (16 days in advance?). Eventually, she entered some different stuff into her computer, and voilà, after a few minutes of fiddling with their internal system, the 6.50 € reservation popped up...
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi,
I dont know why there is still the 6,50€ reservation available, but it is nice of course. :D Funny thing is that you find the expensive prices for InterRail even on the website of RENFE. I was only once travelling with this Talgo in 2008 and we also got the cheap reservation for 6,50€ and there were to troubles.
You were lucky to have someone who tried several ways to get the reservation - often it needs some tricks to persuade the system to get the more exotic reservations...
Flo 8)
nltrainer
Traveller
1416 comments
Possible explanation:
this 6€ is a NORMAL reservation -for someone who has a full fare ticket.
the 18€ is for IR-as it also is in a ''quota''=limited nr of seats.
So you may (I do not say will) have problems if you happen to get a very knowledgeable and also very money-eager conductor. The samething often happens with TGV (1,50 or 6€
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
There shouldnt be a normal reservation as the Talgos are with global price I think. But still, this could be an explanation.