Rcoleux
Traveller
3 comments
Posted 13 years ago
Holla Raildudites,
A freind and I are travelling through Europe on a continuous interrail ticket andnhave come across the problem of having to pay reservation fees for a significant amount of journeys. Is a problem, as we are on a tight budget, and annoying as we already paid 400+ for the ticket anyway.
What is happening is that we are arriving at train stations and being told that the only train we can get needs to be paid for and there is no other way of getting to where we want! for instance, we travelled from Barcelona to Madrid yesterday and had to pay 10 euro, with the ticket man saying there was no other way to get there!
So, my question is; is there any way to avoid this? Do we have to get a reservation (even when said train seems to be empty!)? And can anyone suggest free alternatives?
We are also travelling back to Barcelona to Madrid, then to Valencia, are there any trains people could suggest?
Apologies if this tread already exists, as I can imagine it does! We have very imbed interment so I couldn't really troull though all the pages looking for it! :'(
Thanks!
Richard.
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Richard.
I don't know where you bought your ticket and that they don't old you that you have to pay extra on some trains - and did not helped you giving information about reservation free trains !? Sad to see this! :|
With our railcc project we try to help and give the travellers free routes. That's the main aim. :)
Of course we also sell the rail passes with free delivery - it has to be done to earn a bit of money for the servers and time we spent on programming, adding information and so on.
Please check this link for [b]free connections within Europe[/b]:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Here are all [b]train listed with extra fees[/b]:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
[b]Train schedules[/b]:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Especially Spain and France are countries where you have to pay for most trains an extra reservation fee.
Have sunny days, Peter :)
Hetman
Traveller
364 comments
now you can come back to Barcelona using free of surcharge regional train with one change in Zaragoza.
here you have timings:
Madrid Charmatin dep: 10:30
arr: 14:00 Zaragoza Delicias dep: 16:31
arr: 21:36 Barcelona Sants
both trains you can use for free with your IR Pass, just hop on.
as you can see the travel is much longer than in case of high speed train (AVE) but you will have some time to see something in Zaragoza.