arjun27
Traveller
1 comments
Posted 12 years ago
Hi
I have a 5 country Eurail pass that covers France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Czech. The last of my journeys days consists of traveling from Milan (Italy) to Nîmes (France) on 1st January 2012. I looked up trains but the route has an EC from Milan to Geneve and a TGV from Geneve to Bellegard (France.) What am I supposed to do if I have to make this journey without Switzerland on the Eurail pass.
Thanks!
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Travel via [b]Ventimiglia[/b] and along the Cote d'Azur.
You will still have to wait some days until the new French schedules are online.
There are bigger changes this year.
Example (but not valid for the 1st of January):
[b]Milano Centrale[/b] dep: 1110 - IC - [u]https://rail.cc/en/train-type/intercity-trenitalia/47[/u]
[b]Ventimiglia[/b] arr: 1507
[b]Ventimiglia[/b] dep: 1531 - Regional train - no extra fees
[b]Nice Ville[/b] arr: 1616
[b]Nice Ville[/b] dep: 1635 - TGV - [u]https://rail.cc/en/train-type/tgv-sncf/42[/u]
[b]Aix-en-Provence TGV[/b] arr: 1911
[b]Aix-en-Provence TGV[/b] dep: 1925 - TGV - [u]https://rail.cc/en/train-type/tgv-sncf/42[/u]
[b]Nîmes[/b] arr: 2004
And if you want to support the railcc project as well as this reply, buy your Eurail pass on the recommended website:
[ux]https://rail.shop/eurail[/ux]
Thank you, Peter :)
arjun27
Traveller
1 comments
Thank you, Peter :)
I'll look in to this route once the schedules are up on the voyages-sncf website.
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
I recommend one of these schedules:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/eurail-train-schedules[/u]
The website you mentioned is not the best in my eyes.
Peter :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
IF you want to travel just a short stretch via an uncovered country, as such this is daft simple; simply go to ANY international ticketing office anywhere (but those nearby are usually the best in this) and buy a supplemental ticket Border-via that country-till border out. You MUST specify which borders you use! These tickets are valid for 1 month and not tied to any specific train-as are almost all normal rail tickets. You pay for it the normal full fare-which for CH is quite high as anything in that country. IN case you did not note or do- any country will have its own conductors checking the tikcets for just THEIR territory-and they will issue an extra ticket-mostly at a higher price as bought before. You should be able to pay for that NOT with cr-cards (though even that is slowly coming), but with any normal money, also from out of that country. Since well over a century the cooperating EUR railways have been able to offer that.