Jump to navigation. The company combines the maps, schedules and fares of over 50 different train companies across Europe, creating a one stop shop for the North American traveler to plan and book European rail travel.
Rail Europe began as a small office in New York City, growing steadily through the introduction of the Eurail Pass in and the subsequent appointment of Rail Europe as the sole North American distributor of the pass.
The company has always been a dominating presence in European rail travel and offers a wide range of rail passes including the Eurail Pass, train tickets, sightseeing passes, hotel and rail packages and more. Rail Europe has continued to break new ground in the rail industry and the company's recently launched app and mobile site are the first-ever mobile rail booking tools. It sells train tickets for all operators in Great Britain.
They charge no booking fee for British domestic tickets. Renfe Spanish Railways : It connects to Renfe to sell all Renfe's cheap tickets with Renfe's print-at-home ticket delivery. The system can also sell the international sleeper trains from Madrid and the French border to Lisbon in Portugal.
Given that Renfe's own site has a reputation for quirky translations and rejecting a significant proportion of overseas credit cards, Raileurope. Using these systems, they can sell through journeys that involve multiple operators. No, because Raileurope.
It also can't sell Ouigo trains in France, for example, or privately-owned Westbahn trains in Austria. Raileurope can book international journeys to or from many of these countries if the route in question can be booked using the French, German, Austrian or Spanish ticketing systems for example, Berlin to Stockholm using the German system or Vienna to Zagreb using the Austrian system , but for journeys within or between those countries you should use the relevant national train operator's own website.
On seat That's the whole point! So it makes sense to buy all your tickets together as one transaction, not multiple transactions. You can of course void paying any fee by using the train operator's own website, although this often means buying different tickets from different websites and sometimes battling with quirky translations or even payment systems that are fussy with overseas cards.
I'll try to show a no-fee booking option as well, it's then your call. It varies by route and train operator. You'll find info about that here! If you're making a round trip, Eurostar London-Paris, London-Brussels is best booked as a return journey because Eurostar return fares are significantly cheaper than two one-ways. However, for most continental journeys beyond Paris or Brussels, a round trip is simply two one-ways so you may find it easier to book one way at a time and add to basket, it makes no difference to the price.
How to specify a route or stopover If you click More options you can add a via station, with optional stopover duration. This is useful for specifying a particular route, for example London to the South of France via Lille rather than Paris, or Brussels to Switzerland via Cologne rather than Paris.
Also useful to stop for lunch in Paris, as you can specify via Paris with a 2h30 stopover, for example. In most cases, the effect of specifying a stopover is to split the ticket at that point - sometimes if the system struggles to find an option, specify an obvious routing point and it finds a journey! Or if you want to see if Paris-Barcelona is cheaper with a split-ticket at Perpignan, simply enter Perpignan as a stopover.
Connections between trains Like all journey planners, Raileurope allows the minimum time at interchange stations, as specified by train operators.
It'll always be possible to make the connection in that time if the first train is on time, and that might be fine if you're connecting into a local train where if you miss it, you catch the next one half an hour later.
But what if, say, you're connecting into a sleeper train, with a separate non-refundable train-specific ticket where if you miss it you're screwed? Like all journey planners, it will not allow for delay! I therefore recommend you use the suggested connections given on seat If necessary, book each train separately and add to basket. Travelers may also call U. Travel agents should visit the company's trade sites: www. Frappier zenogroup. By bike, in a hot air balloon or on horseback Published: 1 February , More ideas.
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