We are trying to book an overnight train and there appears to be a couple of ways to do this. One is book through [email protected]. The other is via Eurail site. The Eurail cost for the same train (private sleeper car two people) is twice the price. Any help??
Posted by
Prague, Czech Republic
356 posts
Good afternoon,
Have you tired the Man in Seat 61? It is the best website for train travel information worldwide, and it details all of the options, including workarounds for problems you might encounter trying to book online. It really is an excellent resource. (The man takes a lot of trains.)
I hope that this helps.
Marcus
Posted by
Rick Steves' Europe
16895 posts
The third option, also described in the link above, is to buy tickets at a train station in Europe. If you were to purchase at, for instance, a German train station, they would probably cost a little more than the full price to buy in the Czech Republic.
Posted by
Basel, Switzerland
8889 posts
czech-transport.com appears to be a commercial reseller. Eurail is a US commercial reseller which posters on this site regularly insult for limited choice and high mark-ups.
As Marcus says, I would first read the man at seat 61 page on Czech trains: http://www.seat61.com/Czech.htm
For Czech internal trains, he recommends the Czech railways site (this is, after all the company actually running the trains): http://www.cd.cz/eshop
Click on 'en' for English.
Posted by
Budapest
27 posts
forget about resellers like czech-transport or eurail, buy from the official website of Czech Railways (link above). If you do it some time in advance, then you have a chance to catch cheap discounted tickets (seats from 22 euro, couchettes from 29 euro, sleepers from 33 euro). At the station in Prague before departure you'll pay 43 euro for the seat