Booking train from Paris to Bayeux

Yes, use the SNCF website: https://www.sncf-connect.com/app/en-en/home/search/od

Just enter Paris as your departure city, and Bayeux for arrival. The website will tell you which station to use. It's too early to book for October. Check again in a couple of months.

I just wanted to add I've been watching this route for Bayeux->Paris tickets in October as well. Right now some days (mostly weekends) are available thru Sunday Sept 15 for the TGV Nomad trains. You can get really good deals booking well ahead - so it's attractive to go 1st class if that appeals to you. I'd probably set up a calendar reminder for mid-May depending on when in October you are going to travel.

Be sure you note the the calendar on the SNCF website STARTS on Monday. There is also a button to toggle in the upper right to switch from French to English.

Use the SNCF app then your tickets are in the app and you can add them to your Apple wallet too, Very user friendly.

You don't really need to book ahead for this route. It is not the high-speed TGV, and you can almost always walk up and purchase tickets. Beware of trying to book too early, as they don't list the direct trains until a couple of months ahead of time. If you try to book too far out, they will only list long, convoluted routes with changes. And yes, Gare-Saint-Lazare is the station for the direct routes. Any other station would involve a change or three.

You don't really need to book ahead for this route. It is not the high-speed TGV, and you can almost always walk up and purchase tickets.

Yes, you can purchase same-day tickets, but there have become expensive, and advance discounts are now very significant (up to 75%!). The Normandy authorities who manage this route have changed ticketing rules a while back, so this is still relatively new.

Thanks for that helpful update, Balso. I just finished reading a book on the Bayeux Tapestry so am thinking of heading there for a Saturday just to take a new look at the Tapestry. Now you have saved me from paying too much!

!066 is one of those dates that sticks and we all know of the Bayeux Tapestry -- I will have to say it is one of those long wished for life experiences that doesn't disappoint. The audioguide rushes you through too quickly but if it is not crowded you can just go back to the beginning and walk slowly and really look at it (while of course not blocking those buzzing through on their first go round)

Janet obliquely refers (I think) to 1066, date of the Norman King William invading what is now England. William the Conqueror's fortress-castle is in the middle of Caen and well worth a look around.