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SNCF Carte Avantage and Deutsch Bahn?

Posted by (Seattle, WA) on

A recent post caught my eye. https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/france/carte-avantage-senior-card-for-sncf

The SNCF website raises the question whether it might help with our journey from Freiburg to Strasbourg.

The Advantage Card (Seniors) site (https://www.sncf-connect.com/app/en-en/catalogue/description/carte-avantage-senior ) says:

  • To Germany with TGV INOUI and DB SNCF in cooperation

Is that as limited as it seems? From France to Germany, but not the other way (one way only). Or might it help from Germany to France? Or within Germany, even?

I will be buying tix soon and, right now, I don’t think the advantage card is sufficiently advantageous for our three one-way rides in France: Colmar to Dijon, Beaune to Lyon and Lyon to Paris.

Merci.

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I would expect the card to only be applicable on the French part of such trips. In the case of cross border TGV (and ICE) services SNCF is only the operator between Paris and Strasbourg. From Strasbourg onwards the train is a DB services(even when operated with a TGV trainset)

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Is that as limited as it seems? From France to Germany, but not the other way (one way only). Or might it help from Germany to France? Or within Germany, even?
I will be buying tix soon and, right now, I don’t think the advantage card is sufficiently advantageous for our three one-way rides in France: Colmar to Dijon, Beaune to Lyon and Lyon to Paris.

The card only works on French long-distance trains, including those that cross a border, and on some regional trains.
It works on a TGV from Paris to Freiburg, for example. But it is useless for Freiburg-Offenburg-Strasbourg.

The card is probably not worth it, especially since (1) not sure it works on Beaune-Lyon and (2) Trenitalia often has cheaper fares on Paris-Lyon than SNCF.

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