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wrong information on transportation

I've been hunting for the awol transportation section to the helpline.

I wandered over to the area called transportation of the new website - nope, not there either.

BUT I did find a big wrongness in the text to buying train tickets.

It reads:

Advance purchase (a week to three months in advance) can save you money in certain countries (most notably Britain, France, Germany, and Spain), especially for faster or longer rides. In other parts of Europe (such as Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and most eastern countries), advance-purchase deals either don't exist or aren't worth the hassle. For regional or medium-speed trains in most places, tickets cost the same whether they're bought two months or two minutes before the train leaves.

I think everybody with decent knowledge of Italian trains will disagree with that. Advance purchase deals definitely DO EXIST and huge savings can be made. A ticket with a base fare of, say €80 can be easily obtained for €9 or €19, on two different competing train companies, and that €9 ticket will whisk you along at up to 300 kph!!

It is wrong, I'm sorry.

Big discounts are also available in Switzerland, too.

Posted by
5452 posts

Some more 'wrongness'.

Says you can't use railcards for discount on the Heathrow Express, when you can if you buy the ticket from the offices rather than the machines (or in advance online). An International Student Identity Card also gets a 25% discount on its own, without any railcard.

Posted by
5697 posts

Austria, too -- SparScheine (sp ?) tickets on obb

Posted by
5493 posts

Definitely wrong info about Austria. Advance purchase tix save lots of money. OEBB is the official rail carrier so use www.oebb.at.

Posted by
19268 posts

"I've been hunting for the awol transportation section to the helpline"

The transportation forum is here.

If you are in this forum, look at the URL in the addresss line. Replace "general-europe" with "transportation".

Posted by
10605 posts

@Lee, How do you get to transportation otherwise? I followed your advice and just read an amazing post by Steve there.

Posted by
19268 posts

Yes, that post by Steven was pretty amazing.

I don't know about the airlines, but a few months ago, I registered as a reviewer on TripAdvisor. Now I keep getting emails from TA promoting accommodations in towns I have gone to on the Internet. I think they are tracking me.

Other than following the link I gave you, or editing the address line, I don't think there is any other way. The webmaster doesn't seem to have put a link to the transportation forum on any of the new pages. I hope that doesn't mean he is planning on deleting the transportation forum.