AVE trains

This is a case where the Rome to Rio website can help. Our in Madrid to Segovia, look at the train option, and it will tell you the stations are Madrid Chamartin and Segovia Guiomar.

Seems like the AVE trains between Madrid and Barcelona should be on the schedule for Feb. 27 by now. If they aren’t, are they on the Trainline site? I have used Trainline for booking trains in Italy when Trenitalia would not allow me to book, even though I was registered and had booked with them previously with no issues. I also used them in 2018 for booking French trains. So I have only good experiences with them, although some people advise against using 3d party websites for booking trains.

Trainline is a reseller that will only make things more complicated, buy direct from Renfe instead. If you are unsure which station in Madrid the train will depart from, select "Madrid Todas".

Just for the record—-I had some Trenitalia trips I booking on the TrInline.eu site for March 2020 (I explained why above—-at that time Trenitalia would not recognize my existing registration, would not allow me to make a new one, and would not allow booking without registration, so I had no choice). I also had some tickets booked on Italo. When we had to cancel the trip, which I about 2-3 weeks ahead of the travel dates, I got immediate refunds from Thetrainline, in full, for the tickets I bought from them. People were having all kinds of trouble getting refunds from Trenitalia for their canceled trips. So I am kind of a fan of Thetrainline.

As for Italo, they may have offered vouchers for future travel, but no refund. And we could not use the voucher within a year, so that was useless.

Thanks for these tips Badger and Lola! much appreciated!