We are trying to buy TGV tickets from Provence to Annecy. Using www.tgv-europe.com, it will not let us mail them to us here in the USA. I want to avoid the higher rates using raileurope.com. Is there anyway to have them mailed to us? Time is of the essence!
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
8700 posts
When you go to tgv-europe.com pick Great Britain as your country of residence to avoid being bumped to the US Rail Europe site. Then choose to stick with tgv-europe rather than being redirected to the UK Rail Europe site. Choose France as your ticket collection country. If you are allowed to print your own tickets, do so. If that isn't an option, choose to pick them up at any SNCF station in France. Be sure to present the credit card you used to book the tickets.
Posted by
Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23626 posts
The exact same question is running under Transportation with answers. I guess Ray and Jeanie don't speak to each other.
Posted by
Pacific NW, USA
331 posts
Certainly didn't mean to offend anyone. Seats are filling up and we just didn't have quite the answer we needed. Answers like the above are a little unnerving. Our apologies.
Posted by
Denver, CO
796 posts
Jeanine - don't worry, you didn't offend anyone!!! Booking train tickets online can be nerve wracking, so it's a good thing to ask for help. I hope everything works out!
Posted by
Pacific Northwest
2679 posts
So I just did this kind of purchase tonight and was successful. Price for my Colmar to Paris route was 65US plus the seat reservation on RailEurope but 32US including the seat reservation on the TGV site. I went in under UK, chose the EPrint option and made my purchase. The only glitch was that, despite calling Capital One to get the purchase cleared, that credit card was rejected three times. I moved to an Amex platinum (only Amex with no foreign transaction fee, I think) and that sale went through no problem.
Posted by
Knoxville, TN, USA
7209 posts
Capital One Rant - I've had mine for years and after MANY phone conversations I have finally figured out that C1 does NOT reject my charges if I do NOT call them ahead of time. They DO reject my charges if I DO call them ahead of time. Yes, sounds bassackwards to me, too. The only other option I've found w/ C1 is to log on to your C1 account and tell them you're traveling out of the country (like Italy if you want to buy Italian train tickets). THEN attempt to buy your tickets while C1 thinks you're actually in Italy. I try to use C1 to avoid foreign transaction fees and to earn cashback. But you really have to "work" at it, they don't make it easy.
Posted by
victoria, Canada
11507 posts
I think Rays issue is he wants the tickets mailed to him, not pick up option. Ray I just use the pick up option, you simply print out your confirmation and pick tickets up ,, its nice because you don't have to worry about losing the tickets and if you lose the confirmation you can just reprint it!
Posted by
Texan in CA
4415 posts
Since I forgot to mention this on Jeanine's thread, DO choose Great Britain as your country; it's OK to do this, and it just keeps you from being kicked over to Rail Europe. Also, when it asks you if you want to "book your ticket in pounds sterling at Rail Europe.co.uk", click instead on "continue on to tgv-europe and book in euro". (Larry may have already mentioned that on one of your threads!). Rail Europe is just a (inferior) subsidiary of tgv-europe. You can pick up your tickets there from an agent (NOT a ticket kiosk!), or sometimes print them at home.