Help with Renfe tickets

Try loco2.com, has the same tickets as Renfe site but a snap to use and no extra fee, recommended both here and Man in seat 61 (seat61.com).

Odd thing. If I enter one ticket, the price is 46.50 Euros. When I change it to 4 tickets, the price comes to 69 euros each.

Renfe changes to mostly English if you click on the word "Welcome" in English. But I don't think there's any way to prevent some Spanish seeping into the process. Paying with PayPal is a good way around the issue of credit card approval, if you don't have Verified by Visa, MasterCard SecureCode, or maybe AmEx.

P.S. You new post above indicates to me that there are only one or two seats left at the lower price. Some shopping carts can't mix different rates and will charge the lowest rate that they can fill for the whole group.

Try booking two and two, to see if you can get the lower price for the first pair of tickets.

For booking on the Renfe site (which is indeed hard to use), I was eventually able to do it without difficulty, once I used Paypal and the directions from this TripAdvisor tutorial: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g187514-c80518/Madrid:Spain:Buying.Renfe.Tickets.Online.html

https://www.trainline.eu/ is also an easy-to-use alternative for booking Spanish rail. As can be expected, www.seat61.com discusses the Spanish situation in detail.

Trainline and Loco2 website still showing higher price than Renfe. Trainline replied to my email about the difference in price, saying it should be the same and that they would research why it was not. Actually told me to purchase from the cheaper site.

So, I tackled the Renfe site and used the suggestions from Laura and a couple of others, and purchased the tickets with Paypal.

Thanks for all the help.