I’ve been watching prices from Meran in Italy to Lindau in Germany for awhile for a specific date. The price has been around 50 or 60 euros of late, but was down to 28 yesterday, which I scooped up immediately for two tickets. Today it’s back up to its usual price. This was through the Austrian ÖBB site.
Then Budapest to Vienna I saw prices of 51 euros on the ÖBB and for the same train 13 euros on the Hungarian MÁV site. I know there can be different prices, but that’s a huge difference. The 51 euros price is full price, not the sparscheine option. But later in the day the sparscheine tickets are still in the 19 to 28 euro range.
Posted by
Wengen
2488 posts
That is odd, as train prices do not really fluctuate. But what is possible is that someone started a booking, and then did not finish it, and thus the tickets returned to the inventory.
Also on some routes both participating companies manage their ticket buckets separately, so that can indeed lead to lower prices on one site versus another for he exact same train...
Posted by
OP
Greater Sacramento
604 posts
Yeah, I’ll be curious to see the Budapest to Vienna price when or if the OBB has some sparscheine offers for the train in question.
Posted by
Magyarország / Rep of Texas
20164 posts
Book through MAV cause you are leaving from Hungary and the local agents will help if there is a problem.