Travel date is August 20th 2012. One way tickets for 3 people from Gare de Lyon to Dijon. I want to purchase tickets 90 days in advance to save money. I understand to avoid Rail Europe. If I purchase tickets in advance and do not use USA as my address, where are the tickets held? How do I receive them? Thank you
Pat Riley
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Atlanta, GA, USA
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You can a print at home option on the TGV website. That said... While I realize that EVERYONE says "Avoid Rail Europe" it's another case where "one size advice is generally wrong" What I do is check EVERYWHERE adding in all "fees" and conversion rates etc.... Then I buy whichever is cheaper. Last time I bought a Eurostar ticket, Rail Europe was about $5 cheaper then any other option....
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Used to be Steilacoom, now it’s Las Vegas
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The tickets are in their system (sncf)and when you take your comfirmation and credit card that you used, they issue you the tix at either any station or one of their boutique locations. We picked ours up a day or two ahead so we weren't worried about the line at departure time. When we booked last summer we couldn't figure out why we couldn't get our reservation to go through. At that time they (sncf) would only allow you to charge 150 euros on a foreign credit card at a time. We had to break our reservations into pieces to get them to go through. So, if you get an error message, that could be why. When we made the first reservations, we made sure to note the seat & car assignment (voiture) and then selected the "choiser ma place" for the other reservations so we ended up in the same car. I hope this doesn't sound too complicated because it really was pretty easy.