I have never purchased on-line train tickets before and am little nervous. Here is my plan, any suggestions? Obvious errors to seasoned train travelers? Family of 4 Bayeux, France to Nantes, France one-way the rail europe site won't even list options. I went to the TGV site and found the schedule only 49E person which seems very reasonable. My biggest concern is how do I pick up these tickets. Since I had to put in Country of origin as Great Britain I'm in the US. Traveling on July 10. Thank you so much! I appreciate any advise
Denise
Posted by
Texan in CA
4415 posts
First of all, that is the standard, walk-up rate; you could simply buy these when you arrive in France for the same price (the Bayeux station is tiny and not busy!). But if you want them taken care of now, if you follow the ticket-purchasing procedure it will ask you if you want to A) Collect from a ticket machine (it says you can't w/o a chip-and-PIN cc), b) Delivery free by post (wouldn't deliver to USA when I've made online purchases), or c) Retrieval in a French station. Choose 'C'. Your MUST give them your Credit card used in the purchase, even if it's expired or cancelled (don't lose it in the meantime!), and give them the PIN from your reservation (print off your ticket info and simply hand it over with your credit card to the ticket booth attendant). Easy-peasy.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
A small addition to Eileen's excellent reply. If you're not seeing the option to pick up in a French station (which, as she says, is the only one you should choose): 1. Make sure you're only trying to buy one ticket at a time. For instance, if you buy both Bayeux to Nantes and Nantes to Paris, leaving both in the shopping cart before you check out, you may not see the correct pick up option.
2. Choose Great Britain as your country, but choose France as your ticket collection country.