tomatenfreak
Traveller
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi,
I wanted to make my seat reservation on the Interrail website (reservations.interrail.eu).
Now I ran into two problems:
1) I have a trip from Marseille to Barcelona. The website says, the reservation will cost €35 per Person. Is that price normal for the Renfe-SNCF coorperation? For me, this seems a bit overpriced when even a TGV reservation is "only" €20.
2) The Interrail trip planner and also the reservation tool do not find good trains after 17th September. On renfe.com I can find a direct train from Valencia to Sevilla which travels about 4 hours. The Interrail tools just show me trains with 3 or more changes and a travel time of more than 10 hours! Will these informations be updated soon and are there alternative tools to make my reservations?
Thanks in advance :)
Flo
Traveller
10723 comments
Yes thats the normal price. Trains on the international high speed line between France and Spain are expensive because the track has been built by a private public partnership and the private operator of the infrastructure is now charging a lot from train companies to operate trains on this line in order to get profit out of the investment.
You can buy RENFE reservations also via [ux] https://rail.shop/acp[/ux] however RENFE probably still has blocked reservations so you might Just wait until they become available online. You can also buy these reservations at train stations by the way.
Peter
Traveller
9331 comments
Hi.
Here the link to the train type you would use: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/tgv-france-espana/298[/u]
And two blogs of Flo I just add, as interesting to read...
The first one explaining how to travel for free between Barcelona and Marseille: [ux]https://rail.cc/blog/barcelona-marseille-nice-train/[/ux]
And the second one explaining the TGV trains with Interrail in France: [ux]https://rail.cc/blog/interrail-reservation-guide-tgv/[/ux]
Interesting as well: if you do not travel in a hurry, include the "Petit Train Jaune". Exit coming from Marseille at Perpignan and cross the Pyrenee mountains. See video and blog.
Pete :)