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| ▲ | ghaff 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It depends hugely on when you book--both time in advance and time of year--as well as any sales going on. Which can vary a TON in Europe as well. I almost always take trains within Europe but they're no bargain. |
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| ▲ | saalweachter 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Re: when you book, for the East Coast trains time of day matters greatly. If you book a train from NYC to Philadelphia on Dec 9, there are four trains leaving before 6am with coach tickets for $10. NYC to Boston has similar early morning prices. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right. I'm not going to NYC for now but I saw the end-of-year sale in my inbox recently. Pricing varies a lot. (And I usually don't book Acela on my own dime absent a bargain; the transit time isn't much different from the regional.) |
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| ▲ | ericmay 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| We were talking about the websites, and the OP was saying it’s the “worst example”. Cost and experience weren’t being discussed. |
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| ▲ | dijit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, I meant I had a bad experience with the website, as in, it didn't work at all and I had to go to a service counter. They acted like I was committing a crime at the service desk too tbh. I’m not sure how they are in business. | | |
| ▲ | ericmay 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yea and in France when the only train for the day broke down I couldn’t get a refund because “you might come back to France one day”. Sorry, as an American Amtrack’s website isn’t even in my top 5 of worst train websites. | | |
| ▲ | dijit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | not getting a refund is a lot different than not even getting a ticket imo. Fair point about refunds for delays in general, its so awful I normally don’t do it. Not with trains, busses nor airlines. |
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