Quoting Joachim Breitner (nome...@debian.org):
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to book the night train Paris → Madrid via
> http://www.tgv-europe.de/ (or http://www.voyages-sncf.com/, same
> results, just in a different language). I can enter the travel dates
> (leaving 7-15, returing 7-31), select my price class for the train going
> there, then select my price class for the return train, and then I get
> ?technical problems“. Am I the only one with such experiences? Maybe
No. I had the exact same one.
Actually, depending on the date you're trying, you probably get a
first offer for the trip *to* Madrid with EUR88 as "Prem's"
fare...which you certainly choose ("Prem's" is a not exchangeable, not
refundable fare....in general very interesting when booked early on
french trains).
Then you choose the return for 31st...you get an offer for the same
Prem's fare (EUR88 again), and then you get the failure.
However, if, in this last step, you choose the "other" fare (regular
one, much more expensive), then you can proceed.
My guess is that there is no Prem's fare left for July 31st and this
is badly detected by the crappy voyages-sncf.com web site (well known
among French users to be a big piece of shit). There are indeed
probably *very few* slots for low prices and all of them have already
been booked.
As a consequence, the only thing I have been able to "book", finally,
is a whole trip costing about EUR260, which I didn't book, being about
2.5 times the prices for a Paris-Madrid flight on Iberia (less than EUR100!).
That sucks a lot and that deeply hurts my train lover feelings but
that's way too high a price, I'm afraid.
So, I'll fly to Madrid, finally and will need to compensate the
awfully high carbon impact this has. Bleh.
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