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• Milan to Lake Cuomo train

  Milano Centrale to Varenna is a regional train so you can buy the tickets anytime (no advantage buying early). You could buy these online from thetrainline.com, trenitalia.com or raileurope.com or the phone apps for any of these, if you want to save time at the station. Source: 10 months ago

• Beginner planning trip from Barcelona to Rome

  Yes, the fast train is about $98 on thetrainline.com but your suggested route is about half of that! thanks! One question though: Barcelona-Cerbere you said to buy at the station . . . Is that on the regular automatic ticket machines? Can I book ahead online? Where do I check the time tables for those trains? Source: 10 months ago

• What's the schedule 25th of june in The National Bowl?

  My advice is to go into the ticket office in a station before you head to MK for the gig and get a member of staff to book everything for you. Alternatively if you want to do it yourself, book it on thetrainline.com or nationalrail.co.uk, book one of the faster (Avanti West Coast) services, and make sure it's not an Advance ticket, so you can get any train that night. Source: 10 months ago

• Travelling to Muse concert in Huddersfield from Manchester and back question

  Looks like there are a few trains back to Manchester. You might have to suffer a rail replacement bus depending on what time you can get to the station but that’s better than no option at all I suppose. Not sure where you’re flying from, if you’re familiar with uk trains, but you can check times at https://thetrainline.com. Source: 10 months ago

• Train question

  Bahn.de, thetrainline.com (a UK website), and rome2rio.com all say there are no tickets available - at least from Hamburg to Schleswig. Does this sound plausible? It seems odd that they'd all be booked up on a Wednesday - or is it a national / school holiday or something? Source: 11 months ago

• Can you get on a train to London at Stockport if the ticket is from Piccadilly?

  Book in advance on a site such as http://thetrainline.com. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you find a cheap flight ticket using transits? Like if you want to go to Berlin, sometimes it’s cheaper to buy ticket to somewhere else which has Berlin as a transit. But I don’t know which website does this

  I just looked up a trip from Geneva to Berlin on thetrainline.com . It was 130 CHF (assuming no 1/2 tarif or any German discounts). It's really not that expensive. It's just a matter of priorities. So to answer your question: what would my option be? Take the train! Source: about 1 year ago

• Best way to book a train from Paris to Amsterdam

  If you should have problems with your card etc. You can also use thetrainline.com which comes with a small extra fee. Source: about 1 year ago

• will be visiting manchester and the uk in general for the first time in june for about 4 days - what to know / avoid?

  If you want to travel by train, it can be much cheaper to book in advance (thetrainline.com ) and watch out for days when there are strikes. Source: about 1 year ago

• What’s the official site to buy train tickets from?

  No. You can buy tickets from train companies, including for journeys operated by other train companies, or third parties (thetrainline.com is the market leader). There is no single place to buy them. Source: about 1 year ago

• Bus app

  Train tickets can be bought from train operators, for any route even if that operator doesn't operate it. There are also third parties that operate no trains, such as thetrainline.com. Source: over 1 year ago

• Most cost effective routes JFK > EU

  I think direct flights to Italy are often the cheapest option. You can fly to Milan MXP or Rome FCO and then take the train from there to reach your final destination. Speaking for MXP, there are at least 4-5 airlines with direct flights from JFK, so they keep it competitive. Then, you can take the train to Milano Centrale (13 euro, 50 minutes) and from there you can take bullet trains to major destinations... Source: over 1 year ago

• Moving from Japan to UK - bad idea for FIRE?

  Have a look at how you would get from where you might live to a prospective job, if using the train you can use https://thetrainline.com to look at ticket prices to get an idea. Source: over 1 year ago

• Train from Zurich to Grindelwald

  As usual use sbb.ch (SBB is the Switzerland's biggest Railway company and you can look up the schedule of and buy tickets of nearly any Swiss public transport company) You can also use thetrainline.com which in my opinion has a better user interface than SBB. Source: over 1 year ago

• Train Question

  When I check thetrainline.com, I can see all sorts of schedules but I wanted to book directly. Source: over 1 year ago

• Train Tickets

  Also thetrainline.com for both options in one place. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best way to use fast trains?

  This siteis excellent, and as you will see has a section specifically for travelling from Paris to Switzerland as well. The long and short of it is the direct trains from Paris go to Geneva, Lausanne, Basel and Zurich. To get to Bern you should change at Basel using thetrainline.com as you can book both the SNCF and SBB tickets at the same time. Source: over 1 year ago

• The Greens want to tax private jet flights: "A new populist idea", says the MR (French-speaking liberal party)

  There is some planning involved, but if you are doing the same by plane or car, it's very similar. I found thetrainline.com and seat61.com very useful during the planning phase. Source: over 1 year ago

• Two week backpacking Europe trip with 1600-2000 USD per person in January

  Look up the price and duration of transports on thetrainline.com. Look on Lonely Planet. Source: over 1 year ago

• Which places are worth visiting in a day or two (except for Bratislava)?

  I don't mind travelling by train (buses are ok but trains are better, unless there are good deals). Currently I'm thinking about leaving from Prague to Bratislava by train (thetrainline.com doesn't seem to offer much choices, which other websites should I check? I tried with RegioJet and Czech Drahy but the English versions are somewhat unclear sometimes). Source: over 1 year ago

• Swiss Pass - Dumb question, how do you use it?

  So I'm looking at getting a Swiss Pass but I'm confused on how to use it. Example: I'm looking to get a train from Lucerne (Luzern) to Interlaken, which (I guess) should be covered by the Swiss Pass. But then I search for train tickets on thetrainline.com, I see nowhere to indicate you have a Swiss Pass when going to pay. Source: almost 2 years ago