par train
Apr 14th 2008, 7:49 am
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par train
Wondered if anyone had made the journey from St. Pancreas, London to Bordeaux by TGV lately and how they managed to get from Gare du Nord to Gare de Montparnasse. Is it easy and/or very expensive.
Thanks a lot, love reading the blurb.
Thanks a lot, love reading the blurb.
Apr 14th 2008, 8:13 am
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Re: par train
Hi there
This is my first attempt at replying to a post, so here goes.
There's a direct métro from the Gare du Nord to Gare Montparnasse, the No. 4 line from Porte de Clignancourt to Porte d'Orléans. Buy a carnet de 10 tickets (just over 10 €, but a Parisian would know exactly), much cheaper than single tickets and you can use the rest whenever you pass through Paris in the future.
Can't tell you the price of TGV tickets to Bordeaux. It depends on the date, time of day, how far ahead you book and whether you've got an SNCF Reduction Card. To give an example, a single ticket from Montpellier to Paris, booked two months beforehand, with a 50% Reduction, costs a bit less than 50 €.
Hope I've been of some help.
Bon Voyage!
This is my first attempt at replying to a post, so here goes.
There's a direct métro from the Gare du Nord to Gare Montparnasse, the No. 4 line from Porte de Clignancourt to Porte d'Orléans. Buy a carnet de 10 tickets (just over 10 €, but a Parisian would know exactly), much cheaper than single tickets and you can use the rest whenever you pass through Paris in the future.
Can't tell you the price of TGV tickets to Bordeaux. It depends on the date, time of day, how far ahead you book and whether you've got an SNCF Reduction Card. To give an example, a single ticket from Montpellier to Paris, booked two months beforehand, with a 50% Reduction, costs a bit less than 50 €.
Hope I've been of some help.
Bon Voyage!
Apr 20th 2008, 10:51 pm
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Re: par train
It's worth logging onto the SNCF site, part of which is in English which will give you the costs and times of travelling to Bordeaux. Thiviers, near where I live is on the Limoges:Bordeaux line. I can get a train to Paris at 8 a.m. to arrive at 11.45a.m. then travel back again either the same day or later. Return cost last time (with my senior ticket) for the four hour journey and return was around 45€. Excellent value and comfort.
Apr 21st 2008, 1:52 pm
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Re: par train
thank you Brenda. That sounds a good idea because from Yorkshire it's fairly easy to get to Paris by air, but messy to get from yorkshire to London, change stations, get to Paris, get across Paris to get the train to Bordeaux. Do you change stations in Paris to travel on to UK. I understand you can also travel via Lille to Bordeaux and only have to change platforms, not across the city. The budget airlines keep changing schedules and destinations and the ferry seems to shut down for the duration. So near, but so far! Various governments have promised the Yorkshire would get a good link for eurotunnel etc. but it never materialised.
Apr 21st 2008, 2:01 pm
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Re: par train
thank you Brenda. That sounds a good idea because from Yorkshire it's fairly easy to get to Paris by air, but messy to get from yorkshire to London, change stations, get to Paris, get across Paris to get the train to Bordeaux. Do you change stations in Paris to travel on to UK. I understand you can also travel via Lille to Bordeaux and only have to change platforms, not across the city. The budget airlines keep changing schedules and destinations and the ferry seems to shut down for the duration. So near, but so far! Various governments have promised the Yorkshire would get a good link for eurotunnel etc. but it never materialised.
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Apr 23rd 2008, 7:34 pm
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Re: par train
thank you Brenda. That sounds a good idea because from Yorkshire it's fairly easy to get to Paris by air, but messy to get from yorkshire to London, change stations, get to Paris, get across Paris to get the train to Bordeaux. Do you change stations in Paris to travel on to UK. I understand you can also travel via Lille to Bordeaux and only have to change platforms, not across the city. The budget airlines keep changing schedules and destinations and the ferry seems to shut down for the duration. So near, but so far! Various governments have promised the Yorkshire would get a good link for eurotunnel etc. but it never materialised.
