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I went on the Malaga to Barcelona AVE last year, it was brilliant, It did not go into Madrid at all, but it cost me a lot more than that (140euros). Most current journeys seem to be around the 140 for touristica. How do you find them for less than 100, certainly not on the RENFE web site.
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I went on the Malaga to Barcelona AVE last year, it was brilliant, It did not go into Madrid at all, but it cost me a lot more than that (140euros). Most current journeys seem to be around the 140 for touristica. How do you find them for less than 100, certainly not on the RENFE web site.
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https://venta.renfe.com/vol/index.do...oma=en&pais=UK
Put in a return journey dated a month or so in advance. I used 24/9 out 1/10 return.
You could of course buy the €258.10 each way business class
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Were there many other passengers? I only ask because 5 and a half hours is a long time for a journey. I know with a flight you have to factor in getting to the airport, check-in times and the rest, but even so I would still think many people going all that distance would prefer a 1 hour flight.
But as it would be a holiday what is wrong with admiring the countryside, stretching your legs and traveling in relative comfort?
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Good point. There are any number of small niggles that make flying (especially with the cheap flight operators) full of stress and anxiety. Will they charge £35 to print my ticket if I mislay it? Will they charge £5 per person per flight for "card charges" Will they stop me taking food/water onto plane so we have to buy their overpriced offerings? Etc etc. Of course the rail service is trying to adopt the flight method, so we'll probably see some of this rubbish creep in there.
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Good point. There are any number of small niggles that make flying (especially with the cheap flight operators) full of stress and anxiety. Will they charge £35 to print my ticket if I mislay it? Will they charge £5 per person per flight for "card charges" Will they stop me taking food/water onto plane so we have to buy their overpriced offerings? Etc etc. Of course the rail service is trying to adopt the flight method, so we'll probably see some of this rubbish creep in there.
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I understand that if you go Preferente from Malaga they give you 48hrs free parking at the train station.
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Someone has kindly filmed various sections of the Barcelona to Malaga journey. They claim it's the longest route of high speed rail in the world.
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Go to:-
https://venta.renfe.com/vol/index.do...oma=en&pais=UK
Put in a return journey dated a month or so in advance. I used 24/9 out 1/10 return.
You could of course buy the €258.10 each way business class
https://venta.renfe.com/vol/index.do...oma=en&pais=UK
Put in a return journey dated a month or so in advance. I used 24/9 out 1/10 return.
You could of course buy the €258.10 each way business class
The one we used was from Puente genil - Herrera to Barrcelona: we actually missed it as the taxi turned up too late ( he forgot the booking) so Renfe transferred us ( 3 adults) onto the next days train for 100euros ( total) Next morning taxi driver turned up bright and early got us to station in plenty of time gave me 100euros and did not charge us for the journey!
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