In the Paris forum, there is a question by %26#39;vernongirl%26#39; about how to order tickets for a TGV train using the SNCF website. KDKSAIL gave a fairly detailed step-by-step for how to do this. It helped me to understand the SNCF.
TGVs are the high speed trains. You take one from Paris to almost anywhere else in France.
This website is where you would find the timetables for Paris-Rennes and back again, for example. It helps if you are not intimidated by the French language but there is a way to view it in English, I think....
Raileurope also has the same information but not the same pricing structure. (SNCF is cheaper because it offers an array of prices and times). Raileurope adds shipping and handling because they must mail you the tickets. With SNCF, you pick up your tickets in Paris at the SNCF office in any station.
Better to read KDKSAIL%26#39;s explanation!
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You also might want to take a look at the very long step by step I typed up for you kathy on that very same thread:
tripadvisor.com/…2695220
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Hmm didnt work. This works though:
http://tinyurl.com/d9olk
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Thanks, Morganb. Sorry I got you mixed up with Kdksail!
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Oh lol, no problem. KDKSAILS gives some great info also so good to look at both anyway.
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Is there an SNCF office at every train station in Paris? I am particularly wondering about Gard de Lyon or Bercy. I have ordered tickets over the internet (the sncf website) for the night train from Bercy station to Florence, Italy. They do not deliver the tickets to North America. The only option is to pick them up in France. They specify that one must pick them up at an SNCF ticket office, but I can find nothing to tell me where these offices are.
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To Rejser
Yes, you have Sncf ticket booth (manned) and offices in any railway station (well, not in all tiny villages) and also %26#39;Boutiques Sncf%26#39; all over the town in Paris (you can pick pre-booked tickets there too)
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Don%26#39;t forget you will need to have with you BOTH the confirmation number and the SAME credit card you used when reserving your tickets online.
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Many many thanks for your PROMPT(!) help! I do appreciate it.
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