High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
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That is really cheap.
For anyone else that's curious about a comparison in the US, I looked up Amtrak from Atlanta to Washington DC, roughly the same length. $109 ticket and it lists just over 14 hours to travel. Based on what I've read it's practically guaranteed to take a good bit longer though.
So ~75% higher cost and at best ~75% longer travel time.
"Starting at" means if you book 3 months in advance and are lucky to get one of the rare discounted tickets. Normal price is probably the triple of that or so.
Not triple, more like double. Triple is only if you book it really on short notice.
Here are the prices for the next Mondays:
So if you can book at least 1 month in advance, you get much better prices.
I picked the cheapest ticket for the US trip. It's as fair a comparison I'm going to get without checking the trip to Berlin. Which I don't want to do, if it's even possible yet.
It’s a good start, though they’ll need more than one train a day. This isn’t Australia.
This is just an additional direct train. There are several such connections with a switch in Cologne or so daily.
And there's also the Munich-Paris line in the South
There are 11 viable trains that connect Berlin with Paris during the day, with up to 2 transfers. During the night, there's a sleeper train connecting the two cities 3 times a week
better than canada
Extremely low bar tbh