traintickets nice - montecarlo

where can i buy the traintickets? is it only possible at the machines?

how much does it cost?

thanks a lot!

andrea

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Machine is easiest as there are often long queues at the ticket office. Villefranche to Monte is 2.30. Nice will be a few cents more.

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Unless you hold a French Carte Bleu (unlikely but possible!) carry lots and lots of coins - the blue machines won%26#39;t take international credit cards or bank notes.

They are now even employing girls in SNCF red uniforms to %26quot;help%26quot; travellers queueing at the blue machines - tell them they are wasting their time if they havent got a CB or cash and to join the long queues at the desks..

Cheers

NiceLife

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ok, thanks for your answers. will try to get many coins..

andrea

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If you are ready to plan your trip %26amp; be inflexible you can book %26amp; print your train tickets on line - www.sncf.com. But it could be at the price of flexibility. You may decide you don%26#39;t want to go to that place on that day after all...

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SNCF tickets are valid for sixty days so you don%26#39;t need to use them on a specific date as long when you do travel you validate them passing through the barriers at thestation - funny little yellow machines time and date stamp.

Not tried buying on line - I%26#39;m not sure how much confidence i have in their web-commerce ability. If its anything like the way they run the railways......I think its better to buy the tickets when the station is less busy a day or more before travel.

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The blue machines that dispense the tickets for local travel are very easy to use for anyone with even the most basic French, something which I am sure applies to anyone from Switzerland.

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LondonBob - I get all smug over this as I hold a French Carte Blue against a French Euro Bank Account - so I breeze through ticket purchases at Nice Gare Ville. When it comes to me and the missus 2 returns to Ventimiglia 28 Euro - I feel sorry for the peeps that need to find 28 euro in coins - ridiculous.

I agree the machines are dead simple - with practice - but every time I%26#39;m in a queue I watch people fumbling along and then out comes the mastercard or visa card , and another aborted purchase. You want to get the graduates of the grande ecoles who populate the higher echelons of SNCF and basically give them a kick up the ...(continued on page three)

Cheers