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How can I take this train? It hasn't seats on the öbb website. Should I just ask at the counter in Bucuresti?

 

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Pass reservations can only be booked at a Romanian ticket office.

There are no seats to Istanbul/Halkali. Bucharest-Halkali is only 1 couchette carriage.

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Pass reservations can only be booked at a Romanian ticket office.

There are no seats to Istanbul/Halkali. Bucharest-Halkali is only 1 couchette carriage.


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rvdborgt wrote:

Pass reservations can only be booked at a Romanian ticket office.

There are no seats to Istanbul/Halkali. Bucharest-Halkali is only 1 couchette carriage.

That means at the ticket counter at Bucuresti Nord?
Is there enough space to reserve a couchette?
How much does a couchette cost?


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gilitravel wrote:
rvdborgt wrote:

Pass reservations can only be booked at a Romanian ticket office.

There are no seats to Istanbul/Halkali. Bucharest-Halkali is only 1 couchette carriage.

That means at the ticket counter at Bucuresti Nord?

Any ticket office in Romania that can do international reservations:

https://www1.cfrcalatori.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Statii-agentii-05.04.2016.pdf

The best is to try at the first Romanian ticket office you get to.

gilitravel wrote:

Is there enough space to reserve a couchette?
How much does a couchette cost?

€14 (or the equivalent in RON)


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I just saw that this reservation can be booked via Deutsche Bahn this year after all:

https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?030,10508340,10508479#msg-10508479

It does look like you'll need an experienced staff member to book it.