Glad to have helped. It can sometimes be a bit of a maze, but there are plenty of knowledgable people on here who can help if you get stuck. Do ask again if you need help with anything else. The advice to reserve early is usually good advice, but it shouldn’t have you waking up in the middle of the night worrying! Thanks againI do my best thinking in the early morning when it is quiet and no interruptions.In this case, all I could do is think about what options I had that would give me the most time to come up with an alternate plan in case I could not get Seat Reservations at Paris St Lazare.Having to wait until I only had a few minutes to board the train, before I could even know if I could get on the train, was not a happy thought when so much depended on this 2 hour train ride ;-)Again, a big thanks to everyone for their help and a very big THANK YOU to raileurope.com for making online reservations for Paris St Lazare possible,Hope everyone has a great week, mine is now looking mu
Thank you so very much BrendanDB and ralderton and everyone else that has helped. This is such wonderful news for me.The past couple weeks I have been waking up 02:00-02:30 and running options through my head trying to figure out how best to get to France to use a SNCF Ticket Machine to make the Seat Reservations as early as possible or how to get from France to Caen before Car Rental Business closed.This morning, Starting at 03:20 I started checking times, dates and reservation prices and everything adds up.On raileurope Mannheim to Paris can be reserved well into May and St Lazare to Caen can be reserved up to 22 Mar as of this morning, By my calculations, I can book and reserve Mannheim to Caen starting 10 Mar 2024. I cannot tell you all what a relief this is for me.Checked Seat Reservation prices for 22 MarMannheim to Paris Est = USD $20.50Paris St Lazare to Caen = USD $2.00Mannheim to Caen = USD $22.00 Thank you so very much to all of you for your help
I just checked raileurope.com for March and also for January 23 and they both look the same.It shows US$22.00 for the Seat Reservation. Is this US$22.00 for both Reservations or only the Mannheim Hbf to Paris Est leg of the trip? Thanks again for your help.
Thank you so very much, ralderton, thibcabe and rvbborgt, I am feeling much better about this, except for the Ascension and Whitsun. I’m leaving Caen on Friday 10 May and apparently starts on the 9th, but if I can get the Seat Reservation St Lazare to Caen and from Caen back to St Lazare by the end of this week, it will be a tremendous weight off my shoulders. Reservations for France can be done on www.raileurope.com (no additional booking fees), including the TER with mandatory reservations (such as Paris-Caen) and the ICE/TGVs from Germany to France (reservations also mandatory). This eases my mind tremendously. All that I have found the past couple weeks is that I could only buy the Seat Reservations in person at SNCF Machines located in France. I am amazed that this is such a well kept secret.Booking Reservations up to 22 May will work perfectly for me, so on 24 January I will start making my Seat Reservations and Trains.I am so happy. The idea of having to wait until just minutes
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