Thanks for all the help and answers. Deutsche Bahn seems to be only option for many European countries that are supporting only the official Visa standard. if you have a normal Visa card capable of only standard Visa-payments, the SNCF service will fail in the end. It would be possible to use their internet service, if you don’t have Interrail ticket. Their internet service supports standard Visa cards, but then again, it does not support interrail. After having a lengthy discussions with their service, I got very clear impression they don’t want to give service to Interrail customers. I got nice and understanding help until I said that there was no option to use their internet service cause I had the Interrail ticket. Then they said I should just pay for the full ticket price in their internet service and in practice the discussion ended there. But yes if you have Interrail ticket the buying is possible in SNCF international service number. But.. The problem is that after you have don
I tried today again with the SNCF. I complained about the rule Finnish cards are not accepted and they let me in to the payment service. Surprise, it seems to be true. The payment service didn’t work with Finnish Visa card. So this limitation was programmed in to their system. + Now the system also blocked me to try to pay my reservation with any other means for 24 hours.I have used this card every day without any problems. In fact this is probably the first time in my life I had any problems with Visa payments in any countries including Laos etc. you name it.
I searched around here a lot and called few places. sncf international phone servioce (found in the posts) worked fine on phone and everything was great until they told that they can not accept visa payments from but only few countries in Europe. Reading your thread includes for example information: “The b-europe website mentioned above will only book domestic trains in France.” I hope this is not true and they accept visa payments from nordic countries too. But as said thank you for the kind information 🙂
Thank you with your kind and quick answers. 😌I will try b-europe tomorrow and update the thread if and how it worked.It may help others too.
Same problem. Not possible to buy 50% discount tickets but online and the online shop gives HTTP error 503. Railway stations open too late in Finland to purchase one from there.
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