Book the cheapest iDTGV train online for your Christmas in France
Where would you plan for your Christmas and winter Holiday? If you are planning for a white Christmas to France, now you can start booking your train tickets to travel in and around Paris for as low as €19! The new line of train service from SNCF, iDTGV has just started to accept booking online from 28th September, 2011 until March, 2012. This new iDTGV train service routes cover all major cities in France including Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice and others. For only €19, iDTGV is perhaps the cheapest train available now to travel around France, especially for route between Paris and Nice, or Paris to Bordeaux, which would cost you at least €22 even if you book in advance with normal TGV train. Moreover, iDTGV is a new train service with new carriage design and facilities provided onboard.
What this new iDTGV is all about? According to their website, iDTGV, a subsidiary of the SNCF, with its own booking system, its own customer service department and its own dedicated offers, provide a totally different way of traveling especially for travelers. The advantages of this new train include:
- Plan and prepare your travel in and around France quickly and easily with its 100% online booking service. You don’t have to check and browse for the cheapest route from one city to another. The price is from €19 (€15 for night train) throughout the 6 months period for any route to any destinations in France.
- An advantage to non-EU travelers, there would be no more waiting in queues, to collect your booked tickets from the station, or wait anxiously for your tickets to be delivered to your country of residence. With iDTGV, travelers from around the world can buy your ticket online and print it out at home!
- Book to experience either one of the 3 environment provided. Carriages are grouped into 3 zones, iDZen for quiet environment mainly to relax, iDZap for travelers who love to have fun on travel and able to talk, laugh loudly, and iDNight is sleeping coach.
- Peace of mind when you travel! Once you have scanned your ticket using the optical reader on boarding the train, you’ll not have any more ticket checks during your journey. No inspections at your seat or when you move around the train.
- Discover new onboard services. You can choose from a range of original tastes, gourmet products and a variety of menu choices and options from the bar onboard. Sample the new catering menu at a light price at the Bar, or directly in your iDZAP carriage thanks to our mobile sales staff.
The most valuable routes to take this iDTGV trains are either between Paris and Nice (5 Hrs journey), or Paris and Bordeaux (3 Hrs journey), which cost you much more if by other train services. However, the booking system is similar to other SNCF trains where the fares would increase according to demand and availability. So you still have to book as early as possible. For peak season and hot destinations, the ticket price can go up to as high as €73!
If you wish to spend your Winter in and around Paris, start planning your itinerary and book your iDTGV trains now to benefit from its extra low fares on transportation! 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel guide to Europe
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