Ryanair Cancels Third Party Flight Bookings

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:
I agree, the costs do not stack up against air travel at the moment.

It's a shame, probably if oil carries on being expensive the comparative cost will drop though. It's certainly basically pretty quick, from Lausanne to Paris takes no time at all and it's not so bad on London.

London to Lausanne is not so hot on timings though. AFAICS with an early start in the UK, there is only 1 train to be caught in Paris, and that gets into Lausanne before 5pm. For me, 1 more train, and then the last bus up the valley (or spend the night in Sierre if any connections fail).

Lausanne to London seems to have better service times :?:

Snip snip... calm down please... the discussion has drifted a bit but perfectly valid; move along, nothing to see here. Chill people.

Yes Admin, sorry Admin. We promise to play nicely FNO really :twisted:

bandit wrote:

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:
I agree, the costs do not stack up against air travel at the moment.

It's a shame, probably if oil carries on being expensive the comparative cost will drop though. It's certainly basically pretty quick, from Lausanne to Paris takes no time at all and it's not so bad on London.

London to Lausanne is not so hot on timings though. AFAICS with an early start in the UK, there is only 1 train to be caught in Paris, and that gets into Lausanne before 5pm. For me, 1 more train, and then the last bus up the valley (or spend the night in Sierre if any connections fail).

Lausanne to London seems to have better service times :?:

You can also go via Neuchâtel which is a quick and regular service, from there it's easy to get to Lausanne or Bern if you were going to the Jungfrau etc.

It's sad but if Eurostar were a full part of the SNCF network you can bet it would be a better and cheaper service, the partial opt-out the UK has from the Schengen accords makes it harder than it should be as well. Moving from Switzerland into Austria on the train is a breeze, despite not being in the EU Switzerland is party to the useful bits of Schengen. It's unfortunate for me that SNCF don't give me a discount with my rail pass like Austria and Germany do as well :(

I have no experience of Swiss rail travel, but I can say that OBB (Austrian) is a joy to use. It puts all the British services to shame, with punctuality, cleanliness and evrything else you care to mention.

skidaddle wrote:I have no experience of Swiss rail travel, but I can say that OBB (Austrian) is a joy to use. It puts all the British services to shame, with punctuality, cleanliness and evrything else you care to mention.

actually I'll stick up for British trains surprisingly maybe ) I took a trip a few weeks back from Derby to Llandudno Junction and back and it was excellent. £34.50 each way and £6 to upgrade to first class for the outbound journey, the trains were punctual, clean and comfortable and the 1st class was worth every penny, free drinks and newspapers all the way.

What was poor was the booking process and the stations and the utter stupidity of their information, for example, stood on a platform you hear "the 1st class accommodation is at the rear of the train" which is useless unless you know what direction the train will arrive from and ironically turned out to be wrong anyway. Here, the platform is labelled A/B/C etc which is a small but useful thing.

I'll be doing the same journey again without hesitation.

skidaddle wrote:I have no experience of Swiss rail travel, but I can say that OBB (Austrian) is a joy to use. It puts all the British services to shame, with punctuality, cleanliness and evrything else you care to mention.

I totally agree with you skidaddle,I`ve travelled lots with OBB and have alway`s got a first class service.I never travel on british public transport unless there`s no alternative,Overcrowded,Overpriced and down right dirty.


AJ Adele

AJ wrote:Overcrowded,Overpriced and down right dirty.


AJ Adele

Spot on with that assessment. Even the East Coast Mainline from Kings X suffers with chronic overcrowding and unreliable services, and thats despite a major overhaul and facelift. Massively overpriced too.

I travelled from Stansted back home after a recent holiday, purchased the ticket in advance online for the specific service, and the inspector threatened to chuck me off and call the police unless I paid an upgrade, because the ticket I had been provided with for that specific service was actually not valid on it. Can you believe that???