Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Trouble with Train Reservations - help!

I have been stumped on every website I%26#39;ve tried... My goal is to travel Paris Nord to Bruxelles-Midi in early June.





Started with the Belgian rail site -- got all the way to the pay page and the only delivery options were mail (but to Belgium / Luxembourg only) or Pick-Up (only at Belgian rail stations, which won%26#39;t really work since I%26#39;m starting in Paris).





Then I went to Thalys.com and got all the way to the delivery pages, selected the %26quot;pick up tickets%26quot; option -- except that the site said that the only supported magnetic stripe card was Diner%26#39;s, and the chip was expected for Visa/MC -- but of course in the states they haven%26#39;t issued the chip cards. Guess that means I could buy the tix but not be able to pick them up???





I%26#39;ve seen plenty of people on this forum say they were able to buy tickets in advance -- help me!





Thanks,





J




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Last week we picked up our tickets at the Gare de Lyon at a manned window that was labeled %26quot;for immediate departure%26quot; with a non-chip credit card. We had reserved through the SNCF site.



Not sure if this is helpful since we were traveling within the country, not out of it, but I would think the same process would work.



Good luck.




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