Bonjour pour la première fois je demande à la communauté quelque chose alors soyez tollérant... merci
Alors je veux partir avec ma femme la dernière semaine d'aout de Moscou pour aller à Irkoustk faire des rando pendant 15 jours autours du lac baikal et reprendre le transsibérien vers Oulan Bator.
ma question est est ce que vous pensez que je peux acheter deux billets Moscou Irkoust en aout au guichet à Moscou? et pareil 2 billets à ikouskt pour oulan bator?
J ai lu que le train était pris d'assaut l' été mais vu le prix de tsarvoyage ( cité comme un bne agence peut cher) : 515 € en seconde par pers et 895 € en première et irkoustk oulan bator 140 en seconde classe....
merci
Le voyage forme la jeunesse et déforme les sac à dos!
en aout mieux reserver peut être... ou bien avoir de la patience si train plein attendre le suivant... mais aussi diviser le trajet moscou-irkoust si plein et ainsi avoir la chance de partir quand même en faisant une halte sur le trajet?
donc il y a des solutions!
en regardant les sites d'horaires des trains russes on doit pouvoir se rendre compte si plusieurs trains partent et si quotidiens ou pas et ainsi gérer ce trajet au mieux...
sur mes pages www.terramonoglia.com il y a des links pour les reservations/horaires des trains russes et vers la mongolie
a irkoust des votre arrivée aller réserver le train pour UB car oui en aout cela risque d'être plein... mais a savoir qu'il y a aussi des solutions dans un cas de ne pas trouver de places: train jusqu'à Ula Ude, puis bus sur la Mongolie jusqu'à UB sur mes pages il y a aussi de s infos pour cela et une agence fiable ou reserver le train ou train et bus.... contacter et voyez avec eux...
ensuite pour la Mongolie si vous a vez besoin d'infos pratiques, de contacts fiables, d'idées... on peut aider au besoin, on y est déjà aller 5 fois, la 6eme c'est le mois prochain...
bonnes recherches et bon voyage
un mongol nait sous la yourte et meurt à cheval (proverbe mongol)
Merci bien mais si les trains sont pleins, ils sont pleins! je veux dire que si on arrive et qu il n y a plus de place c'est cuit... mais n peut réservé en tant que personne privée?
Le voyage forme la jeunesse et déforme les sac à dos!
merci le probleme, si c'est un porblème ... nous voulons faire le trajet morcou oulan bator par irkoustk parce qu après on enchaine sur le népal : dailleurs conseilez moi si vous voulez sur le meilleur moyen d'aller d' oulan bator à katmandou, puis aller en asie du sud cambodge thailande, laos. pour revenir on va surmenet choisir un pays étape du trajet en avion ou passé quelques jours. le tout en 6 mois environ départ fin aout de Moscou.
La grande question est peut on toujours avoir des places dans les trains du transsibérien sans réservé et est ce qu on eut réservé depuis le net depuis la france le plus tot possible en étant sur d'avoir des places... sans payé des sommes astronomiques!
merci
Le voyage forme la jeunesse et déforme les sac à dos!
oui on peut certes! si il y a de la place on monte, si non on attend le prochain, voyage 1 jour sur 2 depuis moscou, mais une bonne idee est de faire aussi un moscou - irkoust là il y a plusieurs trains donc on ne perd pas de temps à attendre et le train emprunte la même voie!
voir ici
Pas de place dans le transiberien? Trop cher? Alors la solution locale s’impose! Prendra 2 à 3j de plus en moyenne que le transiberien (4-5j selon le sens) A Moscou prendre un billet pour Perm ou Yekatarinburg , Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyark, Irkoust, Ulan De, Ulan Bator; ainsi de ville en ville vous arriverez selon les départs arriver à votre destination. Savoir le russe est un plus pour achat billet dans les gares, autrement penser à un lexique et à vous faire traduire des phrases en russe pour pouvoir acheter plus facilement vos billets aux guichets (idem pour UB-Moscou) horaires : http://www.baikalcomplex.irk.ru/transSib.html
Si dates flexibles plus facile en période estivale de trouver des solutions.
Gares en Russie : guichets ouverts chacun à des horaires différents de celui de son voisin ! employés peu avenants et qui ne parlent que le russe.
Une solution : profiter des « servis tsentr » (centre de service) installés dans les gares principales du pays, on trouve personnel serviable qui parfois a des notions d’anglais et qui se chargeront de réserver le billet avec un supplément de 200 roubles environ (prix 2009)
Dans les grandes villes il est possible parfois d’acheter son billet dans des bureaux spéciaux et aussi dans quelques agences de voyage à l’extérieur de la gare.
Même si on vous affirme que le train est complet vous pouvez tenter votre chance directement à l’hôtesse du train en chef ( la provodnitsa ): lui annoncer votre destination en proposant d’abord le prix normal du billet pour la destination en question et la négociation montera progressivement et vous devriez , si il y a de la place, parvenir à un accord !
MOSCOU-IRKOUTSK : 88h. Les places de 1-36 correspondent aux couchettes pour 4 disposées comme dans un compartiment et de 37-54 correspondent aux couchettes pour 2 superposées le long du couloir. Dans les 2 cas les numéros impairs : couchette du bas. Seules les couchettes du bas dans les « compartiments » ont un coffre dessous. C’est pratique la nuit pour y laisser ses affaires. Sinon les bagages sont situés en hauteur. A 2 donc prendre une couchette en bas et une en haut entre 1 et 36. En platskart éviter 1 à 4, 33 à 38, 53+54 (extrémités du wagon, toilettes et samovar) Du 38 -52 : couchettes doubles : celles du bas se transforment en table durant la journée sont à éviter si possible surtout si vous êtes grand !
Eviter les places 37+38 car jouxtent les WC. Pour cette destination il y a des départs quasi quotidien, donc pas besoin de réserver même pour haute saison, ensuite à Irkoutsk vous pourrez prendre le train du soir pour UB sans devoir réserver en avance, ceci represente une bonne solution lorsque les vols sont pleins ainsi que le Transibérien ou que l'on ne veut ou peut pas réserver en avance, sans compter que cela revient moins cher que le Transibérien pour guèrre plus de temps pour le trajet!
BUS: Irkoust –Ulan De- UB et retour voir ici prix, horaires, destinations:www.uude.info , basé à Ulan De a des partenaires à Irkoust pour vous délivrer les billets à Irkoust.Irkoust – Ulan UDe - Irkoust: toutes les 2h de 7.30 a 21.00 en micro bus 15 places 700 roubles en 2012 Ulan UDe- UB- Ulan UDe: 12h de trajet ( départ 7.30 de Ulan De arrivée 21.00 à UB, 7.00 de UB et arrivee Ulan De 20.00) 1200 roubles (2012) formalités de douane 2hUlan Ude - Suhbatar : 750 rub (2012)Ulan Udé -Darkhan: 900 rub (2012)Ulan Udé - Altan Bulag:700 rub (2012)Kyakta - UB: 900 rub (2012)Guzinoozersk - UB: 1200 rub (2012)SOLUTION BUS ET TRAIN: Irkoust – UB et retour: selon train et categorie prix de 150$ à 450$(2012) trajet 36h (2 nuits) 6 h attente à la frontière. De Irkoust le train arrive à 6.00 à Ulan De et on peut prendre le bus de 7.30 pour UB à la gare de bus 15 minutes à pied. Les formalités de douane en train prenent 6h et en bus 2h.
IRKOUTSK/ULAN UDE : si on peut choisir côte fenetre dans la couchette à 4 , belle vue sur le lac que l’on longe.
on voit qu'il y a des solutions pour prendre ce fameux train...
depuis Ub on peut prendre un avion pour bangkok, pour le vietnam , voir pour les autres pays, des lignes s'ouvrent parfois que pour l'été ou bien en promotion pour faire decouvrir le monde aux mongols...
plus sur mes pages www.terramongolia.com
bon voyage
un mongol nait sous la yourte et meurt à cheval (proverbe mongol)
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I’d obviously like to see some tourist destinations, but I also want to get off the beaten path a bit, and I’m hoping to find some help here? I don’t plan to linger too long in the cities.
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I’ll be traveling to Japan this coming August. We’ve finalized our itinerary and booked our flight tickets. Now I’m at the stage of buying train tickets for the few segments we’ll need to cover:
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Hakone - Kyoto
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Osaka - Tokyo
Here are my questions:
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c) And if it is possible, will we be able to print our tickets from Canada?
d) If it’s not possible, where in Tokyo should I go to buy these tickets when I arrive?
Hi everyone, I wanted to take the Paris-Berlin overnight train with a sleeper berth, the new service operated by European Sleepers.
24/05/2026 17:45 Paris-Nord (actually 16:00 from Paris Bercy Seine) -> 25/05/2026 9:59 (actually 7:30 in Berlin)
05/06/2026 18:31 Berlin (actually 20:00) -> 06/06/2026 10:00 Paris Nord (actually 12:30)
Part of the journey was operated by bus instead of the promised overnight train.
For 2 people: 340 € round trip
A total disaster. Never again. I was really looking forward to taking the overnight train, but we faced last-minute changes and truly unpleasant travel conditions. Here are the details:
1) 2 days before departure: email announcing a change of departure station for the outbound trip—Bercy Seine bus station instead of Gare du Nord.
2) Change of schedule: 4:00 PM from Bercy instead of 5:45 PM from Gare du Nord.
3) Change of transport mode!! A bus from Paris to Brussels, then an overnight train from Brussels to Berlin. No functional toilets on the bus. No children under 4 allowed on the bus.
4) On the sleeper train at 9:30 PM: no functional toilets in our carriage, so we had to go to other carriages, even in the middle of the night, to find working ones.
5) The onboard staff, though very friendly, were as lost as we were. In particular, they didn’t know how to handle the lower berths, so people using them had less space (armrests and backrests). Berth numbers weren’t respected, so some passengers had to move. The staff also didn’t know who was supposed to join the compartment during the journey.
6) Arrival at 7:30 AM in Berlin instead of 10:00 AM. No arrival announcement. Passengers had to search for staff to get breakfast and ended up with just a coffee (breakfast = 15 €, not bad for just a coffee).
7) Return trip: drastic schedule change announced by email on 26/05/2026—departure at 7:30 PM instead of 6:30 PM, with arrival between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM in Paris instead of 10:00 AM. No change in transport mode announced.
8) Change in transport mode announced by email on the same day (05/06/2026)!! Overnight train from Brussels to Berlin, then a bus from Paris to Brussels. No functional toilets on the bus. Children under 4 banned from the bus, and families in this situation were asked to find another way—after being notified the same day.
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10) Woken up at 5:00 AM with an announcement in all carriages about arrival in Liège.
11) Woken up again at 6:00 AM to be told we’d arrive in Brussels at 7:00 AM.
12) Arrival in Brussels at 7:00 AM and a one-hour wait for the bus to Paris. No functional toilets on the bus.
13) Arrival at Paris Nord at 12:30 PM, so 2.5 hours late compared to the originally scheduled time.
14) The overnight trains used are very old—I recognized the carriages from 20 years ago!! No functional power outlets, no Wi-Fi, no air conditioning. Five people per compartment is a bit cramped, but I consider these conditions expected (especially the air conditioning), so I’m not complaining about that. There’s already plenty to gripe about with the travel conditions.
I have little hope of getting even a partial refund. Customer service emails acknowledge the discomfort but only offer to reimburse the cost of a coffee on board if we send them the receipt... a bit weak.
I’m sharing this experience in the hope it might help others.
Hi there,
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I’ve heard it only runs during certain periods.
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Thanks!
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We’re planning a 15-day trip to Uzbekistan in March—classic independent itinerary: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva. We’d like to take the train between each city, but I don’t want to lock down the whole trip before we leave.
So, my question is: is it absolutely necessary to book train tickets before departure, whether for the high-speed trains or the regional ones? Is booking really essential for the regional trains?
Hello,
We’re traveling as a family with two boys aged 10 and 12 to Cairo in February. During our trip, we’re planning to take an overnight train (with or without a sleeper) for the Cairo-Aswan route.
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Also, I’m looking for:
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Hi everyone,
I first traveled solo to Japan in 2019, exploring the Kyushu region (28 days), and I’m planning to return with my daughter (she’s an adult and it’ll be her first time in Asia) from April 25 to May 9.
I’m reaching out on this forum to ask for route ideas—this time north of Tokyo, but without heading to the Sapporo island (I’m saving that for a future trip).
I’d love to take advantage of the cherry blossom season and its festivities.
I’m looking to create a route that’s a little off the beaten path while staying within 5-6 hours by train from Tokyo to avoid spending too much time on transfers.
Thanks in advance for sharing your suggestions and experiences!
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Hi there!
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Je voulais savoir si il etait possible d'aller de Tashkent à Almaty en train sans passer par le Kirkistan. On m'a dit que la frontière etait souvent fermee 😕 entre ces l'ouzbekistan et le kazakhstan
merci d'avance
Olivier
Hi there!
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I’d love any tips or info that could be useful for us!
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I’d love to know if any of you have recently eaten on the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.
We’ve always ordered food on the train, and it was really good (and super convenient).
But in 2022, we ended up feeling like total idiots (with our 4-year-old daughter...) when we boarded the train only to find out that this service was no longer available... (It was the first time we’d traveled right after COVID.)
That’s also when we saw once again how kind Thai people are—they all offered to share their food with us, even though we were mortified. In the end, we managed to buy some instant noodles, which was better than nothing. Anyway, that’s the little story behind it.
In the following years, we’ve always brought our own meals.
I’ve read online that meal trays are back in service (could you confirm this, please?), but that the quality is really poor. I’ve also seen multiple reports that, even though you can eat well everywhere in Thailand, the train meal was the worst food travelers had during their trip...
Could you give me a recent opinion on this?
We’ll be departing from Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Station—do you know if there’s anywhere to buy a meal there before boarding the train?
Thanks so much for your help,
and have a great Sunday!
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I’m heading to Japan for the second time with my 20-year-old son. During our first trip, we spent two weeks in Tokyo and Kyoto (plus the surrounding areas).
This time, we’re planning to stay in Tokyo for at least 4-5 days and then head to the island of Naoshima.
I’m looking for suggestions and advice:
Is getting to Naoshima from Tokyo complicated? If so, do you have any recommendations for a stopover somewhere? Given that we’d prefer not to move every day, we’d rather settle in one place and then explore on day trips...
Do you think it’s possible to do something like this:
5 nights in Tokyo (Shinjuku)
3 nights in Kyoto
2 nights in Naoshima (or is one night enough??) and if one night is enough, where could I spend a second night on the way back to Tokyo?
2 nights in Tokyo (I’d love your advice on staying in a different neighborhood—last time we stayed near Ueno Park)—keeping in mind we’re flying out of Narita.
I’m considering maybe skipping Kyoto, which I love but has apparently become *very* touristy...
Not really keen on Osaka... since we’ll already have done Tokyo as our "big city." I’d prefer towns where nature is present... (a bit like Kyoto, which offers all that...)
For info, we’ll be traveling by train.
Thanks in advance for all your suggestions and help!
I have one last little question:
Is cash still widely used in Japan, or not at all anymore?
We’re planning this *very* last-minute—I know! But we’d love to spend 4 days soon (within the next 10–12 days) on a city getaway with our young adult kids. Ideally by train, and for this short trip, we’d prefer not to spend more than 4–6 hours in transit, leaving from Lausanne (Switzerland). We’ve been considering Milan, Strasbourg, or Freiburg im Breisgau, but I’ll admit I’m feeling a bit lost...
Venice was our original plan, but the connection changes in Domodossola or Milan are making the travel time longer this year.
It’s peak summer, so there’ll be tourists and it’ll likely be hot, but oh well...
Any suggestions? We love wandering around, taking photos, exploring cities on foot, trying out restaurants, and keeping things low-key.
