en ete sur place pas de place!!!! tout est reserve depuis bien longtemps, autrement voir avec trains locaux donc avec stops et changement en cours de route sur le site seat.61 pas mal d'infos ainsi que prix....
mais aussi voir dans
site.voila.fr/gengiskhan
les diferentes adresses pour le transiberien et y trouver horaires, reservatiosn on line, prix pour pouvoir faire budget
bon voyage
TRANSIBERIAN!
www.seat61.com/...berian-timetable.htm
Option 1: BUY TICKET IN PERSON AT THE TICKET OFFICE IN
MOSCOW
You can walk up to the ticket office at any main station and buy a ticket or tickets for any journey in
Russia, including the Trans-Siberian. This is the cheapest way to book because you pay the real Russian Railways price without paying commission to anyone. It is usually not too difficult to get a place for internal Russian journeys a day or two before departure, for example
Moscow-Ekaterinberg,
Moscow-
Irkutsk or even
Moscow-
Vladivostok, especially if you can be flexible about your exact departure date or class of travel. The daily
Irkutsk-
Ulan Bator train is not too difficult to book at the ticket office, either. To avoid language problems, it's a good idea to learn the Russian alphabet so you can write down your requirements to show to the ticket office staff - when writing dates, use roman numerals for the month, or example 3 VI 2006 for 3 June 2006. Many main stations have a 'servis tsentr' (service centre) where you pay a small fee (about 100 rubles) to book your ticket in a relaxed air-conditioned environment. The extra 100 rubles can be well worth it..!
However, the weekly Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian trains direct from
Moscow to
Beijing, and the weekly
Moscow-
Ulan Bator train (train numbers 4, 6 & 20) usually get fully booked weeks or even a month or more in advance, especially Trans-Mongolian train number 4. 1st class deluxe 2-berth on this train can sell out almost immediately bookings open. If you have limited time and need to be sure of travelling on a particular train on a particular day, then you should book in advance through an agency - see options 2 or 3 below. Although Russian train reservations open to the public just 45 days before departure, agencies often keep their own waiting lists and buy up tickets the moment bookings open, so contact a booking agency as far ahead as you can. The two direct weekly
Ulan Bator to
Beijing trains can also get fully booked weeks ahead.
You can check how many berths in each class are still available on any train on any date within the next 45 days using the Russian Railways website, httprzd.ru/e3/index.php. This is in Russian, but with a little ingenuity you can use it to check availability even if you don't speak Russian - a translation website such as
world.altavista.com may help. If you're planning to take pot luck buying your ticket at the ticket office in
Moscow, this will give you an idea of how quickly trains get fully booked. Why not look to see how many berths are still available on tomorrow's 'Baikal' train 10 from
Moscow to
Irkutsk, or this week's two
Moscow-
Beijing trains, from the comfort of your own home..?
Russian railway reservations are computerised, so you can arrange any journey from any station, as long as the journey starts in
Russia. For information on buying train tickets at the station in
Ulan Bator (Mongolia), see below.
Option 2: BUY TICKET FROM A LOCAL RUSSIAN AGENCY
Unless you're on a six-month sabbatical with time no object, you'll probably want to arrange your Trans-Siberian tickets in advance before you leave home. A good option is to buy tickets over the internet through a local Russian travel agency. Naturally, these agencies charge more than you'd pay at the ticket office, but usually not that much more. Prices vary enormously, so shop around. Make sure that any quote you get is inclusive of any credit card fees, and that you know whether it's for a slow low-quality train (3-digit train numbers) or one of the fast quality trains such as the 'Baikal' or 'Rossiya' (one or two-digit train numbers). Here are some reputable agencies to try:
Nordictravel, 13 Kluchevoskoe Shosse
Petrozavodsk 185005
Russiamail: nordictravel@onego.ru <
www.nordictravel.ru>;
•
Svezhy Veter (httpsv-agency.udm.ru/svfiles/trains.htm)
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Real
Russia (httprealrussia.co.uk)
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G&R International (httphostels.ru)
•
Way to
Russia (httpwaytorussia.net/Services/TrainTickets.html also known as httptrainline.ru)
•
All-
Russia Travel Service (httprusrailtravel.ru)
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