For anyone else that's curious about a comparison in the US, I looked up Amtrak from Atlanta to Washington DC, roughly the same length. $109 ticket and it lists just over 14 hours to travel. Based on what I've read it's practically guaranteed to take a good bit longer though.
So ~75% higher cost and at best ~75% longer travel time.
"Starting at" means if you book 3 months in advance and are lucky to get one of the rare discounted tickets. Normal price is probably the triple of that or so.
I picked the cheapest ticket for the US trip. It's as fair a comparison I'm going to get without checking the trip to Berlin. Which I don't want to do, if it's even possible yet.
There are 11 viable trains that connect Berlin with Paris during the day, with up to 2 transfers. During the night, there's a sleeper train connecting the two cities 3 times a week
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JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 1y
That is really cheap.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
For anyone else that's curious about a comparison in the US, I looked up Amtrak from Atlanta to Washington DC, roughly the same length. $109 ticket and it lists just over 14 hours to travel. Based on what I've read it's practically guaranteed to take a good bit longer though.
So ~75% higher cost and at best ~75% longer travel time.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
"Starting at" means if you book 3 months in advance and are lucky to get one of the rare discounted tickets. Normal price is probably the triple of that or so.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Not triple, more like double. Triple is only if you book it really on short notice.
Here are the prices for the next Mondays:
So if you can book at least 1 month in advance, you get much better prices.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I picked the cheapest ticket for the US trip. It's as fair a comparison I'm going to get without checking the trip to Berlin. Which I don't want to do, if it's even possible yet.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 8 pts · 1y
It’s a good start, though they’ll need more than one train a day. This isn’t Australia.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y
This is just an additional direct train. There are several such connections with a switch in Cologne or so daily.
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
And there's also the Munich-Paris line in the South
dodekaphilist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
There are 11 viable trains that connect Berlin with Paris during the day, with up to 2 transfers. During the night, there's a sleeper train connecting the two cities 3 times a week
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
better than canada
ODGreen@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Extremely low bar tbh