[Gocamino] [saintjames] RE: - Ultreya Re: Renfe booking problem
Robert Spenger
rspenger at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 17 09:12:52 PDT 2009
Grant,
That is the site that I was using, of course, but I was not able to
what you did, i.e. get a page which had Sarria as a destination. this
was on the initial (English) page that I got:
Origin :
Main Departure Stations
Destination :
Main Destination Stations
Lower on that page is this:
If your station does not appear on the drop-down list, enter at least
3 letters of the name of the station from which you wish to begin your
journey.
I want to travel from:
All the stations of Spain seem to be on that list, including Sarria,
but note it is just for origins, not destinations.
I tried again just now, using the page that you posted and put in the
date and accommodations choice (cama tourista).
Clicking on the following just brought me back to square one, with the
list of Principales Estaciones, i.e. no Sarria.
Clicking on just brought up a page that was blank except for the
Renfe banner across the top, which included that same section as shown
just above. Clicking on that had the same affect as it did on the
other page.
I am not the only one who has had problems with this site and there is
even another site that is devoted to advising people how to deal with
the Renfe site:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g187514-c80518/Madrid:Spain:Buying.Renfe.Tickets.Online..html
I tried following that advice, but was still running into blind
alleys. I even used Internet Explorer instead of my more familiar
Safari, but that was even worse. I didn't go so far as trying in in
Windows as was suggested. I have gotten lost enough just trying to use
Windows for other such items.
The best advice I have received so far is to just wing it — go to the
station as early as I can after arrival and hope that there will still
be plenty of seats available. Since my ETA is over 12 hours before the
train time, I have some confidence that it will work. If there is a
day's delay, I can spend a night at a hotel in Madrid and see what the
city has to offer or I can take the other alternative, a west bound
bus. I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to check to see if there are any
cheap, convenient flights from MAD to SdeC, where I could get an
eastbound bus to Lugo and on south to Sarria.
Bob S.
On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Grant Spangler wrote:
Pulse aqui pa Madrid a Sarria.
http://horarios.renfe.es/hir/index.jsp?page=hjhir130.jsp&O=MADRI&D=20305
Buen Camino,
Grant
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