Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

any TGV tickect office in Amsterdam???

Country forums / Western Europe / Netherlands

As I will travel from Amsterdam to Paris
I will get on the train at 11:53am from Amsterdam and will arrive in Lille Flandres at 15:52pm
then I need to switch to TGV7062 to Paris Nord at 16:00pm
the transfer time is only 8minutes, I think it don't have enough time for me to reserve the seat in the ticket offices at Lille

The question is: is there any ticket office in Amsterdam so that we can reserve the seat of TGV ?

Are you using a Rail Pass? if so, you www.raileurope.co.uk to reserve seats online.. Seating reservation online is your best bet..

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Try and avoid using thalys.. seating reservations cost €20 estimately ...

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There's an international ticket office at Amsterdam Centraal. Make sure you leave enough time to get things sorted out there.

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Why would you take a train to Lille first? The Thalys from Amsterdam is a direct train to Paris. Tickets are from 39 euro and it takes 3 hours and 18 minutes,

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#4 I was indeed wondering about that too. Going via Lille is a very inefficient way of travelling.

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Just because I have the rail pass, I need to spend €35 to take thalys but only €5.5 to take TGV

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#1
www.raileurope.co.uk is surely a good way for me to reserve but I can't use the postage service since I'm not living in UK
I have tried to switch the website into my own country but I found that the price is different and it is up to about €10m I don't know why

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You're welcome.

In that case you'll have to go to the international ticket counter at Amsterdam Centraal.

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#8
I have sent a email to ask TGV and they inform me that there is no Sncf point of sales on the whole netherlands ground.

But do you mean that I can just go to the international ticket counter at Amsterdam Centraal and reserve my seat?
thank you very much

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Yes.

And there is indeed no SNCF office in NL, Dutch Railways take care of all bookings for international trips.

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thank you so much bro.!!!

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You are welcome!

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