Moscow Travel Forum

Hi! I found on the www.rzd.ru site an online ticket feature.

http://www.ticket.rzd.ru/wps/portal/pp
Here i can buy ticket 45 days before starting the trip. If i understend the site, I can pick up the ticket in special ticket office on the railways. I have some questions about it:

Is here anybody to bought ticket on the rzd.ru site?


Is The special internet ticket "cassa" open all day? ( We arrived by airplane to Moscow at night then go with train to SPB about midnight. If the cassa closed at 19:00 how we pick up our ticket....)

I found any tourist office which posted the ticket to me ( Budapest, Hungary) but each ticket delivery cost about 17 USD, and the train ticket also 17 USD ( platzkart)......

I found the website www.waytorussia.com but there some reviews was not good
about "online" ticket service. Have You any idea about waytorussia?

Have you any advice, and practical to buy realy cheap two way ticket from Moscow to Sankt Petersburg .

1) You already arrived or plan to arrive?

Budapest itself is pretty good place to buy Russian tickets... but Slovakia is the best.

2) If you are in Budapest: I would spend 6 Euro, travel Budapest-Párkány (Sturovo) round-trip and buy the Moscow-St. Peterburg ticket in Sturovo. The price: 20.20 Euro. You can use ANY daytime train with it you want, even the fastest ones for 3 Euro extra. The night train is more: will cost ca. 20 Euro extra (I was lazy to look up my bed reservation spreadsheet).

Otherwise: who goes BP-Moscow-St. Peterburg and does not use the Slovak CITY-STAR tickets is either too much in hurry or does not know:

http://deals.virtualtourist.com/viewDeal-19733-906-1--Russia-viewDeal.html

In other words, for residents of Slovakia or Hungary the best ticket from Moscow to St. Pete is essentially FREE.

A jegy tényleg ingyen van, a Moszkva-Szentpétervár helyjegy a nappali vonatra 3 rugó (102 Rbl):

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ru/ticket%2Btimetable/20060916_5.jpg

Ezt kapja az ember ha CITY-STAR jegye van. A CST jegy Szlovákián belül távolságfüggetlen, Oroszországban kétlépcsös. Mivel Zernovo(határ)-Moszkva-Szentpétervár 1500 km alatt van, a Sturovo-Csap-Moszkva-Szentpétervár jegy ára egy emberre 104 rugó, két emberre 104+52 = 156 rugó, oda-vissza.

A City star ticket nem játszik, mert Bécsből már meg van a repjegyünk Moszkváig. ( május 30-június2 151€/fő oda vissza mindennel sztem ez elég jó vétel)
Itthon 8000 Ft + helyjegy a Moszkva -Szentpéterbvár 1 úti jegy. De , hogy ez hová szól nem tudták megmondani......
Az RZD.ru oldalon a platzkartos-és nekem legszimpibb megoldás ~4500 Ft foglalási díjjal együtt. Ehhez képest a MÁV ár majdnem 2x annyi, persze lehet , hogy az fülkébe ad, de lövésük sem volt ( 2x telefonáltam, egyszer voltam a deák téren az új jegyirodában) Viszont az ár azért nekem lényeges lenne.
A párkényi jegy árát nem igazán értettem tisztán. 20+20€ az éjszakai /fő? Mert akkor ez kb MÁV szinten van. Esetleg emilen folytathatnánk -ha nem tartalak fel- kftkukacindexponthu.

I deal for my Trans Mongolian Ticket through WaytoRussia who redirect me to Inter Group. I have no problem at all, get answer to all my questions very fast. It was also the best price I found.
Dont take too much in consideration the messages you have seen, I was aware of it but decided to try and see.
For your informayion you may try this site too
http://www.nevsky88.com/ wait a reply for more than a week.
http://www.nordictravel.ru price requested 152$ more than I pay.
http>//www.sv-agency.udm.ru/ price at first was less $12 but then you have to add $25 for patment by Credit Card, etc
http>//www.gotorussia.com
Good luck

I am working on the very first and industry's only MPT ticket calculator, it's almost there on-line - you can see it in my Russian page. Once it's up and running: no more questions "how much".

The problem is, Western travelers do not know the REAL price. It is natural, you should know the price of the ticket and than how much the agency is making.

The thougt behind the deal: calculate your ticket, know the price - than negotiate down with the agency. Besides if you tell them what you know - they will be surprised.

Otherwise - look for my "world's longest ticket" deal. That involves Russia and it's cheaper than Russian tickets! But you can buy that deal in Serbia only.

Hence the news: you want to go to Mongolia/China/Russian Far East?
Good, but go to Serbia or Slovakia first!

http://deals.virtualtourist.com/viewDeal-20750-1213-1--Republic_of_Serbia-viewDeal.html
http://deals.virtualtourist.com/viewDeal-20751-1213-1--Republic_of_Serbia-viewDeal.html