High holidays: SNCF is selling its train tickets for this summer on Wednesday on Wednesday

This thus sounds the start of the reservations for the big school holidays, which will start on Saturday July 5, before a school year on Monday, September 1. Concretely, this means that this Wednesday, you can book your tickets for intercity and TGV trips from July 5 to August 31. For the Ouigo and the TGV lines of the South-East axis (Paris-Lyon, Paris-Marseille and Paris-Montpellier), the reservations will even be possible until December 13. The opening of the ticket office takes place in general early in the morning, around 6 am, but this schedule is not confirmed by the SNCF.

As for international lines, it will be possible to reserve a TGV to Luxembourg, Friborg or Brussels until August 31, while the TGVs which serve Spain and Italy will be open to booking until December 13, just like the TGV Lyria which allow you to go to Switzerland. Travel co -aged by the SNCF and its German counterpart La Deutsche Bahn, are finally available for reservation over 6 slippery months, which gives until the beginning of September.

If you are motivated and you get up at dawn to book a ticket, you could make great savings, according to a study carried out on TGV prices by trainline, competing platform of SNCF Connect, which also sells train tickets. According to these data, harvested during the opening openings last year for the same period, travelers can benefit, on average, from an economy of 50 % for a Paris-Metz ticket, if they reserve it “the week of sales opening”. On highly requested destinations, such as Paris-Lyon, it is 30 % or 20 % to reach Toulouse.