I’m busy working out train travel in one country: if I do all three legs at once it makes more sense since the booking fee is the same for one or for all three. So I booked them. Or so I thought. I reached the payment page. Oops, time ran out on the first leg since I was rather slow. Okay. Fine. Start over. Do it again. Oops, I put the wrong passport number in for Dan’s ticket on one leg. I canceled that leg, so I could reenter things. Wait a minute! Why did the price go up $20 for the exact same thing? Argh!

Sigh.

I deleted everything and will start over tomorrow. I’ll probably clear my cache first too (and certainly need to clear my head), but I was already signed in so that probably won’t make any difference. Of course by tomorrow everything may have gone up. But I’ll risk it because I’m too weary to do this all over again right now.

They really need to give me more time. I am slow and deliberate because I do NOT want to make any mistakes (They charge a fee for any changes, even while I’m paying extra for “semi-flex” to make that fee lower.)

But once I get those three train days taken care of I’ve done quite a good portion of our trip up through mid-July. (I can’t book one earlier trip in a different country yet: their trains don’t open up until two months before the travel date.*)

Grumble, grumble.

Don’t get me wrong, though: I really love train travel! I just don’t like dealing with sites that give me rigid time limits and change fees on me at the drop of a hat (or when I stupidly put in the wrong passport number!).

*Quick Note: I DID find a site that appeared to offer tickets for the country I said didn’t open up ticket sales yet. Interesting Everything looked just fine … but I did a quick search and, sure enough, it’s considered a scam by many. So if you consider using other sites, do investigate first! I am using Rail Europe for at least one country and they are fine, but another one that begins with the word Rail and ends with the word Ninja is NOT a trustworthy site. One always has to remain vigilant!