Apologies if this was posted elsewhere; I didn%26#39;t see it when I searched.
My friend is going to France in a few days. She needed a train ticket from Paris to Nice. We found an idTGV fare on the www.voyages-sncf.com site. My friend%26#39;s credit card didn%26#39;t work, though, because of a problem with her credit card company. So I bought it on my credit card.
Then I realized that maybe she would have to present my credit card upon boarding the train. I wasn%26#39;t sure from the website whether this was the case, or whether showing the printed receipt was good enough. My French is not very good and I couldn%26#39;t scan the website well enough to find this information.
Can someone let me know if what we did was okay? Thanks.
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Hi,
As far as I know idTGV issue online e-tickets (printed tickets), so actually what you have is not the receipt but the ticket itself with which you board the train. If this is the case the only thing that must be printed on it is your name and it%26#39;s valid with an ID card (passport).
So in this case it doesn%26#39;t matter who paid for it, but generally you do have a point and you must show the actual credit card the was used to buy to the counter.
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The receipt IS the ticket. No credit card required, and the ticket is not name dependent.
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Wizard - are you sure the tickets are not name dependant? I have just booked regular TGV tickets and as well as having our names at the top of the tickets, they appear as a sort of watermark in the background.
Just curious.
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Hi,
All ONLINE tickets are nominative.
Other tickets issued by SNCF do have your name, but this is for techniacl reasons only, as mentioned on their site.
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Im not sure - the ticket you printed is your ticket - you dont have to validate it before you travel, and there isnt anyone checking passport/credit cards when you get on the train.
Also, how do you go if you but 6 tickets on the one card? surely they will all have the same name on them, and the seats could be spread across a couple of carriages. As long as you are in the seat shown on the ticket you should be OK
I have bought tickets online with various cards for various people and never been asked for proof of ID
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The rule is that online tickets are nominative and this is mentioned specifically in any online site that you buy your ticket from. My colleagues were asked to show their passports during an inspection on the train from Brussels to Amsterdam, so the fact that up until now no one has asked for your ID, is a matter of luck…
By the way, in many sites (one major exception is the German rail site) you can buy online tickets for several people, but then you must give their names (not only the name of the person who makes the payment) when making the order.
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I bought my TGV tickets online and was required to show the credit card I purchased the tickets with when I picked them up at the gare. I would call their English speaking hotline to double-check to be sure depending on the type of ticket you purchased!
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