Train travel from Paris to Zurich and Prague to Vienna

Can anyone give me a suggestion as to the best website for train travel from Paris to Zurich and Prague to Vienna. My 15 year old daughter and I are leaving Paris on 28/12/08 to Zurich. So many options and coming from Australia seems very confusing. Then we leave Prague on 2/1/09 to go to Vienna. Any suggestions and or helpful hints will be greatly appreciated.

Susan Hill

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Hi,

The best site for scheduling is the German rail at bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml.

You can print your own timetable, using %26quot;Personal timetable%26quot; link (which is left to the flag at the top of the page)

If you want to make a reservation in advance you can use the SNCF site as following:

Go to www.voyages-sncf.com/leisure/fr/launch/home/

Choose Train-%26gt; Reservez un billet de train

If you want to switch from French to English go to the address bar, change FR into UK and press Enter.

After you choose the trains choose: %26quot;Collect your ticket from a station or SNCF shop, with the reference number of your file and the bank card used for the payment%26quot;

(I believe that you don%26#39;t have a credit card with electronic chip, hence, you can%26#39;t choose to collect your ticket from an automatic ticket machine)

You can also use the SNCF site to make a reservation for Vienna-%26gt;Prague and collect the ticket while you%26#39;re in France.

Another and much easier option is to use http://www.raileurope.com site which can send you the tickets to your home address. This site is much easier to use, but it seldom offers you as good prices as offered when making the reservation directly from the train companies%26#39; sites.

Some other links about trains in Europe:

http://www.seat61.com/

www.ricksteves.com/rail/comparetickets.htm

www.ricksteves.com/plan/tips/traintip.htm

www.ricksteves.com/plan/tips/db_tips.htm

http://www.slowtrav.com/europe/index.htm

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