Originally Posted by
MorganB
I've used a US credit card on the voyages-sncf.com site more times than I can remember. Its really not that hard. You just need to leave your pick up country as France. If you want to purchase in english go to
http://www.tgv-europe.com and select the UK. Just be sure to select fares that can be printed as I am not 100% sure that you can pick up the tickets in France.
Alternately you can buy on voyages-sncf.com in english by doing the following:
1. Go to voyages-sncf.com
2. click "Recherche avancee" located about half way down the page on the left in the light blue area.
3. look at the URL in the address bar and find "LANG=FR"
4. change the FR to UK and hit return
The page should now be in english.
That might have very well been so in the past (since I have done it) but both myself and a friend selected picking up tickets in the UK since the required tix were on a TGV, on tgveurope.com (without the having to go through the process you suggest) and which actually eliminates the need to actually "pickup the tickets" anywhere since they can be printed on line.. the system would not accept our US cards .. tried three differents ones.
This was less than two weeks ago
mike