Norway train tickets
Jun 9, 2018, 11:04 pm
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Norway train tickets
I am trying to buy a train ticket for Flam to Oslo on the nsb.no website. I am able to select my ticket, and choose a seat. But when I get to the payment page it keeps failing. I note that the website says that they basically don't accept credit cards from the US, Canada or Australia for security reasons and recommend using PayPal. But when I try PP that doesn't work either. Anyone know of other alternatives? I am basically stuck at this point.
Jun 10, 2018, 8:27 am
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nevermind...it looks like I might have been trying to buy a ticket too soon or something. When I tried again this morning I had more options and was able to get the PP transaction to work. Might have been system maintenance or something too...
Aug 13, 2018, 6:10 am
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I’m guessing this had something to do with assigned seating & there being no pair of seats we could occupy uninterrupted all the way to Voss. Still, you’d think the website could just show the married segments instead of leaving unwary travelers with the impression that the train is sold out.
Aug 16, 2018, 7:33 am
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The website can be pretty stupid at times. It would not sell me a ticket Oslo-Voss at my desired time, but was perfectly happy to sell me Oslo-Myrdal and Myrdal-Voss on the same train when I searched those segments separately.
I’m guessing this had something to do with assigned seating & there being no pair of seats we could occupy uninterrupted all the way to Voss. Still, you’d think the website could just show the married segments instead of leaving unwary travelers with the impression that the train is sold out.
I’m guessing this had something to do with assigned seating & there being no pair of seats we could occupy uninterrupted all the way to Voss. Still, you’d think the website could just show the married segments instead of leaving unwary travelers with the impression that the train is sold out.
Aug 16, 2018, 8:21 am
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I often have to use the Scandinavian national railway websites to create my own multi-segment journey when a train I want is listed as sold out for my originally intended origin and destination city pair. On peak travel dates of this year, this practice by the national railway companies really works in my favor for last minute travel purposes.