LVSue

The only fare I know of that requires a round trip is the 25% off for Decouverte a Deux.

uhoh_busted

I'm glad all this wasn't going on when I bought our tickets for our last trip. It wasn't that hard...took a bit of patience, and I printed out our one-way PREM fare tickets from Paris to Avignon on my home PC. When the conductor came along to collect tickets, they were the first he had seen done that way, and he kept showing them to other people in the car. We all thought it worked really well. ha. must have worked too well so they had to muck with it. isn't that just the way, though?

Christina

I haven't bought one lately, but I have before from the US with no problems and the SNCF site doesn't know where your computer is located. I'm not sure it even can but I don't know enough about computers (those indiv. computer ID site numbers would have to indicate country). However, I think it may put a cookie on your machine that then would fill in the US automatically in that box when you went to the site if you had done that the first time, perhaps--just like FOdors remembers who you are.

SNCF used to own most or all of Raileurope (along with Swiss railways, as I recall) and I think they still do, so they have a big incentive for you to buy from them. If you go to the FAQs on Raileurope it says they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of SNCF and CFF.

Tomato

It is quite possible that the SNCF website knows your location, using the IP address of your connection.

To check what any website knows, fo to www.anonymizer.com and clock on "try privacy analyzer nowé and then click on test 6 on the left column.

hanl

LVsue, I posted my last response at the same time you posted yours, so I'm sorry if it looked like I was disagreeing with you!

I can confirm that Prem's fares work for one-way trips because I just bought one a few weeks ago for a Rennes-Lyon journey (25 euros - what a bargain!!).