I have been reading prior post and realise that many have had difficulty booking on the sncf website a double first class cabin for Paris to Venice. I am also trying to make a booking from Australia and getting the same technical error message for a booking from Dijon to Venice. Has anyone been successful booking a double first class sleeper online yet? Has anyone booked a T3 sleeper as a couple and had a 3rd person in their cabin. If so, how does the bedding configuration work? I really want to book on sncf webiste as raileurope is A$200 more!

Do what I do...order your tickets by telephone and have them delivered.

If you know someone in Europe, they can often get a better rate booking tickets for you. I home exchange most of the time in Europe so I have someone to assist me "on the ground". My home exchanger got me a $50 round trip Vienna-Budapest fare, which I thought was just super (advance purchase excursion and you have to make the train you picked or you lose your money). The websites seem to have problems because people ask questions about them all the time online.

If you book a double sleeper compartment on this train, you will get a T3 compartment with one bunk folded away. If two people book berths in a three-berth T3, they will share with strangers of the same sex, so a man will be in a compartment with two other men and a woman will be in a different compartment with two other women. If a couple want to sleep together in the same compartment, they must book it as a two-berth compartment.

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