A ticket of 5 euros to go to Lyon or Nantes from Paris, it will soon be possible. The low-cost TGV company Ouigo opens the ticket office this Wednesday, March 2 with tickets at 5 euros until Thursday. The journeys will then be between 10 and 30 euros for adults, with a fixed price over the entire sales period until the departure of the train.
Extended travel time
This is a slow service, baptized “Ouigo Classic Train”. Slow, because each day, the two round trips between Paris-Bercy and Lyon-Perrache, will last between 4:45 a.m. and 5:15 a.m.with stops in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (from June), Melun, Dijon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon.
It will be necessary to count between 3:30 and 4:15 to get from Paris-Austerlitz to Nanteswith three return trips per day via Le Mans or Tours, with stops respectively at Juvisy, Massy-Palaiseau, Versailles-Chantiers, Chartres, Le Mans and Angers and Juvisy, Les Aubrais, Blois, Saint-Pierre-des -Corps, Saumur and Angers.
On board, an itinerant snack service will be offered in these pink trains.with a simple menu and accessible products“, specifies SNCF Voyageurs.
5 euros for children regardless of the route
Trains will be open for sale 45 days before departure, and tickets will be redeemable within the same conditions as Ouigo Grande Vitesse : change of timetable and/or date and name, to the same destination, subject to exchange costs and any price difference. Children will pay 5 euros whatever the route.
the same price will apply for additional baggagein addition to cabin baggage and hand baggage, from 2023. As for bicycles, they can be taken on board for 5 euros if they are dismantled and stored in a cover, and 10 euros if they remain whole.