Loco2.com

[Butts]

Has anyone tried this new website which advertises you can buy a ticket from Aberdeen to Athens or Swansea to Sarajevo in one go without the necessity to have various stages and operators involved.

Not sure if they charge a fee

 

[alex17595]

I quite like this site with all of the integrated fares. I can get to Paris for lunch.

 

[bnm]

Try actually inputting Aberdeen to Athens or Swansea to Sarejevo though.

What you'll likely get, regardless of dates and times inputted, is:

"No results found... There are several possible reasons: Tickets might not be available yet. Booking on this route opened today. Sometimes the rail operators are late releasing tickets so search for an earlier date or try again tomorrow. If your journey involves lots of changes. Try adding a stopover and then search again. Tickets might have sold out. Try changing your dates.There might be a problem on this route. If you've tried everything else and still can't find trains, please contact us."

Or:

"No results found... It's not currently possible to add a stopover for a search starting from a UK station outside of London (we are working on this). For now, you can add the UK part of your journey to your basket separately, and add stopovers for the European part of your journey."

Nice idea. Needs work.

 

[Loco2]

Hello all,

Try actually inputting Aberdeen to Athens or Swansea to Sarejevo

The journalist who wrote the article in the Independent this week got rather over excited about the potential of Loco2.com. Though you can't fault him for his enthusiasm, what a journey Aberdeen to Athens would be were it possible!

When we launched UK rail on our site last week we used more modest examples, e.g. Manchester to Milan and Bath to Berlin, which will deliver results from the integrations we have for UK, French and German rail, combined with other international trains CNL, Thello, TGV Lyria etc. Unfortunately we aren't able, and don't claim, to offer trains from Aberdeen to Athens or Swansea to Sarejevo (we can do Rhyl to Rome though!). But of course we aren't able to control the accuracy of articles written about us.

We've tried to be realistic about our strengths and weaknesses since, as @bnm has discovered, we aren't able to offer many trains and tickets into Eastern Europe. We have a map and explanation about the service we provide on the site https://loco2.com/about/train-ticket-coverage.

Those of you familiar with rail in Greece will know that sadly there have been no international trains running in or out of Greece since 2011. You can read about that on Seat61's Greece pages.

And for trains to Sarajevo, Loco2 can book trains as far as Zagreb, but as far as we know the train from Zagreb to Sarajevo can't be booked online anywhere (happy to be corrected), and the new trains that we would have had in theory from the end of last year, was never launched. See below,

"The Zagreb-Sarajevo train was due to become a modern air-conditioned Talgo train from December 2012, but this was delayed and now it seems the still-unused Talgo trains are to be leased to Turkish Railways so may never run to Sarajevo."

I hope no-one minds me coming into the conversation, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out that the article mentioned isn't representative of our service. However, I'd love to hear other feedback from members of this forum since we rely on feedback (especially from train buffs) so that we can continue to improve.

Kate
Co-founder | Loco2.com

 

[Paul Kelly]

I like it that the booking terms and conditions for loco2.com direct you to brfares.com for full details of British ticket restrictions! I notice the list of railcards does not include the German Bahncard, which makes the site much less useful for me as a holder of such, since the Bahncard (as far as I've seen) offers a discount on a lot of international fares from Germany.

 

[Loco2]

@Indigo2

Just to let you know that Bahncards are now included in the railcards menu on Loco2 so you can them to your search and apply applicable discounts to your bookings.

Kate

 

[BorisWiffWaff]

I used Loco2 to book a Deutsche Bahn ticket from Frankfurt Airport to Augsburg. I felt the interface was much simpler to use than the DB one and will use it again.

 

[MKB]

I used loco2 to book a through journey from St Pancras to Copenhagen recently as they were showing some great first-class Deutsche Bahn fares that include Standard Premier on Eurostar.

I had a minor customer service quibble, and the response from them was fantastic. This is a company that deserves support and I'd like to heartily recommend them.

 

[Merseysider]

I haven't 'used' them yet but their website is already bookmarked - I'm travelling to Deutschland in Autumn. The Spezial fares are fairly competitive with airfares - plus there's the opportunity to have a stopover en route in Paris

 

[30907]

An interesting detail: I was able to get a fare from them the day it became available on the SNCF main site, when it was not showing on Rail Europe. Interesting because RE is SNCF and should be accessing the same data. The exchange rate was pretty good too.

 

[eastwestdivide]

As shown by their own post (no. 4 above), my experience is that the loco2 people are pretty responsive to suggestions. One example - I made a minor suggestion for improvement, and they responded almost straight away, and then implemented it within a couple of days.

 

[34D]

Those of you familiar with rail in Greece will know that sadly there have been no international trains running in or out of Greece since 2011. You can read about that on Seat61's Greece pages.

Now reinstated - see the seat61 link above.

 

[Royston Vasey]

Did not mind paying the credit card fee for the ability to purchase CIV Euro Standard Return which is not available on other sites. Good site.