Good morning / Guten morgen,
I really hope I am raising this question in the correct place. I am having a nightmare booking train tickets from Zurich HB to Paris Gare de Lyon for the Olympics. I would like to travel on Friday 2nd August and the sbb.ch website tells me that all the trains are either fully booked or are not running. This is except for a 06:59am service.
I have tried to book the 07:34am service, but it redirects me to 06:59am. I have tried to book for 11:34am or 13:34pm and these services are unavailable (fully booked or engineering works). Ideally I would love to book the 09:34am service, however the site doesn’t even show this as an option.
I have been going round in circles trying to book train travel via SNCF Connect; and now the same issue appears to be happening with sbb.ch
Please does anyone have any advice? If I want to travel via train, should I book the 06:59am service sooner rather than later? Or will tickets for services running later in the day (such as 09:34 or 11:34) become available later this year? I would really rather not fly from Zurich to Paris, but aeroplane tickets are more convenient and cheaper than train travel and I think if the expensive 06:59am service is all I have left to book then I will be left with no choice but to fly.
Thank you for reading my post and if you have any experiences or advice to share it would be well-received and appreciated!