For anyone else that’s curious about a comparison in the US, I looked up Amtrak from Atlanta to Washington DC, roughly the same length. $109 ticket and it lists just over 14 hours to travel. Based on what I’ve read it’s practically guaranteed to take a good bit longer though.
So ~75% higher cost and at best ~75% longer travel time.
“Starting at” means if you book 3 months in advance and are lucky to get one of the rare discounted tickets. Normal price is probably the triple of that or so.
I picked the cheapest ticket for the US trip. It’s as fair a comparison I’m going to get without checking the trip to Berlin. Which I don’t want to do, if it’s even possible yet.
For anyone else that’s curious about a comparison in the US, I looked up Amtrak from Atlanta to Washington DC, roughly the same length. $109 ticket and it lists just over 14 hours to travel. Based on what I’ve read it’s practically guaranteed to take a good bit longer though.
So ~75% higher cost and at best ~75% longer travel time.
“Starting at” means if you book 3 months in advance and are lucky to get one of the rare discounted tickets. Normal price is probably the triple of that or so.
Not triple, more like double. Triple is only if you book it really on short notice.
Here are the prices for the next Mondays:
So if you can book at least 1 month in advance, you get much better prices.
I picked the cheapest ticket for the US trip. It’s as fair a comparison I’m going to get without checking the trip to Berlin. Which I don’t want to do, if it’s even possible yet.