Train Travel, Train Vacations, Train Holidays... » Spain Train Travel http://www.thetraintravel.net/blog Train Destinations, Train Operators.. Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:21:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Train Travel in Spain with the High Speed Trains http://www.thetraintravel.net/blog/index.php/spain-train-travel/train-travel-in-spain-with-the-high-speed-trains/ http://www.thetraintravel.net/blog/index.php/spain-train-travel/train-travel-in-spain-with-the-high-speed-trains/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:51:03 +0000 admin http://www.thetraintravel.net/blog/?p=65 Train travel vacation is certainly the most luxurious and captivating way to experience distinct landscape. Exploring your train vacations and find out a wide diversity of thrilling rail travel ideas that include luxury train travel. Trains in Spain in efficient, fast and moderately cheap but unfortunately their train exposure is not that great with lots of routes is served poorly. If you are planning a train travel vacation around Spain, don’t expect that in traveling by train can be always cheaper or quicker but most of the time Spain offers a high speed trains. The Spain train travel is govern by the train service of Spanish state-operated that comprise 13,000 kilometers total of train tracks that covers the entire country.

In Spain, rail travel is a dream for the high speed trains called AVE. The AVE train operates on the route of Cordoba-Madrid Seville. This is one of the best rail services in Europe with an assurance of a full refund if a train is late for more than five minutes. AVE train provides excellent service since it was launched at Seville during World Expo in 1992. AVE train punctuality is one of the fundamentals that have contributed most to trains growth, services offered at train stations on board, sales, customer care and a fare policy for ticket that is simple to understand. At the moment, AVE train main lines are from Madrid going to Seville and Cordoba through main construction which is currently in progress to connect the other major cities. AVE trains have already the route that is currently opened from Madrid to Catalunya at Lerida and AVE train will soon operate at Barcelona all the way.

Take your train travel vacation in Spain for it offers a stunning view while on train window that will give you a relaxing ambiance. You can take a ride in AVE train for the Spain destinations available if you choose to enjoy in the high speed trains. In doing so, you are going to plan ahead for your train travel and book early to avail discounts and other benefits.

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It is ideal to travel by train in Spain indeed, however there are considerations that you should take into account why you must travel by train in Spain while on the other hand; you must not necessarily traveling Spain by train.  Basically, what it means is that there are advantages and disadvantages when traveling by train in Spain.  And it would be up to you where you should follow or it would depend on how you balance the situation that you have when going to Spain.  Yes truly, traveling by train in Spain is fast, proficient and comparatively cheap, but as said above there are also reasons why traveling by train in Spain is not all good.  Below are the lists of advantages and disadvantages traveling in Spain by train.

The Advantages:

  1. The best thing to travel in Spain by train since it is cheaper compared to traveling in Germany and France though it is a long journey.
  2. If you were in a hurry, traveling by train in Spain is ideal for you since most of the trains in here are quite quick, especially in the routes of Madrid-Seville route.
  3. And if you want to avail on their cheap trains the Eurail and the Inter Rail Passes is recommended for you since it can make your train travel cheaper compared to the other.  Both offers huge discounts however, you must choose wisely your ticket.
  4. Compared to bus regarding the booking, train booking is easier since there is only one main train company in Spain.

The Disadvantages:

  1. Though traveling by train in Spain is cheaper compared to the other European countries, it is not that cheap particularly within the country when being compared to traveling by bus.
  2. Though traveling by train is quicker compared to traveling by bus, however not all trains in Spain is fast as you think it is.  It actually depends on where you going in Spain and how long the journey is you are taking.
  3. Another disadvantage about traveling by train in Spain since it would be confusing which exactly the train company you are going to use.
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