How to Find Eastern Express Ticket & Finding Eastern Express Tickets
How to Find Eastern Express Sleeping Wagon and Covered Bunk Tickets?
One question in the minds of everyone who has set their minds on boarding the Eastern Express var How to Find the Eastern Express Ticket? The fact that the Eastern Express has become so popular in recent years, no lie, makes us very happy because as the popularity increases, the East develops, Kars develops.. People, we realize the beauty of the East. We are very happy about that!
Then we wanted to explain how to find the Eastern Express ticket step by step.. If you’re ready, how to find Oriental Express tickets, Oriental Express ticket prices, When do Eastern Express tickets go on sale and Eastern Express ticket finding tactics we start our article!
Eastern Express Ticket Prices 2020
Pulman seat per person on the Classic Eastern Express: 57,5 TL and Per person with covered couches: 77.5 TL. In other words, those who want to close their 4-person covered bedded room have to pay a total of 310 TL..
Touristic Eastern Express prices are 480 TL if you want to stay in a single person in a double room with bed. If you are staying for two people, 300 TL per person, 600 TL in total for two people..
Tactics to Find Eastern Express Tickets
Step 1: Download the TCDD EYBIS application to our phone
Eastern Express tickets are on sale on the official site of TCDD and you can buy them on the site. But if you download the application to the phone, you can check it more often and it is more practical to use..
Yes, what we said, we download EYBIS, become a member and fill in all the necessary information (TC. etc.) so that it stays registered in the application. So once you find the ticket, you can get it in a minute or two.. Otherwise, maybe someone else will have bought that ticket while you are trying to fill in your information.
This is valid for both Eastern Express and Touristic Eastern Express tickets.
So we’re ready!
Step 2: When and what time do Eastern Express tickets go on sale?
Until this year (2020), tickets were on sale 30 days in advance and at midnight. So things were easier. Let’s say that from the days of October 11, the night of October 11, the tickets for November 11 were on sale.. When you looked at it on October 11, the tickets on sale were for the 30-day period from October 11 to November 11..
Things have changed a bit this year and have gotten erratic. During the winter, tickets were always ‘finished’ on sale first.. Everyone knows that this means that he bought tours and closed the train before the tickets went on sale.. After that, the tickets for 30 days later, which are opened every night, are not opened.. Since no tickets were opened for 15 days, we called TCDD and they said ‘tickets will only be opened 15 days in advance during this period’.. Then it didn’t happen, and 20 days ago, we randomly checked in the afternoon that the tickets were opened and there was a place, we got the tickets right away!
Anyway, what we mean is that even though tickets are opened 30 days in advance, this rule does not work very regularly.. If there is 1 day in a month when tickets go on sale at exactly 12 midnight, we can say that it is 29 days when they are not released.. That’s why it’s best to check Eybis constantly..
Although the dates you want to go are full at the beginning, the place may become empty later on.. There are people who cancel, or when you say that additional wagons can be added to the train, you see that several rooms are empty at once.. Therefore, look at the days in the date range you want to go, one by one, in order and frequently.. It’s the most key thing.
Step 3: Look not only in Ankara – Kars direction, but also in Kars – Ankara direction
Ankara – Kars tickets are the first to be sold out. Therefore, make sure to look for a ticket in the direction of Kars – Ankara.. It is relatively easy to find a ticket in the Kars – Ankara direction, because the first thing that comes to mind is the Ankara – Kars direction and its tickets run out first..
We also heard that Istanbul-Kars flight tickets are always cheaper than Kars-Istanbul flight tickets.. In other words, you can fly to Kars first, visit Kars first, and then get on the Eastern Express on the way back.
Step 4: If you can’t find it in the Kars – Ankara direction, look for tickets from the intermediate stops
Let’s say You could not find a ticket in the direction of Kars – Ankara, but you definitely want to try this experience, then we recommend you to look for tickets from the intermediate stops.. Like this;
It is very common in Kayseri or Sivas, for example, that you buy a ticket in the direction of Ankara – Kars and get off at the intermediate stops.. In the direction of Kars – Ankara, there are many people getting off in Erzurum.. Therefore, if you search as Kayseri – Kars, not Ankara – Kars, your chances of finding a ticket will definitely increase.. In the same way, you can try to search as Erzurum – Ankara, not as Kars – Ankara..
In this case, you will have to go to Kayseri and Erzurum by your own means, or you can find a ticket for that part on the same train from Pulman.. There is usually empty space in the pulman.
Step 5: You have found a place in Örtütü Kusetli, grab all 4 tickets!
You have found an empty room (ie 4 beds) in the covered bunk, grab it now! We recommend that you buy all 4 tickets, even if you are two people. You ask why?
For example, you are two people (a woman – a man) and you bought a double ticket even though it is a four-person room with a covered bunk.. If two more women buy the remaining two tickets for the same room later, they will be the only man in the room who will be removed from the room because opposite sexes who do not know each other are not allowed to sleep in the same room at night.. So you may have to go with your girlfriend and sleep in separate rooms in this case.. They can even send the male part to the pulman if there is no room in the room.. That’s why the most logical thing to do is not risk and buy all 4 tickets in the room..
To buy 4 tickets, it is necessary to enter 4 different TRs. So, have two more family members’ TCs at hand so that you can write them down.. When you get on the train, no one will ask where the remaining 2 people are.. So you can give any 2 valid TCs.. You used to be able to give a student TC and get a discount, but now they pay attention to the remaining 2 seats and the officer asks you for the difference.. Give me two extra normal TCs..
Step 6: There was no Eastern Express, shall we give the Touristic Eastern Express?
Since it is 310 TL to close with a covered couch on the Classic Eastern Express, and 600 TL for a bedded room on the Touristic Eastern Express, naturally, there is much easier room on the Touristic Eastern Express.. You will not need to search for them separately, as you will be looking at both of them from the Eybis application..
If it fits your budget, the Touristic Eastern Express is the same as the Eastern Express, think about it.. It’s just all rooms with double beds and the road takes 4-5 hours longer.
BONUS!
- We also have two bonuses; holidayhead account on Instagram, one of which often finds Eastern Express tickets and makes regular announcements. We recommend that you follow Tatilkafa’s Instagram stories regularly and catch the announcements..
- The second is student Whatsapp groups that find you tickets for a very small pocket money.. There are Whatsapp groups opened for the Eastern Express, mostly students manage. You say the date you want to go and they are looking for your leave all day.. When they find the ticket, they buy it for you immediately.. In return, they charge a fee of 50-100 TL.. If we could not find the ticket ourselves, we would have asked the students..
That’s all we can think of for now, don’t give up, we will find that ticket together!
We are waiting for you in our All About Orient Express article, where we wrote about the Eastern Express in every detail!
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