Total fare (Citystar ticket + reservation)

Some examples for total fares (Citystar-ticket + sleeper reservation, prices valid untill 2009-12-12):


TYPICAL INTERNATIONAL TRIP FROM CENTRAL EUROPE:
(might be part of a trip to/from China/Mongolia too)

Bratislava - Moskva - Irkutsk - Vladivostok - Moskva - Kiev - Bratislava:

Citystar: 134,4 EUR
Reservation Zilina - Moskva: 24 EUR
Reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 148 EUR
Reservation Irkutsk - Vladivostok: 127 EUR
Reservation Vladivostok - Moskva: 220 EUR
Reservation Moskva - Zilina: 24 EUR
TOTALLY: 677,4 EUR

For the short trip from Bratislava to Zilina in Central Slovakia (from where the direct sleeping car to Moskva starts) no reservation is required (2nd class seating car).


for 2 persons:
Citystar: 201,6 EUR
Reservation Zilina/Kosice - Moskva: 2x 24 EUR
Reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 2x 148 EUR
Reservation Irkutsk - Vladivostok: 2x 127 EUR
Reservation Vladivostok - Moskva: 2x 220 EUR
Reservation Moskva - Zilina/Kosice: 2x 24 EUR
TOTALLY: 1187,6 EUR (593,8 EUR p.P.)

See the timetable at http://citystarticket.blogspot.com/2007/08/timetables.html
for timings of the Bratislava - Zilina - Moskva route.




TYPICAL TRANSSIBERIAN TRIP:
(might be part of a trip to/from China/Mongolia too)



Moskva - Vladivostok - Moskva:

Citystar: 134,4 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Moskva - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Vladivostok: 220 EUR
Reservation Vladivostok - Moskva: 220 EUR
TOTALLY: 574,4 EUR

To compare: If you buy a domestic ticket in Russia, the return-trip in train 1/2 "Rossiya" will cost in average 900 EUR (up to 1020 EUR in summer). The saving with the Citystar-ticket is between 300 and 400 EUR.

for 2 persons travelling together:
Citystar: 201,6 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Moskva - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Vladivostok: 2x 220 EUR
Reservation Vladivostok - Moskva: 2x 220 EUR
TOTALLY: 1081,6 EUR (540,8 EUR per person)



Moskva - Vladivostok or v.v. (one-way):


Citystar: 134,4 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Vladivostok - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Vladivostok: 220 EUR
TOTALLY: 354,4 EUR


for 2 persons travelling together:
Citystar: 201,6 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Vladivostok - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Vladivostok: 2x 220 EUR
TOTALLY: 641,6 EUR (320,8 EUR p.p.)



Moskva - Irkutsk - Moskva:

Citystar: 134,4 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Moskva - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 148 EUR
Reservation Irkutsk - Moskva: 148 EUR
TOTALLY: 430,4 EUR


for 2 persons travelling together:
Citystar: 201,6 EUR (the part Bratislava - Moskva and Irkutsk - Bratislava remain unused)
Reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 2x 148 EUR
Reservation Irkutsk - Moskva: 2x 148 EUR
TOTALLY: 793,6 EUR (396,8 EUR p.p.)



Moskva - Irkutsk or v.v. (one-way):

a normal international ticket from Slovakian railway is cheaper:
international ticket Moskva - Irkutsk: 112 EUR (if bought in Slovakia)
Reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 148 EUR
TOTALLY: 260 EUR





For additional stopovers (for example at Yekaterinburg (=Sverdlovsk)) the price of the ticket (Citystar-ticket) remains unchanged, whereas you need to count the seperate reservations prices (two reservations Moskva - Yekaterinburg and Yekaterinburg - Moskva instead of just one through-reservation Moskva - Irkutsk).
For details about reservations prices see http://citystarticket.blogspot.com/2007/07/sleeper-reservations.html





Other combinations for international trips from Europe:

- via Hungary:

If you want to get from Austria to Russia it's easier and faster to travel via Hungary than via Slovakia. In this case you can also use the Citystar-ticket. The part Bratislava - Chop - Bratislava remains unused. Chop is the first station in Ukraine, the lines from Slovakia and Hungary meet here.

For a trip Wien (Vienna) - Irkutsk and back you need:
Citystar ticket Bratislava - Irkutsk via Ukraine: 134,4 EUR
Additional ticket across Hungary to Chop and back (e.g. ticket Wien - Chop via Budapest and back): 114 EUR (with Railplus card: 85 EUR, with OeBB-Vorteilscard: 79 EUR)
Sleeper reservation Budapest - Moskva: 24 EUR
Sleeper reservation Moskva - Irkutsk: 148 EUR
Sleeper reservation Irkutsk - Moskva: 148 EUR
Sleeper reservation Moskva - Budapest: 24 EUR
TOTALLY: 592,4 EUR


However, since a new sleeping car from Zilina in Eastern Slovakia to Moscow via Ukraine has been introduced, travelling from Vienna via Bratislava - Kosice to Moscow became an interesting alternative!
See above (Bratislava - Vladivostok - Bratislava). The additional return ticket Vienna - Bratislava - Vienna costs about 27 EUR.


- from Germany to Russia via Ukraine:

To avoid Belarus (transit visa) you can get to Kiev by train from Berlin and the use the Citystar from Kiev onwards. The part Bratislava - Kiev remains unused in this case.

The trip Berlin - Kiev (ticket + sleeper reservation) costs about 115 EUR (90 EUR with a Railplus-card).
Citystar-ticket: 134,4 EUR
Sleeper reservation Kiev - Moskva: 55 EUR
Sleeper reservation Moskva - Vladivostok: 220 EUR
Totally about 524 EUR for a one-way-trip from Berlin to Vladivostok.