Facing the summer 2024, More than 220 thousand tickets were sold in just over 24 hours to travel in train to Mar del Plata and Divisadero (Pinamar), which almost exhausted the availability December, January and Februaryaccording to data provided by sources of Argentine Trains.
After the long lines on Tuesday to get a ticket, especially in the Constitution stationwhere there were up to 10 blocks of queue, this morning at the long-distance ticket offices of the terminal of the Rock Linethe movement was practically null.
Only a few people came to the ticket offices to ask for availability, like Ángela, a 65-year-old woman who had attended accompanied by her daughter Elvira and Gabriel, one of her grandchildren.
“We are from Longchamps and we came to see if there were any tickets left, but they told us that there were only tickets to go to Mar del Plata in the last six days of January or the last third of Februarybut there was nothing to return a week after said dates because my grandchildren have classes, so it won’t be possible,” he told Télam.
“Yesterday we couldn’t come and the only possibility that the four of us (she, her daughter and two grandchildren) have to travel is in train because collectively it is impossible,” he lamented.
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Trains to Mar del Plata: are there tickets available?
Until 10 this Wednesday they had been sold 220,440 ticketsof which 200,278 were destined for Mar del Plata and 20,166 to Divisadero (Pinamar).
Regarding availability, the sources of Argentine Trains they indicated that For December there are no tickets to travel from Constitución to Mar del Plata and there are only tickets for the journey between Mar del Plata and Constituciónthe first nine days of the month.
In January tickets are available Constitution to Mar del Plata the last six days of the month and there is no room in any service to return throughout the month. In what makes February there are tickets to travel from Constitution to Mardelthe last three days of the month and for the return on the 22nd and 23rd.
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Summer 2024 on Trains: where to buy tickets
The sources indicated that although it was announced sufficiently in advance that the tickets could be purchased through the website, where there is a 10% discountor in person at main terminals of CABA and in more than 33 points in the AMBA And in the headlands of the interior of the countrythe largest influx of people occurred in Constitutionto a lesser extent in Withdrawal and there were almost no sales in Eleven.
Is the long-distance train the cheapest means of transportation?
A bus fare to Mar del Plata It has a cost today of between $22,000 and $26,000depending on the type of service, whether semi-bed, bed either executive. Meanwhile, a air ticket can be around $54,000 to $80,000depending on the date.
The difference with the train is exorbitantsince a ticket to “The happy” has a cost of 2,695 in first and 3,230 in Pullman.
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Trains to Mar del Plata: frequencies and daily services during December
During Decemberthere will be three daily round trip services between Constitución and Mar del Plata and a direct reinforcement the Friday for the going and the Monday for the return from the coast. While the Saturdays, Sundays and holidays daily services will be three.
Direct services take time five hours and 40 minutesthose who stop only at Dolores and General Guido for the combination with the train to Divisaderothey delay five hours and 50 minutes and those who stop at all seasons, delay six hours and 15 minutes.
Source: Ambito
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