Help!!! Transportation to Bratislava

Hi all. Skyeurope just cancelled my booking due to their change of summer schedule (bummer). Now I have to find another way to go to Bratislava. Is it possible to reserve a train ticket? Hydrofoil? My travel date would be mid April.

Thanks.

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From where? The hydrofoil has its limitations, and I can%26#39;t think of a way that it might be able to reach Bratislava efficiently from the Czech Republic using such a means of transport. :)

Did they not offer you an alternative?

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From Prague.

I checked, there is actually a hydrofoil from Prague to Bratislava. But it will start running from 26 April. Too late for me.

And no, the skyeurope does not offer alternative. They only offer a free re-booking. But I can not change my travelling date anyway.

I know there is train to Bratislava. I don%26#39;t know if I need to reserve in advance or if I can just show up at the station and buy the ticket on the spot.

I don%26#39;t want to go to the station and be told that there is no more seat left. Then I will lose time and money (for the accommodation in Bratislava and for another night in Prague).

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Wow - this must be a very special hydrofoil - let me know more! There is no continuous waterway between the two cities that I know of so this journey would be quite difficult.

Seriously, though - You must be thinking of Budapest - Bratislava - Vienna, which is physically possible and there is such a service.

As for the train, you can get a ticket on the day for the trains to Bratislava. It never sells out (at least I have never seen it %26#39;sold out%26#39; and I must have been on that train over one hundred times). It costs about 500 Crowns/20 Euros 2nd class, or 760 Crowns/30 Euros first class.

Journey time, about 4 hours - fastest trains go from Prague-Holesovice station.

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Oh yeah. maybe it is bratislava-vienna and not prague. Sorry. :D

but anyway, if there was a hydrofoil, it will start running on 26 april so I%26#39;m not going to check on that again.

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