Paris Travel Guide - FLASH

( aller-retour ) with a stay over Saturday night can be cheaper than a single one-way ticket ( aller simple ). A very limited selection of last minute trips are published on the SNCF website every Tuesday, with discounts of more than 50%. There are a number of different kinds of high speed and normal trains:  TER : The regional trains ( Train Express Régionale ); cheapest tickets, though prices are variable on the time of day of departure (and the day of departure as well). TER are slower, stopping at almost all stations.

Lunéa train categories. There are two kinds: the regular trains, which are priced the same as the TER and the trains you'll find yourself on if you have a Eurail or InterRail pass and don't want to pay extra for reservations, and the trains à réservation

obligatoire , which require a reservation and are priced differently from the regular Intercités trains.

 TGV : The world-famous French high-speed trains ( Trains à Grande Vitesse ) run very frequently to the Southeast Nice (5-6h), Marseille (3h) and Avignon (2.5h), the East (by TGV Lyria) to Geneva (3h), Lausanne

 Intercités : A bundling of the former Intercités , Téoz , and