Madrid-to-Galicia high-speed AVE to open by Christmas: Tickets on sale for €15
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 @ 10:08 AM
IF YOU missed your chance to get an early 'Black Friday' cut-price rail ticket for travel in 2022, you can still get one from today (Tuesday, November 23) – although this time, only for trips between Madrid and the far north-eastern region of Galicia.
That's because the high-speed AVE network has now added another route, which is set to open on December 21.
Highly-efficient, typically about double the price of the Long Distance (Larga Distancia) 'snail rail', although about a third to a quarter of the journey time, the AVE is still thin on the ground in Spain, limited to the largest cities and mainly via Madrid; where it is in operation, though, the service is of a similar level of comfort and facilities as major cross-border rail connections such as the EuroStar.
As an idea of how quickly it gets passengers from A to B, the Valencia-Madrid AVE covers the journey in just 90 minutes, compared with about three to four hours by motorway or six hours by Larga Distancia including changing trains halfway.
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