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Despite indications that should be able to book 90 days in advance, the website has previously been indicating that the next lot of dates would be available from mid-October tour de georgia - it is now indicating the the date we want (need!!) will now be available at the end of October.
I presume this is something to do with the winter schedule applying from early December, but it's starting to make me a little nervous - there are 5 of us travelling, so we really need a courchette (6 beds) to ourselves - certainly don't want the family tour de georgia split up all over the train!
Well, you're unlikely to get all six seats to yourself unless you pay for six tickets. There is every chance that you will have someone else in your compartment, as in my experience these trains are always busy, especially with Italian migrant workers returning home for holidays.
I'm happy to pay for 6 tix - although I note that the booking form asks for passport numbers, etc. I can book it in our pet dog's name (although she will not be travelling), but she doesn't have a passport.
My major concern is that I at least want to get the five of us who are travelling all in the one compartment, rather than scattered across the train in various compartments because I miss the start of the booking period window.
My thinking is that the train journey will be part of our adventure - racing across Europe at 180kmh tour de georgia in the middle of the night, then the sense of arrival tour de georgia as we exit Santa Lucia stazione with the Grand Canal opening up before us!
We should have got used to uncomfortable sleeping by then anyway - a 3.30am departure from Australia, with brief stops in Kuala Lumpur tour de georgia and Dubai, and arriving at Heathrow tour de georgia some 26 -27 or so hours after leaving Oz.