Cannot book train from Budapest to Bucharest

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The following is the reply I received from Hungarian Railways. So guess I should wait for a few days/weeks before I try again.

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I tried to book the Romanian part of the journey on the CFR web site (they do not offer international connections there) and Romanian railway tickets can obviously only be booked 60 days in advance.

Even if Hungarian railways generally sell tickets 90 days in advance, they are for international tickets likely bound by a combination of the restrictions of all participating trains operators. I would simply wait a few more days and assume that tickets for the 6th of December will be made available for booking soon.

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As of now (5 October 2018) tickets on this route are available until 8 December 2018.

Screenshot of MAV booking Page for required journey

In response to your comment, about not being able to book the ticket. I think that MÁV could invest some time in training their web page developers with some user experience improvement.

The exact steps are these:

  1. Select "Budapest Keleti [Budapest-Keleti]" as your departure station. Select "BUCURESTI [Bucureşti Nord]" as your destination station. Choose your date of travel. Click the "Search" button.

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  1. Make the choices about how you want to travel and then enter your date of birth (make sure you use the format yyyy.mm.dd, including leading zeros if necessary). NB: I could not do this in Google Chrome and I am using an older version of IE. Click the button "Tickets and Prices".

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  1. Click the tiny down arrow next to "Further Information"

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  1. Click in the radio button in your train's line.

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  1. Click the "Ticket to the cart" button

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  1. You now need to create a login for MÁV. Click on the "Registration" link and fill in your details, then sign in and pay.

Enjoy your trip!

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