21 Mar, 2024 @ 16:16
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Train travel costs to plummet in Spain: Ouigo will expand to Andalucia, Murcia and Valladolid with tickets from €9

BUDGET train company Ouigo is set to launch in Andalucia, Murcia and Valladolid, plummeting costs across the country.

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This year French high speed train operator Ouigo has expanded its offering throughout Spain. 

In June, it will inaugurate new stops in its Madrid-Valencia line, including Cuenca on June 1. 

Later that month, it will expand its network in Eastern Spain, with destinations in Elche and Murcia, linking up this line with Valladolid on its way to Madrid. 

In the second half of the year, it will launch lines connecting Madrid and Andalucia including Sevilla, Malaga and Cordoba.

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Tickets will start at just €9 for adults, a price so low that Spanish transport minister, Oscar Puente accused the company of ‘flagrantly plummeting prices.’

The president of Ouigo Spain, Alain Krakovitch and the General Director, Helen Valenzuela, presented the plans in Madrid last week. 

Travellers can already buy tickets on the Ouigo website. 

It is hoped the new services will help to lower prices when demand is high, such as at Christmas and Easter.

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Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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