Try the Hungarian Rail site. http://www.mav-start… I see advance purchase for 19 Euros, for example.

Try this link (from Papyr, our resident Czech and Slovak expert) for the Czech system http://jizdnirady.id… It may not show prices for international tickets.

You may have trouble buying the ticket on-line in advance and if you buy from the Hungarian site, make sure there’s a way to print an e-ticket or to pick up the ticket in Prague. A ticket waiting for you in Budapest won’t help.

at www.cd.cz/eshop you can buy the single ride to Budapest from as low as 449 Kc (that is 18.15 euros) for a non-refundable, personalized, seat-tied ticket, and it’s payable with an online card.

Alas, the booking process takes place in Czech language and there’s no possibility to change it.

So all I can do, if you want, is to ask you for your ICQ number or facebook login or gmail login, so that we can arrange a “online chat meeting” during which I will be translating what appears on your screen. If you want me to do it, drop me a private message with any of the above identificators.

A normal price without any specials or discounts is 70 euros for a basic ticket untied to a particular train or passenger and it can be bought anytime in the international cash desks in the Czech rep.