Are there any tricks to trying to get reasonable fares for travel 1+ month in advance on VIA's website?
I'm trying to plan a late-February getaway to Montreal (I need a Metro/AZUR and Chicken Poutine fix) figuring a Friday-Monday kinda thing. I can get fares from Toronto-Montreal return for $44 per direction per person... but if I try to do Kitchener-Montreal, it jumps to $120+, which makes no sense to me. If I plan it all manually, I could just take a $20 GO ticket from Kitchener to Toronto, then catch the late morning train from Toronto to Montreal, and kinda do the same thing in reverse on the way back.
If I use their tools, for the two of us to go from Kitchener to Montreal and back it comes out to almost $500, which is kind of insane. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious...
I'm trying to plan a late-February getaway to Montreal (I need a Metro/AZUR and Chicken Poutine fix) figuring a Friday-Monday kinda thing. I can get fares from Toronto-Montreal return for $44 per direction per person... but if I try to do Kitchener-Montreal, it jumps to $120+, which makes no sense to me. If I plan it all manually, I could just take a $20 GO ticket from Kitchener to Toronto, then catch the late morning train from Toronto to Montreal, and kinda do the same thing in reverse on the way back.
If I use their tools, for the two of us to go from Kitchener to Montreal and back it comes out to almost $500, which is kind of insane. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious...