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Besides the Thalys website, other options for buying Thalys tickets include:
Those sites sell tickets for all Thalys journeys (so you can, for example, buy a Paris to Brussels ticket from NS in the Netherlands) and you can use all the sites from any country.
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Yet another good website: goeuro.com
By far the simplest booking of any other mentioned so far on this question!
no need to input passport numbers, no problem with credit cards, no broken email validation, no high prices! in fact, it was half the price of any thalys owned sites! and it also show airplane and buses. The only bad thing on this site was zero information regarding luggage. But you can solve that by noting the ticket name and looking up on each company site.
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Another one is trainline.eu
I just checked and it allows to buy Thalys tickets (for a strange astral combination, 1st class was cheaper than 2nd....)
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated. I used it once.
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neat. Thalys tweeted this question and pointed to www.raileurope.com. which even has better prices then their own website or ticket counters. Do they own that site and upsell on other channels? Or recognize their own site is awful?
Either way, thank you, thalys for helping out even if in this convoluted way. (would be much more help if you instead fixed the email validation on your main site!)