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I want to book the train from Krakow Glowny to Vienna central station on Sunday 21st June for me and one other person. I have tried to book the 10:21am multiple times on the OBB Austrian railway website but every time I go through the whole process and then after paying it says ‘Reservation not possible’ and ‘Please change your reservation request’. I have tried multiple times on this website and as well on the PKP intercity website. Neither work and interrail says this journey requires a reservation. Does this mean the train is full, I’m too early to reserve the seats or something else? Any help would be appreciated :)

Hello, we are a group of 4 travelling from Paris to Tabres on the SNCF night train. We all have Global Eurail passes. Two friends would like to join us on the trip by buying direct tickets from SNCF.Is there any way we can book seat reservations so all of us can get places in the same 6-bed couchette? As far as I can see the Eurail website allows to add only passholders. Thanks!

So I’m planning my first interrail in my plan atm is to fly from Finland to Gdansk (real cheap) and start my rail from there! What trains should I take to get to Prague or is it just easier to fly straight to Prague or Krakow?  Thanks for any help!

At my previous Erasmus, -I’m from Turkey- i unfortunately has chosen Germany as country of residince and not Turkey. In that case, you are not eligible to use your pass in your country of residince and since i’ve started to use it, It was too late.. I’d like to notice this issue 🙏

Hei, we have seniot interrail tickets. We fly to Palermo first. We cannot get seating places to train from Palermo to Salerno 1.5, time 10.15. How we can pay them and get our tickets to phone?

Hi does anyone know how you can view the train stations without activating the pass? 

Hi,We live in France, so using the pass can only leave and re-enter France one time. However we want to first visit London on the Eurostar for several days, then go to Brussels on the Eurostar. This London - Brussels train passes thru the north-east corner of France to get to Brussels, so does this constitute our re-entering France trip, even though we aren’t getting off in France? If so, do we then have to pay for the trip to return to France when we are finished travelling in the rest of Europe?Thanks for your help.

Hello - I have 3 days in Lucerne in April and one of the trips I’d like to do is from Lucerne to Interlaken. I’ve seen lots of comments about not needing to reserve trains in Switzerland but thought I’d check it out. I’ve had a look on OBB and SBB and Rail Europe and can’t find any reservations available. It seems possible on the Eurail site itself. The only other place I can see to purchase them is at https://store.luzern.com/luzern_en/specials/daytrips/zentralbahn-int-lu   I’ve looked on there for 24th April and the seating plan shows quite a lot of seats are already booked so it seems as though it might be a good idea to book after all? Or could it be that only some seats are able to be reserved and the rest are left for people to hop on/hop off? Has anyone booked reservations via this shop? Many thanks for advice

Hi,I m travelling in Portugal with my girlfriend with our bikes. We were today in Lisbonne and we try to book a train between Porto campanha to  Pontevedra in spain passing by Redondela de Galicia.The problem is on the train between Porto an Redondela de Galicia the 9 of May at 8h10. And which arrive at 11h31 af Redondela de galicia. This train can be found on interrail timetable, can't be booked online with interrail and at  lisbon ticket office they said that the train do not exists because it stop at Vigo. I try to search it on CP and on RENFE app and effectively no train appear for this search. Does someone know if this train exist ?  (I hope yes) If not, does someone know how to be at Pontevedra before 17h (Spain hour) from Porto on Saturday (with our bikes but we can unmount and put them into bags).

I have to be in Prague next May 28th for work, and I was thinking of seizing the opportunity to visit Wien in Austria after that, and have my short experience of  train travelling through Europe that I have been dreaming for 20 years and not been able to do so far. I would need some advice as to how to connect Wien and the north of spain to return after wandering about Wien a little bit; thanks

Here’s a clearer and more concise version:I’ve reserved a seat but haven’t activated my pass yet. I’ve decided to change my travel date, but I wasn’t able to cancel the reservation. Can I make a new reservation for a different date and simply not use the original one?If you want it slightly more formal (for customer support), you could say:I have reserved a seat but have not yet activated my pass. As I need to change my travel date and was unable to cancel the original reservation, could you please confirm whether I can book a new reservation and leave the previous one unused? and would this affect in any way my past day travels?

Se perdo una coincidenza del treno comprato col pass interrail, devo pagare un altro biglietto nonostante abbia il pass interrail? 

I activated my pass. There is a screen showing  my pass number and valid dates.  do i need to add a journey to get the pass.

Se perdo una coincidenza del treno comprato col pass interrail, devo pagare un altro biglietto nonostante abbia il pass interrail? 

This isn’t a question, more so a complaint.In the past, you could delete past journeys to tidy up your trip. I liked writing down my different options and then activating them. Or even adding journeys that I didn’t use my pass for to keep an overview of how much I’ve travelled.Now I’m no longer able to delete journeys in the past, even if I didn’t take them. It’s only something minor, but now I can’t have an accurate overview of how many kilometres I’ve travelled and how many places I’ve visited.Also, while I’m travelling, I can no longer see where I’ve been. I probably will be able to once the trip ends, but it’s still a downgrade in my opinion.

I have an Interrail pass. At the Interrail website I can only book a seat. At the Autrian railways I can only book a complete ticket, including trainfare + sleeping place.

Bonjour,  J'ai acheté un pass 4 jours 1 mois pour le Royaume-Uni. Quand je veux acheter mon billet via interrail.fr, on me dit que le trajet Paris-Londres n'est pas inclus dans mon pass. Savez-vous pourquoi ? et quelle est la solution ? J’ai visiblement la possibilité d’acheter un billet sur b-europe. Pensez-vous que c’est fiable ?

Sorry to be a bit dim but unless I can get on my first train in the UK I can’t go anywhere.So, in my trip I have my first journey which is on a Thameslink train to London.Once I have activated my pass, what happens?Will it give me a QR code and I just go to the barrier and scan it? 

To activate a pass on the mobile app I need A 6 digit passcode that is supposed to be sent to my phone, but I don’t have one yet. How do I get one?

My daughter 23F and I 61M are traveling to Munich/Salzburg/Vienna in late June/early July.  I am trying to determine what type of tickets I need for the rail from Munich to Salzburg and then Salzburg to Vienna.  Any thought or suggestions?

I'm going to itali this year first we drive from Austria to Neapel then slowly back again.really looking forward to it.

Hello,I’m currently planning my Interrail trip and I’m having some issues with the connection between Italy and Switzerland. I want to travel from Milan to Basel SBB on June 9th, originally with EC 150 around 11:10, but I can’t manage to book a seat reservation for this train. On ÖBB and Trenitalia it says either “no seats available” or “temporarily not available for purchase”. On the Rail Planner app, it also says that seats for Interrail Pass holders on EC 150 are likely already sold out.Basel is not my final destination, but I need to be there before 17:30 to continue my trip. I tried to find other options than EC 150, but all the ones I saw are kind of blocked.Does anyone know if there is still any way to get a reservation for the EC 150 train, or what alternative routes you would recommend if it’s not available? I’m also open to using regional trains or other options if needed.Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi all, I'm travelling from Interlaken to Rome via Milan on the 2nd of August. I'm taking the following route:Interlaken West - Spiez - Domodossola - Milano Centrale - Roma Termini.I'm still yet to get seat reservations for the Spiez - Milano Centrale stretch. On the ÖBB and RailEurope planners, I see that EC61 from Basel SBB to Milano Centrale shows as 2 separate trips, from Basel to Domodossola and from Domodossola to Milan. I wanted to get in at Spiez to go straight to Milan. However, on the Interrail planner, the trip from Basel to Domodossola is not listed at all. Could there be any reason for this? Thanks in advance!

Hi.Today is my travel date. We are 5 friends. 3 of us were able to activate our passes. But 2 of us cannot and we need to catch a train in 1 hour. It says “Something went wrong”.PLEASE HELP.

Hi! My group and I just bought the Eurail Global pass and we just had some confusion regarding booking seat reservations on the trains. On some legs of our train travel, it says “No price results were found. Pass holder reservations may be sold out for this connection, but there are other ways to check for available seats—more info below our timetable.” Does this mean that we will not get a seat at all, or that we just have to show up and hope that we can find a seat for that train?  Are we able to book seat reservations through other websites such as Trainline using our Eurail pass, and if so, how does one go about that?  If a train booking says “open seating only” does that mean first come first serve?  If our train connection is less than 10 minutes, are we likely to actually make that train? If you can only answer one of the above questions that is still a major help! We’re just feeling a little overwhelmed regarding the trains and want to make sure we are doing it right :)Thank yo