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Dear Community I’m attempting to book seats on the IC 306 Hamburg to Malmo (Stockholm) 9:51-15:35 on Tuesday 26 May. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find a site or app where I can reserve seats. I’ve tried Eurail/Interail, DB, Snalltaget, DSB, ÖBB, etc. without success.Can anyone enlighten me on how I can make a reservation as it says seat reservations are required.Thanks in anticipation Steve Passey

I go on a trip in two weeks and wanted to start booking trains ahead of time. I haven’t activated my pass yet because I figured I should wait until like a day or two before leaving. If I want to start booking trains in advance, how can I choose when I’ll use travel days and when I don’t want to? And should I activate my pass to start booking?

Hello everyone,I have won the DiscoverEU pass and with it comes 4 free seat reservations. I have used 3 of them but would like to keep the last one for a different journey. When trying to book a seat reservation it only allows me to use the free credit. How can i pay for it instead of using the seat reservation?any help would be appreciated!kind regards, Oscar

Newbie here!  I have a trip with some journeys listed. I haven't activated my pass yet as I dont leave until September. On my trip list of journeys I dont see the yellow toggle on/off to add or remove to my pass.  Do I only get that after I activate my pass?

Hey,We are going from Nizza to Barcelona today. We would have changed the train three times, however the second train from Marseilles I am in right now is heavily delayed and we won't get the next one.Thing is there are no reservations to be made for these following ones so we didn't pay money for it but all the trains we can now take instead are about 30€ for reservations (+like two hours more to wait).Is there any way to avoid having to pay for this train that we didn't plan on taking? Thanks in advanceStella

I need an earlier Eurostar from St Pancras international, London, same day to make a connection TGV in Paris. I have been unable both through Eurostar and Eurrail site to find a space to exchange Eurostar to an earlier time of day. I see there is only 50 minutes between supposed arrival (if on time!) to make 14 subways stops on a Friday in  Paris, not to mention the distance between above ground platforms to the subway/metro. Will I lose the $60+ booking fee I already paid on the Eurrail site? Meanwhile, each day booking and rates are increasing. My Eurostar/Eurrail bookings both made on the Eurrail site with my 1st class Eurrail pass for May 29 (14 days. It is the last TGV of the day (only 2 daily go to Les Sables d’Olonne, my destination. I have 2 case files waiting for answers from each of Eurostar and Eurrail customer service. This is time consuming. Help - Au secours! Un grand merci - thanks for your anticipated advice and you tube links to practical info.

I would like to travel from Chartres to Pontorson Mont St Michel (France) at 15:12 on 24 June.  I am getting an error message, “Not Included in Pass.” I would like to purchase the ticket but don’t see a button for the transaction.  What do I do? 

Hello,I bought a 4‑day Interrail pass. I planned to do: Day 1: Lyon–Zurich Day 2: night train Zurich–Prague Day 3: Prague–Berlin Day 4: night train Berlin–Paris (18h31-10h42 europeen sleeper), then Paris–Lyon two hours later. Does this work, or do I need a 5‑day Interrail pass?

Hi everyone,I'm planning a 2-week Interrail trip departing from Paris (France, my country of residence) and I have a question about the number of travel days I need and whether a specific train is covered.Here's my itinerary:- Paris → Lecco (via Zurich)- Lecco → Padua- Padua → Bologna- Bologna → Genoa- Genoa → Nice (where we'll spend 3 nights)- Nice → ParisI understand that with the Global Pass, I get 2 journeys in my country of residence: one to leave France (Paris → Lecco) and one to return (Nice → Paris), and that these don't count as travel days.My question is about the Nice → Paris leg specifically. Since we're stopping in Nice for 3 nights before taking that train, it will be used on a completely separate day from the Genoa → Nice leg. Does it still count as the included "return journey" in my country of residence, or does it need to be on a travel day?And just to confirm: does the app correctly calculate 5 travel days for this itinerary, or should it be 4?Thanks in advance!

We will travel to Spain next week, starting from Germany and using the Deutschlandticket to Kehl and a train ticket Kehl-Strasbourg, so our first travel day will be a normal international travel day. Will we be able to use the saved outbound journey day for another trip later on? We have 10 travel days in 2 months passes.

Is it possible for my assistant to download and set up my trip on her device and activate my passes, and then I log in on my device and all the trips and passes are there?

Hi,I was thinking of doing a long travel day, and my last train switch would be at 23:59 (still same travel day). I was wondering, if my train has delays and only comes at 00:20… is this a new travel day then?Thank you in advance!

Ich möchte im Oktober nach England und im Eurostar sind angeblich keine Sitzplätze mehr buchbar, obwohl für den Zug noch Tickets zu kaufen sind. Kann mir da jemand helfen? 

Apologies to anyone who was already aware of this, but I’ve just come across SBB’s luggage forwarding service, and it seems like really good value.The canny use case here is if you have a few days travelling through Switzerland, and don’t need your bag. The basic service is very reasonably priced: 12 CHF for ‘Station to Station’ delivery. It’s relatively slow (drop your bag off on Day 1, pick it up on Day 3), but I think that can work to your advantage when you think of it as luggage storage and transport together.They will also store the bag at the destination station for free for 4 days.https://www.sbb.ch/en/tickets-offers/reservation-luggage/checking-taking-luggage.htmlThere are also more expensive door to door and Express options, but the basic service is the one I could see myself using.

Me and my girlfriend bought two global passes. She added me to her trip, but in my mobile app nothing changed and i cant ser the reservations that She made. There is something we can do? Are we doing something wrong? Thank you Im advance

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