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Hi! I'm planning an Interrail trip this summer (around August) with 3 friends.We were wondering if it's a good idea to sleep on the train for one night (for example from Amsterdam to Berlin) to save money, or if it's better to book accommodation.Also, would you recommend reserving seats in advance, or is it usually fine without reservations?Any advice or personal experiences would be really helpful. Thanks! :)

The station of Renfe Cercanias’s Tres Cantos does not appear automatically in the app so I entered it manually, the app gave me the QR but this QR was not able to get read at the entrance at Madrid-Recoletos station, the attendant at the station told me that Cercanias was not included in Eurail pass but the list shows it as included. Does someone knows what to do?

I've been waiting until it was 150 days before departure before booking my seats (which was today,  it had been saying they were bookable 150 days before departure) but now when I try to book Paris - Lausanne (switzerland) there are no trains with reservations able to book. Am I missing something?I’m looking for the 29th July. 

Since my wife and myself started interrailing again three years ago, we always used paper passes as I did already more than 40 years earlier. This year we want to travel Great Britain and I wonder if we better switch to mobile passes this year as the ticket barriers present on many British station can probably read the QR-codes generated when adding a journey to the pass. And we would not need assistance of a station staff member to enter or exit the platform. Are there any experiences with Interrail/Eurail passes and British ticket barriers?

I created a trip on the website. Linked to my email and the account i bought passes.It’s a trip for 4 people and i have used my account to buy all the passes.When i added my pass to the app, it does not have my trip assigned.Anything i am doing wrong?

Hello everyone. The interrail.eu website keeps telling me that tickets are open for sale 90 or 150 days prior to departure. But this morning i got up at 6:45 to purchase a ticket on the 27th of july and it was already sold out. Do the tickets for a day have a specific time they open for sale, or do you know of a website where one could purchase them prior to when they open for sale on interrail.eu? Help would be much aprreciated:)

Bahn.com, B-europe.com, and Eurostar themselves show a train from London to Brussels on 14 March at 07:04 - but when I try to book it on the Interrail reservations page, it seems to have vanished?!  [Yes I checked a few minutes before on B-Europe that Interrail passholder fares *were* available].Any ideas? I want to book with the Interrail website as they seem to have the cheapest fees, E2 per trip.Thanks.

I just spotted a posting which has somewhat alarmed me.  It was referring to new restrictions that had come into place at Tirano if travelling toward St Moritz and Chur.  It would appear that there was a very long queuing system in place for people without seat reservations resulting in people not catching their planned train.Admittedly we will not be travelling on this line until September, and it is not clear whether or not this was just a temporary arrangement.  Even so, we have very little flexibility in our journey plans and so don’t want to take any risks.  (Our intention is to take the 9.41 from Tirano to St Moritz and then the 12.47 from St Moritz to Chur.)My question is how do I go about buying seat reservations for these trains.  I went onto Rail Europe to see how to book seat reservations.  (Not for our actual trips - as these are not yet available, but for comparable journeys in May).  However because reservations are optional all it said was ‘FREE’ and I could not see a wa

Good day,I have (iPhone) passes for me and my wife. We are planning a trip from UK throughout France, Switzerland into Italy in May. I have most of our train reservations in place (Glacier Express and Bernini Express not available in I/R site. Can I just use prints of the seat reservation “tickets” I have received via email? Or how do I add these journeys onto my pass? Also we are still waiting for two services in Italy to come on to the schedule, can I just board th4ese trains by showing our IR passes on our phone.It is all very confusing.Thanks for your help

We have a 15 days in 2 months pass, and the My Trip section is beginning to fill up. Making it a bit cumbersome to scroll down to the next active travel day. I started deleting the journeys taken in the past, but noticed that they then also disappear from the past tickets. So I ended up adding them back again as I don’t know if they are relevant and must stay in the app. I had assumed that the travel in the past is locked and cannot be removed from the tickets. Therefore my question: can I safely remove them from My Trip, just to make this section less cluttered? Or do I have to keep them all in? The FAQs have nothing on this topic.

Hello, we are travelling in May and June without a return date which we intend to decide en route but probably the last week in June. Does anyone know if it is difficult to find a Eurostar reservation around this time with just 2 weeks notice. Thanks in anticipation. Gip

Hi! I have an interrail card via DiscoverEU/erasmus.  I booked a train ticket from Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl for Tuesday, 16 June 2026 at 20:21-21:57. I reserved a seat with one of my free seat reservation credits. I got an email with my order confirmation and receipt, however I cannot open the PDF with the actual seat reservation QR Code/ticket. It just says that an error has occurred. I was wondering if there were anyway for me to fix this problem or get a new pdf? My order number is R2026101291

Hi allLooking at reserving a 2nd class couchette on this service for four people.   On the sncf booking site it appears I can still get a private space (Espace Privatif), but here I can’t tell if one of the above prices is for a private couchette. Any ideas? If not, do we know what the price difference is?Many thanksPaul

Hello there,We are planning on travelling from Brussels to Salzburg on the NJ469 June 1st. When we were planning our trip last week, we were able to book onto the June 1st service. However this weekend, we were going to sort out all out seat reservations and accomodation and a key part of our trip (this night train) we are unable to reserve our seats.Looking online there is extensive maintenance works on the lines and many of the services prior are also showing un-reservable. With June 3rd being the first train in a while where you can actually book again. Just wondering if anyone has any information on the confidence on this service becoming available again (as it appeared last week)? and when would OBB likely provide confirmation of this service?I have set up an alert through the OBB website, but given we have booked certain trains, it would be good to know sooner rather than later regarding this service.Thank you in advance 

The Interrail website shows reservation fee indications. Before I purchase a pass, I want to check the precise cost of reservations on specific Eurostar trains (I assume they are more expensive on busier trains). But to do that I need to book a journey, and to book a journey I need to add a traveller, for which I need a Pass number. Is it possible to check the price of specific seat reservations before buying a pass?

Hello everyone, I am very blessed and excited to visit this gorgeous continent!Originally I planned a 3 week vacation which is looking like a month+ long at this moment. The goal of my trip is for a possible relocation as things aren’t looking so good in California, I appreciate in advance any suggestions, shortcuts, foodie recs, stargazing spots, sunrises/sunsets (crazy, I’m used to only seeing the sunsets!). Muchas gracias!  

Hola me gustaría saber que pase deberíamos comprar o como más o menos lo tendríamos que hacer porque queremos irnos un grupo de amigos y yo aproximadamente 10 días a unos destinos elegidos la ruta ya está hecha pero no sabemos qué pase comprar o más o menos como organizar el tema de los pases del dinero

In planning our upcoming trip through Europe, we booked Eurail seat reservations for our intended routes. I know those seat reservations are non-refundable. Now we want to change routes. Can we change those seat reservations without losing money? 

HI, I need to know what kind of Eurail Pass is the best for me. I`ll travel  through:Netherlands, Belgium, Swiss and Italy during 15 days. I want to visit around 11 cities. Some of them from Bruxelles, Bern or Milan. My question is about the destinations, if I go and back from Bern to Lucern in one day, how many destinations will be? 1 or 2?Thank for your help.

Hello everyone!I have a question regarding trains. Is it possible to take a train different to the one I put in the Rail Planner (It does not need seat reservation) ?I am considering taking day trips when I’ll be travelling, and I wanted to know whether I exclusively have to take the ones I associated to the pass. thanks in advance

Hi,  I have made my plan and only need to travel on 3 dates.  It looks like the shortest pass is 4 days.  Can I just buy a train ride from one place to another OR do I need the pass and then reservations?  TIA!

Hi - I booked two youth passes accidentally rather than two children passes. Kids are 5 and 8. I don’t care too much about the money but is this going to be an issue when traveling? Not sure how strict ticket inspectors will be on their ages.  Thanks!

I am travelling around Spain at Easter and am finding it very hard to reserve the seats I need on-line.  I am thinking of going to a train station in Spain and buying them there - is this risky?  I am thinking of Santander late afternoon on a Sunday - would the station be open?  Or in Granada on 30th or 31st March.  Any advuce?

Hi, I want to do an Interrail reservation on the sleeper (EN414) from Ljubljana to Stuttgart in mid/late March, but most dates say “Currently not reservable” (it’s the same with or without an Interrail pass). However, it *is* possible to get a reservation on the same train starting from Zagreb!!Do Austrian Railways prioritise passengers doing the ‘whole trip’ from Zagreb to Stuttgart, before releasing seats/berths from intermediate stations, maybe just a few days before? Seems crazy when the price is the same!! If I book a reservation departing from Zagreb, but only board at Ljubljana, will my reservation be invalid and get thrown off the train?Thanks for any assistance.

I'm planning a trip to France, and haven't bought a One Country Pass yet.I have added many places on different calendar days to the Trip planner, however it says I only need a 4-day pass. I see the number of days increasing but sometimes it doesn't.  Am I missing something about the rules of what counts as a day, or is the Trip planner tripping? I understand it says “Passes from USD $xxx,” but if it shows 4 travel days, that means a 4-day pass is valid, correct? 1 13/4 paris - str 2 14/4 str - colmar   14/4 colmar - str 3 15/4 str - paris   15/4 paris - tours 4 16/04  tours - Amboise   16/04 Amboise - tours 5 17/04 Tours - Chenoceaux   17/04 Chenoceaux - Tours 6 18/4 tours - paris