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My original plan was to travel from London to Paris on Dec 30th, 2022, however, there were no 1st class reservations available, so I reserved a train on Dec 31st, 2022 before they were sold out. I’m traveling with a Global Pass.When it comes to Eurostar quotas, once they’re used, are they gone forever?Is there a possibility that availability may open up if someone cancels, etc.?I have been checking a couple times a day. The change fee would be worth it, rather than trying to change hotel reservations.Thank you.

The Eurostar website showed seats available for London to Paris. The Eurail website did not show any seats available. 1/ Why is that? 2/ We could not work out how to book the seats on the Eurostar website using our Eurail pass. Is this possible at all?

Hey guys;I used one of the inbound/outbound traveldays for travelling through Germany via nighttrain (Zurich - Amsterdam). Now I wanted to travel the same way back and the app doesn't asks me the inbound/outbound question. Only if set a German city as starting point on the trip, not Amsterdam.What can I do now??? Train leaves in 1,5 h.Kind regardsNoah * I found the answer by doing a trick:1. I choosed first the route Amsterdam - Duisburg, and activated inbound/outbound travelday and deleted it afterwards.2. I choosed then the original trip Amsterdam - Basel SBB. It's faster from there with other trains.

Dear Community, It says I can activate the global pass within 11 months of purchase. If I buy a 3 month global pass, and I activate it in month 11 (before it expires), do I then still have 3 months to travel with it, or do I need to activate it latest 8 months after pruchase to stay in the time frame of 11 months? I don’t find it clearly communicated in the text. At least not for me. 

Hi.I realise the answer is likely “not set in stone”, so this question really goes out to anyone with long standing knowledge of the pricing of the Eurail/Interrail passes.Clearly the price will go up over time. And the 11 month validity makes it possible to buy the passes well in advance. So, I’m contemplating buying passes for the family for travel in Italy next May - in case the price is hiked in the meantime.Anyone forum sages able to take an educated guess when the next price increase might be?Many thanks.PB

Good morning all, I’m attempting to book a reservation required train from London to Holyhead on Jan 4th, 2023, while it appears that there are several trains scheduled, I’m not finding anything that is bookable. Avanti West Coast is showing the timetable is not confirmed yet (just that week and some weeks).Is this likely to change?Is this due to the ongoing strikes?is this something that I may have to do when I arrive in the UK?If not, this may turn out to be an overnight adventure.Thanks again,Ron

I'm trying to claim my travel insurance for DB trains delay/cancellation. However the insurance company requested a certificate issued by the train company to prove that my train was literally cancelled/delayed. I didn’t ask them for the certificate when I was in the train station and am leaving Europe very soon. I only screen caped my Eurail pass itineraries and the mobile tickets (original itinerary and the new one due to original train cancellation/delay). How can I ask for the delay/cancellation certificate from DB? Or will Eurail issue me one since I booked my trains through their app.

Hello, My 4 friends and I are planning a trip in beginning in April and ending in May. We are visiting Spain, France, Italy and Greece. We have some flights so we are only accounting for 5-6 train days while in Spain, France and Italy. We were looking at the 2 months with 10 days of travel (the eurail global pass). But we are wondering how if these extra days will pay off while being in Greece. And how the ferries in Greece work woth the global pass? We would like the cheapest option and one that makes the most sense. Let us know what you would recommend. Thanks, Hilary

As someone who will be staying in France for the next four months, I was disappointed to see that the BF sale did not extend to the the 3 month pass.  Does Eurail historically drop an end of year or Christmas sale that normally includes the longer period passes?  

Hi all,As you may or may not know, I tried and succeeded the other month in booking a couple of seat reservations with Hellenic Train by lightly abusing their query form. I got a formal response confirming that my reservations had been made but that I would need to collect the tickets from the station. The method is displayed on the last page of this thread: Today was the moment of truth; I went down to Thessalonike’s railway station to collect my tickets, armed with a printout of my email reply from Hellenic Train. The cashier at the ticket desk did accept the validity of the correspondence once shown my pass, but he also said (unsurprisingly really) that he had never seen this kind of thing done before, and that he had no way of retrieving my tickets. He also was unable to select the seats detailed in the email (because of course, unless something had gone wrong somewhere along the line, they had been reserved for me!).I perhaps should have tried to ask if a different colleague could

Good MorningI will be travelling from New Zealand senior solo so please your advice would be greatly appreciated. I am looking at a 15 day global pass but have two long day trips VIenna-Venice  and Cologne-Nice would you upgrade to 1st class for these two trips thank you?

We have traveled paris last few weeks. We could not use 3-day pass due to being unwell and rail strike. We had used only 1 day. Would like to get the refund for the unused portion of pass. thanks

I cant make a reservation for my family on the Eurostar from London to Paris in 3 months with my europe rail pass. The website reservations site keeps saying:Not available for some travellersSome of your travellers' Passes are not valid on this train. Change your selected travellers to book this seat reservation Any ideas? Are they out of tickets?

I have contacted Interrail for changing to an earlier Eurostar train at the same time. However, they have not responded, is there a way of changing the ticket? How does Interrail respond fast? Also, can the starting date of an Interrail Pass be potentially be changed to a day earlier?

I ordered an EU mobile pass through Klook but I cant add my pass by the number of Klook’s voucher. Rail Planner said that my details dont match although I have tried so many times in many ways to fill my information correctly. How can I add my pass? Is there any solution for me?

Does anybody have a link to any sort of guide for IR/Eurail travellers on what to do if you miss the last train of the day because of a cancelled or delayed train? I know it is supposedly the responsibility of the operator of the delayed train, but if the train has many passengers in the same situation and only one member of staff on duty (or even zero staff) what do you do?What can you claim for and from who?Do you have to stay calm and wait for them to attend to you or can you go and get a taxi or book a hotel? What food will they cover? I know IR/Eurail do give some return for delayed and cancelled trains but, when they say no claims for payments of less than 4 euro will be paid, that clearly shows the payment will be a pittance.  It is simply a proportion of your pass cost, not reflecting the retail ticket price, and that they will forward any other costs to the carrier.https://www.interrail.eu/en/support/delay-compensationhttps://www.interrail.eu/content/dam/delay-compensation-doc

I have tried multiple times to book a reservation for two from Brussels to Paris on the morning Thalys train (details below).  Each time I get all the way through to the payment screen and enter my credit card info and then when I hit the Pay button the form thinks a bit then comes back with an empty pay screen - like I never entered anything.  No error message, no confirmation, no charges to my card (as far as I can see), no reservation saved for my trip.  This is really frustrating and doesn’t give me much confidence in booking reservations through the Eurail page (this is my first try).  I guess I can book through one of the other sites, but I was hoping to keep everything in one place.  If I book through www.b-europe.com how does the reservation interacty with my Eurail pass, if at all?  If I book over there do I just print my reservation? Friday 9 December 2022 08:13 - 09:35Bruxelles-Midi (Belgium) To Paris Nord (France)USD $49Booking FeeUSD $3.92Total priceIncluding taxesUSD $52.

I'm planning for Europe trip to visit 5 countries in 14 days.Italy, Switzerland, France , Belgium, Netherlands.. These are the countries in my plan.  Can anyone suggest the best passes to buy and some travel tips please? My itinerary is yet to be prepared.   

I have a problem with mobile application today. I am not abble to see my QR code. Application worked previous day, QR code was visible, but I am not abble to save the journey and see my pass today.

1. Train IC146 (from Berlin Ost to Amsterdam Centraal) cancellation2. Advised by the train station staff. Train ICE942 (from Berlin Ost to Hannover Hbf) one-hour delay3. Train IC146 (from Hannover Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal) cancellation4. Advised by the train station staff. We took (the fast and best alternatives) train IC2048 from Hannover Hbf to Dortmund Hbf -> train ICE1013 from Dortmund Hbf to Duisburg Hbf -> train RE19 from Duisburg Hbf to Arnhem Centraal -> train IC3064 from Arnhem Centraal to Amsterdam Centraal- Arrived at our destination Amsterdam Centraal at 19:44, which is three hours late than our original plan (train IC146 should have arrived at Amsterdam Centraal at 16:50)5. Missed connecting train ES9167 (Eurostar from Amsterdam Centraal to London St Pancras Intl / the last train on the day) due to DB trains delays and cancellations- Eurostar itinerary: 18:39 - 21:57- 2 seats: coach 13 seat 55 & coach 13 seat 566. Overnight accommodation at the cheapest hotel

Hi everyone! I am trying to book two train reservations for a weekend in Berlin (for the way there and back). December 9th till December 12th. But every time I add the reservation to my cart, check all my information and I want to check out, it shows this message: It looks like the train is still available, so I don’t really understand why this keeps happening. I made reservations before with the same account, so I don’t think it has anything to do with my account. Hoping someone here knows what to do :) 

Hi Good Day,I got the Eurail Global pass at Basel SBB and then I was told that I can also travel everywhere in Switzerland free. Does this act as a travel day if I use it in Switzerland or only when I cross the border.

Can anybody definitively confirm that IC trains in Italy do or do not require reservations for pass users?My experience a couple of months ago was my reservation was checked. Interrail planner says reservation required, but on here and Facebook several experienced contributors say they are optional.Italiarail - Trenitalia’s official partner also says reservations are required. I am always concerned that Newbies get the correct information as on board. It is no good saying “I thought...” or “ I was told by …...”, when they have the uniform and the rule book on their side.

I have a 10 day first class pass, not activated, and have already purchased through SBCB reservations for Eurostar and TGV.I now wish to exchange the pass for one with fewer journeys and even though this is a reduction in value to Interrail I understand that I can do this for a 15 Euro fee. Will my existing reservations (for which I had to generate a pass cover number) be valid with the new pass?Thanks, Scott

We travelled from UK to Croatia.  For the journey through France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia the interrail app allowed us to find trains for which we did not need to buy seat reservations.  However, all the Croatian trains said we needed reservations.  The information on the Interrail site leads you to believe that you can buy these through the OBB Austrian train reservation site.  This isn’t true. I wasted many hours trying to find some way of getting the reservations, sometime getting as far as the payment page, only to be thrown out with an “error” at the final point of booking.  At Salzburg and Ljubljana stations we asked if we could buy the seat reservations there and were told “only in Croatia”.  We were due to change trains in Zagreb with 4 hours between trains so decided to try there.  It was quite worrying as on the return journey we wanted a sleeper on the Zagreb to Munich overnight train, which would then connect to Frankfurt and the Eurostar.  So any problems would have