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Hello!A group of 6 of us have a week long trip going from London to Switzerland to Venice to Croatia. I am concerned with my booking. We have first class passes and a few instances along the trip it says “You're ready to boardYou can buy a seat reservation if you like but it's not required.”I am just looking to make sure that if I do not buy the seat reservation that I will be guaranteed a spot on the train. Or is it a better idea to just buy the seat reservations for all 6 of us. We just don’t want to be stuck somewhere and have that screw up our whole trip. Thank you!

Hello! I’ve booked 3 tickets in the sleeper train from Nice to Paris with my children but we are not all sleeping together (despite booking at the same time) has anyone else had any experience of this?

Can we travel from Cannes to st tropez by train and ferry? On the pass?   

I have filled in everything nicely via the following link . Does anyone know if you will automatically receive an email from interrail to confirm that your application has arrived?Because I have not yet received a confirmation email, and we are already 2 hours further.I'm a little worried that my application hasn't arrived after all. So it would be nice if someone from Interrail itself could help me with this.

HI friends! I am brand new to the Eurail community and trying to book my first leg of my journey from Titisee > Freiburg > Hamburg > Copenhagen on 9/30 and arriving 10/1  I just called OBB directly to make a seat reservation from  as all the research I’ve done says that making a seat reservation through the app is not guaranteed and is more expensive (can someone clarify that as a side note?) I am buying a first class Eurail pass as this specific trip was required to reserve first class due to availability.  My problem is that the Eurail planner is now only showing a Nightjet Freiburg > Hamburg leg … this is exactly the same time as the Intercity train that I’m supposed to be on. I’d really like to avoid any fines and the OBB service agent told me that the Nightjet is COMPLETELY sold out so I’d have to take the intercity but the timetable is exactly the same… i’ll just have to be in a seat. She confirmed there were still seats in first class for Intercity 60400 at 21:58… I

Hello!! My fiancé and I purchased a eurail but were under the impression that you had to “add” a journey in order to book seat reservations. We are going to be traveling for 4 weeks and are still unsure of just how many places we would like to see. We just want to kind of wing it and make the most of where we end up. (We bought the 10 days over 2 month pass). HOWEVER, we went to add our train to Paris for tomorrow and it shows that no seat reservations are available. It does show that you can book seats at the train station. Are we just out of luck at this point?? We bought this pass because of the freedom to just choose random days to travel and not have to set an itinerary but I’m starting to think if we don’t have everything planned out right now that we won’t be going much of any where.  Any advice and help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!  

I arrive in Europe on my 28th birthday. If I buy the youth eurail (mobile pass) can I simply activate it the day before when I'm 27 even though I won't be able to travel on that particular day? I know that it's valid for whatever age you are on the first day of activation so is there anything stopping me from activating it before I get to Europe other than losing a day without using the pass?

I’m traveling to Italy on December, and had brought the train pass and downloaded the planning app.But still waiting for Eurail to release the timetable for my planning.Is there any one know when will the timetable be released on Eurail planner app?

I am dumb...first time using a mobile passI need to book 2 seats using my GLOBAL FLEX pass from LONDON to AMSTERDAM on Oct 16Is it possible there are no seats to prebook using a pass?Carol HELP 

The guide book says there is a Hallstat train station across the lake from Hallstat. Rome2Rio says there is a train to Hallstat. But the Eurail planning app says there is no such trip. Can someone reveal the secret of how to get this into the app? Thanks

I am trying to buy reservation for the InterCityNotte 1954 Palermo-Rome.I know that the 1954 is is connected to the 1956 from Siracusa in Messina.The train can’t be found in the RailPlanner-app (only as a train Palermo-Messina) and when I try to book it on ItaliaRail it suggest me to buy 2 beds, one Palermo-Messina and one Messina-Rome. is there any way to use InterRail on this connection?I am unfortunately no where near Italy, so I won’t be able to buy at a station before the beds are sold out.

Hi community!We have a interrail pass for Italy and we’re entering the country from Switzerland with a direct train Zurich - Milano. When adding this as a ride in my trip I can’t add it to the pass (to activate day one) because it says “Your pass is not valid in some of these countries”.This is obviously true, but how should I add a direct train between two countries? I have a valid ticket to the border, but from the border to Milano I would like to use an interrail day…Any advice is most welcome!Peter

Hello, I want to make a night-train reservation departing from Frankfurt (Sued)  to Wien at 01:17, NJ 40421. The train schedule is updated on the OBB website, but it’s not on the Rail Planner application or website. I feel quite nervous in that I know the reservation for the night train is quite difficult. When will it be reflected on the Eurail Pass? 

Hello! My husband and I are travelling from Stockholm to Narvik on December 11 and would like to take the night train. I understand that tickets are generally released 90-120 days in advance (is this correct?). We are currently 75 days out and no tickets are available. We’ve checked daily for…. embarrassingly… months. A few weeks back the messaging changed from “not available yet” to “sold out.”  Can anyone proved any insight into what is happening and when/if we might be able to book tickets?  A little background, we are both first time travelers in Norway & Sweden and are extremely excited to see all that we can on our holiday. We have utilized the rail systems in France, Germany, Switzerland without any issues, so we’re novices, but not total newbies 😁

mi pase impreso no fue entregado y ahora va de regreso a las oficinas de eurail, pero no me responden ningun mail. ¿Que puedo hacer? #urgente

I'd like to complain about any Eurail pass but especially the Global Eurail monthly pass and it's workings in France. I would not recommend using it if you're main travels are in and out of France.The whole point of the Eurail pass is having flexibility in your travels  and between trips but sadly it really isn't possible. It is absurd to me that I had to pay that much money for a free pass but I had to waste 2 whole travel days only to purchase train tickets inside of France (coming from Switzerland) and spend even more money because the pass isn't really helpful while traveling in France.Now setting aside the fact that why should I even have to pay extra for a reservation, it is impossible to make the reservations online (especially for trains running to Paris). I tried going to a few large train stations in Switzerland and Germany and they could not help either. I had to ride to a large train station in France, waste 2 whole travel days and also pay extra. 

Please help ASAP I got following trips planned. According to the euro rail none of these trips require a reservation. However reading lot of reviews online suggest that perhaps information within the euro rail about whether reservation is required cant be trusted.I also read that even if you dont need a reservation its really hard to get into the trains without reservations and at times you get into trouble with ticket inspectors even if you have a euro rail pass as they dont understand this pass.  My group consist of 4 adults and a child (6ys old)Planned trips5/10/22 : Frankfurt airport (leaving at 9.30 am) to Amsterdam Central  and then to Zaandam 7/10/22 : Amsterdam Central (leaving at 9.30 am) toEuro rail says that reservations are not required for these trains . is this correct ?Is there a another way for me to check this before buying the pass ?  Euro rial says that reservations are required for following trains 8/10/22 : Brussels Nord (leaving at 9.30 am) to Paris Est  11/10/22

I recently purchased passes and the birthdates were each off by one day.  Will be traveling in a couple of weeks. The response i got back didn’t help, apparently it’s a glich in the system related to time zones. I wonder if it’s necessary to have the correct birth date when using this pass?

Once I get the euro pass is there where to test the pass without activating / wasting 1 travel date ?

Hello,we are currently traveling trough Europe. we want to take the night train from Budapest to Zurich on 6th of October.the problem is, the only way of getting the ticket is having it sent by Post. We don’t know if it is going to arrive on time before the departure, moreover we don’t have an adress to give since we don’t know where we are going to be when the tickets come.  Is there any other solution such as printing tickets in a train station ? We are currently in Germany and next we are going to Prague.  thank you for your answers.

Hi. I searched for journeys in Spain and it doesn’t leave me book seat reservations on them. Then when I click to see the option of more information it says that I can book them on the main station on Spain. And what about if I try to book them there and there is no more space in the train? 

Hi,I live in Germany and booked a 7 day international ticket. I already went to France and back, so my two days of going inbound and outbound are used.Now I wanted to use the remaining days from tomorrow on to travel inside Germany. I thought as I was not going outbound that would be okay. Apparently it is not, because the App wont let me validate my trips. Can you tell me what the problem here is? Because from my understanding the only limit was crossing the boarders to and from my home country.Thanks a lotJonas

Hello Folks:I read somewhere but cannot seem to find it anymore that the connection from Rome Terminal to Rome international Airport on high speed local train is included for First Class global Pass holders. Can some one please point me to the link or provide information? thanks,YB

Hello everyone! I urgently need your help because in few days I’ll be in Switzerland with a friend and we’ll stay 1 week, but I still haven’t found a reply to this question.I am trying to understand if it’s more convenient for me to buy a 4-5 days interrail swiss pass (around 150-170 euro for us because we are under 27yo), or a swiss travel pass (but it’s more expensive), or just not take anything and just buy normal tickets.We will be in Bern the first 2 days, so the plan is to buy after it so it will start from Bern and we will go to: Interlaken, and from there to Grindelwald, Luterbrunnen.. and maybe Wangen but just because I understood form there it’s possible to reach Mannlichen point of view, with funicular. Then we will go to Lucerne. and from there back home. This is the plan if I don’t do any interrail etc.. because it will cost the same. But if I manage to have interrail, that would allow me to visit also Lugano and maybe Guttannen for the famous Gelmerbahn, or maybe Gruyères

Dear community,I bought my 7-day global pass to travel to France and afterwards, use the remaining 5 trips in my home country Germany. In the buying process, it was not mentioned, that this ticket only allows 2 outbound/inbound trips. I still thought though, that this applies only when I cross the border from my home country, therefore still enabling me to travel in my home country.As it turns out however, I am not able to do so and now stuck in my home country not being able to use my trips at all anymore. If I would have known that before I would have at least bought the cheaper pass with 4 days, more likely though just the trains independently as that would have been much cheaper!Therefore I would like to know if there is any way to get at least a refund for the price difference between the 7-day and the 4-day pass, as I only needed the pass for 2 days. Being over 27 that amounts to 89 €.Please help!Tobi