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Dear all,I was hoping to do a bike trip in Portugal following the Eurovelo 1 Route at the end of September/beginning-mid October.However, I seem to not be able to find connections in Spain that will allow me to bring my bike without dissembling and storing it in a box.Do you have any advice or experience taking your bike on trains in Spain to Portugal? I will be happy to also cycle in Spain to connect to places if need be. Thanks for your help :)Best

Hi everyone! I’d love to get a pass for Switzerland but I need more useful info like type of trains or reservations. Also, are the passes valid for the Bernina and the Glacier Express? If not, how does that work?thanks to anyone who can help!

Hello,We have a 2nd class Eurorail pass and started traveling this morning. The trains from Paris to Stüttgart today are full so we had to purchase 1st class tickets for that part of our trip at full cost. Are we able to get a partial refund and if so, how?Thank you 

Hi All, I am completely new to Eurail, I have purchased my pass and activated it and chosen my first travel date but have not used any more travel days as yet, I still have 14/15 as I have purchased a 15 days over 2 months global passMy question is simply what is the difference between adding a travel day on the rail planner app compared to a journey?My wife and I have already reserved seating for all of our journeys and I am adding them as journeys on the app, is this what I should be doing? Or should I be adding them as Travel days? Thanks in advance Jesse

Due to a covid that took 4 weeks to recover, i could only use 3 rides and tomorrow my pass expires. Can I extend my validity period due to this exceptional hardship? 

Hallo,Ich bin gerade in Italien und überlegen morgen mit dem Zug nach Rom zu fahren. Meine eigentliche Interrailreise beginnt er in zwei Wochen, wo ich dann vom meinem Heimatland Deutschland aus starte. Kann ich für diese Fahr nach Rom trotzdem schon mein interrail ticket einsetzten? 

I am getting mixed messages online as to if we can travel Gatwick to St. Pancras with our Eurail pass.  I am travelling with my wife and two kids and really don't want to have to go Gatwick to Victoria and then try to take the tube and walk to St. Pancras.  But i’m also very disappointed if I have to pay almost 39 pounds for the 4 of us to travel direct to St. Pancras. ON the Eurail site they say Thameslink trains are included but on the App planner i can’t get it to show anything for Gatwick to St. Pancras. Any help or recent experience would be great!! Thanks, Jason  

Hello! I'm interrailing with my wife in two weeks, we want to go from Paris to Barcelona - the connection requires a seat reservation. As I understand SNCF only offers paper reservations sent to a passenger via traditional mail. It is possible for us to be sent our reservations to an adress we're staying at in Paris. Unfortunately a booking system states that based on Interrail calculations the letter will be late for our arrival - we are staying in Paris for 3 days, 14-16 September - so two weeks from now. We don't know if we can rely on this information, since the letter should be sent within one country - from France to France. We suspect this could be some kind of a system error. Could anyone let us know if we can odrer our reservations in paper form safely? Thaks in advance!

I have made a number of reservations through the Interrail website. I have the email confirmations but I would like to see a summary of all the reservations I’ve made so far within the website and, ideally, in the app itself. Is that possible, or do I have print out every reservation? Seems very 20th century if that’s the case. 🙁 Thanks for your help. It’s great knowing the community is out there. 😀

Hello! My country od residence is Poland, but I am currently in Germany (where I am not a legal resident) and I was hoping to start my trip from here. Is it possible to start a trip in a different country than the one that is my country of residence? And can I choose not to use outbound or inbound trips to my country of residence, cause I am not planning to go to Poland on my trip? Is it mandatory to use outbound and inbound trips or can I simply not visit my country?

What happens if my seat reservations have been returned to sender?  They were sent to my accomodation who weren’t available at the time of delivery (and didn’t go to collect as promised)  and subsequently have been returned to sender which is Eurail.  I’m really counting on these seat reservations.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Is the Gatwick Express train to London included with a Eurail Global Pass?

Est-ce que l'on peut mettre Railplanner en version française ?

Hi team, Soon I will be landing in London with Plans to go to Worcester, Birmingham, York, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. Wondering if the Eurorail pass is worth it? Advance tickets on British trains seem to be much cheaper, but I don't want to be locked into having to get specific trains. For this reason, the Eurorail seems more flexible . Thoughts? 

Hi,I try to book a seat reservation for Dimitrovgrad to Halkali, but on the Interrail website that is impossible. All trains look fully booked. On this forum I read that most trains are half empty. Is it recommended to take the change and try to reserve a seat in Dimitrovgrad? Thanks.Vincent

I haven’t receieved a confirmation email about the Eurail pass paper format for more than a day.When can I get it and it’s confirmed?And is it okay for me to write my ID number and passport number on the place when I write my license number?

Hi,A group of us originally purchased 5, 4 day Global Rail Pass tickets for our travels next month. Our travel plans changed, and we had to book tickets into Paris instead, so we need to take a trip from Paris to Amsterdam. Not knowing, we purchased 4, One Country passes thinking this was basically just adding an additional day to our Global Rail Pass (and when we went to book seat reservations, we realized this was not the case).  Is there something that we could do? I would love if we could add an additional day to our Global Rail pass that we purchased already. Could we just merge our One day pass with our 4 day passes? Thank you. 

Cant book renfe reservations online, it says I need to do it at a train station in Europe=- does england count? Likke could I go to a big station in London and do it?

We are returning to Edinburgh from Cologne on 27 July a strike day. We can get to London as Eurostar say they are running but too late for our connection which is after LNER have ended their service for the day due to the strike. Can we use our pass the next day? 

Thalys has sent me an email this morning saying that my train from Bruxelles to Paris has been cancelled due to rolling stock problems. The company website says that all trains from Bruxelles to Paris are cancelled from 01/08 to 07/08, so I can’t rebook a train on the same day and I have to ask for a refund. Thalys says that I have to contact my initial point of sale, that is Eurail.com. How can I obtain a refund?

Hi!I will be traveling around Europe with a 15 day consecutive Eurail pass. My mum will be joining me for only 2 train rides, is there any way to book our reservations/seat together?Thanks :)

Hello,I could really use your help!I am leaving tomorrow to fly to Europe. I have been trying to Connect my pass to a trip but I can’t. I have a mobile pass, but when I try to connect a pass, it’s asking for my paper pass info. I don’t have a paper pass.(I purchased the pass that is good for 4 trips in a month.) I am trying to book 29 July, at 9am Edinburgh to Paris, among other trips. But they won’t connect.  I was able to book and connect my mobile pass for the first trip I booked. But none since.  What do I do to get it to connect to my mobile pass and not have it ask for the printed pass?I have reinstalled the app and tried it on different devices.  Thank you in advance!!!

I am trying to book a reservation for the TGV from Paris to Barcelona on the 15th (September). Now I’ve read about the issues with Spanish rail companies and having to book tickets locally, at the train station and I’ve been trying to perhaps book via SNFC or RENFE online, but how do i make sure I don’t end up paying the full price? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm assuming these tickets are still covered by the Global Pass. Could anybody help me out with possibilities to still book my ticket in advance? I’ve seen several numbers I'm able to call but, again, I'm not sure how to get the ‘discount’ of the Global Pass. This is my first time traveling by train and I would appreciate the help tons, thanks!

I last used an Interrail 30 years ago as a young man, I’d love to go again with my son, but the awful ‘reservations’ problems that I’ve been learning about on almost all trains in France and Spain (also elsewhere) is making me think twice!!I really don’t mind paying E10 for a reservation on a high speed French train or E8 for a Spanish train, but the huge bureaucracy involved just to make a reservation seems ridiculous, in 2022! Phone calls, ticket offices, calling German railways, Belgian railway website, cover numbers, what the hell is going on! Without reservations you can’t easily plan - OK if you’re a student with 3 months to spare, not so good if you’ve only got 7-10 days.However, I do understand that Interrail Management can’t control the policies of national railways. So the main subject of this post is: are the Interrail Management aware that there are 2 simple things they could do to make their customers’ lives much, much easier? Yes - their customers!Update the app to allow

I wrote my driver’s license number on the passport number. But, It was changed to Sent in the Order overview. So, I’m worried that the wrong driver’s license number will be printed on the Eurail pass ticket.Do i fill in the passport number on the Eurail Pass ticket by myself? The passport number will not be printed and sent, right? If so, I can’t use the Eurail pass because my license number is entered instead of the passport number.