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Good day fellow travellers.  I am Danie from South Africa.  I will be travelling in Europe for the first time since 2007. It is thus challenging but also exciting prospect since so much has changed since then. I hope you will indulge in all my concerns and questions. I will travel Europe and the UK in October extensively with a month long Global Eurail first class pass. I will probably create different numbered trips to keep things from getting out of hand. I am much looking forward to your advice and tips. Have a great one!

I was booking trenitalia euro city train from Geneva to venice, and the 2nd class tickets were sold out. I then bought the 2nd class priority seats. Is this an issue? Does this have any specific requirements?

In the mobile app, I have two passes (one for me, one for my wife). It is a 5 day flex pass. We have 5 different trips between cities. Should I create one trip in the app and add each of the city trips to that or should I create a separate trip in the app for each city trip? Also, I notice I have to duplicate trips and add to the other pass. When I reserve seats, how will my wife and I be assured to sit together? Thanks for your help.

If I buy a EURail 30 day pass would it include the city public transport for example the city underground,busses and tram transport

Hi all, I’m using the Bahn.com train planner as I find it always the most accurate.For trains in Italy with an “FR” code eg. FR9811, which I assume is Frecciarossa, Bahn.com shows them all with the message “No seats are available for reservation” in the journey information.As they *all* show this message, I assume that it doesn’t mean that there are no seats (ie. all the trains are 100% full). Does it just mean that the Bahn.com site can’t reserve seats? If so, how can I get a seat reservation with an Interrail pass?Thanks very much for any info.

If I do not catch a connecting train (because of delay of the train before) and that train was the last train of the day, what exactly is the policy there? I get that talking to train staff is generally the best option but as I’ve also encountered sitations in which the delayed train was not staffed and there was also no station staff present anymore, who is responsible for refunding expenses like a hotel that became necessary (not talking about this specific incident but rather about handling situations like this in general)? Interrail or the operator of the delayed train? And how can the journey be continued next day, as the previos travel day already became invalid?

I can’t figure out how to change a first class reservation in Sweden— Same itinerary just one day earlier. SJ has said since I booked through Eurail, I need to do the change through your Eurail. But even though I see Eurail’s policy is that a first class reservation can be changed in Sweden, when I go to the Eurail site it says no you can’t change your reservation. I believe the site does not recognize that my tickets are first class. Can anyone help me?

We activated our pass for 9/8/2025 that’s good until 11/08/25, how come it’s not working for us? And the error is that the pass has been used?And how to we reserve seats? 

My trip does not let me book from London to Wales. Had to do it by hand

Good news, but Interrail doesn't tel about it on ther site. By buying a mobile-pass, travellers can get - depended in which country he/she lives - get more inbound/outbound days. For the Netherlands it handles about 3 days. Ideally for who want to go back to home in-between (marriage/funeral in the family, the need to take a mid-term look at how things are going at home and don't forget: very few employers give his employees continious time-off for 2-3 months.But I'm not 100% contant. I still wonder or Eurail-group realise that much people want to break up their long trip into 2-3 parts, to come return home in between to look for post, or something-else which would be necessary to do!), so all these people want to use more Inbound-.Outbound-options.Does EUrail-group already have talked with the European-Railway-countries about developing a construction which offers options, to buy extra inbound-/outbound-tokens for a small-price f.i. 15-20 Euros each day (depending-off the pass they ha

Hello all, I am currently on a three-months Interrail pass, which I am using for several return trips outside of my home country (Italy). I am not staying on the road for the whole three months, so I will need more than the one inbound and one outbound trip that are included with the pass.Basically for every trip I buy regular tickets from home to the border and back, and once I am outside of Italy I use the Interrail pass. It is a very flexible way of travelling that suits me.But there’s one thing that is really unclear. Actually I am quite a veteran of Interrail passes, and in all these years of asking hundreds of train conductors I was never able to get a definitive answer.I need to know if, for trips out of Italy (my country of residence) into Austria, I need to buy a ticket to Brenner (and from there onwards use the interrail pass) or to Innsbruck (or it could be the first town in Austria, but for these trips I’m using EC trains that call at Brenner and Innsbruck).I guess that tec

There is change bus on my route from Berlin to Prague. It’s my first time traveling, is 30 minutes enough for me to look for the connecting bus? If I miss the connecting bus, what do I do? 

Hi, the first Train of my interrail trip got canceled due to flooding, so all my trip and booked seats are now obsolete.How can the trip can be changed so that I can leave as soon as possible without paying more ?Do I need to book everything again or can the whole trip can just be "moved" to the next similar one without me having to book all over again ?

Hello. We are coming back from Naples to Strasbourg and meant to be going from Strasbourg to Paris on the 10th September but worried as there is a planned strike there won’t be any trains. We contacted Interail and they didn’t even know about this strike so wondered if anyone else knew about it?

Hello Rail Community I plan to take the 09:23 train from Stuttgart to Brussels Midi with  transfer at Frankfurt on 29 October.  I plan to skip anything Paris altogether…. I already booked the Eurostar from Brussels to London 15:51 to 17:00 Is the 6 minute transfer at Frankfurt very short?  Should I rather plan another route or different times? Thank you!

I have confirmed 1st Class seats on Eurostar London - Paris Nord scheduled to depart London St P on 23 September at 13:31 (Train No 9028).  However, my Global Interrail Pass shows this journey in “My Trip” scheduled as 12:56.  When this is opened for journey detail, the departure time is shown as 13:31.I guess the difference is ‘allowing extra time for boarding’ and that there is only one train involved here.  But I would like to be reassured that my journey will proceed as I planned.

I’m traveling to the UK in October. I have my Global pass, and I’m trying to reserve a seat on LNER for my ride from London to Edinburgh. It keeps telling me there are no routes. ?

Har købt interrail pass ved DSB.Kan jeg registrere det i app

I haven’t seen anything specifically saying that TTI trains are or aren’t covered, but in the absence of any apparent way to add information about a pass when booking I reckon they aren’t covered.Does anyone know for sure whether they are included in the pass or not?https://www.fstrenituristici.itThanks

I paid for a double cabin on a direct Nightjet 421 from Amsterdam to Munich and it was supposed to be direct. OBB contacted me and they cancelled this route but now I have to stop in Augsburg and change a train to IC 619 to complete my trip. I am leaving Amsterdam on 9/12/2025 at 19:00. OBB gave me a voucher for the seats on this second leg. While OBB shows this route as an option the Eurail app does not and only gives me the option to change trains in Nürnburg. How should I handle this with the Eurail app? Thanks 

So, I'm looking to travel to a specific spot in europe, I'm staying there for a week and then going back home. Do I need a 7 day or can I get a shorter one , since I'm only traveling by train 2 times that week ? 

Ich habe vor 4 Tagen einen Interrail-Pass gekauft, aber noch nicht aktiviert. Nun habe ich per Zufall gesehen, dass es eine Promo-Aktion mit 20% Preisnachlass gibt. Kann ich den Pass innerhaöb der 7-Tages-Frist zurückgeben und gegen einen verbilligten eintauschen? Spielt es dabei eine Rolle, dass ich bereits Reservierungen für die Reise erworben habe (über die Interrail-Website), d.h. bleiben diese weiterhin gültig? Kann ich als Grund für die Rückgabe die Promo-Aktion angeben?

Vlog !! (Here is the vlog I made for us to remember each moments of our trip !!) Je me rappelle Noël dernier, mon grand frère me parlait de ce projet d’interrail qu’il avait avec son meilleur ami. Il fallait que je m’incruste!! Et j’ai bien fait. Nous sommes partis de Paris pour deux semaines de voyage en juillet. Notre première destination était Amsterdam: Nous avons pu visiter la ville, les nombreux parcs et nous nous sommes balader dans chaque recoin de la capitale. Ils faisaient beau et très chaud, nous nous rafraîchissions au bord des canaux ou dans Albert Heijn à la climatisation !! Pour notre première soirée nous sommes allés à NDSM où nous avons passé un très bon moment qui allait être à l’imagine de notre fantastique voyage. Après une deuxième journée de l’autre côté d’Amsterdam nous sommes partis à Francfort où nous avons rejoins des amis qui venaient de Nuremberg. C’était une ville très paisible et je pense que le contraste entre les buildings de la ville moderne et les quar

Hi,I wanted to book a seat reservation from Milan to Zurich via Lugano and the OBB app says 0 euros and ticket valid for section of the journey only? If I take this route, I don’t need to pay any seat reservation unlike the 13 euros for a direct train to Zurich?And also, I was looking for a return journey from Zurich to Milan on 2nd November - OBB website shows ticket not available but SBB is giving me a different timetable, How can i reserve my seat?Thank you

Hello,I have got an extra free day during my Interrail trip by the end of October. Is Interlaken to Grindelwald train included or are they any other routes, I can take to reach this place?Also, I am hearing many activities will be shut down by the end of October but Is there anything to do during November 1st week in this region?Can I reach Rosenlaui valley using the Interrail pass?Thank you