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I am going on a trip soon and will be using the mobile pass for the first time. I read and watched the video on how to use the mobile pass but it was very fast moving, even pausing and re-watching. I have the 7 days in a month mobile pass.12 years ago I had a paper Eurail pass, again for 7 days in a month, I simply picked the train I wanted, by writing the train and route on paper, and hopped on. Sometimes I even boarded the train first, sat down, then wrote down the name of the train I was on after departure. Is it still that simple? I don’t know why but it makes me very nervous because it seems a lot more complex, with hard deadlines on when to book and choose a train. I see ‘up to 24 hours’ etc. I am now a family of 4 and imagine myself frantically trying to link the train I need for 4 people at the last second, or trying to activate the day too early and losing one of my days. I’ll be in Italy and Switzerland. Most of the trains I am taking need reservations, which I already got th

We are travelling as a 6 next week (from 11th) around Italy and France. On the first day we have booked an overnight train and on the last day we have booked a fast train. On the other 3 days of travelling we are taking it easy and taking the day to travel on slow trains. Am I being naive by not booking trains for those days? I understand that not all trains can be booked but I don’t want to get caught without a train to get on.Any advice would be great.

It’s my last of my 7-day train  within my 30 Day Interrail Pass, but not the last of the 30-day range.I’m leaving Oslo at 15:45 and will arrive in Hamburg at 05:58 in the morning.To get to Frankfurt, I’ll need to book a separate ticket, since it’s not included in my pass. Is that right?Thank you

I’m trying to book tickets for my family on a Eurail 1st class pass.I’m looking to go Spiez → Venezia San Lucia on 11th October 2025.When I look for reservations on Eurail website/app, it tells me I can’t reserve the Spiez → Milano Centrale leg due to lack of availability. (both 07:44 service - EC 61, and 08:44 service - EC 43)Similarly, if we left earlier and got the regional train to Brig, it won’t let me reserve the Brig → Venezia EC 41 service (07:41 → 12:42).When I look at OBB, it brings up the 07:44 service from Spiez, via Milan, but states that the reservation is only for the Milano → Venezia leg. The 08:44 service states that it is booked up already! If I try to look at the same route via RailEurope, it doesn’t come up with any trips at all!!Any ideas about how to navigate this? My understanding is that the EuroCity services from Switzerland to Italian destinations do need reservations, but nothing seems to be coming up. Is it likely that all these services are already booked,

Hi all,I’m trying to book Eurostar travel for January 2026 using my Eurail Global Pass, but Eurail keeps showing the message:“Sorry, the journey details for this date are not available yet.”However, when I check directly on the Eurostar site, trains are clearly running for my chosen date. I’m still within the 6-month window, so I was expecting pass-holder seats to be bookable by now.Has anyone else run into this? Is this just a delay in Eurail releasing the schedule? Or could the pass-holder quota already be sold out? Any insight or tips would be appreciated! I’d like to avoid paying full fare if possible. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, We'll be venturing to Denmark and Sweden this summer and this is new territory to me when it comes to operator pass validity and the reservations. I am doing the planning mostly with bahn.de as they include everything, however the information about reservations being required is conflicting with the information on interrail's own planner (which I prefer not to use for planning as I know it can be outdated).So my question is: where do I find the ultimate truth whether a reservation is required or just optional?I can make reservations on SJ.se and the cost of 35 SEK which is of course not a a great sum, however their English-version website is not clear about whether the reservation is optional. I prefer not to fix ourselves beforehand (our freedom-lesson from earlier trips) and therefore take trains without compulsory reservation. Here is an example of contradictory information for a particular journey we want to make on 5 August:10:23 ODENSE (Denmark) EC 1198interrail planner s

I got a eurail pass for 4 days in one month and have it all planned out to go from london to paris to madrid.. etc, but I was wondering if I can use my pass for shorter local journeys in each city on travel days as well? For example, I’m going to arrive in Paris around 11 in the morning and want to use that day to explore the city. Can I just my eurail pass to get around the city that day or is local travel not included? And if It is included how do I go about adding those journeys to my pass? 

Sortirem de Lió i anirem a Lucerna.L’app ens ofereix el trajecte Geneve-Lausanne-Zurich. Però, per passar per llocs més atractius, estem sospesant el trajecte Geneve-Montreux-Visp-Spiez-Interlaken. Són massa canvis en un dia? Ens podem fiar dels horaris dels trens suïssos? Sols ens apareix reserva opcional entre Visp i Spiez i ja l’hem fet. Però voldríem assegurar-nos que és viable. Arribaríem al destí a les 20:30 aproximadament. Tenim un Aribnb reservat. És massa just el timing? Què us sembla? 

Hi, I am trying to do my seat reservations through Eurail but when I log into my account it shows I don’t have a pass. I have gone back and forth with the Live Chat but I have still only managed to book the two trains I can using Eurostar. I need to book the rest. Any help?

Hello, I already created a trip that is linked to my DiscoverEU interrail pass. I would like to share it with the people I will be travelling with. I have already tried sharing the trip as a link but it opens in the Eurail planner mobile app. Is there a way to share a trip in the DiscoverEU app? Are my friends forced to use Eurail planner?

Good morning,  I have a reservation that can’t be refound. i am planning to change the trip plan. It seem that the reservation can not simply be cancelled (i don’t need the money back). What will it happen if I don’t use a reservation?    Thanksregards

Hey everyone. My boyfriend and I are travelling from Paris to Hamburg 01/08/25 and I just got the last seat reservation, so he didnt get anyone. Does anyone have a spare that we could buy? Please help if you know someone

I cannot book seat reservations for an Inter Regio train in Romania. I need to travel to Ploiesti Sud to then go on the night train to Vienna and at first it showed that i can only book the seat 30 days before departure and then it changed to “No price results were found” and when i clicked on more it said to book in person at a main station in Europe and when i went there the lady had no idea of the pass, said that i need to give her something printed but she had no idea what, she didn’t want to see my pass or anything from my phone and then she just said that i can only buy the ticket at full price. I then found through another question that i can book it though MAV (https://jegy.mav.hu/) but it doesn’t work either. At the last step of selecting the seats for the train that stops in Ploiesti it says “Failed reservation”. Is there a way to book the seats online or like at all? 

Dear Interrail Team (as there is no service mail to contact you),Yesterday I returned to Germany from a trip through Scandinavia, and I encountered an issue related to the handling of the inbound travel day in combination with a night train. I would like to share my experience and suggest a possible improvement.Yesterday (July 25), I took a night train from Copenhagen to Hamburg. Since the train departed before midnight, the journey was assigned to July 25 according to Interrail rules – which is generally very convenient, as it uses only one travel day.However, this led to an unexpected problem in my case: because I was returning to my home country (Germany) on this night train, the inbound travel day was also assigned to July 25. Although I didn’t cross the German border until around 3:00 AM on July 26, I was unable to activate another travel day beyond Hamburg – the app considered the inbound journey already used, and my 7th and final travel day remained unused.Another aspect of the

I am a newbie so forgive the naive question. I can't see a way to book a train for my whole family on the app. Do I have to use the browser on my phone to do this? Can you book a train with multiple passes on the app?What is the best way to do this?

Hi!We will go from Vienna to Milano per night train, but we have to change trains before midnight in Salzburg. Does this still count as 1 travel day?Next we want to travel further to Bergamo on the evening of the same day we arrived in Milano. Does this still count as 1st travel day then (it will be within 24 hours of the start of the journey)? Thanks for helping me:-)

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Hi!I won a discovereu interrailing pass and i’m planning on travelling in august. My friend, who i’m travelling with, bought a 7 day in a month interrailing card since it’s the same that i received. We are now trying to book seat reservations but it won’t work. I’m trying to book everything togheter, since we want the same things and want to sit togheter. But when i try to add a traveller i get this message. What can i do? 

Per vergissing Hamburg-Harburg als vertrekstation geboekt i.p.v. Hamburg Hbf.Kan ik dit wijzigen?

Hello, I have loaded 3 days of journeys on to my pass and I am confused re: dates. The app says that the pass was activated today 27th July which is when I loaded journeys on to My pass from My trip. It also says the pass is valid from 22nd October which is my first travel day. Is the pass going to run out in august because it has been activated today, 27th July, or does the validity date of 22nd October mean that I don’t need to worry about the activation date.  I am a bit confused since reading various forums would suggest the idea that the activation date is the date from which my pass is going to be valid and I need to use it within the next month or deactivate it now.Any assistance much appreciated.

Does it make sense that happyrail allow to book a seat for trains Barcelona Madrid while RailEurope says  interrail is not valid in that train?Am I misunderstanding something from happyrail?Thanks

The journey I’m trying to book in France shows one hour of “public transportation” between the two trains. Does the Global Pass work for this? And how do I find the “public transportation… “ we need? We’re super new to this and need all the help we can get! Any tips will be greatly appreciated. 

I am traveling to Europe in a couple of weeks.I have booked two of my journeys on my laptop and EURAIL sent me emails so I could print out the tickets.Question - do I just show these printed tickets at the Italian rail stations or do I also need to show them something on my phone app?Secondly, I have one of my journeys on the phone app and I can see a QR code (“Pass Number”) on the phone for this ticket (Munich to Verona).Question -  Is this my ticket? Do I need something else to show the conductor? I would like to print this ticket but I don’t see an option to do so. I don’t see a seat reservation and I don’t see an option to add one.- how do I do this?Question - Is there a way for me to get phone app tickets emailed to me or can I somehow navigate to this phone app reservation in my online account (laptop) so I can print them?Comment - I have three journeys booked. 1 on the phone app and 2 on the laptop. However the phone app tells me I have 5 out of 7 days remaining on my pass. I do

Hello everybody!I have a question.I have the EU disability card (100% + need of companion).I bought a global pass and I received a second one for free for my companion (thank you eurail!).Now, I am trying to book Rome - Wien, the night train of the 31st of July.If I try to use the option “only reservation”, there are no tickets available.So I search the booking adding the discout “eurorail pass” on the OBB account.I have this price: After this, I tried adding also the EU disability card and free companion option: I did the search without adding a second passenger with global pass (It adds automatically a seat for the companion).With this setting I have this price: This option (1 global pass + eu disability card + companion) is cheaper than using 2 global pass.My question is...can I do that? Can I do that even if I asked a second global pass for my companion?I hope somebody can clarify it.Thanks!Marco 

Hello everyone. I just wanted to share that this ride (Subotica-Belgrade) isn’t active yet, so the only alternative possible is by bus (not covered by the pass. I hope this is useful info!