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What extra charge is there for reserving the Bucharest-Istanbul train when you hold an Interrail Pass. Also, it seems like one can buy tickets for this train using the Romanian State Railway Company’s website, but not sure if you can use the Interrail Pass on this website? Does anyone know?

Greetings everyone from Romania! :) First of all apologies if the title isn’t too explicit or if a similar question has been asked previously --- tried to find it on own but I couldn’t.  Now the question I have: got myself a global pass & from what I’ve read in the user guide I have to note down my journeys. I want to do this the old-fashioned way to keep the vibe. However I don’t understand how should I proceed if during one travel day I change one or more trains. Do I have to write each train separately? Let's say I go from Budapest to Prague via Linz. I go into that journal & add like this: Budapest - Linz → new line → Linz - Prague, right?  Does it the same apply to the inbound / outbound journeys? For example Bucharest → Brasov → new line → Brasov → Budapest?Thank you all for your help! :) 

Hello,I want to go in a night train from Berlin to Warsaw, the problem is that I found some good routes (with a very good price) in the interrail app, and then when I click “go to webside” and I search for the trains the first disgrace that I find is that the prices are much higher. Then I click on the journeys that appear there and there is a message saying “prices unavailable” and doesn’t let me do the reservation. Anyone knows what can I do? is it possible that in a future I will be able to do my reservation on the trains? Thank you in advance,  Melcior. 

Hi,  my pass EU30671829 is showing all trips for the 7 days are used up however i should have 2 days remaining.   Two of the trips were mistakenly used as i made an error while using the app.   Please check your system to confirm, that i have only used 5 days out of the 7.Could you please help with updating my account so that i have 2 remaining days of travel left.I need this to be urgently resolved as i need to travel again in 3 days time.thankyou very much!

Hey!I booked seats from Pisa to Monterosso and got a mail as follow, what should I do? Just wait? Booking is paid already.  Dear Michaela,   There was an issue with your reservation in order number 0000 Although your payment went through, there seems to be a technical glitch at the moment which means that part of the order could not be confirmed with the train carrier. You can see the failed reservation/part of the order by looking for the status “PRE-RESERVATION MADE” (successful reservations have the status “BOOKED”). Don't worry - you can still get your reservation (our team will re-book it for you).

Hi! Wondering if I am eligible for interrail if I was born in Denmark and hold EU citizenship but am a permanent resident in the US. And if case I am eligible, must I bring my American passport that says my US address or my danish passport to prove I am EU citizen? Any clarity would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

Hello why the bullet train from milano to rome stay not in your website? For example on 11 october Thank  you Greetings,Martin

Hello, I wanted to know, how through the website of the German train company, the route will be linked to my pass (just with a reservation of seats)? It won't. Reservations are completely separate, regardless of where and how you make them. This also means that you always have to add a journey to My Trip and then (shortly before boarding) to My Pass. Thanks again, I got it!  Hello, Its a question related to the precious post of seewulf :  thanks a lot for this precious post. Can I get a few more details about how to add a journey to ‘my trip’ ansd then ‘my pass’? For example, I found a trip From amsterdam to Copenhagen via Deutsche Ban (night train) → see screen scanBUTThis train doesn’t seem to be available anymore (at least seats reservations aren’t possible and thus it’s impossible for me to choose it!) on the interail website. → seen second screen scan, written in french but it says ‘no places available for reservations” in red. Other solutio

Hello everyon, i have some doubts for my first interrail:-Is it possible to leave Italy and arrive at the destination? even on the way back? Doing so would use 2 days of travel, right?-I would like to leave for Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm staying 2-3 days in each city. Is it possible to do it with a 4 or 5 day global pass?Thanks a lot and good evening.

By mistake I didn’t include my 10 year old when buying my pass, I bought mine on 4/9/2022 with a 10% discount. Do I need to buy a new one? Would you please tell me what to do now? thank you. 

 Hi,Since I couldn't find the information I was looking for anywhere, I'll try here. I just booked a seat reservation for some trains. First I have a question regarding this reservation: Do I really have to bring the reservation as a printout? I mean, are they serious??? Because I specificially chose the e-Ticket and now there is standing that I have to print it out? I mean what the ***?! Second, I had to select a Trip in the booking process for the reservation (on the website). Since there was only one to select I just chose that one, but now I cant find a trip with this name in the rail planner app. Does that even matter? Does the trip have to be the same? I dont even know if my account is connected to this App and if not how i can do that.I'm really almost freaking out just because the app and all the stuff is so shitty organized and you can't see through it at all.This is stressing me out, please help me. 

Hi all I need to get from Hamburg to Copenhagen on the 23rd of July. The best train i could find when previously looking was the IC 394 train.When i try to reserve a seat for that train it says that “Reservation impossible”… for all trains leaving in that direction. Is there something happening that i have missed? Is a seat reservation really needed for this route or could i give it a go anyways without a reservation? Perhaps there is another route i could take just in case? Although, to be fair, there doesn’t seem to be too many ways to Denmark from Hamburg...

I want to travel from Amsterdam to Basel with ICE 105 on Monday the 18th July at 08:08. The rail planner app states “seat reservation recommendation” but checking oebb.at and bahn.com it seems that the train is fully booked. As the app says that reservations are recommended but not mandatory, I believe I should be able to travel, but I don’t want to gamble. Can someone confirm or deny? I’m fine with moving around in the train if my seat gets taken.Thanks,

Hi, we have already planned our trip and made the obligatory  reservations but thought of reserving seats for other trains as well. However, now it seems that there is one train left which is full. That's the only train we can use since our schedule has been fixed already (eg reservation on the eurostar later that day). Can it really be so bad that they won’t let us on the train without reservations,  even though they shouldn't be obligatory? The train is re7 from Flensburg to Hamburg, 8.15 - 10.15. I'm getting a bit terrified already, since I have my whole family with me... We wouldn't mind having to stand the two hours, if we can just get on the train!

I bought three interrail one country3 days paper passes.I tried to book trains via the interrail-website, but impossible to make seat reservations. Therefore I went to the station with details of the specific trains I wanted to  book. Great was my surprise that it couldn’t be booked as there were only a limited seats available for interrail passes and none were left. Interrail doesn’t tell that sort of information when you buy the pass.An alternative for the trains I wanted to book was not valid for us. So I want to be refunded for the passes. Now it seems you only get 85% back for a pass you can not use. While the reason is not you but interrail. Also the rules you have to follow to get your pass paid back are unclear.On support page I read: “ Log into your Interrail account at the top right of your screen. You can then request a refund by clicking on ‘VIEW DETAILS’ and continue via the tab ‘GO’ in the Cancellations and Refunds box. ” I logged in to my interrail account but I don’t se

Hello, I want to  make a seat reservation for this journey, but  this message show up. I’ve already read some things about this message in this forum but I really don’t understand what does it mean. Can someone explain what does that mean? And what are the solutions ? 

Is there any way to find out, before arriving at the station, which platform a train will be leaving from?

I do not succed to buy seats on the day train from Zagreb to Split and they are mandatory.What to do ? 

I specifically chose a train from Venice to Innsbruck to avoid extra costs (train that left at 15:35, see picture). However, I had to pay a supplement of 10 euros because apparently only regional trains are supplement-free. The controller told me that this happens quite often and that Interrail has been told about this several times. I suggest modifying this in the app to avoid such problems… 

We try to make seat reservations for our trip through italy in september 2022. But since months it is impossible to reserve for frecciarossa-trains after 18.september 2022 . Has anybody an idea to help?

Hi Am traveling now, yesterday I made a seat reservation in the website but I didn't get the tickets and it happened twice and the amount charged and that forced me to pay 190 euro for train tkt just to back to rome from milano This is the email I received Although your payment went through, there seems to be a technical glitch at the moment which means that part of the order could not be confirmed with the train carrier. You can see the failed reservation/part of the order by looking for the status “PRE-RESERVATION MADE” (successful reservations have the status “BOOKED”).Don't worry - you can still get your reservation (our team will re-book it for you).Alternatively, if you are travelling soon, you can make a new booking for the failed reservation and we will process a full refund for this (to the same account used to purchase the failed reservation(s)). To ensure that you only rebook the failed section of your trip (you don’t have to rebook the entire route), first check the status

I have Passes for my family.  I successfully made a seat reservation a week ago for one journey/travel day.  Now I am trying to make one for Sat 9th of July, Venice-Rome.  I can find the options using the Eurail ‘Book your Seat Reservations site’.  Some say ‘seat reservations unavailable’, others have availability.  I can add a specific reservation to my ‘Cart’ and add the billing details, but when I try the “Continue to traveler details>’ button it just boots me back to the eurail.com home page.I have tried 2 different browsers from my laptop, and from the Railplanner app.  So far it’s that same step (traveler details) that boots me out. I can see that there are seats available (for regular price) on italiarail.com.  I have tried looking up the trains and potentially making a reservation via tickets.oebb.at, but although I can find the routes and select tickets for them I have not been able to do this step as instructed by eurail for OBB:Before you pick your train, go to the top ri

Been trying for hours on several devices to pay for the reservations in my cart. When I get the “add travelers” button, that brings me back to the home page where ALL information needs to be done AGAIN. I need to checkout. Any ideas from anyone?

After spending so much time on this forum, I still don’t fully understand how to make the Interrail App work. I have gotten this far:I made reservations for my 4 travel days, I understand I need to bring these reservations separately (they will not show in the App) I created the 4 journeys/travel days with respective time tables under “My Trip” However, I don’t understand how I will get the QR codes for the different travel days.Is the only next thing I need to do to “activate My Pass”? Will the App then create the QR codes for each of the 4 travel days automatically?I can’t quite believe that this is all so complicated….

i got an email yesterday to activate my pass but i activated it a couple months ago. my friend activated it the same time as me but didn´t get the email. maybe the problem is my surname which has the letter č in it which is not an english letter and when i was filling out my name i put the letter c. can someone help?