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HiI have bought two mobile passes for my wife and myself. I created a trip and added my mobile pass number to the trip. I then went to add my wife but needed a different trip name so I copied trip and called it something different and added her pass number.I am now trying to book seat reservations but only have the option for myself as I cannot add my wife to the same trip as myself and therefore book two seats.Got in contact by email with Eurail two weeks ago and all I get is apologies for the delay in getting back to me. Is there anyone out there who can give me guidance?Thank you in anticipation.Bryan

Hi,I have a 2-month pass and not sure whether I should activate the pass before my trip. I saw a question about activating pass to early, and the answer mentioned ‘the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day’. Thus, I wonder is the activation day the same as ‘start day of the validity of the pass’. I am now in the activation process and not sure whether I should activate it or not. If I can choose an extra start day, then I guess it would be better to activate before the trip because some seat need reservation.  Thank you in advance!

Hello,I bought Interrail Promotional Pass. It is written on the ticket VALID 30-06-2022 - 29-08-2022. Do I still need to activate the validity?I called to SJ (Swedish railway company) but they informed since valid dates are mentioned, it may not needed. I was in Stockholm central station, and there is no ticket counter/machine in the central station anymore, neither information kiosk could help activating my paper passes.Best regards,Kamrul

Hello, im travelling with a 1-month Pass this August and im still unsure about how to use my trips. Is there any limit to trips undertaken on 1 day? Can I, for example, take a regional train from, say, Firenze to Genua and go back the same day, meaning I can pretty much freely use any regional trains, as long as I add the trip to my mobil pass? 

Hi everyone I am trying to make seat reservations for a train from Paris to Annecy on 30th July anytime after 12pm. It looks on the interrail.eu seat reservations site like there is availability on a number of trains leaving that afternoon. It lets me select the 1st class or 2nd class option, asks for my contact tel number and to confirm the details of the people travelling (pre-populated) and then takes me to a screen where I need to tick to accept the booking conditions (screen before payment). At this point it refreshes to say that “this leg of my journey is no longer available to book’ and that the leg will be removed from my basket. It doesn’t however remove it from my basket and also won’t let me edit and remove it! Thinking that there might be issues with the website, I tried to complete a booking through the other suggested route - the website B-Europe. Here I was able to select a train with availability but could not complete registering the passenger details as it asks for a

Hi fellow travellers!I was wondering how can I make a seat reservation with the mobile pass. I will travel from Budapest to Bucarest and from Bucarest to Sofia. Later on, I will go from Thessaloniki to Athens.The app says the reservation needs to be done in the website of Interrail, however, the page does not let me do that. An error pops up and says that our tickets won´t be on time. Now I´m dubious about how to do it.Reading other topics, I came up with the idea of making the reservation with the operator of each country. Is it possible?Any kind of help is appreciated! Thank you so much in advance! :)

Hi, my boyfriend and I bought our Eurail Mobile Passes (youth pass) in December 2020 and due to Covid, we’re only able to travel now (until 31/08/2022). However, he turned 28 two weeks ago and now he can’t activate his mobile pass, the reason being that he was only supposed to use it when he was under 28 years old. We’re leaving tomorrow and have gotten no help from Eurail or any one else. I have all the paperwork printed just in case as proof (including the email that stated that our pass had been extended for a year) and we can’t possibly change all our train tickets last minute by buying a new pass. Do you have any advice? Since this case is probably an exception, I hope the train conductors will understand our situation but I must admit I’m quite stressed out.Thank you so much!

Hi there,It’s the 1st of July and it looks like Renfe just completed its schedule for August at renfe.com.Some trains of our trip seem available (at least for regular -expensive- tickets, guess we’ll have to wait and see if there’ll be any seats left for Interrailers...), but Granada-Madrid simply changed from ‘not available yet’ to half ‘not available yet’ / half sold out (‘tren completo’), even for regular tickets...... just like that, for ALL trains and for the WHOLE month of August!Same at the trainline.com, raileurope and omio… How is this even possible? All pre-reservations? Does anyone have a clue? 

i have an issue making a train reservation, in the Rail planner app i can see a train that leaves Vienna on the 24th of july at 06:32 going to Venice. It says i need to make a reservation. When i go on the reservation website, this train time doesnt exist. The options that are on the website dont exist in the app either. So i dont know which one to trust because i have to make a reservation and also select a train for my travel day on the app. What should i do?

Hi guys, Has anyone done Eurail with an Australian Driver Licence as ID?Any issues so far? I live in AUS but I don’t have a passport yet (German passport). Sorry for the double thread, I am travelling tomorrow and hoping for an answer soon! Thanks!Emmi

Hi together.. I have a German passport, but been living abroad outside of Europe for many years now. Would like to travel across Europe this summer, is Eurail or Interrail pass the right one for me?Thanks in advance!

hi,I purchased my order but website didnt work out and dissapper, I already paid but I couldnt get order number or confirmation number. I hope we can figure out immediately, because my trip stars today

Hi!I'm currently planning to travel from Budapest to Prague on the 9th of July. The app says that a seat reservation is required, but when I open the website to make a seat reservation, I says that a reservation is not required. Which information is valid?Thank you for your help! 

I'm new to this. Any thoughts about what is more easy: paper or mobile pass?

Hello,I purchased a 3-month interrail ticket from the 50th anniversary sale that has to be activated within 11 months from the purchase. Can I activated a few days before the 11 month period is over and still travel for three months? Thank you.

Hello,I am struggling to buy seat reservations. Every time I go to checkout, I am able to enter my billing details, but when I try to progress and I click “go to traveler details”, NOTHING HAPPENS. I have been trying for hours, and I have tried on my phone as well as my laptop, on wifi and on data, and still nothing happens. It just remains on the cart webpage. I am starting to get extremely sick of this. Please help if you can. Thanks!

Hi everyone I need help.The website (InterRail EuRail) does not give the possibility to book a sleeper for the night on the train from Berlin to Paris. On the other hand, it gives the possibility to book second class.But when you don't log in to the site, you can book both second class and bed in 6-berth sleeper.Does anyone know how to get the bed in 6-berth sleeper on this train?Hopefully you are able to help.Alessandro.

My friend and I are currently traveling. I have planned all the train times and dates smoothly but now when I go to import it to her phone. The train times and dates do not show the correct ones and I am not able to find the same times. I already bought the seat reservations what can I do? because of this she doesn’t have the QR code for the conductor to scan

Every train to and from London via Paris is unavailable, yet there are seats on all of the trains????????  Prices unavailableNo price results were found for this connection. It is possible that all pass holder seats are sold out. Please try searching for another connection or check 'More information' and try other ways to book this seat reservation. If no pass holder seats are available anymore you need to buy a separate full fare ticket to board. Is anyone else seeing this?  Is Eurail a scam???? 

If you buy passes for each of your family members do you combine them to book reservations for all at the same time? 

I have the mobile app and activated the trip.  I purchased reservations via the website and want to link my reservations to my app.  I have four family members traveling with me but I don’t see them in my app.  Do I need to give their passports as well and do I need to link my reservations to my app

Can I travel between Paris and St Malo using the pass?

I’m trying to get the seat reservations travelling from Madrid to Paris, but in the first train (Madrid-Barcelona) it tells me that I can’t get it in the interrail web, and reservation is compulsory, does anyone knows what I have to do? Also, in many other train travels it just tells me there is no information of reservations, so I don’t know if I have to get one somehow.

How can i reserve each seats for all Familie to be  nearer 

Hi, apologies if this question has been asked before.  I am planning to travel from Manchester-London-Paris-Barcelona-Alicante-Madrid-Santander.From Santander I have been offered a space on the ferry back to Portsmouth. Is it OK to book this rail journey without using a return rail leg in the UK?