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I am a Japanese citizen living in Japan. I am planning a 4-month trip around Europe.I plan to travel by using a Visitor VLS-TS pass(visa) for France about the France's part(about 25days) of the long trip because of Schengen Agreement's 90-day rule. Since the trip within the Schengen Area will last about four months, it will exceed 90days.But in this case, can I use Eurail or Interrail pass in France only?

Hi My friend and I would like to book the train 16 August with my interrail pass, but I can’t, are their any other options available or can you book it for us?  It’s the train from 14:00 Lyon Part Dieu to Breda arrived at 20:19. 

Dear community, I’m looking for a reservation for the train IC 416 or EN 40416, in particular the first, from Wien to Krakow on September 7th. I looked on the OBB website and others, but is not possible to book it. On OBB I read the message “Currently not reservable”. Do you think this is a temporary situation or all the seats are booked? I’m worried since I have less than 2 months left. Thank you for any clearifications!Best Pierluigi Pellegrino

Hi, I am travelling this week on a Global Pass. I have already activated the pass and all travel days. Re the travel days, should I not have activated those yet? Can I do that day by day during my trip? I thought I had to activate in order to secure a ticket on the train. Many thanks all.  Super excited by the way!!! 

How many days of my pass is used by making my outbound journey in UK:  Drem to Edinburghovernight Edinburgh to London(Next day) Eurostar London to Paris?

You can now book pass reservations on www.raileurope.com. You have to add a rail pass, which will then be applied to all passengers in the group, and at check-out, you need to supply a pass number.I did a test for Italy (Frecciarossa Milan-Rome) and there don't seem to be any extra booking fees. And you can select a seat for €2 extra, like on the Trenitalia website.No luck for Spain yet. It will be interesting to see if it can book anything that can't be booked online elsewhere.

Hello all,I would like to travel from Rome to Istanbul, in 1 month.Which road do you suggest ?I was thinking going through Adriatic Sea, Montenegro or Albania, then Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, but it seems quite complicated, to cross the sea and easier to do all around by train.Anyone can share feedbacks ?If crossing by ferry, which city should I aim for (Bari..?) and which company ?I am leaving Rome next monday, 28 JulyMany thanks by advance !

Hello there,I have planned to be in Istanbul around 17/22 august and I have my pass ending the 24th at midnight.I would like to go back from Istanbul to Lyon in the easiest and fastest way, but it seems interrail app can’t help me on such a trip in one-time request.Do you have any advices suggestions ideas on how can I plan that trip back home, and how long should i expect to do ?

I have made seat reservations for me and my partner in my own account. These reservations are visible in the app on my phone. Is it possible to make the reservations that are on my partner's name visible in his own app?

Hi, I am trying to book a reservation. It is 2 ICE and a Nightjet. I can't seem to find how to reservate it. It gives warnings. '’One or more Passes cannot be used for this journey. Please select the travellers with valid Passes for this journey in order to book seats.'’ How can I reservate? Also if I go to the Nightjet website directly it also says it is not possible to book the journey but no information about if it is fully booked or anything. Has anyone als had this before? It is my first time interrail and it feels like a maze.You would think that the 28th is a bit afther the holidays for everyone so should be fine.. I don't know what to do. 

Hey! 😊Is anyone interested in going Interrailing in August? I haven’t decided exactly which countries to visit yet, and I live in Sweden. It would be fun to have someone join me! 🚆🌍

I have been trying to reserve a seat on any (high speed) train from Amsterdam to Paris-Nord, but on none of the trains scheduled on that day it seems possible to reserve a seat. The following warning appears when I try to reserve a seat:“Er zijn geen prijsresultaten gevonden. Plaatsen voor Pashouders kunnen voor deze verbinding uitverkocht zijn, maar er zijn andere manieren om te kijken of er nog plaatsen beschikbaar zijn. Meer informatie vind je onder onze dienstregeling.”Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks a lot in advance! 

I am travelling in October with Ave international Montpellier - Madrid. I have read that I can get seat reservations on 3 sites; (Interrail, Happyrail and Raileurope).  But what site is recommended? I am travelling with 2 people and I have an interrail global pass 2nd class.

Hi!I’m currently looking at journeys within the Netherlands, and I’ve found conflicting information in multiple places. I’ve read that ICE trains require a supplement when used within the Netherlands (not internationally!), for example the journey from Amsterdam Centraal to Utrecht Centraal by ICE 125, 12:33-12:57. The NS website seems to imply that this journey would require a supplement, but the Rail Planner app doesn’t show it as needing one, and it’s not listed on the Eurail website. Similarly, this NS website specifically states under the “In which situations can I travel without a supplement with Intercity direct?” header, that:if you are traveling within the Netherlands with a Eurail or Interrail pass, an Intercity Direct Supplement between Rotterdam and Schiphol is still required.This information is also repeated on the Eurail website.However, when searching for a matching journey on the Rail Planner app (for example Rotterdam Centraal to Schiphol Airport by ECD 9539, 12:21-12:

I have tried several times to make a seat reservation on different devices and after I changed my cookie settings. Every time I get a error saying: something went wrong… I am kind of out of hope and not sure how to solve this problem, I already did everything the help page told me to, so I hope one of you could help me out, thanks in regard.

my travel is from the 17th to the 21th of August,i don’t understand why the pass of Firenze-Pistoia on the outward trip and the passes of Pistoia-Firenze and Bari-Lecce are not on the schedine,maybe because they are regional trains?How do they work,are they still free?What do we need to do to have a ticket for these trains? 

Hello! My friend and I want to travel from Berlin Lichtenberg to Norrköping Central on Friday (24th July) with the night train. We have a seat reservation (booked via Interrail) for a connection that starts at 7:05 pm in Berlin Lichtenberg and ends at 08:24 am in Norrköping Central. But we cannot find a train with this timetable anymore. The only train we can find starts at 5:41 pm in Berlin Lichtenberg and arrives Norrköping Central at 09:45 am. Both of them are the trains EN344. Does our seat reservation change to the train with the new timetable? Can we just get onto the new train or do we have to do something?

Hello. This is my first time on here and my question regards travel days,I recently purchase x2 1st Class Global passes with 7 travel days on because i am planning a trip to Italy and Switzerland in September Because of a line close between Paris & Milan😔 I have added a few extra days to the trip but now I have 8 travel days on a 7 day pass!!! What happens now?

Hi, I’m new to Interrail and I think I’ve got off to a tricky start! I got the app and it is activated for travel in September (Flexipass 7 days). However, for some reason, I made my first reservations online on my laptop, and now can’t transfer these to the app. Seems like this was a mistake.Can I use these reservations in some way and can I still generate the QR code for the Mobile Pass without, them on the app? Or do I have to cancel them and restart the process on the app?Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks.

I have 2 standard 2nd class reservations. Can I upgrade to Eurostar Plus on a 2nd class pass?

The system failed to book the correct journey, the wrong time was then booked, then the correct journey was booked, then the refund processed ended up cancelling the correct trip and leaving the wrong one.My family of 4 are set to travel later this week and it means a whole bunch of our other connections don’t work. Spaces on Eurostar trains are limited for interrail. How can I resolve this?I cannot even find a number to speak to a human being…

Interrail app says that is a service from Oslo leaving at 9.18am. This service does not exist on the Norwegian railways or into a website and yet it still shows in the interaction. I have made reservations for two on the 8:44 to Myrdal.What is the likelihood of the interrail planner showing the correct time of 8.44am

Dear InterRail,I have an InterRail paper pass, and I added a trip on interrail.com with that pass and the correct pass cover number.I want to book a night train from Paris-Austerlitz to Tarbes.I selected the trip with the corresponding pass.When I want to book via https://interrail.com/, it just says “One or more Passes don't cover this journey. Select the travellers with valid Passes for this journey to book seats.”I double checked, I have selected myself and the correct trip. The pass is a global pass, and the booking I want to make is in the middle of the passes validity.Places on the train are available since I can book via https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass or https://raileurope.com/.SAME for the earlier day train (TGV). Seems to be a general issue.What is going on here?Dear InterRail team, can you please look into it behind the scenes?Regards!

I am having problems and not being able to book night train to Paris from Bayonne for my family, is anyone else having the same issue?The web site says:Sorry, something went wrongWe could not save your details. Please try again or contact Customer Service.I´ve already contact customer service and waiting for answer,…. Thanks for your help Ion 

Hi everyone,I purchased Eurail 1st class pass for Spain recently. I then made a seat reservation with lyro train infinita class. I checked that they have luggage policies where advance reservation is needed in advance. However, when I logged in to the booking, seems to me the booking from Eurail is not amendable with the baggage option. Is it possible to reserve via email or visit the customer service desk for reserving one? I don't want to end up in paying 40 euros for one large bag's. Thanks in advance