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Hello fellow railers! Does anyone know if there is a direct train from Latour de Carol to Perpignan?

Seat Reservation unavailable on Eurail but available on RailEurope? Why is this? I have a Global Pass. Need to book Barcelona to Narbonne on 22 Sep 2025. Thank you,    

Hi, First time Interailer looking to book onto the OBB Nightjet from Brussels Midi to Wien Salzburg. I clicked on the booking option on the Interail site but just get this message.No price results were found. Pass holder reservations may be sold out for this connection, but there are other ways to check for available seats—more info below our timetable.I there another way to book a reservation on this night train as our current trip is sort of built around it? Maybe naive to think I could just book after buying my pass but any advice would be really appreciated. Travel date for night train would be departing Monday 7th July.Thanks,Andy

hello, i was wondering how late i can wait to decide which train and on which day i want to take the train? Is it possible to change your mind on the travel day if already booked? 

Hi, i think i made a mistake with activating my eurrail pass. In dutch (netherlands)  and have 2 number on my passport. One is a document number and one is a personal number. They said to fill in the id number and i filled in my document number. Does it matter which number it is if the pass will match it in eacht europian country i go to. Or do i need to change it to the personal number?

I am planning to travel to France with the Single Country-France Pass. I am traveling from Cologne, Germany to Brittany. The first part of the trip would be a Eurostar train from Cologne Hbf - Paris Nord (e.g.: EST 9426). As I understood, the single country pass does not allow for an included trip to the border within the home country, as the Global Pass does. The Eurostar goes from Cologne to Paris, via Belgium. The question is now, which ticket option I would need to cover the leg from Cologne to the part where the train enters France and technically becomes valid?Do I need to buy an additional ticket for this part or what are my options?Any help or tips & tricks are much appreciated :)

From 1/2/2025, so already 1 month ago, 2 more carriers started accepting Interrail and Eurail passes: Koleje Wielkopolskie (KW) and Arriva RP.Source:https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-intercity-i-koleje-regionalne-ulatwiaja-podroze--122327.htmlhttps://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/dla-pasazera/kup-bilet/honorowanie-biletow-pkp-ic-w-pociagach-innych-przewoznikow/honorowania-biletow-miedzynarodowych.html​@Eurail Community Moderator Could the information on the Interrail and Eurail websites and in the Rail planner app please be updated?

I am trying to book tickets and both the app and the website are stuck in the loading phase. This has been a problem for hours. I see it has been an issue historically, (2 years ago) and the answer was the IT crew were on it and the user should update the app. I am anxious about deleting and re-uploading the app in case I lose my current bookings.  anyone else having same issue? Anyone has any ideas how to get around this? 

Trip from Ghent St Pieters, Belgium to Paris du Nord. Train itinerary in eurail  has me just making a 15 min transfer to take train from Brussels Midi to Paris Nord but also states that I should allow extra time for boarding. Does this mean I should not book this in one go, and consider making this two separate train routes in the itinerary. One from Ghent to Brussels Midi and a separate one from Midi to Paris to allow more transfer time? How early I should be there before train departs?  

j, ai réservé un train pour Budapest-Nyuagati Prague hlavni nadrazi pour le mardi 8 juillet (11:30 arrivée 18:15) et j’ai le QRC code sur l’appli EUdiscover (il y a marqué que c’est le billet à présenter pour l’inspection). J’ai voulu réserver des places assises ( non obligatoires) mais à l’heure tout pile il y a marqué qu’il y avait déjà plus de places… Comment je fais? Est-ce que je peux tout de même aller dans le train avec mon QRcode ? ou Est-ce que le billet ne fonctionne pas pour le train ? Autre question, pour les prochains trains où les places assises sont obligatoires, comment cela se passse si je n’arrive pas à avoir de places assises mais que j’ai tout de même le billet QRcode sur l’appli?Merci d’avance

Our group of friends is going to travel europe during this summer. We have encountered a problem of comprehension of the way de system of travel days works. In our case we want to take an itinerary from Budapest to Split and we have to take multiple trains to get there. The case is that we had taken a 4 days pass, and we don’t understand if the fact that we are travelling at night and travelling in different trains is considered just one day of travel or if it is considered 2 days of travel. It’s important to specify that these trains transfers are not only during the night (before 00.00) but also after 00.00. Someone could please help us understand if it’s 1 travel  day or 2?? Thank you

Hi everyone,I’m currently planning my summer trip across Europe and I’ll be travelling from London to Edinburgh Waverley. I’m using a Eurail Global Pass (15 days) and wanted to confirm: Does my Eurail Global Pass cover this route? If yes, is a seat reservation mandatory, or can I just board the train using my pass? Any tips on which train service (LNER, Avanti, etc.) is best for scenery or ease of reservation? Appreciate any guidance or experience you can share — thank you!

Hello, i was going to reserve seats for my friend and I for 3rd august, from barcelona to lyon but it says sold out. However, i find it odd that it is sold out so quickly. Is it possible to head down the train station in Spain and reserve the seats etc still? I can head down to a train station in Bilbao but not Barcelona though, and do i need my friend’s passport etc? Do advise thanks!!

Hi there, I am looking at a day trip from Würzburg to Rothenburg ob der Tauber on the 18/10/2025. From the DB website, I will need to take RE10, RB81, RB82 with a total journey time of 2h 10m. But yet if I go back to the 9/10/2025 and earlier, there is the RE80 available which will shorten the trip by an hour. Is the RE80 on some sort of seasonal schedule?ThanksJackson

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate any insight or recommendation on what to do about this error. I’ve narrowed to when I try to reserve a seat for 1 of my family members, everyone else work perfectly, but every time I try to book for him, the error shows up. Thank you in advance!!  

Hi!Me and my girlfriend are planning to go on a trip with the Interrail global pass between July 4-10. We have looked up some routes, though on some days we have to change trains to reach our next destination. Our concern is that we may not we able to catch the next train if the first train arrives late due to the transfer time being 15 minutes. I have two questions about this:1:If we miss our transfer because the first train was late can we get a refound or some compensation on the seat-reservations?2: On the pictures below you can see the routes and the trains we would like to take. Do you think we can transfer from one train to another without any problems? Are delays greater than 10 minutes common on these lines?Thank you for your answers. 

I am travelling from Lecco to Ventimiglia in early September 2025.  The schedule in July has a direct train from Milan to Ventimiglia but the trains in September require changing 2-3 times.  Are the schedules that are there now what they will be for September or will they get updated again? Would prefer to have a direct train from Milan.

I purchased three Global passes and they are showing different information. Two of them are showing that we have now used 3/10 days and day 4 as “available”. The third one is showing 3/10 days used as well but shows “May 10” under day 4. Why isn’t it showing as available and will it cause any issue? Thank you 

   Hi all, I have been hearing mix things about what is covered and not in eurorail pass for the above two trips. Some of the routes in this area was recently added maybe. Can someone please confirm about the above two journeys if they are covered or not. Lauterbrunnen to Gruetschalp (Grütschalp) Lauterbrunnen to Wengen  

Hi, I’m trying to reserve a seat (have a global pass) from Milan to Nice on 21st August. I understand that reservations should be bookable now being less than 4 months away. The maninseat61 site says to go via Ventimiglia but no results come up. When I try to search for Milan>Ventimiglia in case the French trains aren’t reservable, it says I have to change to Torino but I thought it should be direct?Is there something else I need to try?

Hi everyone,I am planning for our first trip to Europe, and I have a few questions around seat reservations that I haven’t been able to find the answers for so far. I hope someone can assist me on this.1.    Apart from Eurostar, what other trains have limited seats available for pass holder? I will be travelling on the following trains:IC ICE EC RJX2.    When I book my seat reservations directly with the rail companies (e.g. OBB, DB, CD etc), do I have to explicitly specify that I will be using a Eurail pass? For DB and CD (Czech), I don’t see where I can select Eurail pass during the seat reservation process. As for OBB, I can only see I can add “Interrail/Eurail – Globalpass” as a “discount” during the process but I don’t know whether that is necessary/relevant. I am trying avoid surprises as much as possible, thanks for any assistance in advance. 😀ThanksJackson

For some reason, the website doesn’t let me delete a trip from my cart (a seat reservation I haven’t checked out). Because of that, it assumes I have used the two credits I have left, so I can’t book any other trips. 

Part of my route is interrupted and replaced by bus transport. Thus arrival time is delayed ; so the route does not work anymore.Is it allowed to use an alternative route which allows (however longer distance via Switzerland)  continuing the trip?

I am trying to book a seat on my first leg from Leeds to London Kings Cross which is an LNER train. The Interrail planner says“Not available from Interrail.euThis seat reservation can’t be booked on our website. Check 'More information' for other ways to book.”Firstly, does this mean that I can’t travel by this train at all?I tried to book a seat with LNER who is the carrier on this train. There doesn’t seem to be a way to book a seat without having a ticket.Can someone tell me how I book a seat in this case?

Hi ! I don't have a smartphone. I would like to buy a global pass before this weekend. Is it impossible just because I choose not to have a smartphone ?