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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

Hallo!Ich habe eine Frage zur Inbound-Fahrt.Krankheitsbedingt musste ich meine Fahrt unterbrechen und bin am Bodensee auf der deutschen Seite in Ärtzlicher Behandlung.  Morgen möchte ich von Friedrichshafen nach Kiel an meinen Heimatort fahren.Die Outboundfahrt habe ich bereits genutzt.Meine Frage: Darf ich die noch nicht aktivierte Inboundfahrt für meine Heimfahrt mit Startbahnhof in Deutschland nutzen? Oder muss ich extra dafür nochmal nach Österreich oder in die Schweiz rüberfahren um die Fahrt zu aktivieren?  Ich nutze die App-Variante. Danke!

Do NOT buy a promo pass, Interrail is not honest about the refund policies.I bought an interrail pass in the promo period in September, and it was only in the payment confirmation (e.g. after purchase) that it said that no refund was possible for this particular promo period. In the general refund policy it says that promo passes can generally be refunded.

Hi,ich habe für die ganze Familie Pässe gekauft. Mein Mann fährt am gleichen Tag wie wir los aber fährt anders als wir . Wie kann ich seinen Pass derart verwalten, dass er den auch hochladen und zeigen kann?

We are planning to be travelling on Sunday 13 September from Ljubljana to Munich.The man in seat 61 states reservations are optional; another site stated reservations are advisable on a Sunday because trains are busy.My questions are:1. Would the community agree with this, or is it worth risking it?2. The reservation would appear, from the OBB website, to be Villach to Munich; is Ljubljana to Villach not reservable?3. Is 6 minutes sufficient for transfer at Villach?

Hello!i have a Mongolian passport with Austrian residency permit, i currently live in Austria. Can i choose to go with Eurail instead of Interrail? On the site it says: “If you are not a European citizen, but you are an official resident of Europe, you can also use an Interrail Pass.” so i think i can choose between them right? But there are a lot of people who said you can’t choose so I am a bit confused. 

I have noticed that allaboard.eu is now also selling interrail reservation for france and maybe other countries, and they only charge a 1€ fee compared to the 2€ fee of other places like the interrail reservation service or raileurope.com. But it seeems like they do not sell reservataion for Ouigo trains, they dont even appear in their planner.They also sell reservation for other countries (but for most of the other ones they sell it is possible to book reservations online directly from the operator)Anyone already tried them out for reservations? (I know they have been selling passes for a while, is them selling reservations a new thing?)

Hi there. I am a newbie to Interrailing but hoping someone can help. I have a 2nd class Interrail pass for my family and I to travel around Spain this summer. We are wanting to take the sleeper train from Paris down to Barcelona. I am keen to upgrade from a 2nd class to a 1st class sleeper as we are 4 - and with young kids I don’t want to share a cabin with 2 strangers and I’m sure nobody wants to share with us either! Is there a way to upgrade just 1 journey for the sleeper train. I’m happy to pay the extra - I just don’t know if it is even possible with the Interrail pass. Thanks!

Hi all !  We are taking a night train from Zurich to Amsterdam, the seat reservation is optional but we want to reserve it anyways. Though, when we try to, it’s says we need to send paper tickets by post, but we are moving a lot and cannot receive them. Do you know how we can just receive electronic tickets ?  Thanks !

Bonjour, je cherche à réserver une couchette sur le train de nuit Prague-Zurich. J’ai déjà planifié mon voyage mais j’aimerais réserver une couchette et je n’y arrive pas. Si je m’adresse directement au site tchèque, comment faire pour ne pas acheter le billet mais seulement la réservation ?

L’anno scorso ho vinto il pass interrail con DiscoverEU.Nel vecchio telefono avevo fatto l’accesso all’app discoverEU e RailPlanner. Avevo anche scelto il pass flex e scelto la data di partenza.Ora sul nuovo telefono sono riuscito a fare l’accesso ma il pass non è automativamente inserito. Se provo a cliccare Add a Pass non so che numero mettere. So che deve avere 6 cifre ma non capisco come recuperarlo.