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Hi, i am wanting to travel on a budget next year july-september and id like to know the easiest way to do this. I have been interest in buying the 2 month global pass but i feel like it is a waste if one cant use it in cities to get around. What is the cheapest way to get around cities? And should i rather buy the ticket with travel days. I dont want to spend an awful ton on something i cant use that much.

Is one able to use their eurail pass on the trams in lisbon , and if not are thrre a lot of trains?

I bought this Global Pass and activated it so i can book seats if needed. I am surprised that i have to pay in order to book a seat?  is this normal? 

Hi! In April I want to travel southbound trough the Baltic states, completely by train. I saw that in the weekends the connection time in Valga is 13 minutes instead of 3 hours. I was wondering if trains in Estonia have a good punctuality and if this connection is trustable. Has anyone experience with this? Or can I better bet on a 3 hour transit?Also, is there anyone who knows if there might come better connections next year?Thanks in advance for your answers!

Hi!  I’m getting a sleeper train from Vienna to Venice. It departs at 9 pm and arrives at Venice at 8 am.  I was wondering if I could do this journey with 1 travel day or if I would have to use 2 as I’m not sure if the pass counts for a day or for 24 hours from activation. Couldn't quite find an answer.Thanks! 

Some good news on the trains from Bruxelles to Köln and Frankfurt. All of these are now brand new ICE 3 neo sets. Just travelled back to London without a single cancellation or delay on them. Unfortunately there are a lot of problems on the North South axis due to major engineering work in the Mannheim Frankfurt area. Don’t plan itineraries with short connections in Koln on this route    

Advice on the fastest train to take from Heathrow to London Kings? Someone mentioned Piccadilly but I do not see that as an option. 

Have a very basic question; I’m visiting Prague (flying down) for 4 days on a sightseeing trip; Am wondering if the Eurail Pass for 4 days makes any sense, or is it useful only for intercity travel? If its not useful, then what’s the best alternative for getting around in Prague?   

Hi,I have bought the eurail mobile global pass for my Europe tour. I have downloaded the rail planner app. I am a bit confused about the process of creating a ticket. The way I understand it is that first you enter the pass in to the app and then connect a trip to the pass. A trip is made out of journeys which are individual train rides.So do you have to create all your journeys  before you connect the trip to the pass or you can keep on adding journeys later?I understand that the app will create a barcode with the journeys for the day. What happens if I want to change my plans and want to catch another train on the same day? Or if I miss a connection and have to catch a later train? Do I have to create a new ticket? How do I do that?I am travelling to Zermatt and am going to catch the Glazier express on the 27 th of August. I have reserved a seat but in the app how do I find the Glazier express train? Thank You very much, in advance,Ananda 

HelloDo you know if reservations on ICE between Zurich and Geneva are compulsory in August?I forgot to book the seat and there are no more seats available on the train I want to take.I'm not sure whether I should make a reservation on a train two hours later or try to find a seat on the one I want....Thank you for your advice

Hi - Can someone please help me with the best train option using global pass from paris to bruges. We are planning to start around 8 am and return same day by 8 pm. We are planning this late September , should I book/reserve the tickets now itself?

I have bout eurail global pass for 15 continuous days for 3 of us , now when i am adding the pass to the rail planner app it is asking to create individual trip for each of us in the family. Understand the pass number is different however not sure why rail app is asking to create unique trips for each person in the same family considering we are travelling together ?

Hi - I am sharing my travel plan want to know taking pass is worth it ?paris to bruge bruge to paris paris to zurich zurich to interlaken interlaken to zurich zurich to milan milan to florance florance to rome  we are family of 3 and will be travelling between late spetember 24 to first week of october 24, and want to use trains within each city as well to travel around Considering this just need some help to know if eurail pass for 15 days for 3 is worth it ?any help or info on this is much appreciated,

Hi! I'm looking to go on an interrail trip with friends this September, and we'd like to visit Sarajevo.However, it seems like getting there is very hard. Our current plan is taking a (Flix)bus from Zagreb to Sarajevo, and staying there for 2 days. Afterwards we would take the train from Sarajevo to Čapljina, cross the border into Metković and probably have to take a (Flix)bus again to Split.We were wondering if the 2 days in Sarajevo are worth the effort to get there, and the prices of the busses.If somebody has some tricks how to get there easily, or advice this would greatly help us!

I notice that in the past year Trenitalia have adopted an electronic validation procedure for e-tickets on regional trains.  Presumably this is the electronic version of getting a time stamp for one’s ticket before setting off.  I just wanted to check that there is nothing additional one needs to do with an interrail pass when taking regional trains in Italy.Peter

Bonjour, nous allons à Chur Tirano en trains régionaux mais j'ai lu qu'il y avait des wagons classiques dans le Bernina Express sans réserve, comment savons-nous s'il y a de la place ? MERCI

Hello, I reserved seats Vienna to Prague on the 4th of Sept. On the app. it showed only Breclav to Prague booked nothing about Vienna to Breclav. I also see that some reservations ask for a shipping address to send tickets. I just need email tickets as the delivery dates for the tickets is while I am travelling and would not know exactly where I would be. Thanks Rick 

I’m desperately trying to get a train to paris for next week then down to bezziers i need to travel on wednsday 14th  there are littereally no trains avaialble.  it’s a total waste of money paying so much for my intreail ticket and i cant get where i want ?  any one help. i’ve tried reserving through https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#Outbound and still nothing!!

HiI want to book a TGV seat from Paris to Nimes on raileurope.com (28. 8.)  I found information that it should show the seat number before payment, but I don't see any number on the checkout page. The only option is to select a seat aisle/window or upper/lower deck. Am I doing something wrong, or does raileurope no longer show the seat number?I have bought global pass but not activated yet. Thanks for answer. 

Hi my dear fellow Interrailers,I’m quite new to this fascinating Interrail business and haven’t yet taken a nighttrain with it. So here’s my question (I found similar questions, but none quite the same, or I looked in the wrong direction 😅):In october I want to go with the global pass from Hamburg to Innsbruck with the ÖBB night jet and then I want to go directly from Innsbruck to Bologna. How many travel days would that be? And is it a problem that the night train will leave Hamburg at about 8 pm in the evening and won’t cross the border before midnight?And then on my return I want to go from Florence to Innsbruck and from there with the ÖBB night jet back to Hamburg. Does that work? Somewhere I read that I can’t take a night train for an inbound journey, but that doesn’t seem to make any sense to me.Would be so glad if you could help me out 😊Nadia

I have two Eurail passes (5 days in a month) - one for my husband and one for myself. I had set them up with a Trip name and had used the Rail Planner app to select all of the train journeys we want to take. Some of the journeys required a Reservation and I had arranged all of those, one directly with Eurail and several with the rail companies. The UK Rail companies had helped me select connections and had allocated seats for no charge. HOWEVER, I have just changed to a new phone and while all of my apps came down successfully “from the cloud”, all of the detail on my Rail Planner has gone! Of course I have not lost my Eurrail passes and I have started the process of manually adding them to the Rail Planner app but when it comes to the point of the app asking me to “create a name for a Trip”, I can’t understand where my original Trip has gone with all of the train journeys saved on it. I may be able to add the train journeys but I now cannot remember exactly which changes in the journe

Hi I need clarification for travel days activation.I have read that you can modify a travel day only until the day before. Does it mean that, for example, if I want to leave on the 14th I must activate the travel day on the 13th? And If I haven't, I can't activate it on the 14th? Then about the train activation. Let's say that I must activate the day not after the 13th (in order to travel on the 14th), but can I activate the trains on the 14th? This in order to prevent myself from activating a train I won't take (if it's late or other reasons). Or if I want to decide on the same day I travel if I want to leave earlier or not, can I just activate the train on that day? Thanks

Ich mache mit meiner Kollegin unsere erste Interrail Tour. Dabei müssen wir von Lagos nach Sevilla kommen. Dies am 29.08.2024. Wir haben ein 1-monatiger Interrail Pass.Hat jemand Erfahrungen, wie man am besten von Lagos nach Sevilla kommt?

Do you now is it possibile to "improve" my reservation for the Trenitalia INI774 from Roma Termini to Trieste Centrale? I have already booked a 5€ seat, but I would change it with a "Couchette" seat (43€).I have already tried on the “reservation overview” section, but it doesn’t work.

Hello all,I hope someone might help me since I’m lost in online research ;)I want to go to France alone with my two kids (12+8). I’m travelling on four days (Hamburg/Nantes; Nantes/Sainte-Foy-La-Grande; Sainte-Foy-La-Grande/Bordeaux; Bordeaux/Hamburg). So now I’m asking myself whether it’s better to get an Interrail-pass for four days or to book the tickets separately. With the compulsory seat reservation, it can get quite costly, but I have to take fast trains cause it’s already a long travel for my kids.Could anyone advise me how to proceed and make a decision? I already checked SNCF and Deutsche Bahn Websites and they are giving me different prices for the same travels 😅Kind regardsNadia