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Dear Friends,We are a family of 3 adult persons looking to travel in early June 2024 from Milan to Venice and then from Venice to Florence & from Florence to Rome. We have a Eurail Global pass.  when I googled for seat reservations. It was stated in the Eurail rail planner app that reset reservations are required. However, when I googled, I received a response that seat reservations are not required.  So, I am a little confused about what needs to be done. Could someone please guide me if seat reservations are mandatory for these routes.  Also I have gotten a monthly pass but I shall end my eurail train usage at Rome. Could you also guide me how to deactivate the pass & request for refund for the unused portion. How long will they take to refund?  Thank you

I will be travelling from Barcelona to Cologne via Lyon and Brussel. I have no problems to make my seat reservations from Lyon to Cologne, but not from Barcelona to Lyon. I have a 5 day/ 1month euro rail pass .What I can see from this group that in Spain seat reservations can only be made at a ticket office. I will be travelling on 11 June and arrive in Barcelona on 9 June. Should 2 days before be enough to get 2 seats on this route, or can a seat reservation be bought before hand by phone, calling renfe?ThanksHorst

Do I need a seat reservation when travelling 1st class Eurail pass on train from Gent to Amsterdam in August 24? If the timetable says no seat reservation is needed, do I risk having to stand if train is full? 

Can anyone recommend clean, child friendly hostels / air B&b to stay in around Italy that is affordable/ cheap ish ?  thank you 

Hi there, I’m travelling (family of 4) from Lille to Marseille (starting in UK), next Saturday 25th May. I wanted to check the seating plan for our TGV and in doing so I’m now having a mild panic.  Our seat reservation for the TGV (from Rail Europe) states it’s the 14.01,  9830, from Lille. Arrives Marseille 18.50. This train also shows in the b-Europe website and the interail planner. So far so good.(Our Eurostar arrives into Lille at 13.26) But when I tried to find a seating plan, I went to the SNCf site and entered the train number and saw that the 9830 is listed as departing at 13.01 and couldn’t see a 14.01??? Is something odd going on that I should be concerned about?Thanks for any help! First pic is from the SNCf site, https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/ This below, is from B-Europe. And of course I have my rail Europe booking that states it’s 14.01 as well. so it looks like you can actually still get seats on the 14.01 so it must be running right??  

Good evening, I want to travel from Milan to Imola for the F1 Grand Prix at 19/5,Sunday but I read that is going to be a strike. What options do we have in order to make it there? Thank you in advance. 

Good morning everyone, I'm Italian and this will be my first interrail, I'm traveling with my husband and my 9 year old daughter from 10th to 23rd August. I was looking for an itinerary to avoid making too many changes and to make this first trip as simple as possible.I'm currently having trouble booking the last train back.Itinerary10 August Turin (home) - Milan change Milan - Vienna already booked berth for 3 night train with OBB14/08 Vienna/Prague booked seats with OBB17/08 Prague/Berlin booked seats with DB20/08 Berlin./Munich booked seats with DB23/08 Munich / Verona (not yet booked but I saw that there are no problems with DB ->h11.33-16.58)  Verona - Turin h 18.32-20.55 Frecciarossa FR9750 (train seen on both Frecciarossa and Trainline)Now come the problems with FrecciarossaNote: I read the manual: the main in Seat 61I tried on Raileurope.com: no trains on your routepartners.italiarail: no trains OBB (I already have the account because I booked two other trains) only gives me

Hello, I'm a little confused about booking a trip with a group. We are a group of 8 people and we want to take an InterRail pass to visit Germany (coming from France). If we all book the same journey at the same time, will we be seated together on the train? Thanks  you !!!

Hello,I'm part of a group of 4 or 5 planning to travel from London to Brindisi on 1 and 2 October later this year.I am planning to travel with an Interrail pass, because I am coming back by train the following week and it represents value for money, but the others are travelling only one-way and therefore on regular point-to-point tickets.The issue I'm trying to solve is: how do you buy Interrail reservations and regular tickets and make sure the group is seated together?(I found one other topic on this subject but it was about Ireland, where this problem doesn't appear)The parts of the journey requiring reservations and therefore where this comes up is:On 01/10/2024:08:01 London St Pancras > Paris Gare du Nord 11:28 (Eurostar 9008) 12:18 Paris Gare de Lyon > Genève 15:29 (TGV Lyria 9773)On 02/10/2024:10:13 Milano Centrale > Brindisi 18:24 (Frecciarossa 9805)I'd like to make sure we get table seats on each part and, in the case of the TGV, upper deck seats. Lastly, me being ab

Hi Friends, I’m trying hard to find seat reservation for ICE/TGV trains from Heidelberg/Mannheim/Karlsruhe  to Paris.But seems for all the train DB website shows error message like “Reservation cannot be made”.Like this :However Raileurope website shows message like Seat reservation has to be made at station.  Can someone please help me guide what could I do ?Does it mean that seats are really full or I have to make seat reservation locally from station in Germany ?I’m going to travel with family and toddler .. so don’t want to take chance.I will buy EUrail pass in case I get seats for at least 2 of my journey.Thank you great people. 

I’ve just purchased seat reservations for a trip from Paris to Strasbourg through RailEurope.  I was really surprised to read “Please print them on plain A4 paper before travel and present on board. Do not print in "economy mode" as this can make barcodes illegible. Please note that the tickets must be printed; they cannot be presented via a laptop or mobile phone screen.”This is not a big deal as I probably would have printed off a copy of the seat reservation anyway, but I have always in the past shown tickets whether they be seat reservations or actual tickets on my phone upon inspection.   I have the RailEurope app and there are perfectly good images of the tickets obtainable through that app.    Is there some reason that I am missing why they insist on having paper copies?Peter

Bonjour, Quelqu’un peut-il me renseigner sur comment réserver des couchettes pour voyager la nuit (2 juillet) de Zagreb à Split ?… Nous avons un pass Interrail Global Pass. Sur le site Interrail, c’est impossible.Merci d’avance pour votre réponseBertrand

Hello,  I am South African citizen currently in Germany for 5 months, I got the national visa. I have two questions. Firstly, do I buy the interrail pass or Eurail pass?Secondly, I am planning to travel between 31st July - 21 August. I am planning to 8 countries spending 2 days in one city in each country, Italy being an exception I will do 3 cities. I want to know if I will need the 22 days pass or I can buy the 15 days pass since some days I will not be travelling. I am confused by the consecutive days whether it means travelling daily or I can stretch it in between days. Thank you for your assistance in advance.Isa

I want to plan my journey using my 10 day, 2 month pass.  The pass is on my phone and I am adding trips to it but when I log in to my online account the pass does not show!  Why not?  I want/need to book seat reservations. Also my trips on my phone are not on my online account! I assume Interrail/Eurail get entertainment from frustrating customers, after all they have already bought the product so they can treat them however they wish but with no fear of them not buying!  The latest is in trying to deal with two different entries in their customer databases as described above.  I ama taken to the website from the app when I try to book reservations (hoping that the two individual accounts will find each other and connect, but no!).  I am invited to add an account (have no idea why, already have an account albeit it doesn’t recognise my passes!  So I add an account.  I am asked to add a traveller by pass number and ‘last name’ which I do.  I am then asked to add another traveller.  The

Hello,  I’ve added a trip to my app and added 5 travellers.  I’ve booked seat reservations but on receiving the ticket via email there is only the one name on the ticket (the first alphabetically) but there are 5 seats listed.  Would this be correct? It’s charged me for 5 seats but should we not receive 5 tickets? Or at least have all 5 travellers listed on the one ticket? Thanks

Hi, I am trying to reserve seats for my 2Y child for the route  18:35 Rome Termini  --->22:59 Venice S. Lucia from https://www.raileurope.com/  . So as per instruction in website I am putting age as 6. At time of selecting seats and payment, website asking for my child date of birth. I am putting actual date of birth. App validating the age entered (6) and age as per date of birth mentioned (2) and showing error - “Passenger's date of birth doesn't match age: <name> will be 2 at time of travel”.Please suggest how can i book. Since its 4.5 hr of journey, i wanted to have seat for my child.DOB is a mandatory field on the form which i cannot skip.  

Hi all - thanks for all your help so far. I have another query for tirano to milan route. I would be reaching tirano around 18.00 on 25th May  by Bernina express. I have to reach Milan central on same day. Could you please suggest train route for same as I am not able to find on app. What can I see is below at 18:48 which has 2 bus changes. Is there no train or app is not showing? TIA 

Hi there.I am looking for people how know about traintravel in Spain. After spending some time at the north cost we want to travel from Ovideo via Madrid to Barcelona. Unfortunately I can’t find any trains leaving Ovideo in August at all. Does ticket go on sale so late?From Barcelona we want to travel to Nimes in France. Train tickets for that day are already available, but I can’t purchase seat reservations. I read about that many people have difficulties booking seats with RENFE.Thanks for your helpJohannesPS: We are a family of four traveling on the two month global pass.

I am planning a trip this summer:Travel Day 1 - my home in England to Lyon, FranceTravel Day 2 - Lyon to Verona, ItalyTravel Day 3 - Verona to Trieste, ItalyTravel Day 4 - Trieste to Innsbruck, AustriaTravel Day 5 - Innsbrick to my home in EnglandWhen I started to plan on the website planner, this came up as six travel days - I am confused about why this is.  Should I put Lyon as the first place I visit?  If so, how do I plan the journey from my home?

Hi there,I am about to plan an Interrail-Trip with my family through the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain next summer. As seat reservations are really extraordinary expensive, we would like to skip them as often as possible. In the Netherlands and Belgium we will have some shorter journeys mainly up to one 45 minutes or one hour in an Intercity. Are trains in the Netherlands and Belgium normally crowded or shouldn’t it be a problem to fine some seats? We well be travelling late morning hours on weekdays and weekends.Thanks for your helpJohannes

I am an Indian citizen working in Germany. I have a German residence permit blue card.Bought an eurail pass to travel.I see here that,“If you're not a European citizen, but you are a legal resident of a European country, you should use an Interrail Pass”.https://www.eurail.com/en/help/interested-in-eurailing/do-i-need-a-eurail-or-an-interrail-pass But in below site here, it says,“If you are not a European citizen, but you are an official  resident of Europe, you can “also choose” to use an Interrail Pass.”https://eurail.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/articles/11252058710941-Do-I-need-a-Eurail-or-an-Interrail-PassCan I still use eurail pass with my Indian passport or should I convert to interrail ?If I need to convert, What should I need to do ?

Hi all,I have my Eurail ticket and I have downloaded the eurail app. Our trip starts next Sunday 20th May: London-Paris, Paris-Grindelwald, Grindelwald to Chur, Chur to Milan.Instead of booking seat reservations via the app I have reserved some seating via ‘Rail Europe (London to Paris and then Paris to Basel).   I now see I can reserve seating via eurail app.  When trying to do so, Grindelwald to Lucerne is ‘paper ticket’.  Is there somewhere I can edit this?  Otherwise it is asking me for the hotel address!!  In fairness, seat reservations are not necessary but it’s Interlaken to Lucerne (scenic route) and just wanted to have seat booked just in case. Also, is there an update on the train line from Tirano to Milan Centrale? Can some assure me that it’s a 3 hour journey and is it best to book tickets separately on Trenord/Trenitalia website altogether as Eurail app says it’s a 5 hour journey!Another thing, on the app on my phone I have a trip called Adventure2024 but when I sign onto

If you haven't yet bought a global pass, can you make seat reservations on TGV?If yes, how?Thanks

Planning on getting a Eurail Global pass 22 Days for November and December travelling through Switzerland 8 days then onto Germany starting at Stuttgart for Christmas markets tour. Just want to know can we travel from Luzern to Stuttgart using the Eurail pass or do we have to go through Basel to get to Germany? Have read this on another site. Thanks for any advice.

We are looking at purchasing Eurail Global Passes and note that the web site states the following“Eurail and Interrail Pass holders with a pass valid for Austria can enjoy free public transport on the ÖBB bus network.The ÖBB Intercitybus (ICB) complements our top long-distance trains in the South of Austria as well as across the border to Italy. During your bus trip, you enjoy the service and the quality you are used to from rail travel.”Is this bus travel treated as a travel day for the pass or is it in addition to the travel days within the pass?Does it cover ALL OBB bus routes or just Intercitybus? Many thanks