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Hi. This is all very confusing. Can anyone tell me what the likely cost will be of booking a 2 bed sleeper from Narvik to Stockholm using an Interail pass. On the Interail site it states 50 Euros per person whilst on the Swedish railway site it’s more likely to be around £200. Just need to decide whether it’s more cost effective to do this leg in one hit or take an overnight stop in Boden and Kramfors. We are not travelling until early July so can’t book until at least early April.  Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

I’m trying to book the night train from Hamburg to Stockholm for the end of July but there doesn’t seem to be any available on sj.se  - Does anyone know whether I am too late or too early??On Snälltåget you can only get as far as Malmo and the train leaves very late  - at midnight, which would be hard with 3 kids! 

Hi,I am trying to book a ticket from Luzern to Interlaken on 14th May morning, It says reservation is not required, so if I am not purchasing this seat reservation then,If seat reservations are unnecessary, can I just board a first-class compartment and choose any seat which is free(available)?If yes, how can I identify vacant seats as I travel from one point to another?If no, where can I find seating without having to stand for the duration of the journey, considering that I haven't purchased a seat reservation?  

Hi all, l would like to catch the direct 8:06am train from Berlin to Amsterdam on Saturday 15th June 2024. It’s says l need to buy seat reservations but every time l try it on eurail it comes up with an error. I went into Rail Europe and it says it’s free, and when I checked on  Bahn.db it says no price information is available. I am very confused. Do l need to buy a seat reservation for this train and if so how? Being the busy time we don’t want to miss out on a seat. Any help would be appreciated thank you.

Hello! I’m booking my trip with the Golden Pass Line in Switzerland. I want to go from Brienz to Luzern. But on the website of Golden Pass Line I can only see the route between Montreux and Interlaken. I see on somewhere online that the Zentralbahn between Interlaken and Luzern is one of the Golden Pass Line. However you cannot enter the train in Brienz. I also see an Interlaken-Luzern Express which you can enter in Brienz. Do someone know which one is the correct one?

Hi, I’ve been trying to reserve seats for myself and 4 friends on Deutsche Bahn, from Amsterdam Centraal to Duisburg HBF. Specifically the 20:28 - 23:03 on the 29th July 2024. The interrail website says unable to reserve seats, interrail support suggested booking on the Deutsche Bahn website directly. However when I try to checkout  I get the following error : “Reservation cannot be made”. I can see there are plenty seats still left on the train. I have tried to contact deutsche Bahn via email but have received no response and am unable to connect through phone. Any help appreciated, thanks! 

I can't seem to get an overnight reservation thru eurail from rijeka to Frankfurt.  It is there, but when I click it, there is not a place to click for an overnight coach.  Do I have to book in another site?

Me and a few friends are going interrailing, we want to sit together on train journeys so thought it would be better to book just the seat reservation separately through the Train Operators website.In this case we are using OBB, however when I select 3 seat reservations it only asks for one name and says it has to match the name on the ticket. However we have booked tickets separately/ using an Interrail pass.Does anyone know if it will be a problem if we book the 3 seat reservations under one name when we all have separate tickets?Thanks!

BonjourJe souhaite réserver un train depuis Narbonne (ou Sete) pour rejoindre Barcelone Sants le 15/06 prochain. Les 2 sont des trains à “réservation des places assises obligatoire”, pas de problème là dessus, mais sont “indispos” après recherche le site eurail.eu lorsque je veux payer.Une idée ?Merci à vous 

My wife and I wish to travel on Sun 9 June from Budapest Kelenforld to Ljubljana.I am trying to book a seat reservation on the train departing at 0907.  I have tried on the Eurail app and on CD and MAV apps but can’t seem to work out how to book a seat for the two of us.how can I reserve a seat?which site or carrier to I book it thru.how do I just reserve a seat without paying for a ticket?  We have a 3 mth global pass. thanks in advance jon

Hello all,I am planning a trip with my daughter through Europe this summer - part of this trip we are travelling the Bernina Express, panoramic car, afternoon train.This train arrives in Tirano 17:59 with our connecting train to Milan via Trenord departing 18:08 to Milan.Is the 9minutes enough time to transfer between the two? Is anyone familiar with this stop?We will be carrying straight on in Milan onto a sleeper train departing Milan 21:35 and if we miss the Trenord connection we miss the night train ex Milan and I am concerned this is too risky and may look to stay in Tirano the night instead.Help and advice appreciated, thanks in advance. :)  

Dear train travellers,The website interrail.eu literally says in Dutch: "board most European trains by simply showing your Interrail pass". But in the Rail Planner app it says in English: "Before you board the train, you'll need to create a ticket in the app". I have an Interrail Global Pass Mobile. Suppose I only want to travel without a mandatory reservation, do I still have to create a "ticket" every time I want to board a train? That would mean that I'm constantly working on tickets if I want to make multiple trips, for example if I want to suddenly interrupt a trip and take a different route. That seems difficult to me if I only have a few minutes to transfer. I do not understand. Is it really not possible to use the pass by simply showing the pass without any ticket? Thanks in advance for your response. (This text has been translated from Dutch by Google Translate. The Dutch version is below. Answer may also be in Dutch) Op de website interrail.eu staat in het Nederlands letterli

Is it possible to add/delete journeys from the Pass after the journey has started? And what about after it has finished?Reason for asking is that I was originally intending to take the Eurostar from St. Pancras to Amsterdam, and I bought a passholder reservation for that journey.My plans have now changed and I would like to get off the Eurostar early in Brussels. As I understand it this might not technically be allowed but in practice should be OK because there aren’t ticket checks on arrival. I don’t want to change the passholder reservation because there is a charge for doing that.However, if I change the journey in my Pass to say Brussels instead of Amsterdam it won’t match the passholder reservation. And if I leave it as Amsterdam I can’t add the next train I am going to take from Brussels because it leaves before the Eurostar has arrived in Amsterdam (i.e. it overlaps).So what I was thinking was to leave the journey in the Pass as Amsterdam until I arrive in Brussels, then delete

Hello everyone! I am planning to take this route on 14 July from Bellinzona - Nice (Riquier).09:14 Bellinzona - Milano Centrale EC31311:10 Milano Centrale - Ventimiglia  IC63715:16 Ventimiglia - Nice ( Riquier) ​​​​The sbb, öbb apps , rail europe all say "tickets not available" only for the EC313 at 09:14 , IC637 at 11:10 every Sunday. Why is that? I understand that Swiss trains don't need reservations but the cross border ones into Italy do, correct? Or am I missing something? Can I just get on any EC/IC/ RE trains going out of Switzerland without reservations? Thank you for your suggestions!  

There are busses run by the Greek Rail company - for example from Patras railway station to connect with the train from Kiato into Athens. Does anyone know if the bus part is covered by a global interrail pass?

Hello, I recently heard about the Eurail 4 days pass for Greek Islands. I though I finally found an affordable way to visit the Greek islands are to me, ferry prices are outrageous. Unfortunately, I am not that young anymore and not extremely enthusiast to the idea of spending long overnight trip on an economy seat.   My question is the following: is there a way to upgrade from an economy seat to a bed when making a reservation? I am going to Greece at the end of April - beginning of May, which should normally be a relatively quiet time. However, this year, Orthodox Easter is May 5 and ferry are popular.  There is no chance I will get a bed if I wait to be on the ferry to upgrade.  Thank you.   

I have searched trips a near as tomorrow and as far as it’s in their calendar, their system can’t find any seat available.. is this normal? (trying to reserve tickets from London to Liverpool)

Hey! I’m trying to make seat reservations to a train from Ljubljana to Rijeka (8:30 am - 11:12 am) on 12th of May since the Rail Planner says that seat reservation are required. In the app the name/number of the train is EN 60237 but when I try to book with CD (Ceske Drahy) on their website the train number is INT 481 OPATIJA. The route and schedule of the trains seems to be the same so is it okay to book the seats with CD ? And extra question if anybody knows the answer… I wanted to travel from Budapest to Graz on 8th of May with direct connection (4:29 pm - 9:20 pm). I tried to make the seat reservation already in March, but both CD and Eurail said that the train is temporarily unavailable for reservations or the prices are unavailable. Today I checked the Hungarian website (MAV-START) and according to it the train is fully booked. Rail Planner says seat reservations are optional for that route, but since we don’t have seats booked does this mean we don’t have any chance to catch tha

Bonjour J'aimerai réserver un trajet pour deux de Lucques à Venise en juin 2024 malheureusement le site ne trouve pas de résultat. Après recherche, je comprends que c'est la partie Lucques - Florence qui coince car il y a ce qu'il faut pour Florence - Venise. Il existe pourtant bien un train régional entre Lucques et Florence puisque je le prends 2 jours auparavant dans le sens inverse.D'ailleurs lors de cette première réservation, j'ai une partie avec siège a réservé que j'ai faite et payer et depuis, je n'ai pas reçu de tickets pour cette partie de voyage (Florence - Lucques).Peut etre est ce la même chose dans l'autre sens du coup ?Ainsi, cela voudrait dire que je peux monter dedans comme ça sans souci juste en présentant mon pass ?Du coup cela comptera comme un jour de voyage ?A quel moment est il décompté si oui ?Je suis à votre disposition s'il y a besoin de précisions. Bonne journée à la communauté. Merci d'avance.

Hello! I’m planning my trip fram the Netherlands to France, Switzerland and Italy. I’m going through Paris, Colmar, Interlaken, Lucern, Como, Milan, Venezia, Florence and Roma. The high speed train I will take are Eurostar to Paris, TGV to Strasbourg and Italian high speeds trains travelling in Italy. I'am going to Jungfrau as well. Should I get a Eurail Global pass or just point to point tickets with maybe Swiss Half Fare?

Hello! We are looking to travel around Britain as well as one stop in Paris. We are there for 15 days. Our itinerary is roughly as follows. We have some dates that are fixed, but we also have a few spare days and so we want to stay a bit flexible. It seems like our options are Brit rail pass, this would cover all the Britain portions, and then pay out of pocket for London to Paris. If we use Brit rail, we would need 4 days Flexi pass at a minimum This is 898 CDN$ for 2 people.If we use the Eurail option, we would need 7 days Flexipass 1,138 CDN$ for 2 people + the 260.71$ fee for using it from London to Paris which makes it close to individual tickets. I looked up tickets in advance on a few different websites. These are the prices I found in CDN dollars.London to Paris Round 356.00 USD = 483.82 CDNLondon to Bath   2 Adults @ £38.50 = 137 CDNBath to York    £157.29 = 287 CDNYork to Edinburgh  2 Adults @ £42.20 = 149 CDNEdinburgh to London   £112.20 = 246 CDNTotal 1302Would a eurail pas

I am trying to book a train from Paris to Berlin (6th-May) via below trains  I have a first class Eurail pass, can some one guide me how to book a sleeper ? (Tickets and Seats)

Hi everyone! Im really confused about this supplement, and i don’t know where to buy it either! My friends and I are travelling from Amsterdam to Frankfurt in August, and we’ve already booked our seats on the DSB website (as it wasn’t still possible on interrail website). There was nothing about any supplement on this website, but if i look this train up on the Interrail app, or on the online planner, it says that a supplement is required. Does anyone know what this supplement is? And where we can buy it? We’re travelling on an ICE on the 28th of August. Thank you very much!!  

Hello,I took me a few days and tentatives to be able to use your forum. I got message errors when creating an account, including with a Facebook ID. I though this forum was not in use anymore so I did not ask my questions and did not have timely answers.I hope you can fix this for the next new users. 

Hi,I am planning on taking ride on 3. 7. 2024 form Prague (6:38) to London via Köln an Bruxelles, but train between Köln and Bruxelles (EUR 9474) is for Interrail pass holders already sold out. In mobile app I found ICE 12, but on website I can not find it. Can I book seats on bahn.com and use it with Interrail pass? And if so, why it is not showing up in train times? If not, do I understand it correctly, that I would need to buy full fare and seat reservation for EUR 9474 or ICE 12? Also from my understanding it should be in possible most cases to book reservation through carriers sites? If so, is it better to book seats through interrail.eu or directly from carriers?Thanks