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Hi, we’ve got 4 nights in Florence early July 2025 and looking at taking a day-trip over to Pisa one day and possibly across to Venice on another day. Can we use our Eurail pass on these trains please?I’ve checked the timetable and it seems like there’s plenty of trains departing Florence to Pisa, looking at the 08.28am train. Seems I’m unable to make seat reservations however. Do we simply board the train and show our Global Pass or I assume we need to validate a ticket somewhere? 

We are travelling this summer from Marseille to Brussels with five people on Interrail passes. There is almost or no availability on this route for seat reservations, I tried a few seconds after they were available to book to no avail. So I ended up booking seats to Lille (easy and great availability) and figured I’d pay cash for the remainder of the trip to Brussels.However, the very same train with the same number 9868, was “Fully booked” from the moment the tickets were released, even for cash tickets, from Lille to Brussels. Though a very similar TGV train, with the number 9864 travels the exact same route at the exact same time.  I managed to book tickets on this one. But my question is, is this actually the same train? It seems odd to run two TGV services at the exact same time on the exact same route, and having one be basically unbookable. This is all very to confusing, and Im hoping we just have to change places/carriage at Lille, and not run to a different platform (with only

My answer to this is no, despite it being advertised in the Eurail planner. After a long flight from Australia, trying to activate our mobile pass for the first time, the train attendant tells us it isnt valid...because Heathrow Express isnt part of Network Rail (the UK rail consortium that combines all the tracks). Im aware of this, and I was happy that the Heathrow Express was listed as being part of the Eurail pass. But no, the ticket lady said it wasnt part of the pass and that they had tried to explain to Eurail many times that they werent involved in the scheme but they kept having travellers come up to them (like I did) showing them the Eurail Planner rules/inclusions and expecting to be able to use it. Can anyone else confirm if it really is part of the pass or if it isnt and Eurail are just false advertising?

I wanted to regarding the interail outbound and inbound rules, I have a friend who lives in sweden (GOT) and is planning to meet us in copenhagen. He plans to use the outbound journey to CPH and then headback to gothenburg without using inbound journey  and then continuing the travel days within sweden from gothenburg to sweden. Will there be a problem using a travel day within sweden if  he used an outbound journey? (Like does the app consider him being out an issue)

Hello folks,I’m wondering if I book a reservation for GWR in UK (return trip from London to Oxford), would that use one day of my Global Eurail Pass (Flexi pass)? I have already planned out all travel days for my pass and I won’t be able to use the pass if GWR requires one. Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to book 2 seat reservations from Milan to Zermatt for May 25 2025.  When I checked the Eurail website a week ago, there were plenty of seats available and the website stated no reservations needed.  When checking today, the only seat reservations are for a bus from Milan to Domodossola. Earlier, there were trains available.  Also, there are still seats available for a train from Milan to Zermatt, but those trains depart at 0745, which is a bit early, and also seem to possibly book before our trip.  How can I book seat reservations from Milan to Zermatt without needing to ride a bus on the first leg to Domodossola?  If I do need to book a bus seat on that leg, is there a link where I can do this? Thanks for any assistance with this. Best Regards,Mike Bechtold

Hey! I’m Rene from Estonia. I'm 18, and I’ll be using my DiscoverEU pass to travel around Europe this summer—starting in Paris (June 6–10) and making my way through France, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, and Italy before heading home in early July.I’m up for anything—exploring cities, chilling on a beach, trying weird local food, last-minute plan changes, doing sports, partying, or just going with the flow. It would be awesome to find someone to travel with for part of or even the whole trip!If you’re on a similar route and wanna team up or have ideas, hit me up!I speak English, a little Russian, and a tiny bit of French.IG: rene_reineberg

Folks, Can anyone recommend the best places to keep an eye on for diecounts on a pass purchase, promotions etc?  Any will do. 60+ even better ;) Just completed an exhilirating trek across Europe on the pretence of a job interview.  Packed my suit & heels but also hiking boots.   Can't wait until the next trip!Thank you most kindly.Karla 

I’m trying to book ICE319 from Brussels to Cologne on Friday 27th June, but the reservation systems are telling me that it can’t be booked because the carriage layout isn’t available.I’ve tried booking the same train on other dates and the layout is there alright.I’ve checked the train running dates (banhof.de is my new favourite planning tool) and it should be running that day.Any ideas on what the issue is?Normally I would be happy enough to worry about it later, but I’ve just booked a Eurostar into Brussels and plan on taking the EC7 from Cologne the next morning and my options for getting between the 2 cities is limited at that time of night.There’s also a Thalys/Eurostar, but the reservation fee is enough to put me off. An error has occurredThe carriage layout is temporarily unavailable. Please continue your booking without selecting a seat in the carriage layout or try again at a later time.

Hi - I’m looking for some advice on an upcoming trip to Germany (Sept/Oct) and while we’ve train traveled before, we’ve never done multiple trips like this and had reason to consider the value or ease of a pass vs. individual journey tickets. We’re 63 and 66 so one of us can always be a senior fare, sometimes both! We may upgrade to 1st class on some of these longer journeys, not sure yet.I’ve looked at the DB website for these prices and this is what I found without including seat reservation costs - all prices are tickets for two total and all are 2nd class:Frankfurt Airport->Munich Sparpreis 108€  Munich->Mengen Super Sparpreis 68€  Mengen->Boblingen Super Sparpreis 54€ Boblingen->Heidelberg Super Sparpreis 49€ Heidelberg->Darmstadt Super Sparpreis 35€ Frankfurt->Cologne Super Sparpreis 40€ Cologne->FRA airport 40€ (lowest fare, may change time of travel)I feel confident that once we choose the departure time, we can always commit so the Super Sparpreis is ok fo

I know how to find what trains I *can* take a bicycle on, but the ICE trains in particular require a bicycle reservation.  How do I book that?The bahn.de site says you can only book a bicycle reservation with a meatbody ticket, but my meatbody is getting on with the EURail pass.  I can buy a seat reservation on its own, but that isn’t helping me with a bike reservation.Where do I go from here?  Bike reservations are notoriously difficult on ICE trains, so this is a non-starter for me to “wing it”.

Hi there,Can anyone advise whether Eurostar in Brussels is likely to accept late boarding (approx 20 mins before departure)?On 30 July I’m catching the 20.56 Eurostar from Brussels to London, which is the last train of the day.I’ll be travelling to Brussels from Hamburg via Cologne, and am due to arrive into Brussels on a DB train at 19.35. However, given DB’s reputation for delays I’m feeling slightly anxious about missing my connections. If I miss my Cologne transfer, there is a eurostar service from Cologne to Brussels that will get me into Brussels at 20.35. Hopefully it won’t come to this, but if it did, would I still be able to catch the 20.56 Eurostar service onto London?Any insights appreciated!Thanks.

Hi, my phone recently broke while traveling. This means that my interrail pass cant be used on that device anymore. I already had contact with interrail and they unregistered my pass from my phone so i can add my pass on another device. My question is: is it possible to add my pass on my friends device so we have two passes on the same device? If this is not an option, does anyone have another suggestion?

If I board at Bruges on way to Brussels on Eurail, transferring in Brussels to Eurail train to London, is 36 min enough time? Note says to allow 45-90 minutes to check passports, etc.  

I have traveled with Eurail for five summers but always individually. This coming summer I will be traveling with a friend. We would like to make our reservations so that we can be seated together. I have had a long email dialogue with Eurail Customer Support be I still don’t see exactly how it works when using the app. At the website we can join both of our passes to one trip. In the app it creates a Copy Trip. It doesn’t seem like the original Trip (my pass) and the Copy Trip (my friend’s pass) are linked in any way that making reservations will assign us adjoining seats. Can someone give me a better explanation than Eurail Support?Do we need to always make reservations through the website? If we are linked in the same Trip on the website does it effect our passes in the app?

HOW is a second pass added to a phone device? 

I’m planning to travel by the from Munich to Vienna (see picture ).should I reserve a seat in advance for this route ? 

Have a query on using bus for travelling short distances with the unlimited Global Eurail passes from the railway stations in Switzerland in general and in particular from Val-d'Illiez station to Village Champoussin... distance of 7 kilometers serviced by local Bus Route #81.  We are a family of four (2 adults + 2 children aged 8 & 10 years) and will be staying at Champoussin Ski Resort for about a week and will be frequenting the distance between Val-d'Illiez station and Champoussin village almost everyday for a week. I understand Bus travel is NOT included in our Eurail Global pass. So, requesting for information here on the Bus passes and if there is any discount on the Swiss Bus tickets with the Eurail Pass? Thanks in advance for all your help.

Hello, I’m wanting to travel via night train from Prague to Zurich and back, but my home country is Germany which the train travels through. I understand that this would be impossible as each journey would count as both an inbound and outbound day due it passing through Germany. However, could I work around the issue by purchasing point to point tickets for the journey from Prague to the German border and the same in reverse and then adding the journey to the app simply from the first stop over the border (Bad Schandau - DE) so that the way out would count as my outbound journey and the return my inbound?The other issue that could complicate matters is that I would need to make a couchette reservation and this would be for the full journey at the Interrail pass rate. Would this be a problem if the journey was split this way?Thanks for any advice!  

If the train is not fully booked on Romanian domestic trains like IR trains, is it possible to ride without reservation and buy reservation ticket through conductor?Traveling from Suceava to Bucharest I tried to reserve at Cluj Napoca, but they said it must to be reserve at Suceava station. So I am worrying if the connection is short to buy at Suceava.I heard SNCF is possible to ask conductor buy as there is a vacant. How about Romania?

Hola, He comprado 5 pases de siete días para este verano, 2 de adulto y 3 de niños, al añadirlos a la aplicación me hace crear una carpeta para cada pase,la duda es:como puedo reservar los trenes de los 5pases a la vez ya que todos viajamos juntos?Muchas gracias 

Is there a way to determine if my eurail pass covers gong from Venice to Ljubljana? I do the Reservations part and enter in those two destinations and it comes up empty. It seems odd me when looking at other online sources. Not sure if there is a hidden trick that shows how I can get to to Slovenia from Italy. 

where is my confirmation of purchase email? It did not come. How can I reach Customer Service?

We are having trouble booking the Nightjet from Amsterdam to Basel on July 31 2025.  For that date it says, “Currently not reservable”.  (Also for Aug 1 & 2) But dates before and after seem to be fine. Any suggestions? 

I will be reaching Chur Switzerland by Glacier Express on 16 Sept 2025 and want to go to Munich by train the same day. I would like to know where would I board the Munich train 2224 Alpenrhein operated by SOB from?The same train station or different train station?If different train station then name of the station and how do I travel to this station?