Train connections & reservations

Hi all,As you may or may not know, I tried and succeeded the other month in booking a couple of seat reservations with Hellenic Train by lightly abusing their query form. I got a formal response confirming that my reservations had been made but that I would need to collect the tickets from the station. The method is displayed on the last page of this thread: Today was the moment of truth; I went down to Thessalonike’s railway station to collect my tickets, armed with a printout of my email reply from Hellenic Train. The cashier at the ticket desk did accept the validity of the correspondence once shown my pass, but he also said (unsurprisingly really) that he had never seen this kind of thing done before, and that he had no way of retrieving my tickets. He also was unable to select the seats detailed in the email (because of course, unless something had gone wrong somewhere along the line, they had been reserved for me!).I perhaps should have tried to ask if a different colleague could

I cant make a reservation for my family on the Eurostar from London to Paris in 3 months with my europe rail pass. The website reservations site keeps saying:Not available for some travellersSome of your travellers' Passes are not valid on this train. Change your selected travellers to book this seat reservation Any ideas? Are they out of tickets?

I have contacted Interrail for changing to an earlier Eurostar train at the same time. However, they have not responded, is there a way of changing the ticket? How does Interrail respond fast? Also, can the starting date of an Interrail Pass be potentially be changed to a day earlier?

I have tried multiple times to book a reservation for two from Brussels to Paris on the morning Thalys train (details below).  Each time I get all the way through to the payment screen and enter my credit card info and then when I hit the Pay button the form thinks a bit then comes back with an empty pay screen - like I never entered anything.  No error message, no confirmation, no charges to my card (as far as I can see), no reservation saved for my trip.  This is really frustrating and doesn’t give me much confidence in booking reservations through the Eurail page (this is my first try).  I guess I can book through one of the other sites, but I was hoping to keep everything in one place.  If I book through www.b-europe.com how does the reservation interacty with my Eurail pass, if at all?  If I book over there do I just print my reservation? Friday 9 December 2022 08:13 - 09:35Bruxelles-Midi (Belgium) To Paris Nord (France)USD $49Booking FeeUSD $3.92Total priceIncluding taxesUSD $52.

Hi everyone! I am trying to book two train reservations for a weekend in Berlin (for the way there and back). December 9th till December 12th. But every time I add the reservation to my cart, check all my information and I want to check out, it shows this message: It looks like the train is still available, so I don’t really understand why this keeps happening. I made reservations before with the same account, so I don’t think it has anything to do with my account. Hoping someone here knows what to do :) 

I am busy planning my itinerary for a European trip with my 18 year old son next year and I can’t seem to find any fast trains from Milan to Rome on May 18th. We have global passes and I’ve managed to do a reservation on Eurostar already. Is it too early to find them for Italian legs of our journey? I notice there are tonnes at the moment but the only train routes I can find for next May are 14 to 22 hours long for that leg. Yikes! We have a tight schedule at that end of the trip so want to know if I should wait or just book another carrier that’s not part of Eurail. Any insights or advice?

Hello, I'm a bit stuck. We are flying into Helsinki on the 7th December and we want to catch the Santa Claus express that evening to Rovaniemi. The prices are Eur 49 p.p for a deluxe double sleeper cabin. havent been able to reserve online so I called the Eurarail help line. They can book me in but I'm confused as the prices are Eur 180pp now.Does this sound correct, as it's now cheaper to fly then take the train. 

There are still no trains scheduled in Serbia from 13. Dec onwards. Departures from Belgrade Central, 13-12-2022Does anyone know why that is, or when a new schedule will be published?Specifically, I would like to know if the train from Belgrade to Bar is going to continue or not.  

I am looking to book a journey from Prague to Hallstatt on Jan 5 and while the Eurail site shows that reservations are not required, for my anxious wife’s peace of mind I would like to try to reserve a seat wherever possible for our holiday.I have tried booking via eurail.com, oebb.at and cd.cz and selected various settings with either the Eurail pass discount or seat-only options and I have attempted to change the journey simply from Prague to Linz to try to reserve that seat. On all of the sites I haven’t been able to reserve seats so I was wondering whether the allocation for pass holders has been exhausted or if I am doing something wrong.I can see via the cd.cz site that there are still seats available to reserve, but when doing so I get the message “The booking period for this reservation has not yet begun or has already expired.”.The oebb.at site just says “No ticket required” and I don’t get the option to add on the Seat Reservation and eurail.com gives the generic “unavailable

I am new to Eurail and can’t seem to make seat reservations from Lisbon to Porto on Wednesday November 23, 2022. I am worried they won’t be available if we wait until we get to the station the day of. How can I buy these? Any advice for a newbie? Thanks in advance. 

My husband and I have purchased 3 month global passes online.  We have successfully made our first trip reservations for 14/12/2022 from London St Pancras to Brussels-Centraal but we are having trouble with seat reservations. We have attempted to purchase the seat reservations 5 or more times in the past 18 hours.  It accepts our cc info and we wait 30 minutes but no confirmation email is received.  Sometimes when we go back to start over (but not always), the seat reservations are sitting in our cart again.  We have tried making the seat reservations via the eurail website and the eurail app.  So far we don’t see any of the seat reservation charges on our credit card.We have also sent this question to eurail but reply said it could be two days or more.Help!

Hi,I have the 3 months global pass and want to book a seat reservation from Croatia Zagreb to Split Croatia for the AM train in mid June. It says “prices unavailable” however when I put in multiple different dates over the next 2 months, it still says the same thing. I don’t think the next 2 months all the trains are booked out, how can I book the reservation without this error?Thank you

Hi,  I put my pass for my friend and I into the app. We used a travel day from Bruselles to Vienna (Austria).  It tells us that “seat reservations required”. We can see a QR CODE but we don’t understand how to book our seats . HELP US please it’s really difficult to understand this app and be helped by interrail …  Thank you in advance,  Manon & Héloïse 

Hi,I have a EUrail pass.I want to travel from Geneva to Rome on 24th December 2022. I am not being able to make seat reservations. I have the seat reservations for all relevant connections.The error states that the tickets/seats might be sold out. Sometimes the error says that the prices are unavailable. Is there any other option that I have? I already checked Interrail.eu, Eurail.com, Italiarail.com, Oebtickets.atShould I wait to get to Europe on 19th December and then make seat reservations?Please help! RegardsMrinal 

I am trying to book a train from Nice to Florence, but Eurail.com is unable to do so.  So I tried to make a reservation on Italyrail.com, but the passholder number does not apply.  What should I do?  For reference, I have a Eurail pass that can be used for 10 days in 2 months.

My family and I are planning to reserve tickets for Brussels-Zuid to Antwerpen-Centraal. We have a Mobile Global Pass. When searching for it on the Rail Planner, only ones with seat reservations required are shown. However, when searching on the Eurail website itself, it shows trains that don’t require it. Is there a way to sync them up or find the ones that don’t need reservations on the App?

On the Eurail website, there is a direct night train line between Prague and Budapest on December 20, but there is no such line on the mobile app. So I'm going to save the route as a manual in a mobile application and reserve a seat on the Eurail website. However, the payment continued to fail. Therefore, I made a reservation for a seat on the 12/20 Prague-Budapest direct night train by paying 502 koruna on the Czech train website. When I take the train, should I show the Eurail application that I manually registered and the ticket that I reserved a seat?

I’m holding Global Eurail Pass - 1st class, could you please suggest how to make seat reservation on Eurostar ? Here is my first time purchase e-ticket, so please help guide me how to do it I plan to travel from Paris to London on 30Dec, departure time around 8 am. I don’t know how to book seat only ? Which website ? And how to do it ?  As previous mentioned, I’m holding 1st class ticket for my global pass as well, can I know that the seat that I have to make a reservation is for 1st class or seat reservation cannot specific with class ?  Thank you 

Hi AllI have a 10 day in 2 month 1st class Eurail pass and I’m trying to book two reservations from Geneva to Paris on 2 Jan 2023 departing Geneva at 12:29 arriving Paris 15:45.  When I try to book the reservation on the Eurail reservation web site the first issue is it only give me an option to book 2nd class (rather than first class), and then when choose to select 2nd class i get an error message:“One of the legs of your journey is not available anymore. Please try searching for another connection” and also “ Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again later or find another connection. This connection will be removed from your cart.”Is there a better website to book this reservation on or is there an issue with this particular train?Thanks for helping! 

Final question! I’ve just gone to print my oebb seat reservation tickets, I booked two seat reservations, but oebb is only giving me 1 ticket, and it doesnt even have my name on it - it has my partners. it has two seats on it though, and 2 passholders. im just super stressed i dont have a ticket! is this normal for oebb?

I want to book a train on Boxing day (26 december). The eurail planner shows many options, however, when I check the timetable of UK train companies, all of them do not offer trains on boxing day. Someone could help to understand that ? There is a risk that the trains in the eurail planner aren't going to depart on boxing day ?

Hi Bought global pass 2nd class tickets and can not get seats 23 Dec Stuttgart to Paris and Pais to Boardeux same day direct.27 December, Bordeaux to Paris direct 3 December Paris to Frankfurt directWill I get seats on the day and pay on the train for a seat. I'm very worried. I paid 670 euro and cant get seats.Loueen

I am trying to book 3 bed sleeper on EC 462 from Wien hbf to Stuttgart Hbf on 13 Dec on Eurail site but there is no option to select sleeper and only seats. Can you advise? 

Hi everyone, I'm planning to take the nightjet munich-Venice on 12th December, but the site says "booking not available". Do you know when the 2023 schedule will be complete? 

I have a mobile Eurail pass that includes free travel for my 2 kids (age 8 and 10).How do I add them as travelers to my pass so I can make a seat reservation for all 3 of us?I figured out how to do it for myself only.