Train connections & reservations

I see that only the route to Sicily is available, due to be reserved via Interrail. We are looking to make a reservation from Milano to Bari. When using Italiarail as advised in another post, you only seem to be able to book normal seats, but not beds. Now, without going to Italy, how can I make a reservation for a bed in night train in Italy?  

We are about to embark on our first trip across Europe using rail rather than flying and am struggling a bit with this notion of seat reservations vs a booking. One specific question I would like guidance on from the community is this. I have a Eurail pass and have booked two first class tickets from Munich to Prague on November 23rd on RE357 aka ALX357. Trying to get a seat reservation has been frustrating. I have checked the CD Bahn.DE and Eurail sites and get various forms of “the train is temporarily unavailable for reservations”. Without a seat reservation am I guaranteed a seat but not a specific assignment or could we show up and not be able to board because it is fully booked. It never states fully booked so I’m trying to decide do I show up and hope I get a seat or do I give up and book another train. This is a direct train so it is far more convenient and the other options have 1 or more quite tight connections <10 minutes. Being new to this and having luggage for two of u

Hi everyone! I live in Lyon. If I want to get the eurostar from Paris, is my journey to Paris included as my 'outbound journey', or would my outbound journey be my eurostar? Basically, are both my journey to Paris and my eurostar allowed on the ticket? (it would be the same coming back arriving in Paris on the eurostar and then going back to Lyon). Thanks so much in advance, I’m so confused!!

I am looking to take a quick business trip to Munich preferring to travel by train than flying however the viability of this is determined by Eurostar seat availabiliy.  how can I check this before i commit to buying a 3 day pass? 

hola buenas tardes soy de Mexico y tengo una pregunta donde puedo pagar las reservaciones de los asientos tengo el eurail pass

I will be traveling with my large family of ten (10) this winter. Seat reservations on the website and mobile app seem to be limited to nine travelers maximum per transaction. We could do successive reservations but our fear is we will not be seated together. Any suggestions? 

Hi,  i took the 6:05 train from london at pancreas’s to Nottingham (I’m a uk citizen and was using this as one of my outbound journeys) and the train was cancelled due to track issues so had to get a taxi with other passengers the rest of the journey.   i was wondering if there’s any Kind of compensation I could receive any kinda of compensation from the rail company or interail; mainly for the cab price.  thanks 

I am trying to make my train reservations from Lyon Part Dieu to Barcelona Sants for 26.12.  Journey begins at 11:06am. This is a 2 part journey.  It does not look like I can no longer reserve seats for part 1.  When I booked part 2 my transaction goes through but then I receive an email from Eurail stating something went wrong with the reservation.  It is extremely frustrating!  We are on a pretty tight travel schedule.  My biggest concern is getting the ticket from Nimes to Barcelona Sants on the 13:18 train.  I should have more options from Lyon to Nimes (regional train.)  Can anyone advise?  

Bonjour, j’ai réalisé une réservation, je suis arrivée au paiement et je n’ai toujours pas de réservation sur mon compte. Ne sachant pas si cela avait fonctionné, j’ai  réalisé une nouvelle réservation (j’ai peur d’avoir payé deux fois)Comment savoir si la réservation est prise en compte? Si j’ai fais la réservation deux fois, est-ce que je peux être remboursée de la deuxième commande? Le site n’est pas très clair,Merci Gabriela 

Hi,I am departing from Rome Termini to Rome Airport Fiumicino on 4 November. I purchased the Eurail 1st class pass for all my travels previously.I will like to check do I need to purchase a ticket to be guarantee a seat? I tried to purchase a ticket but most trains show “You're ready to board”. I am just concern that I may not be able to board the train on the actual day.If there is no tickets require to purchase, may I also check what do I show to enter the train platform?What do I show to the train person when he/she checks? Thank you in advance!

Hi again! Ive now successfully purchased all my trains but 1. From Lausanne to Paris. Im trying to book it through oebb but it has said tickets unavailable for weeks, and tickets through sncf are so expensive - they dont accept a eurail pass for discount. Where else can I book them that may be cheaper? Its cheaper through the eurail site at this point. 

Another appendix to the reservations thread, detailing why cd.cz has become my favourite place to buy seat reservations for central Europe; This really helped me out today when I realised that track works meant the 9-minute change at Ostrava that I had booked wasn’t going to be feasible; unlike at either bahn.com or oebb.at, many (or perhaps even all) reservation-only bookings at ČD are fully refundable.As well as domestic trains, you can also book most trains in all of Czechia’s neighbouring countries, generally priced at 75Kč each. This is only €0.07 more than at oebb.at, and is usually* quite a bit cheaper than at bahn.com.Now of course, €3.07 on a train cancellation won’t be the biggest saving you’ve ever made, but it also frees up the seat for someone else to buy; so it’s considerate and ecological too. Another thing I really like about booking through ČD is that it’s possible to select specific seats even for foreign trains, by typing in the carriage and seat numbers. Although yo

 I bought the pass in first class, I haven't activated it yet, I wanted to book but the TC is denied, should I activate the pass to make the reservation? Thank you

My trip has a transfer in Frankfurt and I am arriving at Frankfurt (M) Flughafen Regionalbf. From there I am making a 15 minute transfer to Frankfurt (M) Flughafen Fernbf. QUESTION... 1) Are these two the same train station? 2) What are the physical addresses to both these stations?Thank you in advance 

I booked several reservations worth 72€ yesterday and got a confirmation email. The money already left my account, however, I am unable to access the e-tickets for the reservations. The reservation overview view says “You currently have no reservations”. Does anyone know what the issue could be or whether I can get my money back? Since the first train is tomorrow lunch, I’d really appreciate a fast reply

Hi,I made a reservation for a train from Nimes to Barcelona on November 20 but was not given the option to opt-out of paper ticket delivery.I provided the address and contact information of my Airbnb host but just received word that he won’t be able to sign for my package upon its delivery. I unfortunately won't be arriving in Monte Carlo until November 18- two days before my scheduled departure on the above train.Given that I've purchased a Eurail mobile pass, can I obtain an electronic version of my seat reservation? I don’t have an address of my own to provide because I’m currently backpacking. I’ve tried getting touch with Eurail customer service via email and visited a help desk in Vienna but no one has been able to help; I’m getting anxious.

Hello I made a réservation for seats for a Milano Genova. I paid but nothing happened. I thought i made a mistake, triés again, paid and still nothing, i didn't get any confirmation email. Whhat will happen if i just take thé train ?

Hello everyone! It's my first time to do an Interrail and I'm a little confused. I need help and hope that someone can help me. I checked the FAQ in the Rail planner app and I found out that it's not possible to go in a first class train if I have a second class Pass. First of all, I had problems to find trains that go to Stockholm or Norway in the interrail website, so at the end I booked a train ticket in the site "www.sj.se". I decided to book a first class ticket because I thought that this was possible, but reading that news now I believe that I made a mistake. Is this true? Please help and thank you in advance.

Hi 👋🏻 1. we [ 4 adults - 32 , 35 , 36 & 60 years old , 1 seniors citizen 64 years old , 1 child (6 years old) ] would like to purchase eurorail pass for our coming December Europe trip . 2. We would like to go for 7 days in one month , flexible , multi country and first class 3. How we do our seat reservations and charges ? a. 22/12 from Amsterdam to London b.26/12 from London to Brussels c.29/12 from Brussels to Paris d.1/12 from Paris to Colmar  ( French ) e.4/1 from Colmar to Grindewald f. 7/1 from Grindlewald to Paris 4. From my abovesaid trip itinerary, should I go for mobile app reservation? Or paper reservation? Your prompt reply is much appreciated.Thank you very much 🙏

I am currently planning to use my one remaining inbound/outbound travel day of my mobile Global Pass in the night from thursday to friday this week to travel from Venice to my country of residence Germany.Now I discovered that the available trains have really bad timing: I need to change trains in Munich towards northern Baden-Württemberg and my options are either:Arrive in Munich Hbf from Verona at 22:42 on November 3rd with ECB80 (would require one inbound day on November 3rd).Leave Munich Hbf at 0:01 with the ICE618, for which I can no longer use the inbound day, because it’s already November 4th, so I would need to buy a full price ticket.Or:Arrive in Munich Ost from Salzburg at 0:01 with the NJ468 (would require one inbound day on November 3rd).Then I would need to continue with S-Bahn and ICE, for which I can’t use the inbound day. I’m currently planning to use the first option and purchase a full-price ICE ticket for the rest of my journey in Germany after arriving in Munich.But

Trying to reserve from AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL (Netherlands) to ANVERS-CENTRAL (Belgium) and it won’t let me. Do I have to do multiple booking one go for it to work or? I notice that later dates won’t populate so I am booking it one by one instead of one go, is this an issue? It doesn’t make sense for me to wait for my full trip to populate train rides and they book it in one go.The experience of trying to use the App hasn’t been great either. There isn’t a notification to tell you that train rides are now available, I have to go to the app each day to check and now that I can see the trains available I can’t make a reservation.

I bought a 5 days first class Flexible Eurail Global Pass  via Rail Europe about 7days ago.I was trying to buy eurail intercity tickets after seat reservation ,In my cart , your company ask to me pay 66.64 US dollar But I can't pay that because of your system stopping at " continue to traveler's detail-At this time how can i pay for your seat reservation fees ? 

Hi, my paper tickets for the journey from Montpellier to Madrid did not arrive in the mail. PostNL status indicates that delivery has failed on 21 Oct, after reaching a Switzerland sorting centre, with no further updates thereafter. I contacted swiss post which told me they do not have the location of the item, and I need to tell the sender to raise an enquiry with postNL.  I am waiting for a reply from postNL and Eurail on what to do next.  In the meantime, I was hoping to draw on the advise from the community on what to do. I travel in around 2 weeks time. Unfortunately It's only after facing such problems that I read many comments in the community warning about buying paper tickets. My questions are1. Should I request to cancel and refund my tickets, then quickly book a new one?2. If I book a new ticket, should I do it through eurail again and hope it goes through this time?3. If I'm in switzerland, am I able to visit a swiss ticket office (as mentioned by Rgvborgt in a guide) to bu

Is it possible to go back and look at reservations made months ago.  I made a reservation that due to changes in train schedules no longer worked and I am filing an insurance claim for the amount of it and new reservations

Hi,I am currently trying to reserve 2 tickets between London and Lille for Wednesday. Once I have entered all information and payment details the page refreshes on the same page but no payment has processed and the reservations remain in the basket.I have tried multiple times and get the same result regardless of the time booked. I have also checked the Eurostar site to confirm that there are tickets available.Any help on how to fix this would be appreciated! Thank you!