Train connections & reservations

Hello, i am new here, i searched the whole FAQ and asked the Bot, but did not find an answer to my question:  seat reservation booking via interrail website with Hungary and Romania trains, i need e-ticket and not paper ticket  For a paper ticket its too late, i plan to start my travel next week…So do i get an e-ticket from interrail website for seat reservation by travelling from Austria starting for 2 days from south Austria - Bucharest, travelling through Hungary, until Romania. There is no seat reservation neccessary until Budapest, on 2 trains i need seat reservation i know there are other ways to book seat reservation Thank you for any help Greetings Sascha

When i checked on google maps i was given suitable trains form start to end. However when i went to the eurail app these trains were not offered. Is there any way that i can add these trains and save the trip?

I have a 1st Class Interrail Global pass and want to reserve a seat on ICE9574 between Strasbourg and Paris.  Neither interrail.eu nor Rail Europe offer it - they only offer 2nd class seats.However, this train starts from Stuttgart and 1st Class seats CAN be booked from either Stuttgart or from Karlsruhe to Paris - so there are very definitely 1st Class seats on the train that are available between Strasbourg and Paris but for some reason the booking engines do not allow a 1st Class reservation from Strasbourg.  (Rail Europe doesn’t even allow a 1st Class ticket to be purchased from Strasbourg!)Is it legitimate for me to make a reservation from Karlsruhe to Paris and simply get on in Strasbourg?  Can anything go wrong if I do this?

Hi,Trying to book seats for an ICE Amsterdam-Köln on the ÖBB app.I get the following message:"Reservation not possibleSorry, shared accommodation on the ICE 153 from Amsterdam Centraal to Köln Hbf is not possible for the passengers as requested."i tried to book without table, in a different part of the train. Every time I get this message. Try again, different app, or is the train just full...?Thanks!!

HiI am travelling from Chur to Muenchen HBF via St Margrethen Sg Station and have to change train from platform 1 to Platform 3 at St Margrethen Sg Station.I have a large suitcase with wheels. What is the minimum time I need to change the platform? Do I have to go up and down by stairs or there is escalator or lift at St Margrethen Sg Station?Thanks  

Hi all,I’m planning to travel on the Paris - Nice Intercités de Nuit on 8th September. I have a valid 1st class youth global pass and would like to reserve the 1st class (4 couchette) option. I have tried to reserve this using the Interrail booking system, Rail Europe, and B-Europe (as detailed in https://www.interrail.eu/en/plan-your-trip/tips-and-tricks/trains-europe/night-trains/intercites-de-nuit), however as soon as I get to the very last step of checking out I am greeted with an error message (see pictures below). I am able to reserve the 1st class on the following day, or 2nd class (6 couchette) on the desired day, with no problem.There are still 1st class seats available (as tickets, not reservations) on the SNCF Connect website, and I assume that those three reservation websites would either make it clear that this is sold out before entering all of your details or simply not list it as an option to reserve.Emailing these companies has not been much help, and I have been told

It appears as if I have made all of my train reservations with Eurail, but I am a resident in Europe and purchased an Interrail pass. Are these tickets invalid? Can I still use them? Is there anything that I can do?????????

We are traveling around Europe in October 2025 : Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium Netherlands. Several of the journeys have transfers and I am using 20 min as a filter. My question is what is a safe amount of time to allow for transfers?

I will be travelling in Scandinavia in September and got a 15 day Interrail pass. I will probably downgrade it to 10 days due to travel plan changes. However I have already booked seating reservations for trains in Sweden via SJ stating the pass number of my 15 day pass. In the reservation in the App it also states my pass number and there is no button to change it. Is it possible to just change the pass number on my reservations without paying extra?Thanks in advance for your help!

I am travelling tomorrow from Lyon to Nijmegen, but I have huge troubles finding a route. All the high speed trains towards Bruxelles from either Lyon or Paris are fully booked. Now I realize that is my mistake by not booking in advance. However, there are some other routes available but they just don’t pop up (for example Lyon-Paris-Lille-Bruxelles). If I would filter on no seat reservation, I am taking a crazy route that takes ages, so this does not work either. Is there any way to find the fastest route using the tool so that it only shows me trains that actually still have Interrail seats available? I think it is quite annoying that it does not show whether a route is even possible… Thanks in advance!!

 HiI am travelling from Australia.I want to travel from Lake Como S.Giovanni (Italy) to Interlaken OST via Luzern (Switzerland).I have a First Class Eu rail Pass. I have purchased reservation from  Lake Como S.Giovanni to Luzern on Euro City 178. However I am unable to reserve a seat on PE 2928 LUZERN-INTERLAKEN EXPRESS (Panorama Express) departing at 1406 from Luzern on EUrail Trip Planner.I am getting the following message:“Not available from Eurail.comThis seat reservation can’t be booked on our website. Check 'More information' for other ways to book.” Please help.Regards  

I am not seeing any night trains in the Eurail app. There are no Intercity Notte in Italy at all (e.g. Milan to Bari), and nothing from Paris to Nice. I also tried SCNF and trenitalia's sites but nothing came up. Are they all cancelled or am I missing something? 

Hello,I would like to take the train from Belgrade to Bar this month. According to the Rail Planner, there is a day train departing from Beograd Centar at 09:45 and arriving in Bar at 21:10.My plan is to spend one night in Bar and take the return train at 09:00 the next morning, which is scheduled to arrive in Beograd Centar at 20:17.However, I'm a bit confused because I read in some articles that only the night train is operating. These articles are a bit outdated, so I'm not sure if that’s still the case.So my first question is: Is the day train currently running this month?Another point of confusion is that some sources mention the train does not depart from Beograd Centar, but from a different station in Belgrade. Could you please clarify whether the train actually departs from Beograd Centar, as shown in the Rail Planner?And finally, I’ve read that this train route is often heavily delayed. Given this, do you think my plan — taking the day train to Bar, spending one night there, a

Hello, I want to travel from Bucharest to Sofia this month. There is a train (IR 461) with mandatory seat reservation that departs at 10:11 from București Nord. The problem is that I have to take this train, and I will arrive in Bucharest one or two days beforehand. Is that enough time to get a seat reservation in person?

Hi, I’m setting off next week with a 7 days in one month global pass, and as part of the trip, I have booked a reservation to travel overnight from Zurich to Prague. This is a sleeper train as far as Linz, then a change around 6.30 for the train to Prague. Will this count as one travel day, because it was all booked together, or two travel days, because it’s two trains? If it counts as one travel day, then I’ve been alerted that engineering work means I may miss the connection I have reserved, but there are a couple of options later that will get me there with no reservation. I assume this definitely counts as a second travel day??Thanks!

We are due to travel today from Preston - London - Paris -Cannes but have had an email from Eurostar advising us not to. I presume I will lost my seat reservations and will have to rebook? There will belittle to nothing available if everyone gets pushed back a day. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? If I travel to London that will use one of my “home” travel days so would I have to pay again?  

I’ve got a reservation from Venezia S. Lucia via Milan P.Garibaldi to Paris Gare De Lyon on Sat 30th. This train stops in Verona. Can I just board the train in Verona instead of Venezia S. Lucia or do I need to change the reservation?

Hello!  I’m trying to book a private sleeper compartment on a European Sleeper train.  The Eurail app is not giving me the option to do this:  I can pay for a reservation for a private sleeper on the European Sleeper web site.Do I need to select a 2nd class seat so that I can generate a train ticket, and then just use my sleeper reservation, or how do I do this without getting a fine for doing it incorrectly?Thank you!

We are travelling as a 6 next week (from 11th) around Italy and France. On the first day we have booked an overnight train and on the last day we have booked a fast train. On the other 3 days of travelling we are taking it easy and taking the day to travel on slow trains. Am I being naive by not booking trains for those days? I understand that not all trains can be booked but I don’t want to get caught without a train to get on.Any advice would be great.

I’m trying to book tickets for my family on a Eurail 1st class pass.I’m looking to go Spiez → Venezia San Lucia on 11th October 2025.When I look for reservations on Eurail website/app, it tells me I can’t reserve the Spiez → Milano Centrale leg due to lack of availability. (both 07:44 service - EC 61, and 08:44 service - EC 43)Similarly, if we left earlier and got the regional train to Brig, it won’t let me reserve the Brig → Venezia EC 41 service (07:41 → 12:42).When I look at OBB, it brings up the 07:44 service from Spiez, via Milan, but states that the reservation is only for the Milano → Venezia leg. The 08:44 service states that it is booked up already! If I try to look at the same route via RailEurope, it doesn’t come up with any trips at all!!Any ideas about how to navigate this? My understanding is that the EuroCity services from Switzerland to Italian destinations do need reservations, but nothing seems to be coming up. Is it likely that all these services are already booked,

Hi all,I’m trying to book Eurostar travel for January 2026 using my Eurail Global Pass, but Eurail keeps showing the message:“Sorry, the journey details for this date are not available yet.”However, when I check directly on the Eurostar site, trains are clearly running for my chosen date. I’m still within the 6-month window, so I was expecting pass-holder seats to be bookable by now.Has anyone else run into this? Is this just a delay in Eurail releasing the schedule? Or could the pass-holder quota already be sold out? Any insight or tips would be appreciated! I’d like to avoid paying full fare if possible. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, We'll be venturing to Denmark and Sweden this summer and this is new territory to me when it comes to operator pass validity and the reservations. I am doing the planning mostly with bahn.de as they include everything, however the information about reservations being required is conflicting with the information on interrail's own planner (which I prefer not to use for planning as I know it can be outdated).So my question is: where do I find the ultimate truth whether a reservation is required or just optional?I can make reservations on SJ.se and the cost of 35 SEK which is of course not a a great sum, however their English-version website is not clear about whether the reservation is optional. I prefer not to fix ourselves beforehand (our freedom-lesson from earlier trips) and therefore take trains without compulsory reservation. Here is an example of contradictory information for a particular journey we want to make on 5 August:10:23 ODENSE (Denmark) EC 1198interrail planner s

Hi, I am trying to do my seat reservations through Eurail but when I log into my account it shows I don’t have a pass. I have gone back and forth with the Live Chat but I have still only managed to book the two trains I can using Eurostar. I need to book the rest. Any help?

Good morning,  I have a reservation that can’t be refound. i am planning to change the trip plan. It seem that the reservation can not simply be cancelled (i don’t need the money back). What will it happen if I don’t use a reservation?    Thanksregards

Hey everyone. My boyfriend and I are travelling from Paris to Hamburg 01/08/25 and I just got the last seat reservation, so he didnt get anyone. Does anyone have a spare that we could buy? Please help if you know someone