Train connections & reservations

 I purchased the Mobile Eurail Global Pass. I will travel from Hallstatt to Varenna departure at 8:20 arrive 20:24  on June 14. according to Eurail planner i need a seat reservation for the Innsbruck and the Verona departures of the trip. according to DB and the Thomas Cook rail schedule - no reservations are needed. i have traveled Eurail for over 25 years it seems more and more trains require reservations. I have always purchased the paper Eurail pass and relied on the Thomas Cook rail book and the DB site. Can anyone answer this reservation question which site is correct? thanks  David

Hi.My sister and I are planning on travelling by rail on our upcoming trip to Europe from Pakistan.We can't book reservations for Rome Termini to Florence SMN (7 June) as the prices aren't available.Also, we got the reservations for Barcelona-Paris (12 June), Paris-Amsterdam (14 June) and Amsterdam-Berlin (17 June) but I'm seeing a shipping method message about the paper tickets not being able to reach in time so when I give the details for my Spanish hotel in Barcslona (8-12 June) it isn't allowing me to proceed to Traveller details.Is there any solution? How much time does it take to dispatch the tickets as we're in Rome (4-7 June) and Florence (7-8 June) so I hope giving the Barcelona hotel address is sufficient.Will it be OK to arrive in Barcelona (8 June) and then book the reservation from the station? Regards,Zain

Hi! Does anyone know if the route Venice Mestre to Venice S.lucia is included in the global pass?

I need to buy a seat reservation from St Pierre de Corps from Champagne-Aderne. I bought the ticket using mobile option and when I try to buy in the website it requested me a Cover Pass Number but I don’t have this information. How can I proceed?

Hello!I’ll be interrailing with a friend this summer and she bought our interrail passes together through her account. Today we did our first seat reservation through her account too. It is normal for seat reservations not to appear in my interrail account, in reservations overview, even though they appear on hers? And since we've done everything through my friend's account, will I be able to activate the pass on my phone and have access to all the reservations?Thank you 

I am so confused on how to use the trains in Europe. We are going to small towns across Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Someone said to get a Eurail pass, but on their website it doesn’t show most of the towns I want to go to on the drop-down menu. Do I skip the Eurail pass and book each train ride individually before I leave the US (like from the DB website, etc.), or do I blindly purchase a Eurail pass and just hop on the trains over there without reserving? Totally lost right now 😦

Hello everyone! It is my first time using the Eurail Global Pass, and I thought that I could book a train from Paris to Barcelona online as I saw it was available. It wasn’t until I activated my pass and tried to book to discover that it is paper pass only, which was not indicated anywhere on the Booking Reservations part of the site. I have read from some other topics that it is basically impossible to get a ticket from Barcelona to Paris the day before for pass holders (I am flying in to Paris on Sunday, May 15), and I am incredibly worried that I will not be able to get there by train. Would anyone be able to provide some advice on the best alternatives to get to Barcelona from Paris in what seems to be an extremely likely event that I will not be able to secure a seat on the high speed train? Thank you very much for your help! 

I have already entered all the stations on my trip but realized that I chose the wrong station in Reims France. I want to leave from a different station in Reims abut cannot figure out how to do this. Can anyone offer a solution? Thank you

Hi, i’ve never travelled in train before but i won an interrail pass.I wanted to book a ticket for the night train between Prague Hlvani and Krakow Glowny on wednesday 20th of July at 22:05 but it says “prices are temporarily unavailable”. And when i look at ÖBB website, it also says “ticket not available”. Finaly i looked on DB website and it told me “We are sorry, but we cannot sell your requested journey online”. Maybe the train is full, i just have no idea how this works.Thank you for your answers.

Hi, I hope someone can help me whit this little doubt. I don't understand what does it mean “from N/A” in front of “seat reservations required” into the app, when you search some of routes.  

My kids have the 2nd class flex pass and need to travel to Amsterdam from Mainz on May 26.  The Eurorail website says reservations are avaialble but not required on the 11:42 train tomorrow from Frankfurt to Amsterdamn.  They tried to get a reserved seat using the app but it said none are available. Does this mean passholders can no longer get on this train without reservations.  Or would they have to take a chance to find seats and if so, how likely is this to work. 

Does anyone know if I can travel everywhere in Turkey as the train stations do not show up in the app plan? 

Hi, I have problem to book seat reservaton in 2 trains. One of them is train going from Warszawa Centralna to Wien Hbf on july 4th and second one is going from Berlin Hbf to Warszawa Centralna on july 15th. In both of the them the reservation is required but inactive. The notification says:‘’Prices unavailableNo price results were found for this connection. It is possible that all pass holder seats are sold out. Please try searching for another connection or check 'More information' and try other ways to book this seat reservation. If no pass holder seats are available anymore you need to buy a separate full fare ticket to board.’’This notification shows on every available train these days. Is there any solution to this problem or I have to buy full fare ticket?

Hi There,Hi have a couple of questions related to adding passes to a trip and make reservation for 2 people:Can I add two passes on my phone for reservation purposes? Can the second traveler add it to his phone in order to “activate” it at a later stage? Can I make reservation for 2 travelers with my phone indicating second traveler informations and if needed pass number? Will this be reflected on his phone when he connect his pass to our trip? Is it mandatory for the second traveler to make his own account to use the pass?For the time being this is all and I thank in advance people available to answer the above.Kind regards,GigiP.S. As I will have additional questions moving forward should I use the conversation option rather than the question one?

Trying to get to Hendaye from paris at the beginning of september but the only train available seems to be the Inoui TGV… and I thought that they wouldn’t accept the eurail pass

Would just like to double check that none of these need a reservation. Thanks :) 

I am trying to make a train reservation with my interrail pass from Rotterdam to London. First you have to log in. I did that so you can see the what reservations are availlable from ticket holders. The only day (3 june) we need to make a reservation, says they are all €0 and " prices unavaillable".  I know there's a max. Ammount of interrail holders that can make reservations in an Eurostar train. But ALL other days seem to be just fine. Does this mean theres just a bug or something? Or  are we not able anymore to make reservations for that day?. If so, this means we have to buy +€400 worth on Eurostar ticket for 1 train... That's is more then the Interrail ticket itself we bought.  Does anyone know, if this is the case, if we need to buy those tickets, or is it possible to go without reservations & tickets....? Thanks

I am trying to book a reservation for myself and my 2 daughters with my eurail pass- it says that the reservations are not able to be made on eurail.com- how do I get them? We are traveling from Paris to Nice, Nice to Rome, and Rome to Naples (and back to Rome)- on different days….

I am looking to book a couchette for my family in July for the 1am train from zagreb. It indicates it has couchettes as a service but I can't seem to be able to book one. Any ideas?? 

Hello! A small group I am with and I all bought 1st class Eurail Global passes. Tomorrow, (we’ll actually today since it is almost 2am), we each got mobile tickets to travel from Nord Paris to London. It says that we need a seat reservation but every time I’ve tried to get one it says it’s not available and it could be from being sold out. If that is the case how am I able to have the ticket? When we go to scan our ticket will it not work? Or will we just not have a reserved seat? And if we aren’t going to be allowed to travel, what should I do? I hope this makes sense the way I’m explaining it. Also it said the seat reservation would be free since we were first class, I guess I’m just confused and nervous and not sure what to do. Please help, thank you :)  Kaylee

Hi My Eurail journey between Genoa and Milan is via Torino.  I have 20 minutes to change stations in Torino between P.Susa to P.Nuova.  Is this enough?  Is the Metro the best option to connect?  As an alternative are there likely to be plenty of taxis available outside P.Susa station around 1:30 pm in the afternoon or will there be long queues?  Any advice from people who have travelled this route would be greatly appreciated.  We will be travelling on a Monday in September.

Hi, I have been trying to book 4 tickets from Paris (Gare de Lyon) to Barcelona-Sants on the 23rd of December (at 10:14 am). Every time I try to checkout to pay, the website tells me that there is an error and that I have to find other options. I tried to book in every train on the same day and on the next day, but still the error message appears. Is there any other way to book those seats?

I will be traveling through Europe in a little less than a month. Today as I was trying to purchase the paper reservation ticket for a trip from Paris-Barcelona, I noticed that the estimated arrival date of these tickets by mail was November 21, which is 3 days after I will have left for my trip. Is one month an accurate estimation of how long it would take for this paper reservation to arrive? Or will I be okay to get the reservation in the Paris station a few days before I need to leave for Barcelona?

 I have an Eurail pass and I made ticket reservation from Barcelona to Paris. I paid for my ticket reservation. But I didn´t received the printed tickets. I have to travel in a couple of days and nobody in Eurail is answering to my request.What can I do?

Hi,  around April I had found a route on 09/08/2022 from Amsterdam to Berlin at 22:34 but now it is no longer available.  How can I now that I have also purchased the pass and planned my itinerary?  will they put it back?