Train connections & reservations

Hi Everyone,Feeling a bit apprehensive!I booked a2 x 1st class seat reservations on a 17:09 Paris Montparnasse1 et 2 (TGV INOUI 8477) to Bordeaux departing at 17:09 and arriving at 19:17. I booked this via the Interrail EU website using the seat reservation tab.Last evening I went into my App to check all the times of the train tickets and noticed the ticket was issued for a train departing at 17:16 and arriving at 20:14. I was able to manually enter the 17:09 Paris Montparnasse1 et 2 (TGV INOUI 8477) to Bordeaux departing at 17:09 that fits with the seat reservation and generate a ticket. However I am now wondering which is the correct train time and is there a train departing Paris Montparnasse at 17:09 and arriving into Bordeaux at 19:17.Also if you have made seat reservations on the website why aren’t these copied into the ticket issued?Appreciate your help as this is one of several trips where the same thing has occurred.

Hi. My partner and I have planned to travel from Budapest to Ljubljana on July 26th, 2025. We've been trying for a while now to reserve seat tickets for the 9 a.m. departure from Budapest. But everywhere we've looked, it's not possible to reserve seats... Does anyone know why that is or how we can get it done?

Hi, I want to travel from Vienna to Trieste in July. Interail site says ‘No price results were found. Pass holder reservations may be sold out for this connection.’ I looked on the OBB website and it lets me buy supplements for that train but there is no seat reservation included. If I tick the ‘seat reservation’ box it says that the train is all booked up. Question – Does this mean that all seats for interail pass holders are sold out and if I just buy supplements will we be standing? Presume I can still buy tickets if I pay full price? odd that they let me purchase supplements if no seats were available!Thank you in advance!

Hello everyone,I am planning to travel to Italy in August, and I have several train journeys that require seat reservations. However, I am encountering some issues and would appreciate any advice.My planned trips are: 8th August: Milan to Venice 10th August: Venice to Milan 13th August: Milan to Brig The timetable for the Milan to Venice route keeps changing—sometimes there is a direct train available, and sometimes not.Additionally, when I try to make seat reservations through ÖBB applying a discount (Eurail Pass), I keep getting a message saying "ticket not available."Does anyone know why this might be happening or how I can resolve it? Thank you very much for your help!

Hi, I want to book the sleeper from Cerbere to Paris in August, for me, my husband and my son. On Seat 61, he says that if you want the whole compartment to yourself you can add and pay for phantom children. I just wanted to check - is it really ok to do this? I’ve had a look at booking on trainline (without using the interrail pass) and I can’t seem to find the option to just book the whole compartment (because there’s only 3 of us I think?) so I’m considering booking the non-existent kids! So my questions are: Can I book WITH the pass and add phantom children (or can I not do this because the ‘phantom children’ won’t have a pass? Or should I just book without the pass and add the phantom children?? I’ve promised my son a sleeper train at some point in the holiday otherwise I would maybe avoid it! Thanks everyone :-) 

Hello everyone, I've been trying for months to book seats for the Berlin-Budapest train on July 20th at 7:28 PM, but it won't let me. Now, this train doesn't even appear anymore; instead, it appears to be one with a transfer. And on the company's official website, it does appear, but it says tickets aren't available for any date (including June, July, August, etc.). Does anyone know why the direct train isn't listed, if there isn't going to be one, or what's going on? Thank you very much. 

Apparently InterRail-planner does not show regional trains on FS lines in Alto Adige, that are operated by SAD (e.g. Brennero-Bolzano-Merano). As SAD and FS are cooperating on these lines in a traffic and tarif cooperation it should be normal, that you could use either train (FS as well as SAD) also with an interrail-pass, If not, that would mean, that you would have a train only every second hour instead of each hour.I understand, that Interrail is not accepted on Merano-Malles as this is now an SAD infrastructure. On the line of Val Pusteria (Fortezza-San Candido) it is less evident as this should still be an FS infrastructure but operated only by SAD trains (when not closed for works).But I think, it should be accepted on Brennero-Bolzano-Merano.I would be happy to have an answer about experiences in 2025!

I’m going from Berlin to Copenhagen and I’m making seat reservations. In the interrail-app it says that it’s only necessary to make reservations for the second train, so we’re planning on doing that. But should we also make reservations for the first train? Or will there be space for us either way? Because the app does not even say that it is recommended, just that’s it possible. And for the last train, we thought that we shouldn’t buy reservations since it’s so short and there’ll be risks that we are late and might have to take a later train or something. And ofc we want to save as much money as possible. <but the app recommends us to buy reservations. But do you think it’s fine to just let it be? So my questions are if we should book the first and the last train, or if you think it’s ok that we don’t. (we’ll have to take the first train to get to the second one, so that one we don’t want to miss, but if there’s no risk of us not getting on it, we don’t want to buy reservations). T

Trying to book 1st class seat reservation for ICE train from Hannover, Germany to Vienna, Austria on June 10 but it says there are none available. However, if I go into the Deutschebahn app it still shows 1st class tickets available for purchase. Why can I not book first class seat reservations? I have a 15 day eurail pass and just want to book a seat reservation only. I can’t do this through Eurial or RailEurope. They all show no reservations, but yet tickets are definitely available for purchase in 1st class… Does this also mean I will have no place to sit on the trip in 1st class?

When I select the reservation (Oslo to Myrdal, Norway) the only choice is mailed delivery of a paper ticket.  With $10 shipping the total is over $22.   Why isn’t there an option for electronic delivery like most others? 

Hi, i am planing to go to Strassbourg using Interrail train but am struggling with the seat reservation. I have checked different websites and could not find where to reserve a seat for this trip.Mein question is:Do we really need a seat reservation for this? Because Strassbourg is a border city and it does not require any seat reservation in Germany. If yes, is there any way to reserve it? I have tried with Interrail, Deutsche Bahn, bEurope and ACP Rail and neither of them works… :(

Hello,I was hoping someone here can help me with an issue that seems like it’s been going on for years.It looks like there are still no reservations available at all between Marseille and Barcelona on the direct RENFE AVE International train from Marseille to Barcelona.We can’t do the no reservation trip as 1) we have 3 kids, one of them only 4 y/o so 10 hours with multiple transfers isn’t feasible and 2) we would miss our flight.We already got the eurail pass and reservations for the other legs of the trip so will be a problem if we can’t get back to Barcelona on July 23rd.Any help would be greatly appreciated!Regards,Brian

I’m travelling from Lake Bled to Split in July and I planned to take a late train from Lake bled to Zagreb, Lujibliana or basically anywhere in Croatia that has night trains to Split but I’m struggling to find how to buy the tickets.When I looked on the eurail website before there were options that I could take and it said that I would be able to book seats 2 month before my journey. However, when I went back to the eurail website to book the train (because its now in 2 months) the page said that they couldn’t display any prices. I thought that maybe they still have not released tickets but when I searched up on the train providers website there was no night trains from Zagreb to Split on the timetable even though on their website they have information that in the summer months there is a night train from Zagreb to Split everyday and they also have a price list but no way to book. I don’t know what to do about this train as I have not booked accommodation for this night and I was plann

Tomorrow, Thursday June 20, I planned to take the train from Bialystok to Vilnius, with a change in Mockava. I have an interrail, first class, but I did not manage to make the obligatory reservation for the Lithanian train from Mockava to Vilnius. I really want to take that train, because I made appointments.Does anybody know what will happen when I beg or politely ask the Lithuanian conductor to let me travel, even in the corridor? It seems the train is just fully booked, and that was the reason why making a reservation failed, also at Bialystok station. Will the conductor send me away, do i get a fine, or can I still buy a reservation at the spot?Or should I try a bus instead?

heywe are leaving for a trip this summer with 2. But while figuring out how everything works I already come across a problem that I don't really understand. The app and the website are not in sync. On the website you can make a reservation (I think) and there you can add an extra traveler. But in the app this is not possible. So can I plan my trip via the website? Because I can't really plan a trip there I think. Can someone explain this to me please. And tell me how you did this. Thanks in advance Greetings

Hi there I am planning my first trip to Europe and purchased a eurail global pass but I am having trouble trying to book anything. I'd like to reserve 2 seats from Marseille to Barcelona on 17 May. I've tried ringing the France number but they can't even reserve the first leg to Nimes as they don't accept visa cards for payment. Is anyone able to tell me if it will be possible to use the eurail global pass to reserve seats from Marseille to Barcelona on 17 May please? We arrive in Paris on 8 May. The eurail pass sounded great but now I'm starting to think that it isn't going to work for us as I'm stuck. I've been reading other posts but I'm still stuck as I don't know how to make this work. Help please 🙏                       

I'm trying to book seat reservations for a day-trip from Interlaken to Engelberg (via Luzerne). The Eurail app days I can book it through them, and all of the other suggested booking sites also don't have this journey as an option to reserve seats. The first train is PE2915 (Panorama Express) to Luzerne. Hoping someone may be able to assist please? 

Hi. I am interrailing for the first time and I am looking at travelling from Lake Bled to Split on 30/07/2025. It says on the interrail site that a seat reservation is needed for both legs of the journey, from Bled to Zagreb and Zagreb to Split. The interrail site says that seat reservations for Zagreb to Split can be booked 60 days in advance which makes sense, however it says that bookings for the Bled to Zagreb train are unavailable and when I checked the OBB website they are also unavailable there. They seem to be always unavailable to book which makes me think that it is impossible to reserve seats as I find it hard to believe that every train for the next 6 months is sold out. I have seen a few questions on this site from a couple of years ago saying that you can’t always reserve seats on Croatian trains but I am not sure if this is still the case. Has anybody else done this route recently and have experience with this? Would I be able to simply board this train and sit in any fr

I have a one country Eurail pass for Germany. This pass covers Railjet trains from Germany to Verona.I have successfully added a journey from München to Verona (RJ87 Railjet). It says a supplement is needed. But when I try to make a seat reservation (which includes the supplement) it won’t let me and it says “ One or more Passes don't cover this journey”.Why does the Eurail App (and also the website) tell me that the journey isn’t covered? (The One country Germany pass explicitly covers RJ trains to Verona)How can I pay the supplement and make a seat reservation?

I am planning about 10 days travel around Finland, with a first class pass. I would like to know what the rules / experiences are with reservations.Specifically:- I would like to stay flexible, Can I use all trains without reservation? Including seats in night trains?- Without reservation, what seat / class types can you take with a first class pass?- Are reserved seats marked like they are in UK and Germany for example? So you can tell if a seat will be free for your journey.Thanks!

Ive booked a ticket from Amsterdam Centraal to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, with one stop on the way in Berlin Spandau. I have booked the ticket but in the confirmation email it only shows the ticket from Amsterdam Centraal to Berlin Spandau. There is nowhere on the ticket that shows Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Is this correct? And will my ticket be valid to reach Hauptbahnhof from Spandau?   

I’m on ACP Rail site, I’d like to buy seat reservation from Glasgow All Stations to Liverpool All Stations on 2025-08-17 from 7 A.M:, but this message appears:EvolviService: No fares found. 

This may be caused by:- seat reservations being compulsory yet all seats are taken; the timetable has not yet been finalised for this date; or the route searched is not a valid route.I tried several times from like December and this message appeared always. How is it possible that it was already full, if train reservations starts three months before the date of the journey? thanks!

Hello beautiful people,I am living in Germany and tried to get in touch with Caledonian Sleeper staff in order to reserve a seat (since the website says if it is only for a seat, please contact the customers care centre).Now, the telephone numbers do not work for me, I tried landline phones, my mobile and an app. I did call other numbers in England and Scotland for my travel arrangements with no problems whatsoever, so obviously, the issue is on the receiving side.I was in email contact with one of their agents (“Ambassadors”), who was perfectly polite, but I never heard/read of him again after letting him know that I only wanted a seat reservation.I found that https://www.acprail.com/ does (theoretically free) reservations for a charge, I tried that and they emailed me a .pdf titled “Your Passholder Reservation” and giving place/ date/ time of departure and arrival, they do give me a car and seat number, but no mention of carrier, train number etc.Now I wonder, is that it? Will this .

hi guys, im currently traveling in Europe now, however I find two of my trains that need to be reserved have no price information and not available, I have tried every ways….. is there anyone can help me with this? thank u and appreciate all your help!stockholm central to hassleholm c, 25/5,23:17 to 05:09 wien hbf to Firenze campo marte, 3/6, 19:18  to 06:48

I read online that you have to scan your train ticket when traveling anywhere in the Netherlands, both entering and leaving the train/station. How do I do this with a Eurail pass where I won’t even have a train ticket? I will be at the Amsterdam airport and then other cities within the Netherlands.