Train connections & reservations

I’m looking for trains Paris Lyon - Milano Porta Garibaldi and Paris Gare du Nord - Brussels Midi. Price of ticket for first route in august is 29€ on SNCF page, while seat reservation for my interrail pass costs 31€. Same situation for second route. On Thalys page ticket for this train costs 29€, while seat reservation in app costs 25€. Is there any way to bypass such big fees?

Hello Everyone! Can someone please help me with the age old question of seat reservations from London->Paris and the return trip?  Family of 4 traveling the end of May.   I am afraid I bought the rail pass and won’t be able to use it due to no seat reservations.  Did I waste my money?    Signed...feeling helpless to understand the system!

Hello everybody! I’m new to Interrail and wanted to ask some questions about how to plan a trip between Stockholm-Paris! Me and my girlfriend are planning to travel with trains for the first time and as far as I understood we both need to buy passes and then place a reservation on train journeys? Or can we just buy our passes and not worry about reservation at all? What’s the best way to plan the journey? We both are new to this and would definetly appreciate some tips on how to plan this trip the best way! Thank you in advance! :D 

I bought a mobile pass but lots of online reservations only work with paper pass ☹️Sorry, but how odd this is!! I really thought I could arrange everything “mobile” when buying a “mobile” pass. So now I’m looking for the best way to make reservations online / mobile for:England / Spain / Portugal and how much time before must I make a reservation for those countries?  Thank you!  

Hello ! I am interested in the pass 15 days in 2 months. If I take a train from Paris to Madrid with one connection, does it count as one or two trips ?Thanks for your help ! I tried to call an write to Interrail but I didnt have answers. 

First time here, I am planning to start my schengen trip from Berlin Germany and would like to see the following countries like Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France. Then from France to UK. Anyone who could help me how to get and start by using train. Your help will be great. 

Hello Eurail CommunityAnother issue I am having here. I was planning a trip using the planner from Milan Central Railway Station to Lake Como in Varenna Esino Train Station. Eurail planner keeps saying “not in Pass Network”. I saw in Google Maps there is a RE8 train from Milan to Varenna at 8:30 am. Please help how can I have this trip save and added to my Global Pass. Is eurail databases need updating because I do not personnaly agree that eurail does not have trips going to and from the Lake Como regions in Varenna Esino train station.thanks for any help

 I have a question regarding seat reservations. I am planning to travel from 26-06 untill 07-07 through Scandinavia. For this I bought the interrail global pass. Now I wanted to look to make seat reservations for the trains, but there is not possibility to reserve any seats on the tracks I want. They all show an exclamation mark on the site and when I look on the other site, like for example for Sweden, it says 'not available'.I looked for seats on the track Stockholm to Kopenhagen (29-06), Copenhagen to Gothenburg (02-07) and Gothenburg to Oslo (04-07). I thought everything would be fine as I looked up train times before buying the pass, but now I cannot reserve seats so that would mean I got the pass and booked flights for nothing. Or is this because it is still so far away and will there be seats available later? I would like to know more about this. I hope someone can help me and inform me about this. Thanks in advance.

I am planning on using my eurail pass for some trains within sweden, when I check the eurail planning app it says that seat reservations for my journey are around 3 euros. When I check the SJ website and enter my pass reference, it says the ticket is 50 euros. Any ideas on whats going on here? 

I’m interrailing in May-June time and wasn’t planning on booking reservations when they’re not required. On the rail planner app it says the train times, for example Berlin- Brussels, 6:46am-13:26pm, does this mean that the train leaves the station at 6:46 or arrives at the station at that time. How long before setting off do the trains get to the station, how far in advance should I get there to ensure I get on?  Also, if I haven’t reserved a seat, is there a limit to the amount of people that the train allows (I assume I will be standing which is fine). Will the train just fill up or is there a maximum amount of passengers allowed. I don’t want to not be able to miss/not get on as there’s a big gap between train times. 

Hi!We were planning to travel around Poland soon but somehow it seems impossible to make seat reservations in advance. The Interrail app says its not possible on every connection we planned (for example EC 59 Frankfurt(Oder)-Gdansk Glowny dep. 1345 on may 10), the PKP-website only lets us book reservations including the full fare and also DB cant make reservations online.Does anyone have a recommendation on how we should do this? And if we would book reservations on the train station before departure, aren't we way to late to be guaranteed a seat? 

how do I book a reservation on each of the 3 legs of the golden pass. From lucern to montreux 

I just scheduled our very first train ticket from Switzerland to Germany with our 1st class pass and there are no specific seat assignments. Do we just look for first class and take a seat? How do you know if that seat does not belong to someone. Just little nervous and traveling in little more then 2 weeks. So exiting!!! Thank you in advance

Hello ! I want to go to Italy but is the train between Paris and Roma included in the pass ? Or i have to pay another train ? Thank you for your help 😉

Hello.I’m traveling through Europe and Italy is one of my destinations. I’m vaccinated but the one that I have is not official in EU. Also is impossible to get the Green Pass here in my country. I have an international vaccine card, but I don’t know if it will allow me to enter every train. Is something related to COVID needed in order to enter the trains or I just have to show my Eurail Pass?thanks for your time.

Hi, I’ve bought the 7 day pass in one month 1st class and have been looking to book my reservations. So far I will only need to pay for Paris to Munich. I will not be prebooking the seats that already say your ready to board, prebook seat is not required only if you want to. I cannot find a seat for Prague to Krakow- and krakow to Berlin. It is saying from 0€ but seat reservations required. I am not travelling till the end of July - 12 weeks away but would like to be organised and have them all booked. Do you know if the seats are just all booked and you cannot book them or are they not released yet?  thank you

Hello!I'm starting my Interrail-adventure next week and my first train will be from St. Pölten to Zürich. I want to catch the train as early as possible, because I plan on travelling from Zurich to Milan on the same day, so I only use one travel-day. My question is the following: the train departs on the 3rd of May at 20:40 from Budapest and arrives in St. Pölten at 23:59 (still May 3rd) with the departure at 00:01 on the 4th of May.Will this cost me one or two travel days, as I'll be boarding the train right on the edge of those two days.Which time counts? The departure time or the time of arrival? Thank you in advance,David

Hi Eurail CommunityIf for example I missed the trip that I added to my Global Pass, noting that this said added trips to my Global Pass has already a ticket, can I use this same ticket on the next train without having to browse for next train time schedule, saving next train tome schedule to my journey and the adding this to my Global pass to obtain a new ticket? what will happen to the first ticket that I missed — is this forfeited?thanks  

We have global pass and cannot seem to reserve any trains from Amsterdam to Berlin - always shows the error one leg is not available whether its a connection or the direct train, it can’t be reserved. It takes me all the way to payment and then suddenly the error appears. We have mobile passes, I tried booking on b-europe and it says we need some pass cover number which is only a paper ticket.Same issue when trying to book from Prague to Salzburg, one leg cannot be booked, other can. Tried to go on m.cd’s website and it says “The booking period for this reservation has not yet begun or has already expired.”Can someone please help? Its so difficult to make multiple reservation with constant error messages.

I’ve been trying to book seat reservations from London to paris, paris to nice, nice to Bordeaux and Bordeaux back to London and it says every possible train is booked up for any of those routes on the days I want or around those dates, I’ve tried interrail.eu and I’ve tried the Belgium railways website and I’ve emailed and I’ve rang up and they just said book on the day when you get to the station and put the phone down?? This seems so risky!!  I’m going in just over a month and I’m completely stuck. Ive also Been onto the Eurostar website to try and book the London to paris route but I can’t seem to attach my interrail pass so I don’t pay full price?? I’ve Nearly given up with the whole thing tbh -someone Help please!!

Ich brauche eine Pass Covernummer um eine Sitzplatzreservierung bei b- Europe zu machen

Hi there, I am doing a little research on whether I want to buy a Global pass with Interrail and I need some help from experienced travellers here. My travel plans are basically flexible travel whenever I want to go somewhere I hop on the train. I want to go towards the south of France and Spain first, probably going into Portugal at some stage, move back up through Switzerland and Italy, Germany etc.  Now, I am looking at a slow travel plan, so go from Amsterdam to Paris, from Paris to Lyon etc etc. BUT, If I look up the train from Amsterdam to Paris on this website I get: We can't find any trains that match your search. Please change your search and try again.If I look it up on any other booking website such as Omio, there definitely is a train available..?  Then I look in the Interrail App if I can find trains (mind you, I do not have a pass added yet) and they state that there are trains but the seat reservation is FROM €35!? Per person? that seems insanely pricey after spending 73

Hello. If we are trying to get from Greece to Albania, does the global pass cover the bus expenses? Thank you so much :)

Hi!!I have two questions:1. How can I know if all possible trains for this summer have been published on the web? I´m trying to find a train that suits me but I haven´t managed to find it yet. Can trains still be published 1 month in advance or something like that? 2. We´re looking for a train that takes us from Amsterdam to Berlin, travelling through the night, but the ideal train for us doesn't allow reservations. On the website we can see that sometimes it says that the train might be full, but on the information the train is marked as "No reservation needed". Does that mean that we can just hop into the train without any reservation? As it is a night train we would like to have seats to have some rest, how can we make the reservation? I´ve heard that the day of our arrival to the station we might have the possibility to book some tickets. Thank you in advance for your help :)

Hello.How can I reserve a seat in Eurostar with the Eurail Pass discount? I know that it can be done in Eurail website and b-europe, but for some reason the are no trains for May 30th in any of these sites. Why there are trains all May but just that day the tickets are sold out? Eurostar have trains for that day but I don’t know where to use the code.Thanks for your time.