Train connections & reservations

Hi travelers!  This summer, me and my brother are going on a trip to Spain and Portugal. On our 5th travel day we would like to take the night train from Madrid to Lisbon. We know this train exists, but cannot find any available reservation options. Does anyone have experience taking this night train? And do you might have any tips on how, where and when to book this train? Thank you in advance! And have a great trip y’all 🚋 Best, Bruno and Timon 

Hello must I activate my Pass before making any train reservation ?Or can I book tickets without activating it ?thank you !

I have a mobile Eurail pass with the rail planner app. This is a 5 days in 1 month if that matters. I have booked my train reservations through the Eurail website, and so I have those papers printed and in my email, they all have barcodes. Then, within my Eurail rail planner app, I have those same ticket times I booked, and they are in “my trip”. Do I toggle those for travel days to add to my pass, and then that barcode in the app is scanned to confirm my Eurail pass, then I have to show the email ticket for them to scan to confirm I have a seat reservation? And do I use that mobile barcode to get through gates in the train stations?I just want a play by play of the boarding process. So - arrive at station, use mobile barcode for that travel day to scan and get through the gates, board train, the ticket person comes around and needs to scan both my phones mobile barcode, AND the other barcode that I received when I purchased seat reservations? Correct?hope this was clear, thank you!

HI, me and my girlfriend are trying to organize an interrail travel from milan to Bodoe (norway) and we want to start travelling on the 15 of june. But on the interrail app or website the timetables of the trains are not updated so we cant make our reservations. We try to look for examole the train from Milan to basel and on the Trenitalia website the time table is already updated. So how we can do to organize our travel?Thank you.

Hi everyone my boyfriend and I recently bought the 4 day global pass and one of the trips we are trying to book is a route that goes from Barcelona to Amsterdam on May 29th. All routes on rail planner that go from Barcelona to Amsterdam require us to stop in Paris first. We are able to book the train from Barcelona to Paris but all trains from Paris to Amsterdam on that same day say “seat reservation unavailable” and “prices temporarily unavailable”. My first thought was that it is sold out but do train reservation really sell out that fast when we are this far ahead from the trip? If so that's fine but I wish Eurail offer alternate routes that goes from Barcelona to Amsterdam. 

Hey peepz,this is my first interrail journey. I want to to visit Italy.I want to take the night train from Bologna (Intercitynotte 35075, departure: 23:10) to Lecce (arrival: 9:00).I would like to reserve a place in a couchette car. These tickets are bookable on trenitalia.com but i cannot find a single option on the eurail reservation tool.Can someone help me?Regards from Leipzigaangespeeld

The Eurail system tells me that I need a reservation for the EC from Munich to Bologna. But at the main station at Munich they tell me that I do not need it. Since I want to travel the 11th of April it is to late to make the reservation via the Eurail system. So what do I do? Did anyone already take that train? The same is for the way back….

How far away is the train station from the international airport in Madrid ?Should I stay overnight in the city or closer to the station?  My flight comes in at 9am and I would continue with the train to Malaga. But only if the train station not too far away. Can someone answer that? 

How do I make seat reservations on Trenitalia as it does not come up on the app or website?

Hi,we are from Germany, have got two Interrail global passes and want to travel through Europe. On our way out, we plan to visit town A in Germany. Town A is not located on the way directly from our home town to the border, but it would absolutely be possible to travel from our home town to town A and then to the border on one day, our outbound journey day. Is this possible or is it not allowed to take other ways in one’s home country from the home town to the border and v. v. than the direct one?Thanks for your answers :-) 

I’m from the United States and brand new at this. I’m investigating the possibility of a train trip from Rome back eventually to London.  I have not purchased any passes yet or anything. Just investigating routes etc.   My first attempt was a leg from Rome to Venice on 8/22, using the ‘Book reservations’ from the Eurail site and I found NO reservations available.  As I started looking more I found I had to go back to early June (there may have been something later that I missed).        Is this really a shortage/unavailability?  Or did just just happen to hit a window where these are not posted yet?  (I’ve read other comments in the community recently about this issue).As I said, I’m investigating and don’t want to get into a situation where I have the pass, but can’t get where i want to, when I want to.    Thx in advance for any help

Hi,Last week, I tried to make reservations for 4 seats in the TGV from Nice to Aix-en-provence on May 30th, but couldn’t get any response although I clicked “1st class seat euro10”.Does it mean that the seats are already fully booked?Thanks for answers in advance.

https://www.eurail.com/en/book-reservations/new-reservation-timetable gives a server error or 404 as of 01.04.2022. I need to make a reservation. Is there another page where I can do this?

I am planning to go through Spain on an Interail trip however the rail planner app is not very helpful. Almost any trip that I enter in Spain does not appear.

Hi! I have not received any refund for the reservations I withdrew from. I withdrew a week beforehand and followed the guidelines on the website. It is now already 2,5 weeks ago so the 6 working days. Any tips?

We will be travelling on June 18th from Basel to Paris. We will have to change trains in Mulhouse, in the train table it says we have 12 minutes between trains. We will travel with a toddler, so we are a bit slower. Is there any possibility to see on which track the train arrives and where the next one leaves?

We are planning a trip to London starting from Florence but with interrail eurail planner it seems that the costs of seats reservation is nearly the same of full ticket…our trip should be: Florence- lyon- mulhouse- Paris- London- Paris- Florence what do you suggest?

Many people say that it is cheaper to use these websites than the interrail one, but how is it done?

I have the eurorailpass and have problems using the app for bookings from Porto to Toledo or Madrid to Paris.  

Is there an issue with booking Prague to Vienna beginning of June?On both OBB and CZ sites, it gives me these below. I was able to book Vienna to Prague on May 29th.  

Hi there, Currently there is no route listed between Sofia and Belgrade.  I saw someone mentioned the route was closed 8 months ago due to covid but can't find any information since.   Is this still the case?  If so would someone be able to direct me towards a way to get from Sofia to Belgrade.   All the best :)

Hey!I'm trying to book the OEBB night train from Munich to Rome on the 9th of April (depart 20:10), but the seat booking system gives me the error “seat reservations unavailable”. A similar error occurs for virtually all other night trains on this track for the next two weeks. When I try to book with OEBB directly, their website indicates “no prices available”.Do these messages mean that all of these night trains are sold out, or is there rather an error in the booking system. Any advice on how to still transport myself from Munich to Rome on the 9th of April?Cheers!

I‘m currently trying to book a reservation for a train. They asked me for my country of birth. I can‘t choose the country I‘m from. I have the German Citizenship but I was not born in Europe. What can I do??I need to use the train tommorow. 

I am not able to book a reservation for this journey (screenshot attached). The website for reservations looks slightly different from what it was a few days ago. Is there a problem with the website that will be fixed soon? My journey is coming up and I need a reservation. I’m travelling from Italy to Germany on a OBB Nightjet train. Is there another way to book the reservation? Reservations are not available on the OBB website even when Eurail website shows ‘high availability of seats’ 

I am trying to use the reservation tool on the eurail website.  I am not able to make a reservation for any high speed train from Rome to Italy on 6/30/22.  There is only one option that shows up which is an overnight local train with a transfer.