Train connections & reservations

Hello guys,I’m not sure how global Interrail pass worksHere is my question : I’m planning to book a night train from Berlin to Copenhague with snalltaget companyWhen i try to book my train from Interrail website, it ask to pay and book a “reserved place”There is 3 options on a night train, sit place only, shared bed and private bed.When can i change and choose my type of “reserved place” ? After paiement ? In a different way ?Thank you ! Cheers

Of what I understand, it’s not mandatory to book seats on all trains, but what can happen if you don’t? Is there a chance that you will have to stand?? I’m new to traveling alone and would really use some help on this, thank you.

Hi, trying to do seat reservations for train from Switzerland to Florence, Italy in early July 2025. The transfer time in Switzerland is only 15 mins before train is then direct to Italy.  Not sure how passport control/immigration works here given the short turn around between trains? 

Hi,I'm currently in Europe and want to make a reservation for a Regiojet train from Vienna to Prague. Do I need to print off the seat reservation or can I have it on my phone?Thanks!

If I miss my reserved train because I'm late, I can book the next available train right on the app.

I’ve purchased Scandinavian Eurail passes . My latest problem is when trying to book seats from Andalsnes to Oslo in May, I keep finding that  “ Pass holder reservations may be sold out for this connection “. Can anyone help, I wish I hadn’t purchased the passes.

I have purchased a Eurail Italy pass and some of the journeys I have planned require a seat reservation. When I try to book a reservation in the Rail Planner app the site continues to buffer and will not load?  Can anyone give me guidance on this issue?

I wanted to ask regarding my journey which involes multiple cities. If I’m going in a group of 5 should I book using the train’s local website or the eurail website regarding getting seated together. Cause I heard booking using eurail might not get you seated together and its more expensive, is that true?. Also, whats a good amount of time to prepare for booking a seat reservation for places like Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona etc. (Would a month before the travel date be possible to book for 5 people in these places?)

I just discovered one small problem regarding booking sest reservations using raileurope. I’m in a group of 5 and one of them will be buying a eurail pass since he resides in europe while the rest 4 will be on interail. And when I checked to book seat reservations, I cant book seat reservations for interail and eurail in one booking. Is there any way I can solve this so we can be seated together?. Moreover not just raileuorpe but other local sites like oebb and deutschbahn doesn’t show the seating map. So is one of my friends just stuck on his own in the train for the rest of the trip?

Planning a trip with a 4-day global Interrail pass and on the final day (27/04) will travel from Paris home to London.If I make a passholder reservation on the last Eurostar to London that day, what will happen if the train is cancelled?Seems that generally Eurostar will cover accommodation and book passengers onto a train the following morning, but I don't know whether this applies to passholders? Especially given that I wouldn't have any travel days left by the following morning?Thanks in advance for any advice!

Im planning to travel 19 MayPart of the journey is between Milan and Lugano.  I was looking yesterday trying to decide on the best route, and the whole journey from Milan to Basel was €6.Ive come to book it today and it states there is no service available.Can anyone help and advise how I can resolve this please? 

I am planning to book Eurail passes for my family of 5 (2 Adults, 2 Youth, 1 Child). We are planning to book 1st Class Eurail passes. I understand that some trains in our itinerary require seat reservations and I have a few questions:If I have booked 1st Class Eurail passes for every traveler in my family, will I still be required to reserve seats on the trains that say a reservation is required? When seat reservations are required, am I required to pay the 1st Class seat reservation fee (which is higher than the 2nd Class seat reservation fee) even though I will already have a 1st Class Eurail pass? For the trains that do not require seat reservations, if I do not reserve seats am I still likely to find 5 seats together in 1st Class so I can feel confident my family can sit together in 1st Class even if we don’t have seat reservations?

We are going from the small town of Habo to Hamburg Hbf 22/4; I type this into the app and get the following suggestions:06:43-17:03If I add "no reservation required" and then get the following:05:31-17:03Here the app suggests changing in Jönköping, but I know that the train goes all the way to Nässjö and therefore divide my search into parts and get the following:Habo - Nässjö 05:31-06:17Nässjö - Alvesta 06:26-07:18Alvesta - Copenhagen 07:23-09:39Copenhagen - Hamburg 09:57-15:00Result; 2 hours earlier in Hamburg.I have set the minimum change time to 1 minute.Why don't the app provide information about the fastest possible journey?//Robert PS: Similar results with DB Navigator and ÖBB

I have a client who uses a wheelchair, and he is requesting a complimentary pass for his caregiver (his wife). If I arrange the Eurail pass through a third-party merchant like Rail Europe, can my client obtain the complimentary pass directly from Eurail?

Purchased two global passes for 7 days already, our trip is only on 3rd April but can seem to figure how to reserve seats from Amsterdam Centraal or Rotterdam to Eiffel Paris. 

are the 4mins transfers too short…is the station rlly big? 

Hi! Recently, I was looking into seats on the Intercité de Nuit between Paris Austerlitz and Toulouse Matabiau. The three possibilities (2x 2nd class, 1x 1st class) both just say ‘TARIF EURAIL INTERRAIL’. Does anyone know what kind of seats you actually get with these options? For example, would the 1st class option be a 4-person couchette, or should I think more in the direction of 2-1 seating plan? Many thanks!

Hi everyone,I'm seeking assistance with an issue I've been experiencing while trying to book four tickets on the Nightjet (EuroNight) train from Budapest to Berlin for August 5, 2025. Each time I attempt to purchase the tickets and click on the "Pay" button, I encounter the following error message before even entering my credit card details:"This option is no longer valid. (NJ-Code: NJ-01, TS-Code: WBS19230, Public ID: c76596267a8e4469a657b5ccb1f6798d, Support ID: NIGHT1_53po52eo)"​Moreover, with each failed attempt, the ticket price increases significantly. Initially, the fare was €64 per ticket, but it has now escalated to over €130 per ticket, and I'm still unable to complete the purchase.​I have also attempted to book tickets for August 4, 2025, but encountered the same issue. When selecting the credit card payment option, the error occurs before I can enter my payment details, and the ticket prices increase. I tried purchasing through other websites; although the payment was initi

I’m trying to book the Eurocity 44 train in 25/april/2025, but the train does not show up on that schedule day. Is there any reason for this?

I would like to take the ICE from Copenhagen to Hamburg. However, the connection isn't shown on the Rail Planner app, only in the DB app. So I'm not sure if I can use it with my Global Pass. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Hi, I’m getting conflicting information from OBB so would really appreciate some advice.We are a family of 4 (mother, father + 2 boys (12, 8)) and would like to travel on the nightjet from Brussels to Salzburg.  It’s a popular route and it appears there is only a 4 person ‘Ladies only” couchette available. I’ve spoken to OBB twice; one adviser said we would have to be split up (at great expense) but another said as we were occupying the whole couchette it wouldn’t be a problem.Can anyone advise if the whole carriage is “Ladies only”?  If not, it seems strange that this would be a problem given we would be the only occupants of the 4 person couchette? ThanksDamian

Hello, I’m planning on going interrailing this summer, and I purchased all seat reservations via OBB. However, I did not realize I could add the interrail discount, so I booked all seat reservations via seat reservations only. I read that adding the discount would ensure that possible supplements are purchased as well, but I don’t think any of the trains I am planning on taking require a supplement. Some trains (Deventer-Hannover, Ljubljana-Budapest, and Vienna-Arnhem) do indicate that seat reservations are required. Does it matter that I purchased the seat reservations this way? Would I be fined if I did not indicate that I have an interrail pass? Thanks in advance!!

Hi, we're trying to book reservations from London to Rome in August. It doesn't seem possible yet to book Paris-Milan or Paris-Turin, so what will we do if we book Eurostar but then can't travel on without having to visit every town in Switzerland? Also, how do we make reservations for different days, eg travel to Turin on the 2nd then to Rome on the 3rd? Finally, what does activating the pass mean, do we only do that just before we travel? We have tried hard to work out these things on the app and website, but just can't find the answers. Thanks! 

I have reserved some seats for this summer n the interail website this morning, the tickets came through as PDFs on my email but when I try to open them on the Interrrail app nothing comes up.  when i download them from the interail website they appear as Zip files I went to Trenitalia and put in my email and PNR to see if I coudl get them on the app but it says “trip not found”.  have I just checked too soon?Any clarificartion would be great thanks in advance

Hello,my Friends and I are planning a trip trough the Balkan states.In the Balkan states, only very few connections are shown on the official railway map, for example in Serbia. Is it possible to take trains that are not registered at the Railwaymap, like regional trains, with the Interrail pass? Thanks for help