Train connections & reservations

For two days I tried to make a seat reservation for mandatory German ICE train connections. 1st: if you try to change the automatically chosen seat, you can try for a 100 times and choose available seats at the window or at  the aisle or whatever, after going through all the necessary steps you get the message: ERROR, go back and try again (or something like that). Even if you don’t want to change anything (after two days trying you are happy to get any seat) and filling in your credit card details you get the same message. Crazy! Now I found out that this problem occurs already for more than 2 years! And someone suggested: try ÖBB, which I dit. And wonder oh wonder: it works!! I have easily made my reservations and even could change the preselected seats for silence zones and at the window, costs € 3,- per train.So, if you rely on the German Gründlichkeit => DON’T! Try the Austrian way!

Hi, does anyone has an idea how to book a seat an bike reseservation without bying the ticke on DB navigator.Thanks. Torsten

Ich möchte gerne wissen, wie viel es kosten würde, ein Ticket 2. Klasse vom Bahnhof ROMA TERMINI zum Bahnhof PARIS GARE DE EST zu buchen.

Hi there ! I’m looking to book a train from Marseille (France) to Granada (Spain) on May the 24th, but the section from Madrid to Granada is not available for booking, due to the limited interrail’s seats on board. This train is on Alvia. Do you know if there is any way to get through this limitations ? Has anyone of you been to Spain and travelled with Alvia compagny and knows if the reservations are that tricky ? I already tried with happyrail and Rail Europe.Thank you so much by advance ! Ezeikiel

I was wondering about the necessity to reserve seats in advance in the UK in first class.I already learned here that sometimes they aren’t mandatory even though it’s indicated on rail planner, but traveling as a family of 4, I’d rather do it, since it’s free of charge. So my question is: are there trains that sell out like weeks or months before or is it usually ok to reserve a few hours in advance? Would people reserve a few different trains, if they aren’t sure which one they will take?

So I have to make some seat reservations as for some of the trains, its mandatory. What if I book a seat and I miss the train on the day, would I have to book another seat for myself or would I be given another seat in another train? The hard part of my travel is that the schedule is not fixed even though the route is fixed, which makes things complicated for me. 

Hi!I’m trying to book a seat on the 13:57 Berlin Lichtenberg to Warszawa Centralna (EC 49) on the 18th September. Whenever I select “Buy Now” after inputting my information, I get a booking error:Why is this? Is the train not yet available for booking, or have I missed it? Or am I doing something completely wrong? I tried asking DB Customer Support but their response was not very helpful.Thank you for any help anyone can provide

Hello everyone!We're traveling to Europe in July - Agust. We have a Eurail Global 7 Day Flexi Pass. Here's our itinerary:1- London to Paris (reservationbooked) = 1travel day (Paris to Rome by plane)2 - Rome to Pompeii to Florence = 2nd travel day     We're spending a day in Pompeii then traveling      on to Florence in the afternoon - can we count       that as 1 travel day using the same ticket OR       do we need to purchase additional tickets?3 - Florence to Venice 3rd travel day4 - Venice to Milan5 - Milan to Switzerland 6 - Switzerland to Vienna 7 - Vienna to Germany How soon should we book our Train reservations?Thank you!      

We are trying to book trains for Europe online from Canada.We are blocked from booking with our Eurail passes until 150 days in advance of our travel.  We’re not traveling until October of 2026.  We’re concerned that when we get to 150 days prior there will be no seats available.  As a test, we’ve tried from today to book out 150 days in the future and get the message that “no reservations available for pass holders” on one of the legs we’re traveling later this year for any of the trains shown.  Are we going to be restricted from booking or is there a certain time (GST) that we should start tryng 150 days in advance of our first booking?

Hi, I am currently trying to book the train from Bled to Split, and I can reserve a seat from Zagreb to split, but it won’t let me do the same for Bled to Zagreb. I see that you don’t need a reservation to get from Bled to Split, but it says it’s a night train so I am a bit confused, since it is at 7am. Does the pass cover the 7am stop at bled and do I not need to reserve a seat? Or, do i just get on the train and scan in with my interrail pass? Any help would be really appreciated, Thanks guys. 

Hello, I’d like to go on 4th July from Mora (Sweden) via Stockholm (taking the night train to Hamburg Hbf) and take the next connecting train to Lübeck (connecting train will be on 5th July).Will this journey show up on my Interrail pass as ONE trip? Or as 2 trips because of the connection on the following day?I can book at SJ from Mora to Hamburg with reservation fee for the couchette in advance. But it’s too early for booking the connecting trail to Lübeck at DB Regional. How should I hadle this to get most profit of my Interrail pass?Thanks for your advice.

 Hello,We will be traveling to Switzerland and Italy in June 2026 and have a Eurail Global Pass. I am currently trying to reserve train seats for our journey from Lucerne (Switzerland) to Venezia S. Lucia (Italy) on June 3, 2026.Please find our trip details below for your reference. I understand that seat reservations are available from Lucerne to Lugano, and I am happy to pay for these seats. However, for the segment from Lugano to Venezia S. Lucia, the system indicates “open seating.”As we are a family of four traveling with significant luggage, I am concerned about seat availability for the Lugano to Venice portion of the journey.Could you please advise whether it is likely that we will be able to find seats together on this segment? Alternatively, should we consider booking seat reservations through another channel?Also, Is it possible to transfer between trains within 4 minutes? If we miss the connecting train, would we be allowed to take the next available train without any penal

I’m global pass 1st pass holder.I want to go to Le Haver from Paris.Do I need to book seat reservation?

It looks as though I may have to change a reservation that I made with Rail Europe - basically changing from a journey Milano Garibaldi to Roma Termini to a different time leaving from Milano Centrale to Roma Termini.I saw that there was an earlier posting on this site that offered the guidance:https://help.raileurope.co.uk/article/41286-exchanging-tickets#accountHowever this guidance implies that there is a button: exchange options and I cannot see that on my Rail Europe app.

I have been going onto the SNCF website each day to see when it will be possible to book up my seat reservations for two journeys I will be making specifically the 17.42 from Gare de Lyon to Chambery on 14th July and the 9.42 from Chambery to Turin on 15th July.  Today for some unknown reason, having checked that the tickets were still not available, I had a look at later dates and to my amazement discovered that the tickets were available for these later dates.  There was just a black hole around the actual dates when I will be travelling.  I then discovered that 14th July is Bastille day but I assume/hope that this is just a coincidence.   Any thoughts/advice would be appreciated.

Buongiorno a tutti, mi servono consigli da esperti, sto organizzando un viaggio da Torino a Rovaniemi in treno per questo inverno, l’idea è di usare i treni notte, siamo due adulti e un bambino di 9 anni.Vorrei capire come calcolarmi se conviene fare un pass interrail oppure prendere i biglietti singoli, non riesco a capire i costi di prenotazione.Allora il bambino ha il pass gratuito.Ecco le domande:se prendo il pass, quanti treni sono compresi in Italia? Dovrei prendere un Torino-Milano e Milano-Zurigo, sono entrambi compresi il mio itinerario sarà cosi: freccia rossa Torino-Milano, pago la prenotazione? Di quanto? ec10 Milano-Zurigo, pago la prenotazione? di quanto? nj409 Zurigo-Berlino, vagone letto da 3 o cuccetta privata per 3, di quanto è la prenotazione? sj euronight 344 Berlino-Stoccolma, l’ideale sarebbe il vagone letto da 3 ma è di prima classe, devo per forza prendere il pass di prima?  quanto pago di prenotazione? Se prendo cuccette e voglio prenotare lo scompartimento

Hi,Me and some friends are wanting to travel in France, Italy and Switzerland but won't know until about a month before if we can stay for 10 days or 15 days. So I wondered if we booked seats for us doing 15 days as we want to add the extra 5 days on at the end when we're in Italy. Would we be able to cancel our seat reservations for the trains in Italy and then change our eurostar seat reservations to being earlier. 

Ciaoo! Volevo chiedere se ci fosse una tratta di treno  da Oslo a Bergen incluso in Interrail . Grazie!!!

My family has purchased a Global Pass to ride the rails and adventure throughout Europe.  After an exceedingly difficult time figuring out how to plan the trip and finding out that the website and App aren’t linked….I think we’ve accomplished it. We are flying into Spain and traveling from Madrid down to Malaga….a couple of days later, traveling from Malaga to Barcelona by way of Madrid. I’ve received an email saying that both reservations have been cancelled.  No explanation why or if the moneys paid will be refunded or whether or not I should attempt to book different reservations.I’m assuming we’ll be able to travel to our destinations on regional trains?  Is this a safe assumption?Thank you for your help.Donovan

What recommendations for travelling from Trieste back to London, via Paris and Eurostar. Is the Eurorail Pass vald for the overnight sleeper train from Venice or Milan?

Hi. Does anyone know, if I’m traveling on trains which don’t need reservations, do I have to catch the train at the time specified in my trip details? e.g. if I say I’m going to catch the 09:30 but I miss it, can I just hop on the next one?

I asked the following question of AI.  However I thought it would be wise to get some human input before proceeding!Basically my wife and I traveled from Lille to St Pancras in January on Eurostar and were subject to a   delay which meant we were able to claim e-vouchers by way of compensation.   I shall shortly be purchasing Interrail passes for the two of us for travel in September, with the first leg being on Eurostar from London to Paris.  So my question is - can I use our e-vouchers to part pay for our seat reservations?The answer I got back from AI was - yes.  However this could only be done through Eurostar itself and over the phone.   It also advised that normally there would be a £12 booking fee.  However since there was no other way of making this booking that I should request that this booking fee be waived.   Would you agree with this?  Anything else that you think I should take into account before moving forward on this? Thanks in anticipation.Peter

To anyone who's done multiple countries over a couple months, how far in advance did you book your train tickets? Looking to go in summer and unsure whether to book them now or on the day I want to travel. And depending on when you booked them, what was seating like? Was it very booked up or quite empty. Looking at June to july

I bought an Interrail pass for Spain. From what I understand, some train tickets are included in the pass, while others require an additional purchase. How do I reserve seats? Do I need to go to the station the day before, for example? Or should I buy tickets on the Spanish railway company’s website or app? Do all trips require a supplement? Or are there some trips where seat reservations aren’t necessary? Thanks for all your advice—I’m a little bit confused.

Hi , i take train from birmingham to king cross london, What that mean transfer by public transport? Tq