Train connections & reservations

My July 4 Thalys train was cancelled from Brussels to Paris (Thalys sent me an email).  My eurail reservation shows booked with no issue or flag.  I already submitted a request for a seat reservation refund.  Do I just go ahead and book a new seat reservations right away? Or do I wait for someone get back to me regarding the refund/exchange.

We have booked several trains to go from France to the northern part of Finland via Sweden.It is indicated that the reservation are not mandatory (for example from Boden to Haparanda)..As we are travelling with our three children we would like to make sure that we can take these trains with our pass.Or is it preferable to make a reservation ?Thank youFranck

Hello, we are a group of 28 students. We would like to go from Zagreb to Split, on July 9. Since it is not possible to make seat reservations for trains in Croatia unless at the ticket office in Croatia, I was wondering if we could risk it to book seat reservations only the day before, on July 8, because that is the date we arrive in Croatia. We are a big group so I don’t know if that is a good idea?Or is it a better idea to go by bus from Zagreb to Split and already book the bus tickets now, so we have seats garranteed? Thanks in advance!Paulien  

Hey, I would like to know how exactly the ticket and travel days work.Can I use one ticket for several train journeys in one night?  how do I activate a trip that I previously saved under “my trip” in the interrail app? how can I let the app know that I made a seat reservation for a planned trip so that it’s shown in the ticket? is there a maximum number of trains I can use in the 24 hours after the activation of the pass?

Hi ! I booked beds and seats on night train on the OBB Nightjet website with the Interrail Discount. I didn’t ask me my pass number.As it says on seat61.com, the Interrail pass and the reservations are completely different things. What should I do for the reservation to be linked to my pass ? Should add it seperately on the app ? 

Hi, Me and my girlfriend bought ourselves the continuous global pass. I’ve added the pass to the app but i’m a bit confused about how to make the reservations with multiple passes. So for example we want to go from Warsaw to Prague, and there’s a night train leaving 19:40 on June 28th on the Polish train website (polrail.com i think). The rail planner app suggest booking through that website. My question is: if we buy a reservation through them, how will it show up in our pass? Are we just supposed to have the payment confirmation from polrail.com and add the train journey to both trips and both passes on the app? Or is there another way to do it? Thanks in advance!

 Hello All,I have a Interail global pass. I would like to book a ticket, a berth on the train between Augsburg in Germany and Ljubljana in Slovenia the Saturday July, 22th 2023 at 23.01pm. This sale on the OEBB website (Austrian Rail Company) is still not available. How can I buy this ticket ? ThankYou

Hello.  Total new person here so I apologize for asking questions.  I’ve done some searching and thought I had this all under control.  But I’m struggling!I am looking to make seat reservations only on a train from Salzburg to Luzern.   We have purchased a First Class Eurail pass and I was able to do seat reservations on the German Rail Website for our previous legs in Germany.   But I am struggling with the Austrian Rail website.    Can anyone assist with how I make a seat only reservation?   I’m looking at October and it looks like I could make one for some of the trains that have multiple changes but the ones with only one change in Zurich are all not available?  Also not seeing where you select the class you prefer.   Honestly don't care about the class but would like a seat reservation.   Is it possible that all those seats are booked already for the one change trains?Thanks in advance.

Have booked Buchs SG to Zagreb sleeper but wondering if I could get on at Zurich instead  would we be able to access our compartment or would we have to sit in the normal part of the train  if there is one     

I was travelling Interrail from London to Paris in May. I came down to London from Edinburgh on a Sunday and went to a concert at the Barbican .. everything was going fine.The on Sunday evening I got a Eurostar email - due to French rail industrial action my Eurostar next morning cancelled .. But there was a link to make a “simple rebooking” on the next available train .. so ok?No, not OK. The link for me did not work. It led me through a rebooking process that just led always to “unexpected error has occurred”.I was initially quite panicked .. I had nowhere to stay longer in London and had a hotel booked in Paris that could not change. I could do nothing until the next morning when offices were open.In fact, the next morning phone call to Eurostar worked .. I had to hang on the line for about 45 mins .. but when I got through I was rebooked on a train 2 hours later with no problem.My question though : As interrail users, do we just have to accept that we are not included in such autom

Hey! In August I will be traveling with Interrail for the first time.  But now I am a bit confused when I try to book a seat. The train I try to book is a night train running from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Split. However, I prefer a couchette but I see that this is not an option. So I am guessing this is just a seat right? If so, does anyone know where I can book a night train that actually has a couchette?   Thank you! ☺️ 

I recently made my first Interrail trip for about 40 years .. it was great!Now I am planning my second but I have not decided on a pass yet. But I have already made one seat reservation on the Eurostar from London to Paris.Is that a normal / OK thing to do? .. first make seat reservations and then later decide which pass to buy to use these reservations with? (OK obviously you have to match 1st or 2nd class ticket/reservation)It seems on the one hand like an odd way round to do it .. but it seems to work, and so why not? Is there anything I am missing as to why there would be any problem?

Hello everyone! I'm new to the community and I just organized and booked my first Interrail trip, spanning between six countries, departing from Italy to the most important cities in central Europe (Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and Turin).I'm here to ask a question about reservations: is there a way to get on reservation-only trains without paying it? (I don't know, like standing instead of taking a seat :D) e.g. going to Paris from Amsterdam without paying 30+ euros and without changing 2/3 trains.Hope I can find a way, but if the reservation is the best option then it won't be a problem.Thanks!

Dear community, I have a Global 4 day pass and will be travelling from Amsterdam to Barcelona on July 16th or 17th. I am trying to reserve seats, but there seem to be problems in doing so. The booking tool mentions that prices are unavailable; however, it says this same thing for months ahead, so that is why I wonder if there are no trains available, or whether there is something else preventing me from reserving seats. I want to book as soon as possible, to ensure I can still reserve the seat :) Any help is highly appreciated! Best regards, Kaya

I wanted to book sleepers on the Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna (and back) in October '23 and thought I was late booking in June, but the booking site states that tickets are not available.I called ÖBB and the attendant told me that the connections were not ‘freigegeben’ (open) and told me to try again in July. Does anyone know why that would be, normally you are supposed to be able to book the Nightjet up to 180 days in advance…I now look each day whether the booking is open, but knowing the reason for it not being open I may know what I am waiting for and when to try to book.Thanks!

The route is through my country of residence, but it’s not an inbound/outbound journeyHello,I’d like to travel from Wrocław Glowny (Breslau) to Prague with train changes in Zgorzelec, Goerlitz and Dresden. The route is through my country of residence, which is Germany, but it’s not an inbound/outbound journey. As far as I know it’s not allowed. Is that right? Do you have any suggestions for another route? Thank you in advanceJoana

I am having difficulty making 1st Class seat reservation for 3 adults for IC 666 Rapallo to Milano Central Friday 23rd June at 11.41.I can purchase full price tickets but that defeats the purpose of the EURAIL Pass.Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

I have a Eurail pass and am trying to determine the best way to make reservations. How is travel.b-europe different from Eurail.com reservations? In looking around travel.b-europe I see you can put in a seating preference which you cannot do on Eurail.com. I know it’s not guaranteed, but at least they ask. Does it matter which site I use for reservations? 

Hi, all:  We are two couples who will be doing our first Eurail trip for 23 days in September (1st class Global Pass).  We will be based in Oslo, Vienna and Bern for the most part but will take many day trips on trains from those cities.  We obviously would like to sit together, e.g. two seats here and two seats there.  When reservations are not required, should we get them if they are available and if we don’t get them or they are not available on a certain train, what are the chances of not getting a seat or being able to sit together; or, my biggest nightmare, having to stand in the aisle for the whole trip.  And a related question:  what is the easiest way to find out if a train has optional reservations?  I don’t think the European Rail Timetable shows this.We will be very grateful for any responses you can provide.

Hello! I would like to know if there is a possibility to book seat reservations on the same day of the departure from the train station rather than buying them online. My friends and I already booked seat reservations from Innsbruck to Rome but we don’t have them from Warsaw to Innsbruck because they were selling only paper tickets (the delivery time was too long). Thank you for your help in advance!

Hi! My question is about a specific train, which I’m hoping someone will be able to help me with.We’ve arranged an itinerary to and from Italy (using the Interrail website) which includes an overnight stop in Lausanne on the way out. When I first arranged the itinerary, there was a train shown on the website from Lausanne to Milan at 08:18, so I based the 2nd day of our itinerary around that train. Having subsequently checked on the Interrail website, this train is no longer shown, although it does appear on The SBB and Trenitalia websites, as well as the Trainline website. Is there a reason why the Interrail site is not showing it? Also, if the service is running, can we use our passes and if so, how do we go about booking seat reservations? Thanks in anticipation ,Andy

Hi,I‘m planning my Interrail in France this Summer and I have some problems right know with finding a train on my last day back home to Germany.I’ve looked in several regions and even in Paris but I only find trains who start late in the afternoon or even in the evening which means I always need two travelling days and I have to wait in Germany at some point in the night several hours before the next train leaves and I reach my home early the next morning. I live in Reutlingen in South-West Germany.It’s kind of frustrating that I can’t find any trains who leaves in the morning, even with expensive seat reservations. Often the Interrail App just shows me one single train each day, even from big train stations…It seems that this problem is only on my last day when I need to cross the German border.Maybe I’ve missed something but I could really need some help why this is the case and how I can solve it.Thanks in advance!

I’m looking at reserving seats between Milano Centrale and Geneva however I can’t find any direct trains to reserve seats between the two cities. Even weirder, I can buy full price fares on Trenitalia and Trainline for a direct train. I’ve checked OBB, the Interrail seat reservation service website, not to much avail. Can anyone help? I understand that there is an option to take multiple trains between the two cities, but I just want to take the fastest, most straightforward route as I am a first time interrailer.

Hello,on July 7, we will be travelling with a group of 30 people. We will go from Brussels to Zagreb, and are planning to go via Frankfurt and get the night train in Stuttgart. (Seat reservations for night train are booked.)My question is, do we need to book seat reservations for the ICE train from Brussels to Frankfurt? Because it says reservations are not required, but we are a big group and I am afraid that the train would be full if we have no seat reservations. The starting point of the ICE train is Brussels, so by definition the train would be empty when we would get on the train… But still wondering. (Maybe everyone else has seat reservations so that we cannot get on the train because all seats are reserved?)Thanks in advance!Paulien

Hi,I want to take the night train from Split to Zagreb on the 14th of August with my Eurail ticket, it says I need to book a seat reservation but when I go to the Eurail website to book the seat reservation it says they are not available to be booked. Can I just buy my seat reservation on the day or is it all sold out already?