Train connections & reservations

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

Hello all. I am trying to make a seat reservation on Great Western’s Night Rivera train for May 5th, but the website’s seat reservation functionality was removed. I tried messaging them on Facebook Messenger and was told to either book via some weird train staff page (I don’t work for a railway) or to call them. When I called them, I was told that I could just show up and board the train, but the Eurail website said that reservations are mandatory.Who is correct, and what should I do?

I'm just getting confused reading all the advice, and some people elsewhere saying reservations are compulsory (via PKP) even when the interrail app says theyre 'optional' or just 'recommended'. I want to just activate my day and add short trips today in the rail planner app as I city hop. Apologies for repeating questions, Im just confused, unfortunatelty the conductor here has no English to guide me. 

Does anyone know what this → “The Double Sleeper: Can only booked with a full fare price at the moment.” means on this page → https://www.interrail.eu/en/plan-your-trip/tips-and-tricks/trains-europe/night-trains/night-riviera-sleeper?  Does it mean that there is no concept of a pass holder fare for this trip any more?I’m aware that booking this used to involve ringing GWR (no web access) and convincing them that your Johnny Foreigner credit card and address are acceptable, but it is now not even an option at all?As it happens, the “full fare” which I can book directly online includes a super advance ticket which is only slightly more than the cost of an Interrail day, so it might be cheaper and simpler not to use my pass and just book a full ticket.  This seems a little bonkers to me.

Wie kan ons helpen? We proberen nu een rit te reserveren op 10 augustus van Narbonne (Frankrijk) naar Palencia (Spanje), waarbij we de overstap in Madrid wat ruimer willen maken dan de rechtstreekse verbinding. Het liefst nu omdat we dan niet de hoofdprijs hoeven te betalen en we dan nog plek hebben voor 4.Dus 10.36 vertrek in Narbonne ; Aankomst Madrid 16.18Vertrek Madrid 18.51; Aankomst Palencia 20.18Maar we krijgen hier de melding dat we pas 90 dagen voor 10 aug kunnen boeken, alternatief is raileurope maar daar moet je met een credit kaart betalen en die hebben we niet, of boeken bij de Spaanse spoorwegen en dan binnen 3 dagen ophalen op een Spaans station..We zien dus duidelijk iets over het hoofd, maar wat? Wie kan ons vertellen hoe het wel moet.

Hello all,With the new beta Global Plus Pass, if I and a friend were to get those, I understand that we would need to book reservations through the Interrail system to get the reservations that are included in the price.However, as you cannot choose seats while booking the reservations on this system, is there another way to reserve seats that are next to each other? (the passes would be on different accounts and phones)Or would it be simpler to just get a normal pass (especially while they are discounted) and reserve seats through RailEurope or directly through operator websites such as Eurostar and Ceske Drahy?Thank you for your time!Joe

Hi there, we are flying into London at 6am on the 25th of March and I want to catch a train to Edinburgh. I want to book them now - but I don’t know when I’ll be at kings cross to leave. Would you buy the 9:03 or 9:30am train? Plus how do I book the tickets (seat reservations) I can’t book on eurail- it won’t let me. What do I do?