Train connections & reservations

Folks, Mightily impressed by the depth of knowledge here, and after careful reading, I have one unanswered question.  I have read the thread below, however my use case is a bit different.  As an NL resident, I shall be in Berlin for business in June.  I want to travel from Berlin to Warszawa, and spend a week in Poland, decompress, and explore the country. Then at the end of an all-too-short week, train from Warszawa back to Berlin.I want to reserve on the EIC 49 which is operated by PKP Intercity. Interrail site says, an Interrail one country pass is recognised by "PKP and local-government run companies: Koleje Dolnoslaskie and Przewozy Regionalne” PKP's website has for several days given me website errors, using any PC or network, and a few folks on this forum seem to be having the same issue.  What's my best course of action?  Do I need to visit a PKP ticket counter in Berlin Hbf, assuming there is one hidden behind the queues to the international ticket offices on level +1?  Phone

Hi guys, I need some help. I tried to reserve a seat for the amsterdam central-berlin hbf night train for 19/10. The interrail booking site told me that it was not possible to reserve a seat, even though a reservation was not required. I booked on bahn.com, even at a lower price, and had no problem booking a seat. Do you know the bahn.com site is reliable and is this reservation still valid?

Hi Community. I am travelling across Europe with my wife and 3 kids this summer and we are still trying to full understand the reservation and booking challenges. Thank you all so far for all the information been made available. I have however come up against a problem. We have been trying to book the reservation for travel from Copenhagen to Osnabrück to the 9th of July. When I tried with 5 though OBB is didn’t work but for whatever reason it worked with 4+1 through separate bookings. However when I look at the ticket it only shows reservations for the Hamburg to Osnabrück part of the journey. Is there anyway to confirm if we actually have a booking for the 1st leg? Any ideas?Thanks in advance for any advice.Regards,David

Hi, is the interrail.eu seat reservation service down for maintenance? I have been trying to make reservations for two days, getting thrown out in the last step. 

Hi everyone, my first post. I am Interrailing this summer with my teenager. We have booked loads of our trains on Obb Austria. But we need to book some on Bahn.De and I cannot find how to add the interrail discount. We have first class tickets and using the Obb website gave us free reservations, but it only has limited German train details. Also the train times on Obb do not match up with Interrail, so I added them manually to the Interrail app - is this normally?Thanks for any help and advice.

I bought 5 passes. A total of four-section trains need to be booked, but the seat reservation for the one-section train was not available, so we booked and paid for the three-section train first. I'd like to reserve some seats for the remaining one section of the train, what should I do?

Hello. Is it possible to reserve seats online? We are told it is not and you have to present at a station. Furthermore, there seems to be limitations with forward booking, eg We cannot book Barcelona to Marseille until we arrive in Barcelona. Some of our stays are relatively short so this then creates a risk of not being able to get seats which then of course impacts our accommodation reservations. Are we missing something here?

A lot of my trains require reservations. But we have no idea which train we will take. It will depend on what we wind up doing that day. But it says you have to make a reservation 3 hours in advance and they are not refundable. A lot of our journeys offer trains every hour or every 30 mins but still require a reservation. So how can we be flexible if we must make a non refundable reservation? Can I just walk up a few mins before and still get a reservation on the next train or do I really have to book it in advance and lock us into a specific time?

The train currently says full on the eurorail booking site, however after checking the company’s website there is still room on the train. Does eurorail ever add more seats that eurorail passes can reserve leading up to the travel day?

Hi,I am planning to travel around Southern Spain next month.  It seems quite limited or are there not many train lines in that part of Spain?For example - To go from Malaga to Alicante, would I have to go nearly to Madrid and back down?Please can you tell me does the Interrail map shows all possible routes or is there another map with more lines available?Thank you   

Hi, I booked a trip from Florence to Cinque Terre (Monterosso) for August with Frecciarossa. There is a connecting train we have to take at Pisa Centrale but they did not let us reserve our seats and will need to find a vacant unreserved seat. I am wondering if there is a seating chart link I can see where there are vacant unreserved seats in advance.  I will be traveling with my family (wife & 2 kids) so I want to make we do not lose each other if we are in different cars.  Thanks

I have a global pass and was able to make a reservation from London to Paris. For Paris - Zurich (June 10th 7.20 am), though it shows seats are available on the eurail website, when I got to checkout, it says one of the legs is unavailable. I saw another post that said reservations were possible only till Basel, so I tried that as well. In fact, I tried removing one station at a time until it was only Paris - Belfort, but even that didnt work. Any suggestions would be helpful.thanks,sri

My eurostar reservation (with interrailpass 4 days in Europe) for Londen-Brussels on sunday 21 May has been cancelled.... This was supposed to be my 4the trainday and inbound day back to my home country Belgium. I can't change my reservation, website is down for changing dates. I got the cancelations email at 11 am and tried to change tickets at 12 am but already website was down.When I trie it now, I stiml can't get through. When I select new dates and trains that have open seats, I still get the 'Oops, something went wrong' page when I trie to confirm the changes.Additional problem is that I made the reservations on the belgium website, SNCB, for me and my sister. So I have to change 2 tickets from 1 reservation and we are not going to take the same trains as my sister still has 2 weeks of and would travel further in the UK, now that our returntrain has been cancelled. I have tried to reach Eurostar by phone en through their contactform, but don't seem to get through. If I try to cha

Buenas tardes, estoy pensando comprar el pase interrail para viajar desde España a distintos países de Europa, pero al ver las combinaciones, veo que hay muchos en los que pone que hay que reservar asientos desde un importe. ¿Eso sería adicional al precio del pase?

Hello, I want reserve seats for TGV through Interrail web, so I have not possibility choose specific seats. When I travel with children, how will I be sure, that the children are not sitting in my sight? Thanks

Hallo there,maybe anyone here can help.We try to book a seat reservation for Nighttrain from Palermo to Geneva. We are two Interrail-Travellers and want to book the Double Sleeper. The Interrail Reservation Service is not really a help here, but Italian Railway is not even better.We wont be in Italy before, so we dont want to wait until we can ask there at a train station. Is der any other chance to book this Double Sleeper Reservation via Internet? We tried it today for several hours with no success. Even Italiarail is no help, they get things messed up with this specific train.Thanks for any suggestionPhilipp

Hi Quick question when i search the railplanner app it does not show the night train from Krakow to Vienna , is this correct/why is this ?I believe it still runs when I have searched the OBB site Do i just add it manually?    

Hello! I have been enjoying the rail planner on the Eurail app, but it does not work for Greece! Is there a good website or, preferably, app I could use to plan out my trips? 

Hello,I posted a few days ago regarding availability of the night train from Stockholm to Narvik on December 11th.  We have continued to check the schedules every day and this morning tickets are available!! (YAY!) My next question, why are there no 1st class berths available?  Am I searching incorrectly? Is it possible that the train only has 2nd class private sleeper berths? We are ok with 2nd class, but the private bathroom offered in 1st class would be our preference if it is available.  Am I missing something? I’ve checked on both Vy and SJ. Any help is appreciated! 

Hi,  We have planned a 2 week trip around Europe with no real problems, but we cannot book the seat from Malmo to Stockholm (planned for mid July).  We have tried various sites including Interrail and SJ.SE, but no joy.We have the one month interrail pass, which we have done all our other planning on successfully.  It feels like we are just missing a dropdown box or tick box :-( regardsMike

On the website it says that when I arrive in Patras by ferry, I will have to take a bus and a train to get to Piraeus. Where can I find the bus and train timetables? Can't find anything online. How do I know for sure that there will be?

I’m trying to book a train from Utrecht central to Berlin on the 5th of August. I can add the reservations to my cart but when i go to book it says ‘one of your legs is unavailable’. I saw on pervious replies you can use the OBB website to book seat reservations. I’m just wondering how that works in terms of booking seat and not having a proper ticket?? 

Hello,Me and my friends are going an Interrail through Austria, Poland and Germany this summer so we would like to book our seats in advance.  We need 2 seat reservations, more specifically; From WIEN HBF to KRAKOW GLOWNY on 6th july KRAKOW GLOWNY to BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ on 9th july But on the interrail app we can’t make any reservations. If we go to the national train websites we also get the notification that tickets are not available. Can anybody help us?? We don’t know what to do. Thanks in advance!!

Hello, on the 31st of July I’m planning to travel from Bordeaux St Jean to Girona (Viajeros). I already made seat reservations, but when looking at dates in May, I see we (2 persons) could travel for cheaper by not taking the TGV from Narbonne to Girona. (The tickets that I already bought indicate that I can cancel without a fee.) We would then travel via Port-Bou. But unfortunately there is no train planning yet for July… Does anyone know a good app to see which trains there are on this day (when the planning is available)? And has anyone experience with the schedules in Spain and if they change often? We would like to save some money, but for us it wouldn’t be worth a 3 hour transfer in Narbonne for example.I know there are quite some questions, but if you can help me (a little bit), I would be greatful :)

Hello! One question: In the web of cd.cz the train from Budapest to Stuttgart shows one transfer in Augsburg (screenshot one) but the Interrail web says it’s direct (second screenshot).