One name is fine.For the seats, the system will attempt to seat you together if you book 3 seats at the same time. The only time it wouldn’t do that is if the train is so busy that there aren’t 3 seats together.Yes, you can do it at the station, even a few minutes before departure. Obviously, there’s more of a chance that trains will sell out closer to departure, but it’s not often a problem in Italy.You can also book at raileurope.com, and pay an extra €2 to select your seats. -There’s no way to avoid the reservation fee if you’re on FR/ FA/ FB trains. For Venice-Florence you can take a slightly slower and less frequent Intercity for €3. Or slower again on Regional trains, no fee.
You need seat reservations on all high speed trains (Frecciarossa, Frecciargento, Frecciablanca), costing €13. And on Intercity trains, costing €3.Seat reservations aren’t possible on Regional trains.The easiest way to book is via the ÖBB website. Add your pass(es) where it says 1x adult, and then search for ‘one way tickets and day tickets’ (not seat reservations!)https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticketTry to book a single train, not two - especially for Milan-Venice - otherwise you pay twice.If you’ve already used the pass, you can’t get a refund for the unused days. If you haven’t used / activated the pass yet, you can apply for a refund (costs 15% usually), or exchange for a different pass (costs €15)
I don’t have an experience of the Denmark-Sweden-Norway trains, but I know it depends on which train operator you plan to usehttps://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm#Denmarkhttps://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm#Sweden
Vienna- Prague & Prague - Berlin - you can make the seat reservations at ÖBB for €3 each, seat reservation only.DB charges a bit more.https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
As another data point, I booked my onward reservations at the ticket office at Figueres.They didn't ask to see my pass, so maybe that's still an option for people who have friends in Spain.€23.50 + €1.30 Gastos gestion for an AVE - Premium with restauracion€10 + €0.55 for Alvia - Elige ConfortBoth reservations have Combinado Cercanias printed on them
Yes, there's a few options.Train to Zurich, then sleeper to ZagrebTrain to Vienna, then sleeper to SplitTrain to Venice then catamaran (not included in the pass) to Istria
Have you already made reservations to and from Paris? It will be very busy around the Olympics.From St Moritz, you're pretty close to Milan and the Riviera. Or the Croatian coast - further away but absolutely stunning.
Yes you can add as many takes as you like to a Trip.You don't have to connect or activate a pass to that Trip yet.
It might help to say where in Italy! For Venice, I highly recommend the Meninger hostel in Mestre. It’s brand new, very clean, and is practically on the platform edge, so commuting into Venice is Quick and simple. They have family rooms
Ah, well spotted! Thanks, that looks promising!
1 I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can get them from DB. Anyway, they’re way to get from a station in Portugal2 I’ve heard that some ticket offices want to see an active travel day before selling a reservation. If this happens, you can activate the travel day, then deactivate it 5 minutes later!3 I wait until I’m at the station, the train is on time, and I know I’m travelling. There’s no benefit in doing it sooner. If your plans change, you might waste a travel day.
In the end, I was charged €20 for first class.The train only arrived <10 minutes before departure, and there’s no indication on the screens or on the train where first class is. A useful tip is to wait on the platform by car 4/5, as that’s where the Train Manager will be.She told me it was full in both classes, and directed about 10 Interrailers to wait in the bar car (standing only).After about an hour, she found me a seat in First Class. It was half full (albeit more people got on later). As far as I know, all the others got seats, but it took a lot of extra work by the crew to find them.I’m going to raise it with Eurail, because RENFE shouldn’t be charging the extra €10 for buying onboard where there’s no other option. And €20 or €23 if you have to stand for 5 hours doesn’t appeal!If that’s what it’s like in May, I dread to think what it’s like in August.
Yes, you can add trains to your trip as you go along. If there’s two or three trains you might get, add them all, then just activate the one you decide to take.
That’s really weird that you had to do all that to get the website to work!Maybe worth reporting it to Rail Europe (if you can be bothered).Glad you were able to get the reservations!-I had a problem just yesterday, trying to make TGV reservations. It kept showing me availability, but then failed during the booking process. Eventually I realised it couldn’t find the exact seat type I requested, but instead of telling me that, it just failed.
Geneva doesn't have a lot going on for tourists. Bern is beautiful and very good place for a couple of nights.Switzerland is so easy to get around that you can afford to base yourself in one city for several nights, and make day trips from there. it's much more relaxing that way
The booking horizon for French TGVs is typically about 4 months. Check back in about a month,
All trains from Paris to Spain leave from Gare De Lyon, in the south of the city. If you’re at Gare du Nord, you’d need to take a local RER train (not included in the pass) for 10 minutes.Train 9713 will take you to Barcelona. You then need to take at least one more train to reach Granada. You can just reach Granada the same day, if you take the train to Madrid departing at 1725, then change again to reach Granada at 2336. (Alternatively, stop off somewhere along the route if you want to break the journey up!)You’ll need to make reservations on all these trains.None of the ferries to Morocco are covered by Eurail. You can get a ferry from Tarifa.From Spain to Switzerland, you can get a train from Madrid or Barcelona to Lyon, then connect to Geneva on a TER.
You can't extend the validity.So if it's a three month pass, then the latest you can travel is 31 August
Reservations on Trenitalia can be made very late - up to 5 minutes before departure I think. And they rarely sell out.So I would wait until you are on the EC, and know if it's running on time or not, before making a reservation for the Florence train from your phone.The official connection is onto the 1110 Frecciarossa, which is very comfortable if you're on time.
What is it that puts you off connections?Is it's the physical hassle, we can recommend journeys with easy changes. If it's the risk of missing connections, we can recommend strategies to mitigate that (choosing longer stopovers and/ or choosing routes where you only have to. wait an hour is lf your mood a train.)The only journeys among those that would be direct are London/ Brussels/ Amsterdam
I think @thibcabe has the winning solution here!1 Buy the expensive passholder reservations for the 0928 train now.2 As soon as you get to Spain, visit a ticket counter and buy reservations for the 0819 train. They will be much cheaper - €13 per person. And probably available.3 If successful, refund the expensive reservations on the 0928, but at least you have them as a backup.
Yes! I will book that. So basically to confirm again. When I book this, it doesn’t count as a rail day (Eurail Global) versus the 4 day pass I already have since it’s a direct booking? Ah, no. That's the price for reservations for 3 people on two trains. You'd need to use a pass day.
Glad to have helped!Must it be that exact train, or are other trains an option?For example, you can reserve this connecting journey via Valence at a cost of £118 ($148) for three people.If you're willing to take a slightly slower connection from Valence, that cost reduces by half.
No, that just means that you’ve logged the train with Eurail and you’re intending to take it. These trains have compulsory reservations, and if you don’t have seat reservations, you can’t travel.If it’s the AVE train, you can show up at any Spanish station (as soon as you arrive in Spain) and buy the reservations there. If it’s a TGV, you can buy them online.Unfortunately, that’s the way it is with RENFE. They make it very hard to reserve their trains!
Oh no!! Thanks for the update Al. That is such a nuisance - and just before the Olympics too. Handily, the Mayor is doubling the price of Metro tickets for the Olympics. And she’s already tripled the nightly tourist tax on your hotel room! (One 4* hotel room, at full occupancy, now earns €6,000 a year in tax.)
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