Hello,
I’m not a newbie to European travel, having used the paper pass ages ago without problem, but now I’m concerned and confused about the digital disconnect between reserving seats and the pass activation and ticket QR code generation on the Rail Planner app.
We have flights and hotels and trains picked and planned, I have seat reservations for our group of 4 for trains in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy (Amsterdam to Florence). All of us have 10-days-in-15 days passes for the trip, and I’ve planned out the big connections so I could reserve seats. Only the Switzerland to Italy train actually required a reservation.
Here’s where I get confused: if there are limited seats for Eurail pass holders on trains that require reservations, and the pass and reservations are completely disconnected, could a train hypothetically “sell out” and deny us the ability to activate and select that train for boarding with the pass, even though we have reservations for it? Does that mean I should activate our passes early so I can get the train ticket QR ready now? (We travel in May.) Thanks for your help.
