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Connecting trips to a pass

  • September 17, 2025
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IMHO there is a big gap in the documentation and information available for this app.

If you want to plan your holiday in advance by creating all your trips for multiple days, you can add the first trip to your pass with no difficulty, but there is no information on how to add subsequent trips to your pass.

Apparently, it is not possible. Instead, you should be creating one trip, and one trip only, which is added to your pass. Then you add all the journeys to that trip. 

So the relation between pass and trip is one-to-one. How confusing is that?! Why have trips at all?What you *should* be able to do (but can't) is to create trips in advance, in the comfort of your loungeroom at home before you even get on the plane if you want, and then add the trips for each day to your pass as you decide you need them.

But apparently not. The trip is created as either connected to a pass, or not connected to a pass. If is not connected, then it never will be, unless you introduce another pass. There is no documentation or help that I could find anywhere to suggest the contrary.

If the documentation included a range of worked examples, that would be a great help. C'mon Eurail, let's get up to speed.

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  • Railly clever
  • September 17, 2025

A pass can only be connected to one Trip, so you must add all journeys to the same Trip. 


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  • Rail rookie
  • September 17, 2025

Yes, indeed, I get that, but *nowhere* in the documentation or help is that clearly stated.

Your simple statement, if made clearly in the documentation, would have saved me literally hours of mucking about searching for answers.

And not just me, other users as well, judging by the questions.

For example, I have a trip with multiple journeys:  Kostanze-Zurich, Zurich-Davos, Davos-StMoritz,St Moritz-Tirano, Tirano-Sondrio. All on the same day. I don't want to use the app to plan it, because it would be mixed up with other possible planned trips. The app clearly says it has a planner, but it doesn't really. You can't,  for example, plan a second possible route e.g. Konstanze-Zurich, Zurich-Milano, Milano-Sondrio (in case the alarm doesn't go off or some such unforeseen delay), because you can't add your preferred trip to the pass.

I'm not saying that's necessarily a fault in the program (but it is). What I'm saying is, it should be made very clear in the documentation and/or support that the planner is not a planner, it is a search tool.


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  • Keeps calm and carries on
  • September 18, 2025

@Auntiejack56 

You should plan and save your trips with other apps, SBB Preview for example if you are in Switzerland. You will get more accurate information about delays, changes, platforms, train formations, you can also find maps. Use the Rail Planner app only to obtain tickets. 


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  • Railly clever
  • September 18, 2025

I normally use the apps or websites of the national railways to do the planning. I then have a spreadsheet where I do my planning, including information about hotels and other things. 

Once I'm fairly sure about what train I want to take, I enter the train as a journey in my Trip.

As a journey, once entered in a Trip, isn't updated if there are any changes to the timetable or if the train is cancelled, you should make sure to double check the times before travelling.