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Hello, I’m planning to travel on 24th May this month, can I purchase my ticket now? thank you

Hi, my son is using interrail and will arrive next Thursday in Budapest. From Budapest he wants to travel to Greece but he can't find any trains. If I look at all the questions in this community  regarding Greece, there seem/seemed to go no (international) trains to and from Greece. What are the available options for him if he still wants to visit Greece? Best regards,Marcel  

Hello, I am planning a trip to Sweden this summer. For that i intend to buy a global pass with 5 travel days within one month. The interrail website states that it is not possible to take a nighttrain on the last day that the pass is valid. However, if my pass is valid for example from the first of July to the first of August, but the 23rd of July is already my fifth travel day, is it then allowed to take a nighttrain from 23rd to 24th of July and basically drive on 6 days? Theoratically the pass is still valid on that day but Im out of travel days…Thanks for helping

Hi, New to the forum, but have ‘done’ a couple of Interrail trips in the past couple of years. Am going to be travelling from Copenhagen to Hamburg and then onto Nuremberg on 26 August. As I understand, seat reservations are compulsory on the direct trains between Copenhagen and Hamburg in the summer months, and these are extremely popular with demand outstripping supply, so I’m keen to book the seats asap. I note seat reservations aren’t yet available on the DSB website. Bahn.de, however, is showing services for that day and is suggesting a change at Fredericia. The Interrail website says the same thing, adding that reservations are optional.  Is this correct? I note looking at dates before 26 August trains are terminating at Hamburg Altona, so I’m wondering if there are engineering works that day that mean the direct trains cannot run? Thanks in advance for your help.

It‘s very expensive to make a reservation from Paris to London. Can I avoid this?

Hello,I live in the UK but in order to get the most out of my pass, I’m wondering whether to just take the Eurostar to Belgium with an ordinary Eurostar ticket (ie not the pass) and then start using the pass in Belgium. I’m also not sure that I want to do a round trip which returns to my country of residence - can I do this or does my final travel day have to be back to my country of residence? Thanks

Hi, I received an email 2 days ago that my train 9552 TGV, Mannheim to Paris was cancelled because of the strike. Is there any chance of it being reinstated since the strike was called off, or should I find a new train?Thank you Steve Trizis

Hi, I plan to travel from Thessaloniki to Budapest with kid. As i can’t find out which is the best and most secure route to travel from Greece to Hungary.. It would be great to travel by a night train!….i would like to read your advices or propositions. thanks 

We are flying into Lamezia (SUF) in September and are going on to Messina by train. We do have a Rail Pass.  I know we have to to take a bus from the airport to Lamezia Centrale and then board the train to Messina. I am confused about what happens when we get Villa San Giovanni. Does the train then go on the ferry and we end up in Messina Centrale or does the train journey end in Villa San Giovanni and we have to make our way to the ferry port and pay to board the ferry and get off in Messina Maritima? Can someone please clear up my confusion over this matter. 

I was just I formed by nightjet that Germany will be going on strike from 2000 GMT on Sunday (May 14) until at 2200 GMT on Tuesday (May 16).  This is during the window in which we are traveling via train to Germany and then on to the Netherlands.  They did not say that our tickets were cancelled, just that I should postpone my travel.  Is that the same as canceling my ticket or will they still have limited service and I should continue as planned?  As for postponing that is not possible, we are on holiday travel and will need to get back to the Netherlands to catch a flight. How should I proceed?

Hello,Need an advice - I want to travel from London to Nice and then from Nice to Paris, which pass should I buy? Do I need reservation on top of the pass? Any additional information will be helpful.

Hi I've managed to book seats on eurostar from London to Brussels on 3 June but after taking my credit card details get message saying something went wrong. Tried again and also tried with seats on 1 June.  I'm able to pay so there must be seats available but I get same message. I always seem to have a problem with interrail site! 

As the german trains will nationwide be cancelled from 14th to 16th May, DB has asked Travellers to -if possible- do Their travels from 11th to 14th May before the strike hits and has therefore Made it possible to take any similar train on These days if one has booked a Ticket that is affected from the strike. Is the Interrail Ticket also valid on the days beforehand for The same route i booked for May 15th? Does anybody have experience with this or a similar Situation? Big thanks XXX

Hello,I have a question. My boyfriend and I are going to travel to Italy in July. I have a ticket for Italy only and because I live near the Italian border and he has a ticket for more countries because he is from Germany. Is it possible to make seating reservations for both of us even though we have different passes? We want to sit next to each other. His journey begins in Munich and mine in Brenner.Thanks in advance

HelloI want to take the 1 country interrail pass for Italy. I'm located in France. Does the pass include the train from France to Italy or I have to take a different ticket 

Dear All,I am planning to take the EC 151 from Mannheim to Milan on Monday 15th May - now the german Train association EVG has just announced strikes for all german trains from 14th to 17th May. Do you guys Know if ECs are also affected from these strikes? Or is it german trains only?

I booked my trip through global pass. I needed seat reservations for some legs of the trip but not all. I loaded the full trip to the app. I didn’t know it at the time but eurail loaded wrong trains for the seat reservations right trains for others. I’m on the right train but now will miss the other connecting trains I paid for.  I am out of the country traveling with a 7 year old and eurail has NO customer service line. All my connecting trains have less than 15 minute breaks between so I can’t even speak to an agent. What ami supposed to do? I don’t know if I even have seats. I want to be safe in Europe. Not stranded with a 7 year old in Switzerland. Please help! 

I cannot find the limit of the ticket’s cost for the 4 days in month pass. I mean it costs 194euros but how much of the ticket’s cost do i save if i buy it?

Helloo! I need Help…I am in London and i want to go Italy (Modena) on next week, i saw need do some “stops” in Paris and Milano. In the app it appears that at these stopsI need to go to another station "Transferby public Transport". Will thesetransports be available to everyone onthe train going to the same destinationor can I take an uber or something likethat?

 Seat Reservations….a popular topic.  Have already downloaded the the tickets...have my pass.  Now, I need to make seat reservations for 3 of 5 legs.  Eurail app is not possible to book seats.  Eurail website is useless….in timeout when I try to advance forward on the webpage.  Have high speed internet and 9-10 devices working just fine.  Its not my internet provider its the website.  The cute YouTube video on how to make seat reservations also useless. Any suggestions?  

Hello, we are a family of 5 people ( our children are 19, 16 and 10 ) we already bought our 5 passes.We need to buy another pass for a 9 years old child who will travel with us. Is it possible ? 

If i buy the 6-days interrail pass for greek islands, do i need to use 2 days on italy and 4 on greece, or can i just use all 6 of them hopping in different greek islands? Im wondering bc the ticket info says ”2 international days and 4 domestic days”

Hi:) I’m travelling from Athen to Bari by train and ferry in June. My ferry departs from Patras to Bari and so i searched for train/bus connections from athen to patras. i found out that there is no direct train connections due to constructions, but that i can take a train from athen to kiato and there change into a bus that replaces the train until patras. but i can’t find any sort of timetable for the trains and busses, i looked in the interrail app, the trainose website and the hellenic train websites: they all say that there is no connection available on the selected date. i travel on june 8th but i also tried different dates to verify if there’s a connection at all and it just doesn’ show...is it too early to book the train and the timetables are not up yet? or is there just no connection at all at the moment, or there is but it’s just not on the website yet? i’m really confused snd a bit stressed as i need to book the ferry asap and need to know if i even can travel from athen

Hello, I have an upcoming trip to Europe and I’m already concerned if purchasing a monhtly Eurailpass was the right choice.I want to start my trip from Madrid to Paris on July 3 using the highspeed train and from there go to Seville, but just trying to book the starting point to Paris seems impossible.Any suggestion will be very welcome.Thanks!

I had saved a train in my trips a few days ago. It had required reservations and I planned on reserving it today. The train no longer appears. Does this mean the train is fully booked? The trips is over a month away still. Thanks for the help!