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I purchased a Eurail Global Pass: 4 days in 1 month - 1st Class ticket for my wife and I for travel next month. I can’t seem to use the pass to book and reserve seats. Eurail has no phone number to call either. We are going throughout France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. I would prefer to prebook these seats. 

I won an interrail pass last year and it runs out in September. I am starting from England and I really want to travel and use it to it's full potential. I have also started buying the things I need for the trip but I haven't booked any hostels or tickets yet. Is this going to end up costing me an insane amount of money? Some hostels charge £40-£100 and I know that I need reservations for some trains. Is it possible to do this so last minute? (Leaving within the next couple of days). Any help and brutal honesty would be appreciated!Thanks😊

I'm booked on the 7:01am london St Pancras to Paris Eurostar on Thursday. I'm booked in plus. The first train from Cambridge arrives in St Pancras at 05:59. The recommended check-in is at 05:46 but check in closes at 6:31. Am I safe to connect from the 05:59 Cambridge train?

Does anyone knoe how to fix this problem? I have i friend who lives just over the border between the Netherlands and Germany, on the side of Germany. We are currently on our trip that started from Nijmegen in The Netherlands. Now we have been in Switserland, Italy, Austria and the Checz Republic. We are now on our way to Berlin and thats where the issue is. My friend lives in Germany, so the out/inbound system works for him in Germany. We did not account for this considering he never does anything in Germany and does school and all other daily things in The Netherlands. He now cannot contine to Denmark after Berlin because of how the days work. Is there a way to fix this? Please help.

We are traveling with a 1st class InterRail Global Pass together with our 8-month-old baby. Since children under 4 are not eligible for their own pass, he travels on ours and sits in our lap.However, we’ve been asked to either move to 2nd class or purchase an additional full-price 1st class ticket for our baby on three separate occasions in Poland (PKP Intercity) and the Czech Republic (CD). While I understand that this may be in line with local regulations, the official InterRail rules clearly state that babies are allowed to travel in 1st class with someone holding a 1st class InterRail ticket.Can anyone clarify how these local rules align with InterRail’s ticket rules?

Too early to reserve seats for this journey? Would prefer the 06:22 to 15:50 one but first part of journey not valid on pass. 07:57 to 19:50 second choice. Thanks!

Hi ! I'm Allie (19f) from England and I'm planning to travel to Europe in August/September 2025. I'm quite flexible as to where I'd like to go and have a few route ideas but my parents are quite resistant to me being alone (and of course company is always the nicer option) ! Is there anyone who might like to join me? My Instagram is @allie.rosesd.Thanks! 

Hello, I am looking for a travel buddy from Austria for July-August 2026. I would like to go to Ireland and Amsterdam but I am open for other countries too. I am scared to go alone and would be happy to find a travel partner or a travel group!

Hi, I'm Carla and I’m 19 years old student from Germany! I wanna make the most out of this interrail pass and I would like to find a travel buddy who wants to travel with me;) At the moment I’ve two plans in mind mediteran summer (starting in germany, italie, spain, ending up in portugal )  Scandinavian summer (starting in germany,(maybe amsterdam) denmark, Sweden, ending up in Norway, ) So far I’m planing on starting my journey in the first week of september :)I would love to meet new people and discover nature as well as big cities. I love spontanous events trying new things and meeting new people and am always available for going out either for coffee or for drinks;) If you think we could match in destinations and personality, feel free to reply or contact me via insta (@its_cxrlx_)I’m speaking german, english and french by the way...

HelloWe are about to set off for Europe, mainly travelling in Norway, using an Interail pass for the first time. Reservations have been made when necessary using Entur. I have been checking our trip details this morning as some of the entries had to be added manually when we were first planning our holiday. There are a couple that are still not showing in the trip planner even though these are during the first week of September. My concern is whether the QR code will show correctly once I activate the respective journeys. Am I worrying unduly?Any help would be much appreciated thank you

Hi all, we are looking to book the Eurostar from London to Amsterdam as our outbound travel train out of the UK. We also need to get to London from the North. Can we book the travel from London - Amsterdam and the train to London separately or in one go?If we go on the train planner it suggests the train in one go but we are worried about delays to London which will then make us miss the London Amsterdam train.   

I have train reservation from Barcelona Sants to Paris. Can I take this train in Girona or do I have to board in Barcelona?

Hey so we are planning our interrail route and in my country (Greece), railway network is not so good so it's kinda hard to get out and expensive. We were thinking starting from spain but tickets are not that cheap. Anyways the question is if airplane tickets are covered by the pass in any way or even if a part of the amount is covered. Thank you!! 

There’s a bunch of topics here on the Narvik-Kiruna connection but they are >10months old. We're doing that this Summer and running into some interesting challenges. In particular, the Kiruna-Gällivare tracks are being revised (details at https://bransch.trafikverket.se/contentassets/8f4ef0aa71e34f7fbee83cfd6da5e1b1/ns_2025_2025_06_09.pdf) and it is quite tricky to find a through-connection from Narvik via Kiruna to Boden and onwards. So this is a heads-up to anyone aiming to cover this route in August 2025.We'll find our way across (it involves a bus for the Kiruna-Gällivare bit) but I do have a question that the SJ website hasn't answered for me. Apart from the tracks undergoing renovation, Kiruna station (along with the whole city center, famously) will be moved by a few miles due to the iron ore mine

We ordered paper passes and do not get them delivered. Interrail said they did send them. PostNL said they never got them. Interrail says I have to go to PostNL PostNL says Interrail has to ask them information, not me. Interrail says it is not their problem. And we can not travel if we do not have passes   What can we do. Who can help us?

Hello,I’m 1st class  Eurail  pass holder.I plan to Caen ex Paris St Lazare.H’ever,only 2nd seat reservation fee shown on  rail planner.Please confirm if need to pay seat reservation fee for the 1st class pass holder .Thank you

Hi. I' m travelling from Madrid to Lisbon on October 21st with my family on interrail. I have received good information in this group, but there are still things I do not quite understand. At the moment I can only find one connection (3 changes- 8-9 hours and with one change with only 3 minutes change time) during the day, I like to travel. Is that because the time table has not yet been put on the site? And if so- when will it normally be released? I'm not quite sure if there are many connections where you're not allowed to go with your interrail ticket. Do you by any chance know anything about that? Best wishes Agnethe.

I was wondering, do I have had written-in for the meeting at 30th of August in Amsterdam?

Hat jemand eine Idee wie ich am besten von Zürich nach L'Éstertit in Spanien komme?

Hello! I’m trying to travel from Paris to Amsterdam, and although I have a ticket from using my pass, there are no 2nd class seats available. There are 1st class seats available, but I do not have the 1st class pass. We were told we are able to buy the 1st class seat reservation, but I’m not sure how that will work since we only have a 2nd class pass. Am I able to upgrade my pass for 1 time only? Will they charge me for a 1st class ticket although I have a 2nd class ticket? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you! 

We want to buy two seats for a ferry from Athens to Santorini on Wednesday, August 13th, and we don't know how to do it. Even though we entered all the information, the discount isn't showing.We already purchased the Greek Islands Pass, but the cost is still very high.We urgently need help. Thank you very much.

I’m trying to book a ticket from Munich to Verona on 12th September. The Man in Seat 61 gives trains which includes an 11:32 from Hbf but when I go onto the DB website it’s an 11:02 from Hbf and all the other trains that (per DB) day go from Munich Ost not Hbf. On OBB website they ALL go from Hbf. They’ve all got different departure times as well although they have the same train numbers.I have booked a reservation on OBB as it gives the trains and times I want but I’m now worried that perhaps OBB have not got the up-to-date trains, my train may leave from a different time and station and that my seat reservation won’t be valid.Who should I trust? Any ideas?

Dear fellow travellers, this is the first time I am using interrail. I have a flexi ticket for 4 days. I managed to book a seat on eurorail from London to Brussels (June 20th 2025 at 15.04). I paid and received the seat reservation. My understanding I have to add this trip to “my trip” on the app. But this train is not showing. Can I still travel with the seat reservation and somehow activate my day ticket on the app? Thanks in advance for the advice.

Hi all,I’m still trying to plot a route between Vienna and Zagreb over 2 days. I have been advised Graz but would prefer to be closer to Zagreb for a quick train in and car collection (meeting friends in Croatia) in the morning. We would like something a bit more rural after a few cities. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks so much!Sarah

Hey my name is Oscar, my friend Malek and I are traveling from the 5th to the 21st of August in Italy/Croatia/Slovenia.About the trip: We are looking for someone to join us during the whole trip or maybe just one or two cities just to meetup for a drink or a night out. (Rome,Florence,Zagreb,Split,Ljubljana,Milano)About us : We are both 19 years old and study Political Sciences in France (Lille and Reims), he’s Tunisian and I am French and German. We like to discover new things, and learn about history or new cultures, and during the night we are always ready to go out for some fun :)insta: oscar.ohnm8