My wife and I are inexperienced rail travelers and will be taking the train from Nice to Zurich on April 24. Two portions of the trip (Nice Ville to Ventimiglia & Milano Centrale to Lugano) show Open Seating. Do we just show up that day with our Global Pass to access these portions of the trip? We have tickets for the other parts of the trip.
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Question about open seating
Best answer by rvdborgt
Your last sentence "We have tickets for the other parts of the trip” lets me think you don't understand what a pass is: it is your ticket for all trains. You don't need to buy any other tickets for trains included in the pass. You do need reservations for some trains. These are additional to and separate from the pass.
So for trains without reservations, you just show up with your pass. Happy days.
For trains with mandatory reservations, you need your pass and the reservations.
All trains you use have to be registered in your trip and added to your pass (for a mobile pass).
This general introduction may be useful:
Your last sentence "We have tickets for the other parts of the trip” lets me think you don't understand what a pass is: it is your ticket for all trains. You don't need to buy any other tickets for trains included in the pass. You do need reservations for some trains. These are additional to and separate from the pass.
So for trains without reservations, you just show up with your pass. Happy days.
For trains with mandatory reservations, you need your pass and the reservations.
All trains you use have to be registered in your trip and added to your pass (for a mobile pass).
This general introduction may be useful:
You asked about that train before.
And yes both those trains are regional trains without any reservation so you just pick a free seat. (on some trains with optional seat reservations the reserved seats are marked so you should look for an unreserved seat in those, this does not apply to the 2 trains you mentioned)
As rdvborgt mentioned make sure to add all trains to your journey and activate them.
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