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Working Websites for Reservations?

  • October 6, 2025
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Hi all,
hopefully someone can help me. My departure is approaching, and interrail.eu has sent me an email urging me to make reservations as soon as possible — but it’s not working.
The following portals have been broken for at least a week:

  1. When I click “Book seats” in the Rail Planner app, the app tries to open a webpage that shows a 404 error.

     

     

  2. On raileurope.com, the progress bar gets stuck on every request. I’ve been seeing this for a week as well.
     

     

Where else can I make online seat reservations? It’s about French (SNCF) and Spanish (Renfe) trains.
Thanks everyone!

Best answer by rvdborgt

Raileurope is often the best place for most French and Spanish reservations, dince they don't have extra booking fees. Iryo can currently only be booked via interrail.eu.

I've had the progress bar problem on raileurope.com for some time now and it helps for me if I hit the reload key (F5) when it gets stuck (usually at ~75%). It must be the key on my keyboard; clicking the reload icon in the browser doesn't help.

You can report progress bar problem here:

https://www.raileurope.com/en-gb/contact/new

In any case, there's availability:

DB can also book Spanish trains, but only at the ticket office, by phone or at a DB agent.

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Railly clever
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  • eurocity101
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  • October 6, 2025

Rail Europe works for me. It’s also the best place to book these reservations (no added admin. fees). Maybe the deactivation of the integrated booking.com search solves the problem...

All trains are also bookable through happyrail.com (2€ admin + credit card fee per booking). Spanish trains can also be booked at DB ticket offices if you encounter experienced staff there.

I'm NOT working for Interrail/Eurail.
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  • rvdborgt
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  • October 6, 2025

Raileurope is often the best place for most French and Spanish reservations, dince they don't have extra booking fees. Iryo can currently only be booked via interrail.eu.

I've had the progress bar problem on raileurope.com for some time now and it helps for me if I hit the reload key (F5) when it gets stuck (usually at ~75%). It must be the key on my keyboard; clicking the reload icon in the browser doesn't help.

You can report progress bar problem here:

https://www.raileurope.com/en-gb/contact/new

In any case, there's availability:

DB can also book Spanish trains, but only at the ticket office, by phone or at a DB agent.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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