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So my friend bought the Interrail Pass for me and I got the activation code for the mobile pass. Because I was on vacation and my friend bought the pass for me, through his account but for my name.

The point is, for seat reservations through the eurail website, you need to log-in to your account with a valid pass, but I don't have an account as my friend bought the pass for me. So I created an account and thought, maybe the pass will show up on my account because my name is probably saved in the system, but apparently that's not the case. 

What should I do now? I need to make seat reservations for my upcoming trip but how is it possible if I only have the mobile pass? 

Maybe I miss something out and can't find the option to transfer the mobile pass into my online account…

 

I hope someone can help me here :)

 

Best regards

You can add your pass via My Trips & Travellers.

However, the advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website. You can look at the guide in the link:
https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105
If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservations, please create a new topic with your travel details (departure date, time and route) and you will get advice.

Here is some more useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning and activation of pass and travel days. 

 

Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 

Activation of pass

During the activation process, when you choose the start day of the validity of the pass, the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day, even if you don't enter a journey, the advice is therefore not to activate the pass before the first travel day as you only can deactivate the pass before 00.00 on the day the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you will loose travel days if you have activated the pass in advance.

It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works.

 

 Activation of travel day

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass, until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage  You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day

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