I go on a trip in two weeks and wanted to start booking trains ahead of time. I haven’t activated my pass yet because I figured I should wait until like a day or two before leaving. If I want to start booking trains in advance, how can I choose when I’ll use travel days and when I don’t want to? And should I activate my pass to start booking?
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How to choose/apply travel days when booking ahead of time and how soon in advance of trip to activate pass?
+9You don't need to activate your pass to make reservations. You can make them now. And you can add trains to My Trip, to see all your travel.
Seat61 has a good guide to how and where to make them, or you can post your itinerary here, add other forum members can advise.
. I haven’t activated my pass yet because I figured I should wait until like a day or two before leaving.
Waiting with the activation until you actually start your trip is a good idea.
You can already create the trip with your train journeys and book reservations without having your pass activated.
I recommend booking reservations directly with the train company instead of the interrail reservation system (to avoid the additional 2€ booking fee and for more detailed seat selection, but not always possible to do online)
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