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I need help booking

  • July 12, 2025
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 Good morning everyone

I bought an Interrail pass for France and I’m trying to book my first trip from Paris to Mont Saint-Michel using the Rail Planner app, but I can’t manage to do it. When I try to book, it gives me three options and I click on the first one (Eurail) but when it redirects me to the website, I don’t see my pass linked. My travel companion managed to get a bit further with the booking and she gets a message saying “No prices were found. Reservations for pass holders may be sold out...”

How can I or should I do this? It’s the first time I’m using these services

 

 

Best answer by Danhiel

Hello ​@Daniele777 

It is not recommended to reserve seats with Interrail/Eurail, because they add a 2€ fee. For France I recommend the site raileurope.com (not the app). Click on “Add rail pass” to indicate that you need only a seat reservation and not a ticket. 

If you need more help, give us the date and time of departure. 

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  • Danhiel
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  • July 12, 2025

Hello ​@Daniele777 

It is not recommended to reserve seats with Interrail/Eurail, because they add a 2€ fee. For France I recommend the site raileurope.com (not the app). Click on “Add rail pass” to indicate that you need only a seat reservation and not a ticket. 

If you need more help, give us the date and time of departure. 

The information I provide may contain errors and are not official responses from Eurail/Interrail.
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  • Daniele777
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  • July 12, 2025

Thank you bro,

I'll do this 

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  • Danhiel
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  • July 12, 2025

​@Daniele777 

I would add something. You can only reach the Mont Saint-Michel with a bus from the station Pontorson. 

You can first search possible timetables from Paris on sncf-connect.com. Be sure to search the destination “Mont Saint-Michel” and not “Pontorson - Mont Saint-Michel”. I think that only one or two connections are available. Interrail Passes are not valid in such buses.

The information I provide may contain errors and are not official responses from Eurail/Interrail.
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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 13, 2025

Be sure to search the destination “Mont Saint-Michel” and not “Pontorson - Mont Saint-Michel”. I think that only one or two connections are available. Interrail Passes are not valid in such buses.

To check pass validity on a bus, it's best to look at the planner on the TER website. If it says "Car TER”, then it's a rail replacement bus and passes are valid. As an example next weekend:

 

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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  • Danhiel
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  • July 13, 2025

​@rvdborgt 

Thanks for the clarification. I found the bus schedule and it looked like a local bus:

https://www.calameo.com/read/0016438898ac44375fc7a

This is a problem in France, one of the most famous tourist attractions and only a few buses each day. 

The information I provide may contain errors and are not official responses from Eurail/Interrail.
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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 14, 2025

​Thanks for the clarification. I found the bus schedule and it looked like a local bus:

https://www.calameo.com/read/0016438898ac44375fc7a

This often seems to be the case: a local or regional bus where SNCF tickets are valid. I found it was similar for e.g. the bus from Bréauté-Beuzeville to Étretat.

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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