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Hello,

Irish citizen living in the UK for the past 6 years.

I am excited to use Interrail for my first cross Europe trip, London to Croatia this summer.

I am wondering however, when applying for my Interrail, whether to say that my country of residence is UK or Ireland. My only ID is an Irish passport, however I want to use an outbound day of the global pass to use Eurostar to leave London.

I have no ID or residency papers for the UK, even though this is where I have lived for the last 6 years.

What do people recommend? If I choose UK but have only an Irish passport, will this cause problems? At the same time, if I choose Ireland but want to travel from my residency country of the UK, would this be possible?
 

Thank you and sorry for the confusion!

Matthew

As one could expect-its all in the rules, you can use country of Residence IF you have official proof that you are regisetred there. And yes, I am fully aware that UK is -as so often it wants to be different- not very complying with how on the continent this is done (and even in IE, I presume for all the polski)

Look-grab the chance, If your passpt does not show anything about living in UK-state it to be IE-this gives you the freedom for all GB during whole validity.

1, be very much aware of the dire situation re strikes and very sparse seats for €* on the way out-and in

2.more info on how to do: seat61.com (not primarily aimed at passes)-and the overveiw of seewulf on howtohelpyourself better to RESrv as this app

I have just finished a 10-days pass last week and not once was I asked to show ID-travelled in also 1(home)+9 countries.

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Look-grab the chance, If your passpt does not show anything about living in UK-state it to be IE-this gives you the freedom for all GB during whole validity.

 

 

Thank you for the advice! I am a big fan of the Man in Seat 61!

I think you are right, I will say my country of residence is Ireland since it matches the passport.

I would still be using one day’s travel as per the Interrail system (it could assume I flew to London, and then Eurostar to Brussels all in the same day), so I will not be loosing any days my Global Pass gives me.

I realise now the rules about inbound/outbound is meant to stop people using a global pass as a one country pass.

 

 

I realise now the rules about inbound/outbound is meant to stop people using a global pass as a one country pass.

 

 

With a One County Pass you can't travel at all in your country of residence, with a Global Pass you have 2 travel days in your country of residence and unlimited travel on your travel days in the remaining 32 countries of Interrail.

Sorry that is what I meant, the 2 day limit stops people using a 4 day global pass for example to do 4 days of travelling in their country of residence. Especially in the UK rail prices can be extremely expensive, so if the Global Pass allowed more than 2 days in country of residence I could see people attempting to buy it for purely domestic travel! Haha

 

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