Hi!
My name is Jimena and I have a doubt: once I add my journey to my Pass and I open the train ticket that is generated by Rail Planner I see there is a timer/countdown in the right upper corner of the ticket. Does that timer indicate something? Does it mean that whenever it ends my ticket is no longer valid?
Thanks!
Best answer by Simon Smith
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Do you mean the ticket with the qr code at the top and the journey details underneath? If so you open it every time your ticket gets checked. If it times out just open it again (need to put in your phone password or fingerprint)
Yes, that’s what I mean! So just to make sure I understand, even if the countdown ends, the ticket is still valid, only I would need to open it again? And I’m sorry, but what do you mean by the ticket getting checked?
Thanks so much!
Yes, that’s what I mean! So just to make sure I understand, even if the countdown ends, the ticket is still valid, only I would need to open it again? And I’m sorry, but what do you mean by the ticket getting checked?
Thanks so much!
I mean “checked by the ticket man/woman on the train”.
i don’t remember this timer. Why don’t you open it now, let the timer expire, and then try opening it again?
Thank you for your help!
The advice from the experienced travellers is to not activate your pass until just before boarding the first train of your travel. Please read more below about that.
Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations 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.
Reservations
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 reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice.
Please note that Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and train in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.
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 allowing you to create the QR code (your ticket), 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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