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Would you consider or have you used the ferries in our network?

We want to hear your thoughts on ferries! Have you used them before, or do you wish there were more in our network? Share the pros and cons of your experiences, and let us know if you'd love to see more ferry routes. We want to hear it all in the comments ⛴️✨

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Sarah WCommunity Manager
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⚠️ Rail strike in Belgium: 14–15 and 21–22 AprilDisruption

Two nationwide rail strikes have been announced in Belgium that may result in limited rail services across the network. The two strike periods are scheduled between Monday, 14 April from 10 PM CET until the end of the day on Tuesday, 15 April, and Monday, 21 April from 10 PM CET until the end of the day on Tuesday, 22 April. Alternative train services may be operational depending on the SNCB staff availability.  We recommend checking the SNCB timetable shortly before departing for your planned rail journey for up-to-date train times. For more information about the strike, please read the strike announcement on the SNCB website.  Delay compensation: Interrail travellers with an activated travel day for any of the affected dates can request compensation here.

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How do you stay entertained on a long train ride?

Do you prefer a good book, a playlist, or just watching the world go by? Let us know your go-to train ride entertainment in the comments! 🚆🎶📖

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Help us with our packing list

What are your packing essentials for a train travel trip? 🎒

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Sarah W
Sarah WCommunity Manager
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🚆 Exciting News: We’re Welcoming High-Speed Spanish Carrier, iryo, to the Pass! 🌟Pass update

Update on iryo’s integration into the Pass Network iryo's integration in our Pass Network is delayed due to an unexpected technical issue. We are working with iryo to complete the necessary preparations and are optimistic that travellers will be able to board iryo trains with an Interrail or Eurail Pass in the near future. We appreciate your patience and will continue to provide updates as soon as new information becomes available. We’re excited to announce that, Spain’s first private high-speed train operator, will be joining the Pass network! With iryo, you’ll be able to explore even more of Spain, with increased flexibility and convenience. Who Is iryo?Welcome to the future of high-speed train travel in Spain! iryo is a partnership bringing together the expertise of:🚄 Trenitalia – A European leader in rail transport and high-speed innovation.🌍 Globalvia – Experts in infrastructure and mobility services.✈️ Air Nostrum – Spain’s leading airline.iryo provides travellers departing fro

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⚠️ Construction works on Oslo to Gothenburg, Sweden, train route from Apr to Oct 2025Train Disruptions

Planned maintenance works in Sweden will impact the railway line between Gothenburg to Oslo, which will be under construction for several periods between April and October 2025. During most of these construction works, no alternative transport is arranged and a longer route via Kil or Hallsberg is advised for travellers. Please note that the alternative transport VY Bus4You 600 on this route is not valid for Eurail/Interrail Pass holders, so full-fare tickets apply. For up-to-date train times, please take a look at our timetable or the planner in our Rail Planner app, Entur's timetable or VY traffic updates. You can find more information about train schedules approximately one month before the work starts on the VY traffic updates website. Halden – Gothenburg This route will be disrupted from 02:00 on Friday, 18 April to 02:00 on Tuesday, 22 April CET due to planned construction work by the Swedish Transport Administration. Halden – Gothenburg This route will be disrupted from 11:00 to

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🚂 What European city surprised you the most when you visited and why? ✨

Was the vibe different than you were expecting?Was it the food?Or a hidden gem you found while exploring? Let’s swap stories about those surprises. Who knows? Your story might inspire someone’s next trip! 🌟

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⚠️Dombås - Vinstra line closure due to damage from floodTravel Disruptions

Due to a damaged bridge that resulted from a flood, the Dovre railway is partially closed between Dombås and Vinstra. According to Bane NOR, it is difficult to estimate when the repair work will be completed. SJ Norge has canceled night trains between Oslo and Trondheim, as well as two daytime departures. During the day, buses will replace trains between Dombås and Vinstra/Ringebu, and trains will run for the remainder of the route. Note: train departure times between Trondheim and Dombås have been altered.  For up-to-date information, please check Entur.

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Sarah W
Sarah WCommunity Manager
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⚠️ Construction works at Sofia Central, Bulgaria till Aug 2025Train Disruption

BDZ, the Bulgarian national railway company, has announced that construction works at Sofia Central will start from 7 May 2024 and are expected to last for 15 months until August 2025, impacting the flow of traffic through the station. You can expect the following changes in traffic movement at Sofia Central: For trains leaving/arriving at Sofia Sever, the BDZ have arranged special replacement trains which will do the transfer from Sofia Sever to Sofia Central. These trains will depart/arrive on platform 6, track 13. All trains coming from Northern Bulgaria will stop at Sofia Sever(North). Trams 1, 3, 7, and 27 will change their routes to accommodate traffic, with trams 27 and 3 continuing to Sofia Sever as their last stop. Bus line 413 will also continue to Sofia Sever. For more details about the construction works and the impact on Bulgarian public transport systems, please read the BDZ announcement (only in Bulgarian). The BDZ timetable is also expected to be updated by the end of A

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NanjaRetired Community Manager
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How the ''ask a question'' forum works

If you have a question and are not sure where to start, ask it here. We'll keep an eye on everything that gets posted here, and once something has been answered by the community or by us, we'll go ahead and move the topic to the right place, and mark it as answered.To find your topic back, click on your username in the upper right corner and click on "topics", or follow the link in the email we'll send you when you receive replies.

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Steve McRedRail rookie
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why reservation costs on Norway Regiontog, even on 1st class pas

Although on my selected train appears “free komfort (premium) class seats reservations for 1st class holders on Regiontog trains”, ENTUR will charge additional 500 NOK on REG 471 / REG 472 (Trondheim-Bodoe) for premium class. Only standard is free of charge.

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TjaraNew aboard
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Sitzplatzreservierung

Hallo, ich wollte einmal nachfragen, ob ich die Sitzplatzreservierungen auch über die einzelnen Bahnseiten machen kann? Zb.: über die Deutsche Bahn Internetseite. Oder muss/kann ich die Reservierungen nur über die Rail App oder Online unter Interrail machen? 

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Rakesh1503Right on track
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Tickets from Bern to Lille

HiFirst Lesson learntInterrail planner says “Reservation Optional” PLS IGNORE THIS.  I have been planning my journey for past 2/3 months - It was just by chance I looked at the country own web site. It was then I found out NO SEATS Available on a train I planned to take, just as well I checked, yet inter rail planner says I am all good to go , and I dont need to make any seat reservation. HELP FROM THE COMMUNITYWith above issues in mind, I re visited all  my plans and rather then believing what the app is telling me , I went onto the country web site.This is where my disbelief just stated.Trying to reserve 2 seats from Basel to Lille The swiss train web site will not give me the options for inter rail pass.The inter rail planner - if I go via them , then it is saying in order to reserve seats - It will cost me sub 100 Euros Surely this cant be correct ?Especially I have purchased 1st Class interrail pass - Surely I cant then be expected to pay additional 100 Euros - Am i being naive  o

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Jerry ZaninelliNew aboard
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Cannot find where the extra My Trip forms are at on the website

Where on the website can I find the My Trip sheets - use to be easy to find

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DiorNew aboard
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Global Pass

Hello! I have a couple of  questions about how the Pass works. First I wanted to know if the trip has to start and end in the same train station or at least the same country. Related to that I was wondering, if I’m planning on visiting 5 cities (Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris) can Paris be the last “destination”? (I would start my trip from Milan). I hope I made myself clear.Please help me if you can because I'm going crazy planning this trip ahah. Thanks!

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Out and In - UK Twice

Hi all,I’m new to interrailing and trying to learn as much as I can quickly. I am worried about booking tickets for this summer and missing the tickets for Eurostar and night trains.I have purchased a 10 day pass with the aim of going on two trips this summer with my partner and two sons. First trip is from London to Amsterdam, then to Germany, and back to London. The second trip is then to Croatia - I’m still trying to work out a route for this. Today, I noted that I cannot use the pass for my second trip in and out of the UK. So I guess I need to purchase Eurostar separately for this return trip. My concern is that if I do the first trip and return back to London my pass will no longer be valid. Is it ok to do this?Also I am looking at booking the night train from Zagreb to Stuttgart and the website says the train might be subject to change. Is this a concern? I am not sure if this just means a timetable change or a cancellation. We do need to return from Croatia as quickly as possib

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orangejuicer17New aboard
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The Interrail App doesn't syncronize with the online account on the interrail.eu website

I allready bought a pass on the interrail website.euI have a iPhone and a laptop with windows 11, I used the browser Firefox.I activated my pass at the mobile Rail Planer App and conect it with a spesific trip. The same pass is connected to another trip on the interrail website in my account. The Trip from the App isn’t shown on the interrail website and the Trip on the website isn’t shown in the App. I can change the trips in the app as I want but in my accout there changes nothing. So the sincronization between the online website and the app obviosly doesn´t work, even it´s the same pass and the same account. How can I fix this?

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FindlcxRail rookie
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Reservations - Pass & Non Passholder Lake Bled to Budapest

Hi - any advice please on how to approach reservations for July for journey 3 passholders and 1 non passholder Lake Bled to Budapest.  And then Budapest to Prague a few days later.  We would all like to sit/travel together.  First time interrailing - I think I can deal with the 3 passholder bookings but not sure how to navigate with this additional non pass.  Any steer/advice much appreciated.

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Rakesh1503Right on track
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Mobile Phone network / Which network provider

Hi Thanks to this community wife/I have now managed to put our plan together. We are travelling for the 1st time on this type of holiday.Help/suggestion.We have have Lebara network provider SIM phone ( UK based). This provides us with the ability to roam within EU - at no extra cost.Though just returned from Prague and it did not work there - The google map was just not picking up the data. We plan to travel to following countries - noting 1 of them is not part nof EU.Norway Sweden Denmark Germany Austria Switzerland FranceAny suggestion as to how best to make sure our google maps works, so we are able to find our way in that given country/location and we are able to acess our passes/tickets etc on our phone.is Esim the way to go - or is there a SIM only provider that gurantees good signal across all the countires.Or would we need to see how we get on each country and then buy either Esim/local sim in that given country.I am from a generation where we had everythig printed and had pape

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SheilaidhNew aboard
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Viajes asociados al pase

Hola, tengo dos pases globales de 7 días en un mes para empezar a usar en septiembre, el día 1 ya tengo los billetes, y cuando quiero agregar viajes para el dia 2, guardo viaje en la carpeta creada y me pone que no está asociado a ningún viaje, claro me deja hacerlo pero desvinculando el viaje del día 1, y no entiendo como puedo "comprar" todos los viajes de los 7 días para que queden vinculados cada uno en el pase de las dos personas que somos.Tengo que vincular cada viaje después de haber terminado cada trayecto? 

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EN 476/407 Deluxe Single Reservation

Q: Can I use my Interrail 2nd class Global Pass to book a deluxe single sleeper cabin on CD? I’d like to use my 2nd class pass to reserve a single deluxe cabin on two routes (Budapest-Krakow & Warsaw-Prague). CD has an easy process, and for both it does assign a single deluxe, *but* going through the ‘Document terms and conditions’, it says:“Compartments in sleeper carriages are divided into so-called “Economy”, where a 2nd class ticket is required for all types of compartments (Triple, Double, Single and possibly connected Family compartments), and so-called “Deluxe”, where a 1st class ticket is required for all types of compartments. For use of a berth of the category Single (a compartment with one bed), it is necessary to present a travel document issued for 1st class travel.”CD giving me the option to book a deluxe single with specified 2nd class IR seems to contradict the Ts&Cs. Man in Seat 61 does not specify (as he does for all other night train options) for the Czech si

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Julian Kraus-PolkRail rookie
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standby tickets brussels to london

Is it possible / common to be able to get a standby ticket on Eurostar train (Brussels to London) the night before my current train ticket? 

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StephenttttatatatatatatatatataRail rookie
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travel in home country with global pass

hi, i’m travelling from the UK to Europe using a global pass. can i make multiple journeys in my home country using the pass? the website is ambiguous - it says i can only make two journeys - one in, one out - but i can have ‘multiple train transfers’. Does this mean i can travel from any location to London then get the eurostar as long as it is on the same travel day?And the same on return i assume?

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The Bergen Line - seat + carriage recommendation

Hey everyone!I'm planning to travel with The Bergen Line from Bergen to Oslo soon.Which seats would you recommend, based on the side?Are there any advantages in certain carriages (cars 4, 7, and 8 are still available).Thank you for your help! :)✌

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MikaelaNew aboard
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Seat reservations

I’m forever grateful for all the help I’ve gotten from you users today, and since you know so much, I wanted to ask you a few more questions. These are regarding the seat reservations as well. You told me that it is not possible to buy seat reservations fore some regional trains, are these included?: Chur - zeurich Hb (19.11-20.48 11 July 2025), berlin Hbf - Magdeburg Hbg (0.44-02.37 13 July 2025) (I have been told that this is a regional train), Magdeburg Hbf - Uelzen (04.47-06.41 13 July 2025), Uelzen - Hamburg Hbf (07.04 - 08.03 13 July 2025), Fredericia - Slagelse (12.15 - 14.10 13 July 2025) Also please tell me if you think it’s stupid that we sometimes only have 20 minutes in between arrival and departure. We struggled to find other alternatives that would cost us many more hours.

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