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Franzi Lappe
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seat reservation france (e-ticket with pass in paperformat)

Hi,I just booked an one-country pass for france (paperformat) . After that I booked my reservations for the trains, but here it says that those are e-tickets, that I have to download and print. Is that correct or did I make a mistake?

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MoonOpReis
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Problems with booking Eurostar to London

I’m facing problems to book the Eurostar from The Netherlands to London.  interrail shows an availability. I click on it. Put it in the ‘shipping chart’ fill in all my personal details. But it the end: last click: I received the following message : Probeer een alternatieve verbinding te vinden. Het niet beschikbare reisdeel wordt uit je winkelwagentje verwijderd.What’s going wrong?Why does the website does not show available seats only?I’m quite disappointed in my interrail card which seems to be useless to book a ticket to London. Tickets are available, but not for interrail-cards :(

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1 year ago
Patricia Law
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family of 2 adutls and 1 10 year old overnight sleepe

I’m planning to travel between France, Italy and Austria with a family of 3 - 2 adults and 1 child 10 years old. We are looking to sleep comfortably on sleeper with 3 beds. Should we choose 1st class flexi eurail pass or 2nd class? 

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Global Pass same day in and out

Hello everyone, I have a question about my journeys. I have browsed through the forum and I am only getting more confused - so I am putting my question here hoping for some help! I live and study in Switzerland, and I need to take a specific course on Thursday in Paris. So I plan on leaving and returning to Switzerland on the same day. I have bought a global pass, and my current travel plan is: (123 morning 456 afternoon)Zürich to Basel Basel to Strasbourg Strasbourg to Paris Est Paris Est to Strasbourg Strasbourg to Basel Basel to ZürichAgain these all take places in one day! I wonder if my global pass could cover the Zürich-Basel part and Basel-Zürich part? On my app I have selected these yet no outbound and inbound journeys were used so I am quite confused. I am well aware of the Lyria option but I have already purchased above tickets for the following weeks. Any help would be appreciated! best,Askr

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1 year ago
Vineet Thareja
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How to go from Milano P Garibaldi to Milano Centrale

Hi Guys, I will be travelling tomorrow’s from Venice S Lucia Station to Zurich HB with one change at Milano P Garibaldi (10.47 AM)and next train is from Milano Centralle at 11.10 AM.  If any one have idea to reach Milano Centralle in less time from Milano P Garibaldi as we have only 20 mins to reach there. What mode will be best to reach there through walking or by metro??it will be very appreciable if any one suggest us the best way before our tomorrow train. thanksVineet 

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Using your pass in Serbia

Managed to use my pass on the train from Nis to Beograd- conductor scanned the pass no problem even with the journey manually added. Just tried to get the train from Beograd Centar to Novi Sad. Asked at the ticket office in Beograd, "can we use our pass on the 10am train and do we need seat reservations?". After several people in the ticket office we consulted, "we do not know. Ask on the train!". Went to the train doors and asked the lady there, she looked at our pass and the manually added train info and let us on. 10 mins later the ticket inspector comes and refuses to accept our pass and says we need a barcode. She cannot explain how or where we get one from. Anyone know what we should be doing or where we have gone wrong? Many thanks! 

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to Hallstat, Austria

The guide book says there is a Hallstat train station across the lake from Hallstat. Rome2Rio says there is a train to Hallstat. But the Eurail planning app says there is no such trip. Can someone reveal the secret of how to get this into the app? Thanks

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Paper ticket reservation by mail delivery but traveling in 3 days

Hey,I start traveling in 4 days and like to book tickets for a seat reservation in a TGV train. When I tried to book the seat reservation on the interrail website I saw it is only possible to buy a physical ticket which means I must be delivered by postman in 3 days. That's risky.What should I do?

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Trip Lausanne to Interlaken

Hello here :)I am planning my trip between Lausanne and Interlaken, but I found out it is Not in Pass Network.Would you know how can I solve it without paying any further fees?Thank you!Tanvire

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Sue Clark
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OBB Nightjet facilities

HelloIf I book an OBB Nightjet with a 2nd hand pass can you still have access to washing facilities or do you need a 1st class pass for this?  I intend to spend most nights on the train and would need to wash myself and it would be nice to have breakfast as well.Many thanksSue

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11 months ago
Nadine Schneider
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Are two days travel also counted as outbound journey?

Sorry for asking, but I am still not clear about outbound/ inbound journey. I plan to travel from Lindau (Germany) to Stockholm (Sweden) as my outbound journey. The connection I would take is a day train and a night train from Hamburg to Stockholm. My concern is that I will leave Germany by this night train after midnight, which means I will be travelling two days to get out of Germany. As I read in other questions this trip is then counted as outbound AND inbound journey right? Are there any advises to work around this issue (except booking an earlier train)?Thanks for your help!! 

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What is a safe buffer I should allow to change trains ?

My family of 4 (incl 2 teens) are taking the train across borders in Western Europe for the first time in November.  So far, a couple of the journeys we’re researching indicate that 1 or 2 train changes are needed. Some of the routes indicate that we have just 15 mins to change trains at a certain station.  These include :(i) Munich - Lucerne (8 or 12 mins at Zurich)(ii) Lucerne - Dijon (14 or 16mins at Mulhouse Ville) Qn 1 : What is a good buffer we should give ourselves to change trains ? Qn 2 : When encountering such routes, what are the alternatives without prolonging the journey too much ?Qn 3 : What is the most important thing to do (to keep to our schedule closely) if there is a missed connection using (i) the EURail pass, or (ii) single journey ticket ?  Thank you.

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Can't book a seat reservation but it's still showing up in the search?

I’ve tried several times now to book a reservation for a train from Hamburg to Copenhagen on 8th-9th August, leaving just before midnight and arriving just before 7am. The seat is showing up on the search results unlike fully booked seats on other trains where there’s a message that the price is unavailable. I can add the seat to my cart, but at the last page before payment I get an error message. Why can’t I book the seat? Is this a problem with the Interrail website or have all the seats been fully booked? Thank you if someone can help!  

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Santa Claus Express

Hello, I'm a bit stuck. We are flying into Helsinki on the 7th December and we want to catch the Santa Claus express that evening to Rovaniemi. The prices are Eur 49 p.p for a deluxe double sleeper cabin. havent been able to reserve online so I called the Eurarail help line. They can book me in but I'm confused as the prices are Eur 180pp now.Does this sound correct, as it's now cheaper to fly then take the train. 

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Are UK reservations now compulsory on some trains?

Whilst checking a few options recently I have seen some UK trains requiring reservations. The latest was when I was doing a check on a UK planner for the recent question on Holyhead to London. There are a few direct trains operated by Avanti and they clearly say a reservation is required to travel on those trains. I have also seen some LNER trains with the same requirement on the Interrail planner.

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ArtaodRight on track
asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Seat reservation November

Hello, trying to make a seat reservation through Eural site/app for the night trains Vienna - Hamburg-Stockholm-Narvik-Stockholm.Non are avialable. What should i do?

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Jon Miles
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2 people on same eurail ticket with separate ID ?

We activated phone eurail app using my ID but it doesn’t show my wife who is on the same ticket ?   So she activated app on her phone with her ID and created trip reservations but it doesn’t show me.  We purchased eurail ticket together, which shows both of us on the purchase receipt with separate ID. We cannot reach anyone with eurail to explain this… Thank you 

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Mariusz Rusinowski
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Outbound journey from Warsaw to Berlin

My country of origin is Poland and on 13 of August. I'm going to take outbound journey from Warsaw. I bought a seats reservation for a direct train from Warsaw to Berlin. However outbound journey covers travel from my city of origin to a border. How should I fill my travel journal in this case. Last stop in Poland is Rzepin. Should I fill it in as Warsaw - Rzepin and this is my outbound trip? And than first stop in Germany is Frankfurt (Oder). Should the first trip of my first day of actual Intrerrail Pass is Frankfurt to Berlin? How should I cover border crossing from Rzepin to Frankfurt (Oder)?

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Open access and sub contracted operators - a growing problem for Interrailers?

Is the low-cost plane model is coming to a railway near you, to compete with or even replace National operatorsThere are now 2 new competitors to Renfe on main routes in Spain, part operated by Trenitalia and SNCF.SNCF now operate some TGV routes as Second Class only Ouigo brand ( via a shell company I believe).I have read of some trains in Czech Rep (I think) operated by Arriva.Most of us will have seen Italo trains in Italy.And so on…..Many of these are outside the pass network .and offer low cost fares.Many of these are owned at least in part by national operators (SNCF even operate in France as a competitor to itself).Most, if not all, of these do have alternatives in the pass network, but is that enough to keep us interrailing?For Newbies this will cause even more confusion, getting worse not better.For regular interrailers, particularly those who like to go in a free from schedule way, is it an issue that you are finding causes you problems.Or is pay as you go rather than interra

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Ed Carne
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Interrail pass will not allow me to enter journeys

I need help badly as I'm travelling soon. I have a Flexi pass giving me four days' travel. I've made all reservations successfully and loaded the first two days' journeys onto the pass. But the next two days simply will not load. They show under My Trips but will not link with the pass. There is one page of the app which is supposed to let you link with a pass but it only allowed paper passes. There are no error messages showing. I've tried messaging and Facebook - no reply. The phone number given in the app is ‘unobtainable', travel time gets ever closer and I'm desperate. Please could someone help thanks.

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Ed Carne
1 year ago
Joel Bruneski
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asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Eurail Mobile pass

I am trying to purchase a Eurail mobile pass but need some help. I downloaded the app. How do I purchase a ticket. Do I purchase any ticket such as global and then load it into the app?Leaving soon and don’t want to mess it up for our trip. Thanks in advance.

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1 year ago
CaliforniaZephyr
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Booking Eurostar this weekend - seat reservations not available - just turn up?

Hi I’m trying to escape the London heat to Paris and beyond!Specifically I’m trying to book a seat reservation on b-europe and finding almost none, while on Eurostars site they show plenty of availability for new ticketsThe call center is refusing calls and offering a 28 day response period to email inquiriesI stay somewhat outside of London and can’t easily get to the station to ask in personany help greatly appreciated!

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9 months ago
Felix Huang
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Eurostar PNR code

I cannot find the PNR code for eurostar ticket in my email. The email says it can be found under the train details, but I didn't find it.

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Felix Huang
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Train sold out TGV

We wanted to book the train from Paris to Strasbourg on December 22nd at 10.51 but its already sold out 😒 Can you still book at the station on the day ??

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10 months ago
RobertusBr Jorre
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Round trip to Italy- can't find the pass I wanted

I'm inexperienced and would like some information that I didn't find in previous questions. Two weeks ago I saw the prices of a Global pass 3 trips in a month for 110€.Now I want to buy and this pass no longer exists!!!! am i wrong or did i see wrong?Our idea (my son and I) to go from Koblenz (Germany) to Pisa, stay 4 days and return to Koblenz.Then, until the end of the month, take a trip to Belgium and return on the same day, so I thought I would use the 3-day pass for €110My passport is Italian, my son's is German.As the pass no longer exists in the offers, we made a plan through the website and the round trip price (only 2 trips) was more than €370 !!!What am I doing wrong and how do I do it right? What we thought that each day of travel did not change the price of the ticket, is it false?Thank you very much.Roberto

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