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Hi,I am travelling from Nice Ville To Zürich Main Station via Paris Gare de Lyon and have two options for the transfer time, one is 29 Minutes and the other is 2 Hrs and 29 Minutes. The question I haveis 29 Minutes enough if you have the arrival TGV from Nice is in a different hall as the the departing oneto Zürich?Thanks and Regards,Horst

https://eurail.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/articles/12062295336093-San-Sebastian-Bilbao-BordeauxHas anyone booked this successfully using Eurail Global Pass? I am hoping to travel in the opposite direction - Bordeaux-Bilbao-San Sebastian, but all routes take me a very long way via Barcelona. The Eurail website advises this is being updated, but wondering if anyone has travel this route successfully? Did you have to book this part of the journey via SNCF website instead?Any help appreciated. Thank you.   

I am purchasing global passes for my family, we are traveling in June. Can I buy them now, and then our start date is just whenever we first use them? Or do I indicate somewhere what our first travel day will be with the passes? 

Hello everyone, when I planned the journey Amsterdam - Brussels - Luxembourg - Paris - Lucern - Chur - Tirano - Milan - Verona - Venice - Vienne, there were 10 segments that are in accordance with 10 travel days, I guest. Why did the Eurail website calculate 11 days of travel?

Dear interrail community,To be sure:If at one point (before activation) we would decide to annulate our global pass:can get a refund in money or is it in a refund in a kind of Interrail voucher for future Interrail purchases?thanks!Toon

I am traveling 2 days and selected the trains I want to take. They nicely show up in My trip. I did the seat booking through https://www.raileurope.com 1) because the yellow wheel in the interrail app kept spinning and ii) its is cheaper and you have control of the seat. Handy, because I am traveling with a bike.Now I am curious/uncertain whether my trains are actually booked. On certain trains where the booking of seats is mandatory I used the above website. How can I test the generation of a QR code for a travel day. The pass is active from 17 April 2025 and the trains in My trip are for 17 and 18 April. I had a look at the tutorial on YouTube but that is not so useful. 

Hi, I want to make seat reservations for TGV from Nice to Paris and Paris to Zürich, I am travelling on 7. July.I have a EURRAIL Pass and my questions areWhat is the earliest I can make the reservation?Thanks and Regards,Horst

Hello there!I plan to travel to Scotland this summer with my girlfriend. We’re about to make a seat reservation for the Eurostar. Is there a way to be seated next to each other or not? Thank you for your help!

I am having no luck booking seats.We are travelling to 5 different countries and I am trying to pre plan.I have my pass in the system and my trips planned.I checked and it shows that seats can be booked 150 days before the trip(from Barcelona-Sants to Paris.The trip is in May and it will not let me book seats I trying to be proactive as it says limited seats for pass holders and this train sells outJust looking for a little guidance from this amazing community.Much thanks from this confused Canadian.

Hi,I’m trying to figure out an itinerary to travel from UK through France & Spain to Morocco on the Tarifa-Tangier ferry in January - I read that Man in Seat 61 highly recommends this route. However having got as far as finding trains as far as Antequera-Santa Ana (using seat61’s suggested itineraries) I’ve now got rather stuck. I’ve not found any departures at suitable times from Antequera to Algeciras, looking on the interrail planner, renfe.com and raileurope.com so I’ve no idea whether the itinerary is feasible, so daren’t book anything yet. I’ve a few questions…Is it too soon to expect train times on this route to be published? There seems to be one train time published on the route but at a totally unsuitable time - the one mentioned by seat61 doesn’t appear, although if I look at dates in December there are far more trains.According to seat61, the Antequera to Algeciras trains are Media Distancia. Do these require seat reservations?And finally,

Does anyone have any recommendations for apps for train travel in Spain, France and Italy? 

My journey is split in 2 days although it is same day. I’m going from Avignon to Paris and directly Paris to London.

Hello,I would like to make a reservation for a sleeping compartment for a couple (male and female) in the SJ night train from Hamburg to Stockholm.Following instructions from a previous topic discussion, I manage to add my Interrail number pass through SJ company booking website, but I can either : Book “bed in sleeping compartment” and have to choose between Men or Women compartment for 1,660 SEK (Interrail fare) Book “private sleeping compartment” for 3,710 SEK (it looks that the Interrail fare doesn’t apply)By selecting OPTION 1, can my partner and I be in the same compartment or does it mean I have to book a private compartment (without Interrail fare) for my partner and I to be in a gender-mixed cabin ? Thank you for your help !

We (2 adults and 1 Youth) will be traveling to Rome in July 2025 and want to take a train to Germany, Austria, or some other destination to spend a couple of days then travel back to Rome for the last day of our vacation.  I need help on how to go about this.  Do I need a Eurail Pass or can I simply book passage by train? Are there restrictions or hurdles I need to jump to travel between countries in Europe?

Why can’t I book optional seat reservations on the eurail app

For some reason I am unable to do a bike reservation for trains crossing the Alps. For example EC67 from Bazel SBB to Milano.  DB (also app)  say that price is unknown. With Trenitalia it is not possible to reserve for a bike without a personal ticket. Any experience in this? How to communicate with Trenitalia (I already did) that I do not need an additional personal ticket. Btw, does the 3,5 euro ticket one can buy with a Trenitalia ticket guarantee a place on the train for by bike?Many thanks for your time!

how can book a train if it shows "you're ready to board"?everyone tells me  if  i added the trip on my passthen just take the train without a reservation,though the ticket with the seat reservation is shown,but the ticket without the seat reservation is not shown.then how can i added "ready to board trip" on my pass

Bonjour,Ce sera notre première utilisation d’un pass interail et d’un train de nuit.Nous souhaitons aller de Milan (après une journée de trains déjà depuis Bruxelles), vers la Sicile (on doit encore voir si on va jusqu’à Syracus, Palerme ou Messine).La date étant fin avril, la réservation n’est pas encore possible sur Trenitalia, mais est-ce qu’il faut réserver les couchettes via interrail (43 €/couchette), ou peut-on le faire via Trenitalia justement pour moins cher ?Nous sommes 2 adultes et 3 enfants, dont la plus jeune à 4 ans, du coup on prévoit de voyager dans une cabine de 4. Peut-on réserver pour 4 couchettes uniquement ?Merci pour vos retours,Joachim

I don’t really understand how travel days work and which trains I can take. For example if I take a night train anywhere before midnight from the country I’m departing I’m still under 1 travel day?. Also how would I know what trains to take when departing? (Cause I’m trying to start the destination from gothenburg to berlin but unaware how to actually start it) Any tips?

Hello, I would like to do a trip with the following destinations.Home (inside Germany) Hamburg Stockholm AbiskoMy plan would be to travel to Hamburg and from there to use the nighttrain to Stockholm on the same day. In the next stage I would travel from Stockholm to Abisko using another nighttrain. My problem is that I find the rules regarding the travel inside the home country quite confusing.The frequently asked questions states that you are allow to take 2 rides, one to leave and one to return to the home county. Meanwhile here on the community discussions I hear a lot of people talk about 2 travel days. So am I allowed to take multiple trains from my local train station to leave the country? If it is indeed 2 travel days to leave the country and return back home, are the a part of the travel days mentioned on the pass or additional. Another que

Cómo se que asiento debo tomar si no hice reserva?

Hello!We’d like to travel with the night train from Paris to Cerbère (or actually Collioure). However, I wonder if anyone has any info on the days of operation of this service in the end of June. I’ve read that these trains operate on a daily basis during “the summer”, but that is a bit to vague for me at the moment :-) If not daily, do you know which days these trains run? Perhaps - the planning for the summer is not yet presented/fixed, if so - when can I expect to get access to the timetable for June?Our Plan B will probably be to take the night train Paris-Toulouse, and from there a regional direct train. This is a good alternative although we’d prefer the direct train between Paris and Collioure. best regards, Anna    

Hi! I’m planning on traveling in May 2025, and I have two questions.Firstly, there is going to be a timetable change on May 17th. When will the new timetables be released in the app?Secondly, I’ve understood that the interrail planner app isn’t always updated when it comes to changes in departures. Does anybody know the go to sites for looking up live up to date departure times in respectively Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, and the UK? And does anyone have experience with whether or not Google maps has live updates?

This is my first time taking a night train so wanting to be sure I am looking at this correctly.  Planning to take the night train (EN 476 Metropol / 406) from Bratislava to Krakow Glowny in mid April 2025.  Not available to book yet so I tried one less than 60 days out (mid February) to get an idea of the cost.  Departs Bratislava at 21:58 with an hour stop at Breclav (the train number changes but you don’t changes trains).  I entered 2x Adult 65 years and older / Eurail Global Pass in a 2-person sleeper compartment and it returned a price of 1702 CZK, which is about $70 USD.  Was hoping someone who has done this before (using the Czech Railways website) can verify I did this correctly and this is the actual price or if I am missing something.  Thanks in advance.

Hi! I’m planning on traveling in May 2025, and I have two questions.Firstly, there is going to be a timetable change on May 17th. When will the new timetables be released in the app?Secondly, I’ve understood that the interrail planner app isn’t always updated when it comes to changes in departures. Does anybody know the go to sites for looking up live up to date departure times in respectively Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, and the UK? And does anyone have experience with whether or not Google maps has live updates?