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Karen Waddilove
Karen WaddiloveNew aboard
asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes
europe

I’m going to Italy for 2 weeks then Switzerland one week mainly jungfrau and train to Zurich airport. Is eurorrail and jungfrau pass the best price? 

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Christine Baker
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train from verona to venice

I will be there in October.  Right now scheduled to fly home from Verona. Would prefer to fly home from Venice.  What are the fastest choices to travel from Verona via train to Venice?

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Christine Baker
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Karen Aten
Karen AtenNew aboard
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Bikes in sleeper cars?

We will be traveling from Sicily, through Florence to Lake Garda and eventually up to Paris with our mountain bikes.  They are expensive and I do not feel comfortable leaving them in the luggage area.  If we booked a family sleeper car, could we bring the bikes into the room?  Thanks, karen

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10 months ago
RCWill2
RCWill2Rail rookie
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Somewhere in France to Munich - Suggested Route -

Hello,We will have a car and climbing / bouldering in Fontainebleau. Then I need to get to Munich by train. I have 2 days to get to Munich were we fly back to NZ. I can do a one-way car drop off (not expensive either) in Southern France. I was thinking about Dijon, but not sure.Then take a Train to Munich- but I can’t seem to find a route.OR, I could return the car to Paris - but that feels like back tracking.  I read an article about a sleeper / couchettes from Paris to Munich but I can’t find that either.Question: How would get from France to Munich? Could I go Dijon to Zurich to Munich? Thank you!

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anand.jagsRail rookie
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Eurail Global Pass vs Swiss Travel Pass for Europe Trip for a family trip

Hi Community, I need your help to plan train travel plan.We are two family traveling together ( 4 Adults, 2 Seniors, 1 youth, 2 kids) to Europe ( Amsterdam, Paris, Switzerland). Here is the tentative itinerary in May:Day 1: Reach Amsterdam.Day3: Amsterdam to Paris travel.Day5: Paris to Lucerne travelTravel within Swiss. Lucerne to intelaken. use cable cars, boats etc.Day9: Lucerne to Zurich airport. I am confused between buying Eurail ticket vs Swiss travel pass. What would you recommend ? Thanks

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Reservation on EN 345 from Odense to Hamburg

I am planning my summer holiday 2024. I am buying an interrail ticket and will travel from Horsens in Denmark to Pau in the south of France. The date has not been set yet, but it might be 22/7-2024.I have used German bahn.de to plan the journey. As a part of the journey it suggests that I take SJ's EN 345 from Odense at 01.46 to Hamburg at 06.00.This journey requires a reservation, which is not yet on sale. And Deutche Bahn does not sell tickets for SJ's trains at all.But to check the possibility of buying a seat ticket for EN345, I have searched SJ.se on a random date in the near future. But I am told that the departure is sold out. This apparently applies to all scheduled departures from 3/2-24 to 9/4-2024.Instead, I tried to search for the departure from Copenhagen Airport at 00.10 (or an earlier station in Sweden) to Hamburg at 06.00. Here it is possible to buy a ticket. But I would prefer to avoid traveling all the way from from Horsens (In Jutland) to Copenhagen and then back in

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Getting from Basel, Switzerland to Paris

Hi, I’m new to using the Eurail and am planning a trip across Europe. Last week when looking at train times from Basel, Switzerland to Paris on June 17 I noticed some train options that took less than 6 hours to get back to Paris. Today, when I went to make a reservation I found that the same reservation will take over 15 hours. Is the timing too early to look at this or did seats book up that fast? Seems like with an Eurail pass it would be easier to make these reservations but now I’m not so sure.Sincerely,Brock

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Luis brazNew aboard
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pass?

Ola tenho uma questão um grupo de amigos ganharam o passe o ano passo um grupo de 5 , eu quero comprar o passe de maneira a ir com eles no entando tenho a duvida se para fzr reserva nos mesmos comboios que eles?

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foxtrot1972Rail rookie
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Outward Journey

I’m finding the app. / website is very confusing to use. Our initial international trip is London to Amsterdam and the app. has defaulted to that being an outward journey but first we need to get from home to London which is an entirely UK based trip … which I don’t appear to be able to book. How do I do this? We won’t need a reservation for the journey so is it okay to just turn up and show our pass QR code, i.e. does every train just accept that as a valid ticket when no reservation is required?

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NatDuncanRail rookie
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adding our nitghtjet Trips to the Eurail app

Does anyone know why I can’t add our two night jet trips to the app it just won’t let me add them.  

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Susan PhoenixRail rookie
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Rail Europe and Rail Planner interface?

Hello, Community!I am fairly far along in planning a family trip to England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.We have Eurail Global Passes. I have successfully made seat reservations using Rail Europe for journeys between London and Paris, Paris and Bayeux, Bayeux and Paris, Paris and Brussels, Brussels and Cologne.I have two questions.One, how do I add these train rides I have seat reservations for as journeys to My Trip on Rail Planner?Two, How do I book all the other non-seat-reservation journeys? Do I need to go through the individual railways? I’ve looked at getting tickets on the Great Western Railway in England, for example, but I don’t see any way to have the cost of the ticket be covered by my pass.Thank you for sharing your experience and insight with someone new to this adventure!Susan

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Ronnie MRight on track
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Trying to reserve seats

Hi. I bought a mobile global pass in the November sale from the myinterrail website. I’m trying to make some seat reservations on Eurostar through this site and although I’ve created an account, I can’t make a reservation. It’s saying I need to be logged in, which I am. Do I need to create a trip first on this website to be able to book reservations? I can’t see how to add my pass. Will anything I book on here link with my Railplanner app? Any help gratefully appreciated! (I don’t want to make the payments on my phone via the app) Thank you

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Eleonoram
EleonoramNew aboard
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Unable to book seats Marseille to Madrid April 23

Hi everyoneI’m trying to book seats for the train from Marseille to Madrid on 23 April at 08:04 but interrail website says I cannot do it on the website. I live in Italy and am travelling with a friend so we’d like to book seats at the same time to be together. Before the login interrail website gave it available to book, but then it isn’t. I’m not going to be in Marseille before the 21 April so I should book it in advance, but how?Can I do this in Italy? Or can I do it over the phone with a train company?Thank you!Eleonora

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Can I ride trains for below journeys on my Eurail Global Pass?

Hi, I’m planning to take a trip to Europe and wanted to ask if I can use Eurail Global Pass on 4 non-consecutive days for all the routes below.Day 1. London (King’s Cross station) <<< --- >>> OxfordDay 2 London (King’s Cross station) >>> Amsterdam (Central Station) by Eurostar,Day 3 Amsterdam (Central Station) >>> Frankfurt (Main) HbfDay 4 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf >>> Frankfurt (Main) airportOn Day 1, which train can I ride on my Eurail Global Pass? If I cannot take local UK trains, which train tickets should I buy for this?On Day 3, can I ride ICE on my Eurail Global Pass? If not, which train can I ride on Eurail Global Pass?On Day 4, which train can I ride on Eurail Global Pass? Thank you very much for your help.

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Roos2003Rail rookie
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Train to Aberystwyth

Hello everyone! This upcoming summer I'm going to travel to Aberystwyth in Wales. I want to this by train, because I've always wanted to make such a train journey and I've never visited the UK, outside of London, so I want to enjoy the landscapes a bit more too.It's me first ever train journey, so I've a question.If I buy the Interrail Great Britain Pass, is it allowed to get on the train from Birmingham to Aberystwyth? And do I need to make a reservation for that, or can I just hop on the train? Already thank you for replying. 

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BNW99New aboard
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First time user looking for advice re seat reservations in Spain.

Hi. Did a search but couldn’t find an answer. Just bought 1st Interrail pass and planning trip from UK to France & Spain. Made seat reservations online OK for initial UK / France part of holiday. However, can’t make seat reservations online for Spanish part of holiday. We are travelling to 7 Spanish cities and booking accommodation so need to be sure we can reserve train seats / tickets. Can we do this in advance in the UK before we leave or only when we arrive in Spain which seems a bit risky as we will have already booked accommodation? Please advise the best way to do this. many thanks in advance.

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Seat reservation Rotterdam - Barcelona

I bought an Interrail global pass (for my 4-person family) to travel from Rotterdam to Barcelona by train. However it now seems to me that it is impossible to make the seat reservations on the dates we want to travel.I use https://www.raileurope.com/en to plan for the full trip or for the trip in parts. However it repeats to says that “rail pass doesn't apply for this trip".Does this mean that I cannot make the trip on the date that I wanted to?This would mean that I cannot use the Interrail card and I have bought it for nothing?Anyone who can help me out to find a way to travel from Rotterdam to Barcelona on April 28th or April 29th?

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Josef Waldner
Josef WaldnerRail rookie
asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes
Mehrmalige Ein- und Ausreise

Kann man mit einem "Interrail-4-tagespass in einem monat" (für ein bestimmtes land) öfters in das jeweilige Land ein-  und ausreisen, oder darf man nur einmal ein-, und einmal ausreisen? 

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Global Pass 4 days - reserve spots in May and 1st - second class from Amsterdam to Barcelona

We are planning to travel in May some days from The Netherlands to Paris to Barcelona and back.We can't seem to find what is the most handiest way to travelWe don't see much difference with 1st and 2nd class? Probably for such long er trips there will always come a space available, so is it really neccesary to reserve spots? Would a 4 days pass be enough to do our travel?

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HelenCRail rookie
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Can I start travelling after the activation date?

I have the 10 days in 2 months promo pass, and the last Activation date is June 1st. (and the last day of travel is July 31st).  I would prefer to use my travel days in late June / early July. Is there any way to activate the pass for June 1st, but not have the first travel day until mid June? Or would I have to ‘sacrifice’ one of my 10 days to show a (fake) journey on 1st June?  

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ÖBB Nightjet – booking how long in advance ? 90 days or… ?

Hi Interrailers (and hopefully Interrail customer service)Not a happy bunny – been planning a trip starting in May (10 days, theoretically over 2 months) and most of the planning hinges on the Nightjet from Paris to Berlin (or Vienna).The Eurail/Interrail app clearly states, in red letters, “Prices for this journey will start to be available 90 days before departure”.OK, so i checked out the departure on 27 April, to see what changed when the date came within that 90-day window. At midnight plus one nanosecond, then every few minutes.No prices available.So i checked on the ÖBB Nightjet website and what do i see? “Seats can usually be booked 180 days in advance”. And indeed when you try their booking engine, it allows you to specify any date 180 days from now.Result: there is zero availability from May onwards. Zero.If it weren’t for the notice in red letters on the Eurail/Interrail app i might have had a chance of getting a Nightjet reservation to somewhere. As it stands, hours and hou

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AhadoRight on track
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Tight connection at Strasbourg

End of March I’m on a fast trip to southern Italy. One possible route takes the Inoui 2369 from Paris Gare de l’Est to Strasbourg and then connects to the TER 96225 down to Basel but this only gives a14 min connection time (at 15:40 on a Wed afternoon). The INOUI are pretty prompt but I’m not familiar with Strasbourg statation. Is this too tight? There are no later trains if I take this route! 

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Ray Fuller
Ray FullerRail rookie
asked in Travelling by train
14 Day in Florence

We will be based in Florence, Italy for 14 days and want to go to a few other cities for a day or two. Thinking about Vienna, Venice and Paris or Munich.  We want to know the best way to get to them by train. 

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Hektor
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JoieKeeps calm and carries on
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Frankfurt, Germany

We will be flying into Frankfurt 7/6/2024next day to Paristhen on to Florence And final place Romewhat would be the best way to  travel Thank you

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Hektor
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UkoRail rookie
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Mistake in eurostar reservation on SNCB

Hello, I want to ask you about a reservation on SNCB international.I made a reservation of 2nd class seat as eurail pass holder on SNCB international. Although I have a 2nd class pass, I mistakenly chose 1st class pass holder. I think it isn’t so serious problem because I’m a 2nd pass holder and I bought a 2nd class seat. However, I want to make sure it’s okay or not. 

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