LNER website/app allows you to make free reservations but only on LNER trains.on www.gwr.com by making an account you can reserve for free on any train operator that offers them.Or as you live in UK you can just go to a ticket office, show them your tickets/passes and get the reservations for free there.You will still have to wait for the train to be opened to reservations, dates for this vary by operator and weekends can often be unavailable long after weekdays are released.
Yes, a pass will allow you to travel between all those places but it is not of use for travelling within cities so you should plan your trip and calculate when you will need to travel between different cities to see how many days pass you would benefit from.
How many other days have you used in your home country?You are only allowed 2, once used you can no longer use the pass on any train within or from/to your country.
There is no such thing as a EuroRail line.Passes are valid on (nearly) all trains run by the participating operators. Some with full validity, others with requirements for mandatory reservations on some trains.List here https://www.interrail.eu/en/plan-your-trip/tips-and-tricks/trains-europe/railway-companiesAll the locations you mention are served.This map gives just a summary of the main routes and places served, it is far from complete as the network in many countries is far too dense to be shown.https://www.eurail.com/content/dam/pdfs/Eurail_map_2022%20RGB.pdf
Eurostar trains Brussels - Koln require reservations, DB ICE and other connections do not.
You are too early, schedules are not available for those dates yet.Just look at the schedule for a date closer, the general service pattern will be very similar. There are numerous IC and FA/FB/FR trains requiring reservations as well as non reservation connections, mostly by changing at La Spezia Centrale.
The same site also provides Swiss-Italy and Italian reservations.See this comprehensive guide to pass reservations for more details.https://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm
You are too early for reservations for that date, they are currently only available up to the end of March, check back in a few weeks. Trains do not generally sell out far in advance, many will still have availability on the day of travel. There are no direct trains Paris - Lucerne, you will have to change at least once.Only the TGV from Paris needs reserving.You have 2 options;The cheapest is to reserve Paris - Strasbourg or Paris - Mulhouse Ville, this will cost €10 or €20 per person (there are limited €10 reservations, once gone it is €20 until the train is full)From that you connect to an unreservable train to Basel SBB and Swiss train to Lucerne.More expensive is Paris to Basel SBB, reservation is €39 per person, change there for Swiss train to Lucerne.Reservations on some Swiss trains are possible but they are not necessary and most passengers do not make them.Best place for French reservations is now https://www.raileurope.com/en they do not charge a booking fee.
It is too early, the trains aren’t in the timetable yet.It is safe to assume that schedules will be very similar to now.The eurail app is not the best tool to use for planning, use bahn.com, DB app, and local operators websites/apps which will all be more accurate and reliable than eurail.
As long as you have a valid ticket (Eurail pass, correctly set-up) and compulsory reservation if required for that train then you won’t have anything to worry about.See this page for how to set up and use the pass.https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/interrail-mobile-pass/getting-started
To/from UK (except to Ireland) has full immigration checks before boarding and minimum check-in times.West/Central Europe is in the Schengen zone and has no fixed borders although spot checks can be done, there is no pre-boarding formalities and trains can be accessed up until just before departure.
At times of very high demand DB do enforce reservations and remove people without from overcrowded trains.
It would help if you said which country/railway/train you are referring to.Some railways use the term Business class as well as or instead of 1st class, a small number do have 3 classes of accommodation with 1st sometimes being the top or the middle tier.If you booked the reservation through eurail it is most likely in the correct seats.
What is “ Eurail Pass Agency “?Please provide a link.
There aren’t quotas as such.Passholder reservations are available until the general fares reach their highest 2 or 3 fare brackets, at which point no passholder reservations are bookable on that train.The fare bracket prices remain fixed but they can and do vary how many seats are available to each band based on expected demand. Edit: This is the arrangement for Eurostar to/from UK, for ex-Thalys Eurostar services it is a variable quota that they set for passholders.
No. You will have to pay separately from Brussels Airport to Brussels Midi or Liege-Guillemins.From either of these you can use your pass on the DB ICE trains to Cologne.
There is no all inclusive map for Eurail validity, the PDF map linked that they provide gives an overview but is nowhere near the full network of validity and also contains some routes that have no current service.https://www.interrail.eu/content/dam/pdfs/Interrail%20map%202022.pdf In general validity is based on the operators, passes are valid on (nearly) all services run by participating train companies.https://www.interrail.eu/en/plan-your-trip/tips-and-tricks/trains-europe/railway-companiesIn Spain this is everything run by RENFE except their low cost Avlo brand as well as some but not all commuter/regional (cercanias) networks, including Rodalies Catalunya and Feve but not Euskotren. Spain is not the easiest for short notice travel as the majority of RENFE trans require reservations so you should bear this in mind when planning your trip.
There is a small passholder quota on the Eurostar Red services unfortunately. In general the advice for passholders on that route is to use the hourly IC direct service which has no reservations required. A note shows on the planner about a supplement being required for these but that is not correct, there is no additional charge on top of the pass.Times for Amsterdam - Antwerp are 07.28-09.16, 08.28-10.16 and hourly.
There’s no harm in waiting to see if there’s a promotion. You can buy the pass on the day you will depart, and activate it straight away. (Although I might do it the day before!) That’s what i thought but as I need to reserve 4 people on Eurostar I need the pass before I do this - is that right - can I reserve seats before I actually have the pass? Thank you and Merry Christmas/festive season! You can book passholder reservations on Eurostar before you buy the pass here https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish
As you live in France the easiest way would be to go to a SNCF station with a ticket office if you can get to one.
You can’t book the first part as it is a Regional train without seat booking facilities.
There are some oddities showing up, for example on Frecce it only offers selection for seats in the small Silent Area or the Business Lounge for 1st class, not the larger regular Business section.
I’m unable to search on mobile (iOS, Safari or Chrome), Anyone else? Works find on Safari in Mac. App and mobile site do not have the pass option, only the desktop version of the website.
You are massively overthinking this and stressing yourself out unnecessarily.The majority of trains do not run 100% full and there is zero chance a random IC train in Italy will be fully booked out 4 months in advance.Just to illustrate the point, that train today, in 10 hours from now, the last Friday before Christmas, is still available to book and is about 75% empty in 1st class.It also has availability every day between now and the new year and every day on the week after that and at that point I stopped looking. There are a few exceptions where trains will potentially book out in advance; night trains with sleeper, couchette and limited seats, a handful of pinch points where the provided service is regularly lower than the demand such as Eurostar to/from Britain and Paris/South France to Barcelona.
The old reliable I11111111 works.
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