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YorksJamboRail rookie

posted in Train connections & reservations

Question re: reservations in particular sleeper train bookings for group of 4

Hi all We are looking at buying 4 Interrail passes to travel in the summer as a family. I have some questions in regards to reservations: How do we best make them on trains to ensure we are sat together? In particular we are looking at a couple of sleeper trains and need to book 2 x double sleepers so obviously need to be together as two pairs for that? In order to create a ticket on the app do we have to have a reservation linked to it somehow or can we just add the journeys/trips and do the reservation separately and show that in conjunction with the QR code the app generates? Thank you If you make them together, the 4 seats will be close togeter or in a bay of four. On some railway company websites, you can choose the seats (see link below): Depends on which sleeper and what category. At which sleepers you’re looking at? For families of 4 a couchette is ideal. Again, if you make reservations for 4 persons together, you’ll be next to or very close to each other. Reservatio

3 months ago

Lee ting yiRight on track

asked in Travelling by train

germany strike

Check www.bahn.com for alternatives, you might get be able to get there with the few regional trains that are running there. Or check Flixbus, maybe BlaBlaCar or Regiojet buses, to continue your journey by bus (not included in the pass). I suspect these will be very much in demand with this huge strike. Not sure what the strike compensation/alternatives are in Germany, someone else might know better.

3 months ago

Alex1351Right on track

posted in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Best Pass suitable for my travel plan and how to buy it

The Eurail pass covers most trains in Europe, about 97% percent of all trains. The pass works by companies. If a company participates, you can take almost all trains of them (few exceptions). Only a few private operators, and some touristic mountain railways are not included.Your intercity travel will be covered. (Intercity or IC is also a train category you’ll come across a lot in your travels 😀).Intracity travel or city transport (city bus, tram, metro, Parisian RER) are not covered. Suburban rail however (like London Overground, London Elizabeth Line, German S-bahn,...) are covered. But usually not worth a pass day, as tickets are very cheap (only a few Euro’s usually, even cheaper for young kids).So, which pass to choose?You should count not your travels as such, but your travel days (all the days on which you could potentially take a train). In your case I would doubt between a 15 day flexi pass (usable in two months) or a monthly continuous pass. With this flexi 15 day pass you

3 months ago

Nakoon_CRail rookie

asked in Train connections & reservations

zoomschwortzRight on track

asked in Train connections & reservations

Mannheim to Caen, Eurail Global Pass, on Friday in May??? Never Traveled By Train before.

Mannheim - Paris would be 20,5 USD (+/- 18 EUR). So the Paris Caen stretch is included in the 22 USD (19,7 EUR), as it’s about 1,5 USD / 1,7 EUR for the TER Nomad.

3 months ago

chazbon0New aboard

asked in Travelling by train

Interrailing with a Bicycle

I guess it’s not easy to travel with E-bike, right? It works the same as with ordinary bikes, I refer to the link I placed above.E-bikes are a bit heavier. If you’re in good shape, and don’t mind the occasional heavy lifting if you encounter an older train in a station with low platforms, it shouldn’t be a problem.You should be able to load your batteries, when there are plugs on the train (more and more).The biggest stations are usually accesible.

3 months ago

Dylan CobbanRail rookie

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Euro 2024 Interrail Pass

I seem to be able to acces the booking page, with the discounted football passes.Maybe try another browser?

3 months ago

KlinzoRight on track

asked in Train connections & reservations

Reservierung ohne Sitzplatzauswahl

Die Interrail Reservationswebsite ist etwa limitiert. Es gibt auch noch andere Buchungsmöglichkeiten.Für welchen Zug und an welchem Tag möchten Sie eine Reservierung vornehmen?

3 months ago

ShwetahargreavesRight on track

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

What counts as a day if i am using my pass to do local travel in Switzerland?

Yes, counts as one day. On a travel day, you can take as much trains as you want. Even if you do 20 times the same route, no problem. 😉 As long as you register each train you take.

3 months ago

RobsueFull steam ahead

asked in Train connections & reservations

Is this correct or am I booking too early?

Ah yes, the Rail Europe websites gives the price of the two classes. 58 is second class, 78 EUR is indeed the correct option for 1st class seat reservations for that route. (€39 eur each)

3 months ago

RobsueFull steam ahead

asked in Train connections & reservations

Is this correct or am I booking too early?

That’s because it’s a TGV Lyria, which has ridiculously expensive reservation fees.I’m also a bit confused with the two different prices when you selected a 1st class pass. Lemme check, I’ll come back to you in a moment.Cheap Alternatives:Best avoid this train, take ordinary IC’s to Basel, switch in Basel for a TER to Mulhouse, from which you can take a TGV to Dijon for an acceptable reservation feeWould look something like this.

3 months ago

Matthew ClarkNew aboard

asked in Ask the community

Do I need to make seat reservations with my Eurail 1st Class Global Pass?

You’ve picked the routes with the most expensive (and limited) reservations. All of the aforementioned routes come with an extra cost.Make sure to get your Eurostar reservation (London-Paris) as soon as possible.

3 months ago

MirreNew aboard

asked in Routes & destinations

Help us with our route

You already have quite a good circular route with good locations. Please bear in mind that there are the Olympics (26/07-11/08) in Paris, which might limit availability of the trains in France in that period (very reservation heavy country France, as is Spain.).For the rest it depends a bit on how long you’lld like to stay at each please. Usually less distinations, is more to fully appreciate others ;) Maybe a bit city heavy, you might fancy a more natural and quiet environment at some point?I’lld recommend to visit slighter smaller cities in France, if you’re travelling during the Olympics. Like Dijon, Avignon, Nîmes, Montpellier, Perpignan (and surroundings) to visit as well. Could be an alternative for Paris, with the busy (and expensive) Olympics going on?But when asking suggestions, you’ll get as much different opinions as there are people 😉

3 months ago

carlos79Rail rookie

asked in Ask the community

Global pass travel within home country

Each Interrail pass gives you the right to travel for two days during the validity of your pass in your home country. Most people use it to cross the border (the so called inbound/outbound days.)There are some tests ongoing for some more days.Use it wisely and use those days for the routes which would be the most expensive with ordinary tickets.After using those inbound/outbound days, you need ordinary tickets to travel in your home country.

3 months ago

malorin83Keeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Do couchette/sleeper car reservations become available at a diff date than 180 days beforehand?

European sleeper is probably a good alternative, but it leaves at 18h00 and arrives in Berlin a bit before 23h00. So not really worth the couchette (if it’s bookable at all, didn’t try it. As it’s a new connection from starting the end of March).If your plan is to go out in Prague, you can better stay the night and take day trains the day after in stead.

3 months ago

emmaruaroNew aboard

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Confirmation flex pass

Sometimes it can just take a bit of time until you get the confirmation mail, but not much longer than a half hour.

3 months ago

Benjaporn OvaRail rookie

asked in Ask the community

group travel eurail pass

I’m not 100% sure what your question is.Every traveller needs a valid ticket = the pass. Each train you plan to take, should be registered in the app. So every person needs to do it.What you can do is that one of you makes a (preliminary) itinerary in the tab “My Trip” a couple of weeks before your travels, share it as a link, and provide it to every one travelling in your group. (The three dots in the upper right corner).It is not synchronised for that group though, so last minute changes of trains in the app of the person that shared the link, won’t come through. Every group member should make the change for him or herself then (or one person, and provide a new link again).

4 months ago

SkfjsiksnshNew aboard

asked in Ask the community

Why can`t i find a train on SNCF site that available in this website?

You can reserve these trains here as well: https://travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWishIf the Eurail planner shouldn’t work as intended. Still a lot of availability, no worries.

4 months ago

dsagoNew aboard

asked in Ask the community

Travel locations?

Further tip, best use www.bahn.com to find your theoretical journey times between your destination. In the planner of Deutsche Bahn, almost European timetables are included and it’s frequently updated.Don’t hesitate to ask here if further questions arise during your planning.

4 months ago

Pranali BhansaliRail rookie

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

What is an economical means to cover the following cities during our euro visit. we are three adults

Are you going to visit those cities in the aforementioned order? I would start in Amsterdam, go to Paris and then to Switzerland. Or did you book flights already? Where do you land/will leave from? The Eurail pass works with travel days. On each travel day, you can take as much trains as you want. Usually the more travel days you have, the cheaper it is per day.You have flexi passes (use x travel days during month/2 months/ 3 months) and continuous passes (15 days/month/ 2 months/ 3 months of consecutive travel days) Then I only count two big travel days: Rotterdam - Paris and Paris - Switzerland.Paris-Versailles not included in the pass, but isn't expensive anyway. Price of a short RER ride. Rotterdam - Amsterdam might be bought as separate tickets, but depends on the total amount of days you'll need. Two options: the direct high speed trains with high reservation cost, or slight detours or extra changes to minimise reservation cost (Paris-Lille via TGV and then -Antwerpen-Amsterdam

4 months ago

sn3010Rail rookie

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Eurostar unabe to reserve seats from Amsterdam to Antwerp

Yes indeed, these trains can be busy during weekends, holidays and school holidays in either Belgium or the Netherlands. Between Rotterdam and Antwerp usually the busiest. But as @Schelte said, no problem at all feom A'dam at that time. Same counts for the IC Antwerp Bruges, busy during rush hour in the morning (7-9) and evening peak.(16-18), otherwise plenty of seats and you shouldn't have an issue finding seats.

4 months ago

LindsayIreneRail rookie

asked in Ask the community

Short Trip - No reservations Available

@LindsayIrene, just a tip from a local:There are direct trains from Antwerp to Bruges, leaving every hour at +/- xxh06 in Antwerp Central and at +/- xxh12 in Antwerp Berchem. A bit annoying if you come from Amsterdam with the IC, you just miss the direct one.If you want the direct Antwerp-Bruges, step out in Antwerp Central, not Berchem, marvel at the impressive station and enjoy a drink in the station while waiting for the train (Café Royal for example)If you have a lot of luggage I don’t recommend changes in Gent-Sint-Pieters for now, it’s in total renovation and tricky if you have a lot of luggage with all the temporary stairs.Waiting in Antwerp to go to Bruges, or continuing to Brussels and changing to Bruges there, takes about the same time.

4 months ago

RobsueFull steam ahead

asked in Ask the community

Fees to change a reservation

You can’t book seat reservations on ÖBB (Austrian Railways) for the SNCF (French railways). European unification brought us a lot, but not a quick and easy way to reserve seats on a train alas.Use https://travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWish to resreve from Dijon to Mulhouse, and use the frequent, non-reservable local trains to Basel, from which you can hop on about every train to almost everywhere in Switzerland without seat reservation. (And it will save you a very expensive seat reservation on TGV Lyria)You can find alternative and cheaper ways to reserve seats on this community page:If you’re still confused, tell us the exact date, time, destination and for how many persons you’re trying to make seat reservations. You’ll have an answer in no time.It all might seem complicated at first, but once you get the hang of it when you’re in Europe, I’m sure it’ll all go smoothly.

3 months ago

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