Thanks so much both of you. I’ve updated the app — I’m now on 29.1.1 — and after a lot of deleting and re-inputing everything seems to be okay. I have both my Trip and my wife’s Trip on my iPhone and it was duplicating some journeys on my Trip and others on my wife’s. Completely randomly. But now we’ve both got a full set on both Trips. Updating the app was the answer — (although maybe I should reserve judgment until tomorrow...)
Thanks. Didn’t think of checking out Trenitalia. I guess there’s no way of changing seats through them? I reserved them through OEBB.
Thanks, but I’ve looked at seat 61 but the InterCity seat plan looks a bit old and doesn’t seem to cover what I’m looking for.
We managed to reserve seats today for travelling by trains in Sicily but not sure if we’ll be sitting together. We have 1st Class Global passes. From Messina to Siracusa on 6 April at 16.05 we were given seats 13C and 12C in coach 1. On the 10.00 train from Palermo to Messina on 20 April we have 2A and 2C in coach 8, and on the 10.10 train on 21 April from Messina to Sapri we have 2A and 2C in coach 1. I suspect that we’ll be okay with the Messina to Siracusa seats but can anyone tell us if the other seats make any sense? We really don’t want to be sitting on the other side of the aisle from each other.
Thanks. We didn’t have any trouble booking as far as Salerno but it must be the north/south divide that our Italian friends talk about. I was worried that maybe seats were sold out because of Easter.
Started reserving seats with our Global Passes through Austrian Rail (OBB). Apart from annoying problems with logging in — they keep not recognising my email address (or password) even though they use it to send me tickets — it’s worked okay up until today when I tried to reserve seats from Salerno to Sicily for 5 April. Initially I tried Messina but that wouldn’t work so then tried Siracusa and Palermo, but no luck there either. Any suggestions please?
Seewolf wrote:In Case of Italy i recommend to reserve guranteed trains Italy is famous for strikes But Trenitalia have a list of guranteed trains that even runs on strike days Thanks. How do I find this list of guaranteed trains, it sounds really useful.
Good point. The Paris to Milan seat plan doesn’t show the windows. I’d forgotten about that and, as you say, you can end up with just a bit of window. I should have asked about that. As for seat plans, the seat61.com website is really helpful — about lots of things. Go to the Train seat numbering plans page.
Thanks. I phoned SNCF this afternoon, pressed 85 (my iMac doesn’t have a “hash” key) and spoke to a helpful man who spoke excellent English. Managed to select our seats with the aid of the seat plan onscreen in front of me. Cost 90 euros. Having a lie down now before thinking about the rest of our trip.
Many thanks to you all. I’ll try phoning SNCF, but as it’s the weekend might have to wait until Monday. As for strikes, I’ll watch out for that. If it happens then we might have to go up the day before and find a cheap/ish hotel. Or pester some friends.
Thanks. Maybe it’s my age, but I prefer to get all of our train, hotel/airbnb and museum bookings done in advance before we leave so we have an itinerary tightly mapped out. Over the last few years (prior to Covid) our previous trips worked out well, but this year is proving to be extremely taxing. Perhaps I should just get the Paris to Turin train on 23 March sorted out first. Is it true that the only way to reserve the TGV seats is through Interrail? Thanks again.
I’ve tried OBB for travelling by trains in Italy but, although it allowed me to book reservations, I couldn’t specify which coach or seats we wanted. Maybe it’s not possible now, but I find it very frustrating that we bought these passes in good faith expecting to be able to select whichever trains and seats we wanted — like our three previous trips with Interrail passes. Things ain’t what they used to be. It’s just that because of health reasons it would make it much easier if we could select our own seats.
Thanks for all your replies. It’s my first time doing this so I hope I’m doing it correctly.We’ve already booked Eurostar from London to Paris. Leaving from Ashford would have been better for us but alas it’s still closed and with no sign of it ever opening again. We then go Paris to Torino, Torino to Bologna, Bologna to Rome etc eventually on to Sicily. We have Interrail 1st Class Senior 2 month rail passes. Hence our slow progress. Hope that helps. We leave on 21 March.
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