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bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Having issues when book Seat Reservations on GWR

Seat reservations do not exist for that route and many others. Edinburgh - Glasgow has frequent trains across multiple routes, reservations are not needed. oh that makes sense now. Thank you so much @Al_G 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Having issues when book Seat Reservations on GWR

Thanks so much for the tips @BrendanDB :)I just tried to book the seat reservations again on GWR, it was very strange… I followed the steps of this post. Then when I clicked the “Add reservation” button of step 7, the page doesn't have a response. it looks like this 👇 So I ticked that box of “I would like to reserve a bike space” then it worked. I am still confused if my seat reservation was successful or was it just for the bike reservation (I don't have a bike) 😓I also changed to earlier dates to test, it had the same response…

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Having issues when book Seat Reservations on GWR

12 weeks ahead is the standard booking window in UK although there can be variations. Weekends are when most engineering work takes place and timetables can be released much later due to this. For reservations on trains run by LNER only, Direct trains from London to Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness: You can choose specific seats by using their own website/app. https://www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/make-a-reservation/ GWR is the only online reservation source for all other train companies. Thanks so much @Al_G :) If I book reservations for the West Highland Line from Glasgow to Mallaig return, can I use LNER’s official website or should I book on GWR?

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Having issues when book Seat Reservations on GWR

Which Date? Maybe you search to far in advance. My experience regarding trains in the UK is you can reserve them just 45 or 60days in advance :/ Which Route? Maybe you try to reserve a non reservable route. I searched London Kings Cross to Edinburgh route on July 1, 2023, I reckon it was the reason that I tried to reserve too far in advance. I just modified the departure date to May 20, and then I could see the ticket options. I am a bit confused about the options though, what's the difference among all the options? Isn't “1st Class Advance single” and “Advance Single (1st Class)” the same thing? What about off-peak and anytime? If I pick 11am, would that be considered as off-peak? Thank you :) The options you see doesnt matter for your Railpass. This Reservation option comes from the difficult british ticketing system with Advance fares (cheap advance tickets), off-peek fares (can travel only out of rush hour) and Anytime fares (you can travel on any

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Having issues when book Seat Reservations on GWR

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Why do my DB tickets not have a barcode/QR code on it?

Thank you so much for your answer, it helped a lot :) @Al_G

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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Reservation for Glacier Express open 93 days before the departure date?

@BrendanDB @AnnaB @MartinM Thanks so much for your advice guys. I only wish I saw it earlier haha. It’s too late that I already paid CHF170 for 2 seats reservations and 2 meals. 😥 I would definitely take your advice to book the regional trains if I ever visit Switzerland again. 😊I was literally refreshing the page every second from midnight till 1am. As soon as the clock clicked 1am CET time, the reservation for 19th May became available. I couldn't believe that it was literally the first second when the status of the availabilities changed, almost all the seats in 1st Class of the earlier train were unavailable to be selected. 😮 I ended up selecting the last two available window seats in 1st Class but unfortunately they were 2 seats of a club-4. 😐 I was going to delete this post as soon as I made the booking but couldn't figure out how to delete the post. Anyway, once again thanks so much guys for your help. I do appreciate it. 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to make seat reservation from Geneve (Cornavin) to Zermatt?

Making reservations is not needed in Switzerland. Almost nobody does it and IMO it's a wate of money. Ah I see, thank you a lot 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to make seat reservation from Geneve (Cornavin) to Zermatt?

Thanks for your answer @mcadv :)I am sorry that I am still a bit confused. Does that mean there's no way that I can book seat reservation in advance? Do we just hop on at the train station with our Eurail passes? Thank you 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to book Nightjet from Vienna to Munich?

of course you do NOT have to buy two times reservations 😉. It seems for first class they include the reservations for free - if you have second class, then it charges you 6 euro extra (but supplement is then only 10 instead of 15 euro). DB and CD include also in second class supplements a free reservation, ÖBB doesn’t. haha that makes sense now. So should I just buy the supplement for 50 EUR and no 6EUR seat reservation? 😊 Yes, skip the 6 EUR seat reservation. The 50 EUR is already quite expensive as it is. Thanks @BrendanDB , will do :)

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to book Nightjet from Vienna to Munich?

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to book Nightjet from Vienna to Munich?

@BrendanDB I wouldn’t say it is a weird fee… this trains are run by ÖBB/DB as „private business“ in Italy without any subsidies. So the other option instead of 10€ extra for rail passes would be that they don’t accept them at all between Brennero and other Italian destinations. so I think the 10€ extra are still the better option As far as I know most long distance trains in Germany are run (and priced) commercially, so I think this fee is more a consequence of how Eurail distributes income - also considering they are covered by the German Rail Pass. Plus, as Freccia's reservations cost €10 these would be very attractive for domestic trips in Italy too. @Schelte: I wouldn’t say the nighttrains are so bad… you Save Travel time and also in hotels you don’t have always super comfy beds (too hard, too soft, thin walls to neighbors etc). But on this route I would also recommend a daytime train as the views are quite nice I don't say they are bad, though I did think that

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How do I pay for the seat reservation fee after the tickets are added to my Eurail pass?

During a quick google research only found this agency: https://www.118000.fr/e_C0039775760 But not sure if it really exists… if there is a Deutsche Bahn Agency in Paris, then you could try to get the reservations there. But as said, I don’t think it will be a problem if you make the reservations only on arrival in Barcelona. @MartinM thank you so much for trying to help, I really appreciate it.I found a PDF file on DB website of the list of their agencies.I didn’t see one in France but surprisingly there’s one in Australia. 😄 I will contact them tomorrow see if they can make the bookings for me. 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How do I pay for the seat reservation fee after the tickets are added to my Eurail pass?

But aren’t you in mid of March in München? Actually you should be able to make these reservations for Spain at the ticket office in München Hauptbahnhof… At least until last year it was possible. So if nothing changed, should be still possible. Just you need to be lucky to get an experienced employee. If they tell “it is not possible”, you should be insisting that it is ^^. I have changed a lot of things of the original itinerary. We will be arriving in Paris on 15 April which is our first stop in Europe before Spain, so Paris is the only place we could possibly book our Spanish reservations. Is it possible though? 😬

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How do I pay for the seat reservation fee after the tickets are added to my Eurail pass?

I wouldn’t worry about these reservations too much. Between Barcelona and Madrid are a lot of trains each day, so if you book on arrival in Barcelona, you should be still able to get some reservations… Also for Madrid-Sevilla… especially as you travel on a Monday and Thursday… this are not the most busy days of the week. Thank you @MartinM :) fingers crossed there will be seats available for us. 😬

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How do I pay for the seat reservation fee after the tickets are added to my Eurail pass?

Thanks so much @Schelte :) Foe the agent in Spain, do you have any to recommend? We haven’t had experience using agent for booking train tickets. My husband used to make reservation at the train station for the rest of his Spain trip while he arrived. I am a bit worried some seat reservations could be sold out if we book seats reservations for the rest of our Spain trip after we arrive to Barcelona. I have never used an agent, I generally try to book the seat reservations myself to save extra fees. It is however quite a puzzle, and not always possible. Seat61.com recommends one: “To make Spanish passholder reservations in advance, email andy@railtravelcentre.com, the same rail expert that runs www.discoverbyrail.com. He can arrange passholder reservations in Spain, if necessary even at short-notice. His normal handling fee is £17.50, but he'll reduce this to £12.50 if you quote 'seat61' in your email. One handling fee is charged 'per booking', where a booking can be more t

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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How to cancel a TEST seat reservation on GWR?

@MartinM @BrendanDB Thanks for both of your answers, I filled up and online form requesting GWR to cancel it for me, it says I would get a reply in about 4 weeks. I guess I won’t worry about it then. 😁

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

Thanks so much for all the info @Angelo 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

Nope, only the reservation :) Thank you 😊

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

That’s just a „specialty“ for the Italy-Austria-Germany trains operated by ÖBB (and that is a supplement not a real Ticket). For other trains not. Thanks @MartinM :)What about the other Italian domestic trains, do I need to book both tickets and reservations if I book on Oebb.at?

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

Just the seat reservation will do for that journey. Sometimes it’s simple 😅 No need for extra tickets (even if they only cost nothing). I am so confused :(In what scenario do I need to buy extra tickets not just the reservation?In my other post of the Venice to Munich train, I was suggested by @MartinM that I need to buy both tickets and reservation for that train. I don't know how to tell…. It’s so complicated 😓

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

@bleusquirrelThis one https://www.sncf-connect.com/, like @Schelte said before. You have to simulate booking an ordinary ticket. (And choosing seats it only works for 1st class I think). There are other websites too, like the site of seat61, but you already need to know the type of train you’ll be travelling on. Which is relatively expert knowledge ;) VagonWeb is also a good option. But anyhow in quite some booking processes you can’t select your seat. Usually this doesn’t really matter too. First class has usually good window views, whatever the option. The only extra trip I would give you, is to be attentive for window seats, that are not window seats. Especially in Germany’s newest high speed trains this is a nuisance. It’s not nice to look at some white plastic for hours, instead of a window. Thanks for all the tips @BrendanDB :)I really want to be able to choose seats for the trains which allows seat preferences or even seat selections. I figured out to check the type of train on

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

Thank you @rvdborgt :) I got it wrong and checked the wrong seat plan, I think 71 and 72 might actually be a club duo. 🙂 They are indeed. For 1st class you can check the seat map by simulating a booking on sncf-connect.com. When buying regular tickets you can (only when travelling 1st class) select your seat from a seat map. That I know, only Eurostar allows changing seat selection after purchase. With SNCF I've tried on the phone and they can't change the seat selection (unless they would re-book the tickets). Thank you @rvdborgt :) May I please ask which website did you use for the TGV train seat plans (as shown in the above picture?)

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

For the Lyon to Geneva train, I couldn’t find an available reservation on any train operators’ websites, on Eurail planner website, it shows as below. (Same goes to Geneva to Zermatt too) Does that mean there's no options/need for seat reservations? Can we just hop on and sit anywhere we want? The Lyon-Geneva train you're showing is a regional train. Reservation is not possible, just hop on. For Geneva-Zermatt, reservation might be possible between Geneva and Visp but that would be a waste of money. Just hop on. In Switzerland, reservations are available for some trains, but they're not needed and are IMO a waste of money. Only for a few special panoramic express trains, reservations are really needed (and for some of them only if you want to use the panoramic coaches). Thanks so much for the advice @rvdborgt :) I won't bother booking these reservations then. Hopefully there will be seats available for the trains we planned to get on as we need to get to Geneva at 14:35 so w

1 year ago

bleusquirrelKeeps calm and carries on

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What's the difference between TGV6077 and TGV6177 from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice Ville?

I was trying to ring the contact number to see if I could swap to seat 71 and 74 instead of the assigned 71 and 72 but couldn’t get through ☹️ Considering it’s a relatively long train ride, I am really not happy about the seats we were given. Would there be other ways to contact Thalys regarding possible seat changing? This is not Thalys, it's an SNCF train. Belgian railways were probably closed already, considering their opening times: https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Contact/Contact-Centre I'd try the number mentioned in the last line, since that will be a lot cheaper to call. Thank you @rvdborgt :) I got it wrong and checked the wrong seat plan, I think 71 and 72 might actually be a club duo. 🙂Now I have trouble of booking seat reservation for Nice to Geneva, I want all the travel to be on the same day. Is the best way to book Nice-Lyon, and Lyon to Geneva separately?I could book Nice to Lyon on travel.b-europe.com. For the Lyon to Geneva train, I couldn’t find an available

1 year ago

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