If this helps anyone, we were able to have someone who resides in Spain book a Renfe ticket using our Eurail passes on our behalf (since we are not currently in Spain. Hope this helps.
This may be helpful to those traveling who have friends residing in Spain. We wanted to book a high speed train from Marseille / Aix TGV to Barcelona. That obviously wouldn’t work for us since we are currently in France. We have friends that live in the North part of Spain close to a train station. We sent them our itinerary and Eurail passes and they were able to book them on our behalf and send us the digital tickets. Total cost for 4 tickets was 42.50 Euros. (instead of 108 Euros full price per ticket).We have yet to take the train in two weeks, but we have the digital tickets with seat reservations and barcodes in hand. We tried calling Renfe, tried the Deutch Bahn Office, tried booking directly with Eurail, tried going to the Aix TGV in person… and none of those worked.This may have been successful since it was a smaller train station and hey got someone helpful. We also send them pictures of our photo identification just in case they needed it (I don’t think they ended up needing
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