I tried every combination and permutation mentioned here, and then some. I even went out several months for the individual legs, and got the same results. Sometimes I could get two legs out of three. Sometimes the leg I wanted would show up on Monday but not on Tuesday.I bounced from Deutsche Bahn to SNCF to Swiss Rail and Italian rail to eventually get reservations where Eurail indicated "not available".One leg from Regensburg to Frankfurt direct at 0837 was available and I bought the reservations, printed them out, but forgot to save it in my trip. I went back a day or two later to save it. It did not appear in Eurail. After repeatedly checking everyday for several days, it reappeared, and I quickly saved it to my trip.Finally, the stars aligned and I was able to get all three legs Regensburg-Frankfurt-Bruxelles-Nîmes to line up. Then I eventually got Nîmes -Lille-St Pancras to line up. At one point Eurail did not recognize Lille. Finally got the Eurostar leg from their site.The fru
QR code must be unique for each trip. I can print each trip ticket separately. The data will the same whether it is scanned from a phone or printed on paper. I will also have my passport, etc. to prove my identity. I can also save each trip ticket as a screen shot and save to Google photos and to my friend’s phone. The scanning device will read it just the same as on my screen.As I understand it, the essential thing is that the information from the scan matches your trip and your identity.Too late for paper pass.Power sockets are good on Thalys, but useless on a dead phone.
I will print them out anyhow...no harm.Sample scenario: we are on the Thalys from Paris to Amsterdam...3 hour trip..my phone dies...the conductor asks for the ticket...what do I do?
Thanks for the feedback...I would still like to hear from travelers who have needed this help.Can you give a better idea of “quite quickly”?Minutes? Hours?Another question...for the conductors on the trains who use the QR code, is all the data about me and the trip included in the QR code? I can print out the QR codes as backup to show the conductors in case something happens to the phone while traveling.
I see many people who have lost their phones or the phones have broken. When I contact Eurail by email it takes 48 hours or more for a response. That is useless if you are in the middle of a trip and lose your phone.I would like to hear from people who have had this problem and how Eurail helped (or not) to resolve the problem.
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