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Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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19th SEPTEMBER INTERLAKEN TO PARIS "NOT IN PASS NETWORK"

Excellent help, guys. Many thanks indeed. This forum is great.

7 months ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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19th SEPTEMBER INTERLAKEN TO PARIS "NOT IN PASS NETWORK"

“You will need to search for the next train from Strasbourg (the standard TGV InOui that are valid are relatively frequent on that route) and take that train instead, it will require reservations.”II’ve never needed to made reservations on French trains until now. As my train journey to Paris begins in Switzerland, where reservations are unnecessary, how do I go about reserving a seat for the Strasburg-Paris leg of my journey? Can I do this at a railway station in Switzerland prior to departure? I’ll have very little time to do anything like that in Strasbourg before my connection departs. Or is it to be done on the internet?

7 months ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Trakiszki problem

Hi rvtborgt, and thanks for your impressively prompt reply.By “no ticket” I mean that when I click on the yellow bar which reads “Show ticket” there is no ticket there to show the ticket inspector. Another way of putting it i would be to say there is “no QR code” but I stuck to the terminology of the Rail Planner app.You ask if I asked for a through reservation to Vilnius. I did indeed. Twice. On 18 July at 6pm the Gdańsk ticket office told me the trains to Vilnius were “all full”, both 1st and 2nd class seats, “until the end of the month”. Finding this a bit unlikely but unwilling to create a fuss and hold up the enormous queue behind me I returned to the office at 8am this morning (19 July) and was sold the 2nd class reservation as far as the border at Trakiszki (Poland). It was at that stage of the proceedings that the lady told me I’d need to buy an onward reservation to Vilnius from the Lithuanian train conductor. As previously mentioned, I decided to challenge this upon arriving

9 months ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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GDANSK TO LITHUANIA

Thank you @rvdborgt for your typically clear and comprehensive response.I will do as you suggest and mention route date and departure time, if and when I have further questions about a train to book. At the moment I have still not commenced my outbound journey from home.

10 months ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Ask the community

Rail transport between CDG and Orly Airports (Paris)

As I suspected - not included in Interrail.Many thanks. Very useful information.

10 months ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Ask the community

One month continuous pass - 30 days or 31?

Pete Bensimon wrote: So 1 month passes can actually be valid for 28 to 31 days. Depending on what? Depending on the length of the month.Pete Bensimon wrote: but what if I start travelling on 25th June, say? Will my final day of travel be 28 days, 30 days, or 31 days later (i.e. 22nd July, 24th July, or 25th July)?It's always 1 month, so e.g. 25 June until 24 July. Yes, but the point is, how long is a month? They vary in length, as we know. In the example given above the calculation seems to be made on the basis that there are 30 days in June (the month in which travel begins).Does it follow then that in the case of a journey beginning on 25th February, say, the final day of travel (on a one month pass) would be 28 days later i.e. on 24th March, and in the case of a journey beginning on 25th July, say, the final day of travel would be 31 days later (i.e. on 24th August)?

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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One month continuous pass - 30 days or 31?

So 1 month passes can actually be valid for 28 to 31 days.Depending on what? Okay, I think I get it that if I start travelling on 1st February then my final day of travel has to be 28th February because it only has 28 days and if I start travelling on 1st September then my final day of travel has to be 30th September because that month has 30 days, and if I start travelling on 1st October then my final day of travel has to be 31st October because that month has 31 days, - but what if I start travelling on 25th June, say? Will my final day of travel be 28 days, 30 days, or 31 days later (i.e. 22nd July, 24th July, or 25th July)?

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Inbound journey home not shown in My Pass

Thanks to both for all the useful information above. It’s a great relief.“By any chance, do you have an iPhone with app version 30.0.0? If so, then it's a known issue that journeys aren't showing below the QR code. There's already an app update, version 30.0.1, so go please ahead and install that.”I couldn’t find a way to discover which version of the app (the Railplanner app, I presume?) is on my phone, but I have visited the App Store and have installed an update to Railplanner which I saw there.Despite installing that update my inbound journey Brussels-London-Newcastle is so far still not showing below the QR code in My Pass/Show Ticket, but I’m guessing it might show up there in due course. In any case, from what I’m given to understand from the response to my question, that’s not going to matter because I have a Continuous Pass, and have a (printed) reservation.Would that be correct? I only ask for the sake of complete peace of mind.

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Ask the community

Eurostar Date Mix Up

Nicely explained. Got it now. Grateful thanks rvdborgt. (“Making predictions is difficult, especially about the future”.)🤣🤣🤣 As opposed to predictions about the past and present? 🤣🤣🤣Just teasing.

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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Eurostar Date Mix Up

Thanks for confirming. Appreciated.Would you be good enough to advise me why you recommend deactivating the pass until the day I start my trip?

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Ask the community

Eurostar Date Mix Up

Okay rvdborgt, thank you very much for clearing that up for me. I get the difference now. In fact I do have a continuous Pass, and so, for the sake of complete clarity, since I am looking to reschedule my inbound homeward journey from Antwerp to Newcastle (UK) from 1st May to 2nd May is it the case that I should delete from My Trip my mistakenly planned journey of 1st May (Antwerp-Newcastle) and then simply use the Planner to plan it again, but on 2nd May? I realise that this is probably the case, and that I could be testing your patience here, but that’s a risk I’m prepared to take for my peace of mind. 😀

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

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Eurostar Date Mix Up

Thanks to both for your kind advice. I did look for a means of scrubbing my personal details, but could not find a tool to do so.Question for rvdborgt:“You can't cancel activation of a travel day this way. That can only be done via My Pass: select a travel day and then Cancel travel day.”I hope you will forgive me if I’m mistaken, but when I go to My Pass there are only two options - Show Ticket and Deactivate Pass, whereas under My Trip the three dots menu (top right corner) allow an option to Delete Journey. Would that be the way to deactivate a travel day? I am looking to cancel a journey I erroneously activated for the 1st May when in fact I intend to travel on the 2nd May (for which I have a reservation).

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Ask the community

Eurostar Date Mix Up

Thanks for responding and I’m grateful for the advice. I shall remove the train wrong journey and replace it with the correct one. Now however I am rather confused about the difference between activation of the Pass and activation of the Travel Day(s), and how they both work. The advice offered is as follows: “Activation of passDuring the activation process you choose the start day of the validity of the pass. Once the validity has started it can't be changed even if you haven't travelled. The advice is therefore to wait with activating the pass and starting the validity until the first day of your travel as you only can deactivate the pass no later than 23.59 CET on the day before the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you can't deactivate the pass and change the validity. It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works. Activation of trave

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

Cancel all incoming Community emails

Hector, Thank you for those clear, concise, and polite instructions. They helped me to easily unsubscribe.

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Great stuff everybody. Thanks for your patience.

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Oh, I see. Thanks Stephan.One more question, just to be absolutely clear.I want to go to France on the 3rd of July for just a few weeks. If I bring my validity period forward to start on the 3rd of July then the validity period will expire on the 2nd of October. But I will be in Central Asia during September. Can I pause the pass after returning from France, and start using it again when I get back from Central Asia? I suspect not, but I’m not sure. And thanks again Anna for your latest advice. With regard to the mobile pass, when the time comes to activate my pass, how do I do so? By clicking on ‘Add a journey’?

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Oops, sorry guys, it’s true what they say - “There’s no fool like an old fool” - I made a mistake when I said I’d activated my mobile pass by copying and pasting the Activation code.I really did copy and paste an Activation code, but it was the one for joining this Community. Duh!I suspect that all may be well, and that the clock hasn’t started running on my mobile pass.

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Thanks Stephan, that’s useful to know. I’ve looked in the app and I can see that the Validity Period is from 17 Sep - 16 Dec., so I guess it hasn’t been started yet.But underneath it says “Outbound/Inbound 0/2 used”.What does that mean?

1 year ago

Pete BensimonKeeps calm and carries on

asked in Eurail & Interrail Passes

3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Thanks to both - Seewulf and Anna.Anna, your response provoked a sigh of relief, since it indicates that I haven’t blundered in purchasing a 3 month Continuous Pass, but Seewulf, your reply has me worried, because I bought a Mobile Pass, and in my total ignorance when I received the first emails from Interrail after purchase in May I think I blindly followed the instructions and copied and pasted the Activation code - which means the 3 months start counting. Oh dear! Is there any way that I can find out whether I have activated my Pass?

1 year ago

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