Thanks for this. I actually had a check on the TGV Lyria website and they have updated lots of their train info for the coming weeks and seemingly ours is due to run. Do you think this info is reliable? Similarly it seems that the Eurostar will also be running too, so fingers crossed we won’t be affected too badly!
Thanks everyone, that’s great. I suddenly got a last minute panic that I hadn’t sorted this out! We leave a fortnight tomorrow for a six week trip and are very excited! This community has been a great help, so thanks for everyone taking the time to respond. It’s really appreciated.
Thanks for all this amazing information everyone! As ever, the community on here are super helpful!
Ah, thanks a lot. I don’t know how i got that mixed up. can i just also ask, why can’t i seem to book any reservations on trains internally to Spain? There are a few i need to do, but it the website says i have to do it internally in Spain…
Just for clarification: A mobile pass tries to emulate a paper pass, where you enter every train into your pass book as you travel. Adding the train detail in both paper and mobile passes validates your pass for you to travel on that specific train. With a mobile pass it works by a 2 stage process where you add the train details into your Trip as a diary of intention. Until you transfer it into your pass it is simply a diary entry and has no validity until transferred to your pass, by operating the slider. You can add trains to your trip either directly from the train planner or manually if the train is not showing in the planner (e.g. Spain Ceranicas often don’t appear). With the first train you transfer on any travel day the App creates a QR code for the whole of that day and adds the specific train details below the QR code. This is your ticket for that train. As you travel on more trains that day and transfer them to your pass the details are added
Hi AnnaB, thanks. I have already booked a bunch of reservations for quite far in the future (April/May) and have received the e-tickets for them from the train companies operating on the route. Are you saying that these could be wrong? I booked them via the interrail reservation system on the website. In that case, they're very probably correct. When the Interrail website can book a reservation, then the timetable it has matches the one in the operator's system, otherwise the booking fails. But when you're using the Interrail website only to look up timetables, then you don't know if those 2 timetables match. Ah yes, i figured that could happen. I have always double checked on the countries specific website for timetables as i imagined the interrail centralised system might not be super up to date! Thanks for your response.
If you have a pass with a certain number of days, to be used in a month (e.g. 7 days pass to be used in a month) you need to activate every travelday yourself. It doesn't do it automatically. If you have a continuous pass (15 days, 1 month, 2 or 3 months of non stop travel) you'll also activate travel days to generate the QR code for that day, by adding the trips to your pass. You can activate travel days by tapping the slider in "My Trip", which generates the QR code. Once it's activated, no way to annul it the day itself. You can add (or delete) as many trains as you want on a travel day. So only activate your pass and activate a travel day just a bit before boarding your first train of the day! You never know - disturbances in traffic can always happen! thank you. So just to be clear (total novice here), once I have approached my first day of travel- I have a two month global pass of continuous travel- I should activate the whole pass, and then as a separate task, activate the f
Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. Planning The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. Reservations The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website. You can look at the guide in the link: https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105 If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice. Please note that I
Ah that’s great, thanks. I had it in my head that i could only book one journey on my outbound travel day.Is the rule that you can only have one outbound travel day, (as opposed to one outbound journey) and the same returning?also, re the travel day. With the mobile pass, does it activate each travel day in turn, as in, the pass automatically activates a travel day once the time is 00:00? thanks
It’s true! We are very excited to go on our family interrail trip, but it is incredibly difficult to find the right information, and buy tickets etc. RE Bernina. I have first class interrail tickets for myself and my family, and i am wondering if this means that I can reserve first class bernina tickets without extra ticket cost? And also, i am wanting to get the connecting bus from Tirano to Lugano. Is it wise to do this through the bernina booking system, on the website rhb.ch? thanks for your help. Much appreciated!
Thank you so much! You seem to know a lot about this!do you know much about the bernina express too?thanks
Hi there, thanks so much for responding. Im travelling on the 6th April 2023 around 10am, but I think I might be a bit early to book this as its over 90 days away?Im travelling with a young child and my partner and so am avoiding lots of changing trains, so was thinking the direct route between Paris and Zurich would be best, even though it is expensive.am i right in thinking that i only need a reservation for this with my global interrail pass?
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