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Hello everyone, I‘m traveling to France and Spain soon and I‘m wondering when the seat reservations should be purchased.  I‘d like to have some flexibility with my stays and book the reservations 1 or 2 days prior departure. However I figured this might not work out, since some trains may already be fully booked by then.Stops will include Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla. It would really be helpful if somebody could share their experience and guidance on when they reservations should be booked. Also, I will be traveling in September so the Paris Olympics shouldn’t be an issue.  Greetings,Mateo

 On moblie pass have train journey with Eurostar for 31 july.  When I try to add to travel day it says:  no outbound/inbound journeys left it looks like you’ve used all your outbound/inbound journeys.  youll need to buy a separate ticket to make this journey. Have been able to add another journey from paris with no problem. Appreciate any guidance.    If I have begun with a mobile pass, can I change to a paper pass?  is this easy to do?I have also requested help from Interrail. Many thanks, barbara

We bought a flexi 3 days Eurail pass for Italy in September, and so far planned 2 out of 3 days.  For the last day, I am thinking to use the pass to do regional travel within Rome instead of using the metro.  Appreciate suggestions on the train stations worth stopping over that have attractions eg Rome Travestere etc.  Thanks.

I am trying to book a train from Brussels to Amsterdam for 4 of us on Saturday 27th July but I cannot seem to do it is it alright to just turn up at the station and buy tickets or has anyone got any advice please? Thank you 

Hello, after our stay in the Spanish Basque Country, we'll travel with Interrail through France back to the Netherlands from September 5 or 6. We don't want to reserve our seats on the TGV for this, but prefer to travel back to the Netherlands by the 'normal' train like the TER over several days. The question is, do we also have to reserve seats for the 'normal' train? Can anyone let us know? many thanks!

This is a change of plans for us. This is the first time we are taking the rail. And we are visiting from the United States to Spain, France, and Switzerland. We are traveling tomorrow from Alicante Spain to Montpelier France.  What advice can you give me on best times to take the train and best options for traveling by train??

Hi,I am guy from Italy (Milan) and as the title says I’m looking for a travel buddy. I’m free from 10th to 20th august, and I don’t have a destination in mind so it’s whatever for me. For me it’s not important the destination and the duration of journey, I just want to have an experience with someone and maybe make a new friend, hoping that I can learn something new and that this is going to be positive for my personal growth.ig:@piergiorgio_lin

I purchased 5 day global pass, but canceled vac , am I able to request refund?

Hello Everyone!This is my first time here. I will be travelling to France this coming August 3-9. August 3-5, Paris FranceAugust 5-9, Colmar FranceNow here’s the tricky part on my travel situation. I have a booked hotel in Colmar, France from August 5-9 and I am planning to visit different country on the duration of my stay in Colmar. The travel would be to and from each day. I know it’s not the most ideal itinerary but I made a mistake booking the hotel and so I decided to just make the most of it. I have bought a global pass for 5 days. I still can use my global pass even if i have go back to Colmar at the end of each day after visiting a different European country?Appreciate all the replies.

I am planning to go from Interlaken to Milan on Aug 6th in the evening. I understand that there is construction going on so will have to take the bus for part of the journey (from Domodossola). Where do I reserve a seat for the bus? Are there other shorter routes to Milan from Switzerland?

 For the past few days,  I tried numerous times to make seat reservations using Rail Planner.  But when it routes me to the eurail website, I get this error:Bad RequestYour browser sent a request that this server could not understand.Size of a request header field exceeds server limit. Has anyone encountered this error?  I have a mobile pass for 2 Adults.  I’m almost giving up hope, is it possible to just book the seats at the train stations on the day of itself?  We will be travelling to Rome in early September. 

Hi,I have read to other topic with the same question from two years ago, but was curious of there is something improved in the last years. I want to travel from Milano Centrale to Frankfurt Hbf, see screenshot below for the details. Raileurope don't show any option to book the train from Milan to Zürich. What is the best way to book that specific train? 

Hallo zusammen,Mir wurde gesagt, dass man die Zugreservierungen für Spanien auch in Deutschland buchen kann, wenn man sie persönlich am Schalter kauft.Daher meine Frage: Hat jemand damit Erfahrung?Ich würde das gerne machen, bin mir aber unsicher, wie ich vorgehen soll, da es meine erste Interrail-Reise ist.Was ist der beste Weg? Soll ich im Voraus die Züge heraussuchen, die ich nehmen möchte, und mir Notizen machen? Dann würde ich sie der Person am Schalter nennen, damit sie die Reservierungen für mich bucht? Oder wie läuft das genau ab?  Ich bin etwas verunsichert, weil ich nicht genau verstehe, wie man die Reservierungen vornimmt. Man kann ja nur eine Reservierung buchen, wenn man auch ein gültiges Zugticket hat. Aber das habe ich in diesem Fall ja noch nicht, da ich die Tickets für meine Reisetage noch nicht im Voraus habe.Kann mir jemand bitte weiterhelfen? Vielen Dank im Voraus. 

Hello!!This summer we are planning to travel from Poland to the baltic countries. We have a global pass, however, we have seen that it is not available to check the timetables o book the trains on the interrail website and we’re struggiling a bit to understand which is the best way to travel around these countries. It would be of great help if somebody that has travelled there could answer some questions:Is it always possible to book the trains in the stations with the interrail pass (if there’s seats on the train)? Which would be the best way? We are aware that global pass also includes buses, which apparently are a good way to travel in these countries, how can we know which type of buses it includes? Which is the way of booking these buses? Thank you very much in advance!  Sophie

Hello All,My husband and I are planning our 1st trip to Europe and our celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary!!! 🥂💞💐 I am looking for some guidance on the best route to take by train from Venezia Santa Lucia Train Station to Paris Gare de Lyon but I understand it can be another train station and we can take local to get to this one (where our Air B&B is near) the date we will do this is on 4/21/25 or 4/22/25 (which ever date is better for times or cheaper, also can be worked out to do the over night train or slower trains.)We have the global eurail pass, our dates are from 4/13/25-4/27/25, we will have already used it and been in Italy for 8 days and will stay in Paris for 3 days.Then my next question is cheapest way to get from Paris to Brussels (Grand-Place)on 4/25/25 for 2 or 3 hours, then we need to catch a train to London (Waterloo Station) then one to Southampton Central Station (near the port).Any advice or words of travel wisdom would be greatly appreciated 🤗 Thank yo

Hi there, I have a friend travelling with an interail pass from Zurich to Munich, 14 August, departure 7.33am.She’s trying to reserve a seat (family of 4) but the option to continue is greyed out on Rail Europe - ie she can see the train  and select it but the seat reservation isn’t possible.I’m assuming it’s because theres no charge. Where’s the best place to book these seat reservations please? Thanks.  

Hey guys,unfortunately we missed the deadline for the discount until 18th of July for the One-Country-Pass (France) for our Honeymoon in September. We saw the prices in July and calculated a lot and in the end we missed the offering - do you think we get the chance for another discount/sale in August?Or do you have any other idea about saving the 20 %? Thanks!Julia 

Hi! I’m going to be travelling with my interrail pass, together with 2 of my parents (Eurail pass holders) and now we are on the stage of trying to book all the necessary reservation seat. I have several questions:So after learning how to work with the app, is it true that in the interrail app itself, we only need to save the trip routes in our app, then slide and activate the yellow QR code on the day of travel (this is to show the ticketing staff that we have the ticket for the train). Whereas for the reservation seat, we just need to purchase separately from the official website (e.g. SBB, DB, RailEurope, TrenItalia, etc). So later on we have an e-ticket of the number of the seat as well from these websites. Is this correct? I’m trying to book our first seat reservation (for the train of Paris Est -> Strasbourg on 23rd July at 06.52 A.M just like the one stated on the rail planner app). However, the I’m not sure if it’s possible to book seats for all three of us together as the w

I want to travel from san sebastin (spain on the border with France) to Holland in 2 days (9 -10 augoust) last years I did it via Bordeaux Paris to liege ( and it was perfect ) but I like to travel different way this year but I can see if it possibel, Has someone idea for me?Thanks Taafi

HallöchenWir fahren am 17.08. Mit dem Interrail Globe Pass von Madrid (Spanien) nach Porto (Portugal). Ich habe auf mehreren portugiesischen Webseiten wie dieser hier gelesen, dass man in Portugal je nach Zug Sitzplatzreservierungen vornehmen muss, diese aber nur in Portugal am Bahnhof möglich sind. Unten Ausschnitte von der Webseite (auf Deutsch) und der Link dazu.  https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/lisbon-to-porto-by-train.htm#Porto-LisbonNun reise ich von Madrid das erste Mal nach Portugal, so kann ich für diese Strecke noch keine Sitzplatzreservierung in Portugal vornehmen. Auf der Interrail-Seite kann ich diese Verbindung jedoch auch nicht finden.  Habt ihr Erfahrungen und ist für diese Route eine Sitzplatzreservierung notwendig? Und mit welchen Verbindungen habt ihr Erfahrung?   Danke für eure Hilfe und Tipps! 

Hallo Ich habe bereits in anderen Fragen darüber gelesen, dass es schwierig ist, eine Optimale Verbindung von Bordeaux (Frankreich) nach Madrid (Spanien zu finden). Dort habe ich gelesen, dass man von Bordeaux nach Hendaye (Frankreich) fahren soll, dann dort mit Euskotren (habe ich herausgefunden, diese fahren ja alle 30min) nach Irun und dann von Irun nach Madrid. Dies ist nun mein Problem. Von Irun nach Madrid gibt es nur Züge um 07:00 Uhr am morgen oder dann erst um 15:00 Uhr am Nachmittag. Diese Züge am Nachmittag kommen erst gegen 23:00 Uhr in Madrid an, was recht spät ist. Zudem muss man auf dieser Zugstrecke mehrmals umsteigen.  Ich habe bereits andere Verbindungen von San Sebastian oder Bilbao nach Madrid gesucht, aber diese fahren alle erst am Nachmittag wie dieser von Irun, und man muss auch viel umsteigen.Habt ihr Tipps?  Herzlichen Dank fürs teilen eurer Erfahrungen!   

Is the local train from Lucerne to Rothesburg covered in Global pass? Thanks.

Hey everyone,I'm new to the Interrail Global Pass and have a question about my outbound journey. I know there are probably similar posts out there, but I want to be absolutely sure!My plan is to take a night train from my home in Italy (let's call it point A) to Austria (point B) on August 1st. I get that only one travel day is used for this, even though I'll arrive in Austria on the 2nd.Here's where I'm unsure: I need to take two trains from my hometown to point A on the same day (August 1st). I know I can use as many trains as I want on a travel day, but should I add the night train first or the two local trains? I'm worried about messing things up since my outbound journey would have already started.Does this make sense? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!As for my inbound journey, I'll manually input:Point B (Germany) to Villach (Austria) Villach to point A (Italy) Two trains from point A to my hometownDoes that sound right?Thanks in advance!PS. seat reservation already done ;

We bought a couple of Global Passes yesterday (7 days in a month - 1st Class) which we secured just before the 20% discount ran out. Only condition is I can’t book anything commencing before Sep 1st, and we don’t leave Australia until Sep 8th, and won’t start the ticket use until late Sep.Made our first booking today (London to Zurich) - no problem.Up to the second booking now (Florence to Rome) and have noticed an anomaly.reservation fees start from EUR30 (1st & 2nd - 2 reservations) as soon as I select a specific service, the price jumps to EUR56 - no matter which service if I try my next booking (London to Milan) same thing occursIf I log out, all bookings on these routes revert to EUR30.Is there something strange occurring in Italy with reservations atm, or is this just the railway company gouging extra for the component of the ticket price they didn’t get? If it’s the latter, I’m feeling very ripped off!!!

Hallo.Ich möchte am 1. August mit dem Mobil / Global Pass von Hamburg nach Härnösand (Schweden) fahren. Ich habe mir eine Verbindung herausgesucht, bei der ich in Kopenhagen und in Stockholm mehrstündige Aufenthalte habe, weil ich wegen der Grenzkontrollen mit langen Verspätungen rechne. Nun kann ich diese Verbindungen aber gar nicht als durchgehende Reise eintragen, weil nur Verbindungen mit bis zu einer Stunde Umsteigezeit automatisch erkannt werden. Ich müsste also drei Teil-Fahrten für die Reise eintragen. Werden die als drei Reisen gezählt? (Sitzplatzreservierungen habe ich bei der Deutschen und der Schwedischen Bahn separat gebucht.) Gibt es eine andere Möglichkeit? Viele Grüße Stefan