Hello, me and my friend thinking of buying a 7 days pass but we are stuck at something. I would be more than glad if somene would help us. We are planning to travel with night trains, the starting destination is poland because thats where we live and we are planning to travel to berlin from poland, then amsterdam, paris, madrid, rome, switzerland and going back to poland once again. When I add these on my plan on the website it says 8 days but we will be only travelling 7 days because of night trains. I am aware that I can seperate these travels but why does it say 8 instead of 7 days because from poland to berlin only one day is counted am i wrong? We are going to be travelling soon please help us. Does that mean that I have to take one of the destinations out?
7 days pass
Best answer by rvdborgt
I never bother with this planning page. Just make a plan, with timetables, using a reliable planner, e.g. bahn.com (certainly NOT the rail planner app or the Interrail website) and then count the travel days yourself.
Also check ASAP if the night trains you want to use still have availability because they book up fast.
I never bother with this planning page. Just make a plan, with timetables, using a reliable planner, e.g. bahn.com (certainly NOT the rail planner app or the Interrail website) and then count the travel days yourself.
Also check ASAP if the night trains you want to use still have availability because they book up fast.
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 Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and train in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.
Activation of pass
During 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 travel day
The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass and create the ticket (QR code), until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day.
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