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Booking reservations - Italy - without pass cover number

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Hi, everyone.

I have a one country pass for Italy (I’m travelling in the beginning of July) and I booked my reservations on the ÖBB website, because I saw on the interrail.eu website that I could do that. But I noticed that I didn’t needed to use my pass number during any of the reservations and I thought that was a bit weird.

I just received an e-mail from interrail.eu saying that I could start booking my reservations on their app/website and now I’m confused if my reservations made on the ÖBB website are valid or not. Noticed that I have received the email with all of the ticket reservations but I don’t know what to do now

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Best answer by runner.on.rails 3 June 2022, 17:03

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runner.on.rails
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Actually I would rather call it weird when you need pass number. Seat reservations shouldnt require any information about which ticket used or about the owner. unfortunately some companies just want to randomly collect data.

Your ÖBB seat reservation is valid, but please note that you also need a supplement for those EC’s. I think its 10 euro and I think it can be paid on board (no clue if you also get it online).

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I already paid the 10 euro per each train while doing all of the reservations so I think I’m done with that now

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Bookings for Italy are much better made through the ÖBB website and you have saved both trouble and money by making the reservations there. Interrail charges a fee  of 2 EUR per ticket in addition to the fee for the reservation.

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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It DOES make some sense-or at least in the ways the railways themselves look at it: they do NOT want anyone to know they can just REServe and nothing else-this opens widely the doors to fraud and is in fact exactly the reason why several railways do not offer this anymore-or at least not via an easy way.

Imagine a noisy football club full of drunken louts to spend just a few € and claim the whole car?

runner.on.rails
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you can only claim the seats you really use (by seating on it). no matter how many you reserved ans paid for reservation. but actually, not the best example, the drunken football louts probably get the whole car anyway….

It DOES make some sense-or at least in the ways the railways themselves look at it: they do NOT want anyone to know they can just REServe and nothing else-this opens widely the doors to fraud and is in fact exactly the reason why several railways do not offer this anymore-or at least not via an easy way.

Imagine a noisy football club full of drunken louts to spend just a few € and claim the whole car?

 

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