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Can I go to another part of my home country at the start of my Interrail Trip (Global Pass)?

  • September 26, 2025
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Hello, this is my first Interrail Trip, so I‘m sorry for beginner questions :) I have 15 day Global Pass. 

I‘m planning on going from Vienna (Austria) to Dornbirn (Austria) on the 3rd of October, stay with a friend for 2 nights and then travel to Geneve (Switzerland) on the 5th of October. I‘ll be going to Sevilla (Spain) and take the plane back, so I won’t need an inbound journey back to Austria. 

My questions are: 

  • Can I even book a trip from Vienna to Dornbirn or does my first train ride have to end in another country? 
  • Can I book a trip from Dornbirn to Geneve on the 5th of October or will the app not let me do that because the trip starts in Austria again? 
  • Could I alternatively book a trip from Vienna to Lindau (Germany, but very close to Dornbirn) and just get off in Dornbirn? And then book a trip from Lindau to Geneve and just get on in Dornbirn? Or is it forbidden to ride through your home country? 
  • Could I cross the border from Dornbirn to Switzerland without the Global Pass and continue the journey from Heerbrugg (Switzerland) for example? Or does my last ending train station (Dornbirn) need to be my next start train station and I won’t be able to book a connection starting in Heerbrugg?
  • Are all of these questions irrelevant because I have two „inbound/outbound“ journeys and I don’t need one to get home anyways? And I could use one of them to go to Dornbirn on the 3rd and one of them to go from Dornbirn to Geneve on the 5th? 

Thank you SO MUCH in advance for helping out and sharing your wisdom! 

 

Johanna 

Best answer by Al_G

You can travel in your home country on any 2 days of your pass duration, if you only wish to use 2 days in Austria at the start then you can take the option that suits you best. You will use up all your possibility to use the pass in Austria on those days but if you don’t need any other home country use then that’s fine, you can use all the remaining days as you please everywhere else.

There is no requirement about any journey having to start where the previous one ended.

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  • September 26, 2025

You can travel in your home country on any 2 days of your pass duration, if you only wish to use 2 days in Austria at the start then you can take the option that suits you best. You will use up all your possibility to use the pass in Austria on those days but if you don’t need any other home country use then that’s fine, you can use all the remaining days as you please everywhere else.

There is no requirement about any journey having to start where the previous one ended.

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