I am trying to make seat reservations for trains from Paris to Lucerne on 7th May 2023. One leg is Paris Est to Strasbourg (France) on ICE9571 leaving Paris Est at 6:55 am. Even though it shows up in the search with reservation cost, when I go forward and fill in the passenger details, it fails with “‘One of the legs of your journey is not available anymore” error. I am not able to confirm and pay for the reservation.
I have searched for topics in the community (thanks for that, there are a lot of good info available) and when I tried to book directly on the train company website but there also I couldn’t go forward.
I am attaching a few screenshots below.
1/ What is the best way to move forward?
I also have a couple of related question.
2/ When I planed the trip on eurail.com (not logged in) it showed USD12.80 as the 2nd class seat reservation fee. But, after logging in, for the same train it shows USD24.00 as the fee. In both the searches I have “Included in Pass” filter selected. Sometimes even when logged in, it shows USD12.80 but as soon as I select the itinerary the right side shows higher fee of USD24.00. Any reason why this is happening?
3/ When I tried to book on https://www.bahn.com/en, it doesn’t show “eurail global pass” as an option. (Screenshot below).
For Question 1 - It is showing up as seat reservation possible in eurail.com but unable to go forward (after logging in)
(DB site shows it is not possible to reserve - I tried for a various dates also to make sure it is not sold out for the day I am looking for)
For Question 2, after logging in, the seat reservation cost for the same train shows more (USD23.98).
For Question 3: Global Pass not showing up as an option to select.