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Hello!

I have a problem that I can’t seem to find the solution to. I’m going from Paris-Madrid in July and it is obligated to buy seat reservations. Since that’s not possible on the app, I called Deutsche Bahn but they said I can only do that in France. Than I also called French railway and you can’t buy reservations without american express that I don’t have. 

I really need to make this reservation quick since I’ scared that there won’t be any seats left. Does anyone have any idea please?

As expected you had sadly the wrong serviceagent on the phone of DB 😕 But you need there aswell a CreditCard 😕 and you have to provide the serviceagent with the trainnumber of your train between Barcelona - Mardrid :/

Paris - Barcelona can be done by SNCF as discripted here several times 🙂 but as you alraedy know you need a CreditCard (in my experience doesnt have to be AmericanExpress can be Visacard or Mastercard aswell)

Barcelona - Mardrid can be done by ticket agent with access to the German booking system (if you know the trainnumer you wanna reserve) or at a Ticket desk of Spanish Rail in Spain :/

Besides that there are currently no options.


Hello,

i just did it this week. For Paris-Madrid, I managed through Deutsche Bahn hotline, took ages, but the lady told me that Spain is actually pretty easy at the moment. I had to switch some connections (mid/end july) as a lot is already booked out.

For Madrid-France I managed to do it through the rail planner site of eurail (Madrid Narbonne and Narbonne Lyon). sncf hotline helped for Brussels Valence.
 

i would try both sncf hotline (try to do better then me in spelling your name 🙂 :-)) and deutsche bahn. Deutsche bahn kept me on the line for 1.5hrs, I think they are artificially slow to get more money out of the transaction. 
 

i think next time I will use a travel agency to do the booking, it’s not nice to have half a trip ready without any clue if the other half will even be possible.

 

 


Sncf hotline I paid with a European credit card, no problem.


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