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cant purchase seat reservations

  • June 1, 2025
  • 5 replies
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Hi. My partner and I have planned to travel from Budapest to Ljubljana on July 26th, 2025. We've been trying for a while now to reserve seat tickets for the 9 a.m. departure from Budapest. But everywhere we've looked, it's not possible to reserve seats... Does anyone know why that is or how we can get it done?

Best answer by thibcabe

There are works until further notice on the Hungarian part of the line. There will be replacement buses running, though the July timetable isn't available yet.

See https://potniski.sz.si/en/rail-replacement-buses-in-hungary-from-11-december-2024-onwards-for-international-trains-246-and-247/

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  • Rail rookie
  • June 1, 2025

I’ve looked on the DB, OBB and MAV sites and I het no availability for a seat reservwtion in IC246 (departure at 9 AM).

 

I think there are (sadly) no (more) seats available to reserve on this specific train.

 

Looking deeper I van find tickets for this train (but no individual reservations)

 

An option is to take another route or pat for a ticket. Or you can keep checking the MAV site amd hope there comes space.


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  • Railly clever
  • June 1, 2025

I don’t think this train is sold out that far in advance. It’s rather the case that they haven’t yet released the reservations.

I get the reservation error message on MAV when trying to book an ordinary ticket too.


  • Rail rookie
  • June 1, 2025

Could also be possible, I tot an option to buy a ticket but didn’t proceed. 

 

Seat61  says most of the reservstions and/or tickets are for sale from 3 months, some from 60 days.


Thx for the respons from both of you. 

We hope its just not for sale yet, but it looks like it should be at this moment… we keep looking


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  • Full steam ahead
  • Answer
  • June 3, 2025

There are works until further notice on the Hungarian part of the line. There will be replacement buses running, though the July timetable isn't available yet.

See https://potniski.sz.si/en/rail-replacement-buses-in-hungary-from-11-december-2024-onwards-for-international-trains-246-and-247/


@thibcabe thx for the answer. Hopefully it would be back on track when we need the train otherwise we will find another option to go to Ljubljana