My wife and I have the 1st class Global-15-days-in-2-months pass on mobile app and are using a travel day to go from Vienna to Bozen, so its quite a long ride at 6.5hrs. I got seat reservations thrrough Eurail, and OBB came back with separate seats! This is quite annoying and not how we wanted to start out a 2 month trip, with riding separately through the alps!!!
I checked the OBB site and for the exact trip we selected in the Eurail app there are other seats together in 1st class, I just grabbed them for €3/each from OBB. Eurail doesn't seem to want to refund me. Not only that, but getting the reservation through Eurail costs over 3x than getting them directly from OBB, and that 3x premium means we cannot be guaranteed to ride together?
Anyhow, am I going to have to fight this for all 15 of my travel days in this 2 month pass??? How about on the Freccerossia? Or is it just possible to tell Eurail to create a travel day and give me a barcode I can give to the train inspectors, and just always get my reservations directly from OBB/TrenItalia/etc?
Eurail travel day on OBB, seat selection during reservation
Best answer by rvdborgt
The RJ and EC trains from Austria to Italy have a mandatory pass supplement of €10 in 2nd class and €15 in 1st class. Reservation is optional.
If you book via Eurail, then you pay for the supplement plus €2 booking fee (per person and train) and you get a reservation included. However, you can't pick your seat, but if you book 2 seats in 1 transaction, then they should normally be next to each other if possible.
If you book through ÖBB, then you can pay for the supplement but the reservation is €3 extra, with the advantage that you can pick your seat from a seat map.
There's no point in fighting anything here. Also, did you check on a seat map that your original seats were indeed not next to each other? The numbers of seats next to each other aren't always consecutive.
The RJ and EC trains from Austria to Italy have a mandatory pass supplement of €10 in 2nd class and €15 in 1st class. Reservation is optional.
If you book via Eurail, then you pay for the supplement plus €2 booking fee (per person and train) and you get a reservation included. However, you can't pick your seat, but if you book 2 seats in 1 transaction, then they should normally be next to each other if possible.
If you book through ÖBB, then you can pay for the supplement but the reservation is €3 extra, with the advantage that you can pick your seat from a seat map.
There's no point in fighting anything here. Also, did you check on a seat map that your original seats were indeed not next to each other? The numbers of seats next to each other aren't always consecutive.
Got it thanks for all this info
When I did reserve directly on ÖBB, then their seat selection map did show both available and unavailable seats, but the numbers were only shown for the available seats. So I couldnt really tell where 11 and 15 were which where the ones Eurail got me. Guess we’ll see!
I would guess that the seats that you got from Eurail are next to each other or facing each other. As long as there are seats available next to each other or facing each other the system will assign those.
If you have the route, date and wagon number, it is possible to find a seat map online.
I would guess that the seats that you got from Eurail are next to each other or facing each other. As long as there are seats available next to each other or facing each other the system will assign those.
If you have the route, date and wagon number, it is possible to find a seat map online.
I did try to see on the OBB website for future Thursdays for RJX662 from Wien Hbf to Bozen leaving at 8:28am in coach# 36, but never could see where seats 11 and 15 were by looking at future trips, even looking out to December. Here is my reservation that Eurail got me, they did tell me that despite the fact that “open coach” is listed there, that our seats are 11 and 15. But I just can never see 11 and 15 as option for selecting seats
If you look at the seat map on the ÖBB reservation page or on vagonweb.cz, seats 11 and 15 are in the last (or first, if you like) row at the “toilet end” of the car. There are only two seats in that row and both are window seats with a rather large space between them. The other rows have three seats each.There is a door between the toilet area and the passanger saloon.
We are discussing RJX 662 between Vienna and Innsbruck, do we? And you do not have this problem on the connecting train between Innsbruck and Bozen/Bolzano?
Train composition with seat maps here:
https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=%C3%96BB&kategorie=RJX&cislo=662&rok=2025
If you look at the seat map on the ÖBB reservation page or on vagonweb.cz, seats 11 and 15 are in the last (or first, if you like) row at the “toilet end” of the car. There are only two seats in that row and both are window seats with a rather large space between them. The other rows have three seats each.There is a door between the toilet area and the passanger saloon.
We are discussing RJX 662 between Vienna and Innsbruck, do we? And you do not have this problem on the connecting train between Innsbruck and Bozen/Bolzano?
Ah I spent more time and did eventually find it in OBB. LOL then I came back here and see the rvdborgt posted me a picture. thanks, heh.
And yes you’re right, RJX662 from Vienna/Innsbruck. And again yes, I prob will face this issue for the SBA train then also the Italian RE but I dont seem to be able to book seats for those so wasnt going to stress about those. Plus they are very short compared to the RJX, surely we’ll be able to sit together, unless people intentionally go out of their way to be rude, which I just dont see that happening.
Im glad I went to OBB and got those 2 other seats directly together, though, away from the WC. Ill just let 11 and 15 be as is, I wish I could just give them back somehow but Im done worrying about it.
Thanks very much all, Im such a noob here.
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