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hi! 

me and two frinds bought a 5 travels days pass. unfortunatly when we added the pass to the rail planner app, we aso activated it. we did not understand it would be so hard to seat reserve. we had alreade looked up a train that went from stockholm to copenhagen then hamburg en then munich. we saw that te stockholm-copenhagen trip had to be reserved but when we went to check out it sait it was full. now i cant find any trains that takes us out of sweden and our outbound day is set for today…

 

thankful for help/suggestions to what we sould do now

 

 

 

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Best answer by AnnaB 16 July 2022, 17:42

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Här är iallafall hela texten. Fråga om något är oklart.

Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. 

 

Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 

Reservations 

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website.  You can look at the guide in the link:

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105

If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice.

Please note that Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and ticket in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.

 

Activation of pass

During the activation process, when you choose the start day of the validity of the pass, the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day, even if you don't enter a journey, the advice is therefore not to activate the pass before the first travel day as you only can deactivate the pass before 00.00 on the day the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you will loose travel days if you have activated the pass in advance.

It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works.

 

 Activation of travel day

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass, until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage  You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day.

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okej då kollar hur det blir utanför tyskland!

Ja, typ från Hamburg eller så.

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okej då kollar hur det blir utanför tyskland!

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 vidare från tyskland till exempelvis split, croatien. är de tågen ofta lika fullbokade som de till hamburg?

Jag vet faktiskt inte. Om du skriver ett nytt inlägg där du ber om hjälp med det så kollar jag på hur ni tar er till Hamburg från Köpenhamn.

Eftersom ni ändå inte kan få några pengar tillbaka om ni inte skulle använda Interrailkortet så kan ni iallafall börja med att åka till Köpenhamn imorgon. Sen har ni 3 resdagar kvar att ta er till Dubrovnik. Det bör förhoppningsvis gå att lösa.

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I morgon bitti kl 6.55 kan ni ta ett IC tåg direkt till Linköping, anskomst 8.50. Detta tåg måste ni boka plats på. Detta görs på SJ.se Ange Interrail/Eurail som SJ Prio el likn. Som Kortnummer fungerar I (som i Interrail) samt 8 siffror. Det spelar ingen roll vilka.

Klockan 10.19 går ett tåg från Linköping till Kalmar, ankomst 13.38.

Klockan 15.00 går ett tåg från Kalmar till Köpenhamn, ankomst 18.49.

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det fanns regionaltåg till köpenhamn som vi tänkte ta men sen när det inte fanns resor från köpenhamn blev vi osäkra 

Ni borde ha åkt till Köpenhamn som jag visade. Då hade ni varit i Tyskland imorgon. Ni kommer att behöva chansa lite nu när tågen är så fulla. Jag kollar på nya förbindelser.

 

Hur snart kan ni åka iväg?

oj vad snällt! jag har kollat själv men hittar inte eftersom det är så mycket som ska klaffa på de 5 resdagarna.  jag jag vet vi skulle tagit den du visade men det blev lite stressigt eftersom det inte va då vi planerat åka och inte ens kolla hur vi skull åka vidare. vi skulle kunna åka vid 18-tiden men då måste vi hitta så vi kommer vidare från tyskland till exempelvis split, croatien. är de tågen ofta lika fullbokade som de till hamburg?

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det fanns regionaltåg till köpenhamn som vi tänkte ta men sen när det inte fanns resor från köpenhamn blev vi osäkra 

Ni borde ha åkt till Köpenhamn som jag visade. Då hade ni varit i Tyskland imorgon. Ni kommer att behöva chansa lite nu när tågen är så fulla. Jag kollar på nya förbindelser.

 

Hur snart kan ni åka iväg?

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det fanns regionaltåg till köpenhamn som vi tänkte ta men sen när det inte fanns resor från köpenhamn blev vi osäkra 

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jag kollade! verkade som man får ta olika regionaltåg:) just nu verkar det lite hopplöst med tanke på de få resdagarna och hur långt vi ska

Var är ni nu? 

vi är kvar i stockholm eftersom vi inte hittade någon vidare resa från köpenhamn:(

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jag kollade! verkade som man får ta olika regionaltåg:) just nu verkar det lite hopplöst med tanke på de få resdagarna och hur långt vi ska

Var är ni nu? 

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Här finns information hur du tar dig från Köpenhamn till Hamburg utan reservation.

Du måste troligen vara medlem i FB gruppen Tågsemester för att se sidan.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/tagsemester/permalink/3381468968739361/

 

jag kollade! verkade som man får ta olika regionaltåg:) just nu verkar det lite hopplöst med tanke på de få resdagarna och hur långt vi ska

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you were right, they are booked. should have understod this...

Check the link and document in Swedish above.  There are ways to get to Hamburg without reservation. 

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you were right, they are booked. should have understod this...

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Här finns information hur du tar dig från Köpenhamn till Hamburg utan reservation.

Du måste troligen vara medlem i FB gruppen Tågsemester för att se sidan.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/tagsemester/permalink/3381468968739361/

 

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@AnnaB no i didn’t acctiually book it just saw it on teh site, i will try to book it no but hesitated becaus i couldn’t find it on the app, but thanks now i know i can do it manually!

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@firstinterrail22 Have you actually made the reservations at DSB udland, not only looked for trains? You don't see the availability until you proceed to make the purchase.

The direct trains between Denmark and Germany are sold out for weeks.

If you get a reservation and the train isn't in the app, you can add it manually. If you have an IPhone, there might be a bug that makes journeys dissappear. If you have an IPhone and need to add a manual journey, do that just before boarding the train and immediately add the journey to the pass and create the ticket.

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@AnnaB i have found a seat reservation from copenhagen to hamburg on dsb udland site but I can’t find the same train on the rail planner app, is this a problem?

Fastest way is to get to Bari in Italy (can be done with  one travel day from München) and cross the sea by ferry (you'll have to pay for this).

Nearest station that is easily reachable is Split (München - Villach - Zagreb - Split). From there by bus or fast ferry (you'll have to pay for this).

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main priority is to get to dubrovnik, so if it takes 2 to get to munich, is it realistic to get somewhere on the coast with 3? either on italian side or croatatian

@Angelo what is a good way to get to Dubrovnik?

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main priority is to get to dubrovnik, so if it takes 2 to get to munich, is it realistic to get somewhere on the coast with 3? either on italian side or croatatian

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Ok. Then you can use 2 travel days in Sweden now. Will you manage the whole trip using 5 travel days?

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@AnnaB if we don’t manage to get out of sweden today(our outbound day) can we use another travel day  on our pass?

You can travel on 2 days in Sweden but if you use both of them now, then you will have to pay for your trip in Sweden on your way home.

As you only have 5 travel days in total you need to get as far as possible today.

What is the route you have planned for your Interrail trip?

innitially we thougth we would take early morning train from stockholm directly to munich. after munich we thought we would take a train to the coast of italy somewhere. and then boat from bari in intaly to dubrovnik croatia. we have a plane ticket from dubrovnik so we won’t be travelling back with train. 

i have found seat reservations from copenhagen all the way to munich :)

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@AnnaB if we don’t manage to get out of sweden today(our outbound day) can we use another travel day  on our pass?

You can travel on 2 days in Sweden but if you use both of them now, then you will have to pay for your trip in Sweden on your way home.

As you only have 5 travel days in total you need to get as far as possible today.

What is the route you have planned for your Interrail trip?

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@AnnaB if we don’t manage to get out of sweden today(our outbound day) can we use another travel day  on our pass?

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Lycka till och gör ett nytt inlägg om ni behöver hjälp med någon mer del av resan senare.

 

Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. 

 Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 Reservations 

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website.  You can look at the guide in the link:

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105

If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice.

Please note that Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and ticket in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.

 Activation of pass

During the activation process, when you choose the start day of the validity of the pass, the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day, even if you don't enter a journey, the advice is therefore not to activate the pass before the first travel day as you only can deactivate the pass before 00.00 on the day the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you will loose travel days if you have activated the pass in advance.

It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works.

 Activation of travel day

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass, until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage  You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day.

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