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Bruce ArthurRail rookie

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Can you book a reservations for a journey that isn’t going to be the first journey of the trip?

Can you book a trip that is part of your journey that isn’t going to be your first trip?

1 year ago

StefanRail rookie

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Exchange of seat reservations

Hey!I have an first class Interrail ticket and unfortunately I was not able to reserve my own sleeper compartment on the Interrail website for the night trains from Stockholn to Lulea (NT 92) and from Narvik to Arlanda C (NT 93), but "only " a ticket in a 6-person sleeper car. Can I exchange the reservations?

1 year ago

Cyndi GheraRight on track

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Trying to book sleeper for 4 from Venice to Saltzburg

Is there a way to book 4 people in a sleeper together from Venice to Saltzburger? I thought I saw this but now I don’t see this option. Any guidance and tips would be appreciated as I have never done this before.

1 year ago

FedezRail rookie

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Reservations required or not and where to book?

Hi, i Will travel with some Friends in August, can you give me some advices about seats reservation?3 AugustBologna to Innsbruck 7:45-12:36 : Seat reservation Is mandatory? Where i can book it?Innsbruck to Budapest 14:17-21:19 : Seat reservation Is mandatory? Where i can book it? 14 AugustMunchen hbf to Bologna 13:34-20:16 :Seat reservation Is mandatory? Where i can book it? For all the other trains i'll take the reservation is not required. Do you advice me to book Seat reservation?Thanks

1 year ago

Léa NiffRail rookie

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How to make the reservation from Athens to Kalambaka - says not available

Hello! I’m planning my trip from Athens to the meteores (kalambaka) and I tried to book my train ticket via the app, it couldn’t find any train so I tried on the eurail website (it could find the train this time) but this time it said « no available from interail.eu »So what I am supposed to do to make a reservation ? (I even tried on trainose, the train official website but I don’t have the interail discount) thanks for your help!

1 year ago

princyRight on track

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rtv_73Rail rookie

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Can 'Delivery by Post' reservations be purchased online and later printed at a train ticket counter?

I will be in Europe in 2 weeks. I see only one available train (Paris to Barcelona) that I could purchase a reservation.Given the short time for the post, I was wondering if I could buy the reservation online and then go to a train office (when in Europe) and ask them to print the tickets for me.Thanks,

1 year ago

Trenton ShadyRail rookie

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How to reserve/book trains ahead of time? Is it even possible?

My girlfriend and I are both students studying abroad to france this summer, specifically from June 22nd to July 23rd. We will be staying in Marseille, France for the majority of our time abroad however we have time available over the weekends to travel wherever we’d like. In an attempt to be organized we purchased Eurail passes so that we could book/reserve our trains ahead of time without any stress or potential mishaps at the stations. (No one wants to miss a pre-scheduled tour of the Eiffel tower.) We plan to travel to Paris, Luxembourg, and Rome each subsequent weekend that we have available. The issue, however, is that we have been attempting to book these trains for awhile now and have absolutely no clue whether some of them are reserved or not. Most, if not all, of the trains on the app state that we need seat reservations, but some of our trips will not allow us to purchase the reservations. We have managed to do so for our trip to Paris, but not for our return, while Luxembou

1 year ago

Sue GillNew aboard

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Seat reservations Eurostar to London expensive

Hi, what a nightmare trying to navigate with seat reservations...thought travelling by train through Europe was suppose to be easy!! So far have had to pay for seat reservations for each journey and now trying to book Eurostar to London and through a different website it will cost 90 euros with the Europass. TBH at the point of wanting to cancel the lot. Seems everyone is having the same problem with seat reservations. Sorry for the moan just fed up with it now.

1 year ago

MiniOzzNew aboard

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Can't book the seats Spain/France

Hello,I want to book the reservations for the seats, where it is required. But in Spain and partly in France I cant reservate the seats and it saysmthat I have to book them at the train station. The chance that the seats aren’t available anymore when I get to the train staions are pretty big. Especially because we are a group of 8.So what shoul/could I do? How can I reservate the seats without being in Barcelona e.g.? The second thing is, that there was a chance to do the reservation from Bordeaux to Boulogne online. When I got to the website it said, that they need the pass cover number (from the paper pass) but I don’t have it, because I booked the mobile pass. What schould I do? Greetings and thanks

1 year ago

LucyWarmingtonNew aboard

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Can't book Split to Budapest

Hey there, I have activated my 22 day global interrail pass, and have been trying to book some reservations on trains throughout our trip from July 21-August 11. For practically every train that requires a booking, I can’t figure out how to actually book it. It either says prices not available, or otherwise does not appear to let me access a booking page. The main train reservation I want to book is the euronight from Split to Budapest on the 30th July, and I have the same problems when trying to book through the Ceske Drahy site as well. However, I am finding this problem on nearly every other route as well on the eurail site, and wondering if I am missing something? Thanks in advance for any help!

1 year ago

L13vi11eRight on track

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Pisa Centrale short transfer. Enough time?

Hi fellow travellers, I'm gonna travel by train from La Spezia to Venice, with a short transfer at Pisa Centrale. Is 8 minutes enough time to transfer train?Thank you very much for your answer.

1 year ago

Mary Cinelli BarretoNew aboard

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Can I book trains without activating my passes? We don't have our passports yet

Can I book trains without activating my passes? We don't have our passports yet.

1 year ago

Regan OlssonRail rookie

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Start Date is Before Travel Date But Says Not Valid

Our global passes are valid 23 June (we just changed the date of our passes tarting 3 July), and we were able to book a first seat reservation on 26 June from Naples to Rome. When I went to book a second reservation for Rome to Venice on 29 June, however, it says “this pass isn't valid on this date.” Our passes start 23 June now and we were able to book that first reservation. Is it a glitch? We are able to book after 3 July, which makes me think so but can’t get anyone at Eurorail to help - the bot and Messenger can’t help.

1 year ago

MC162New aboard

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Short Transfer times and transfer by foot. What is the difference?

Hello, me and my friends are currently booking trains for our route and were worried about short transfer times - we were wondering what the difference is between a ‘short transfer’ and a ‘transfer by foot’ and are these usually safe to do or quite risky?Thank you!

1 year ago

eliwilson112New aboard

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Pass cover number for digital ticket

Hi all, I need the pass cover numbers for two e-tickets that I bought in order to book a Eurostar journey. It seems like I can only book the train I want through B-Europe which require this information. I have tried ringing the SNCF to see if they can help me but they say that they cannot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1 year ago

ameliaRail rookie

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Seat reservation class different on email and ticket

I booked 2nd class seat reservations, this is what is on my confirmation email, but on some of the tickets it states a 1st or business class seat. Will this be a problem?

1 year ago

EileenARail rookie

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Delayed train and because of that i miss the train with my seat reservation

Hey guys, My Train from Leipzig to Mannheim are delayed and because of that, I will miss the following trains to Paris. But I have a seat reservation from Offenburg to Paris. What should i do? Can I use any other train, without a reservation? bescause on the eurail-webside is no train free for a seat reservation. I look forward that anyone can help me. thank u!

1 year ago

RMLRail rookie

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Paris-Barcelona reservations

I am wanting to do some travel in Europe with my family this summer. There are four of us. But it hinges on being able to travel from Paris to Barcelona on the 10.10 train on 16 July.I have tried to find out whether it would be possible to book tickets on this train before buying the Interrail pass. But I can’t work out how to do it.Is there a way of doing this, or could somebody please check for me. Thanks

1 year ago

Maeve O'ReillyRight on track

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Can't book reservation tickets because of the apostrophe in my name

Has anyone been able to resolve this issue Names with apostrophe on ticket don’t seem to be able to book seats. Seems ridiculous. Now looking at buying a new ticket without using apostrophe and looking for a refund on the other ticket. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

1 year ago

Family of 5Rail rookie

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Is it possible to book a 2nd class seat with a 1st class interrail pass? Paris - Nabonne sleeper

I have found a 2nd class empty couchette travelling23/07/22 at 21.41Austerlitz to Nabonne 07.10 that I wish to reserve for my family ( of 5) but take the whole carriage. When speaking to the very helpful staff a SNCF they have reserved bookings over two fist class carriages as we have 1st class interrail tickets and informaing me it’s not possbile to take the second class as I will incurre a fee/fine on the train. Any advise or insight would be much appreciated.Thank you in advance

1 year ago

LenaAimeeRight on track

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Madrid to Porto or Lisbon no direct train. Any alternatives?

Hello again!I’d like to go from Madrid to Porto on the 4th of July. Since I already looked up this question I know that some others tried or want to try the same thing. i k ow there is no direct train from Madrid to Porto but does anybody know an alternative route? I only found a bus which drives between Madrid and Porto. Currently the price is about 13€ and it would take 9-10 hours I think.

1 year ago

Paul-theactualRail rookie

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Travel through home contry without the train stopping in it

Hello there,consider this:I’m from Germany (Eastern Germany to be exact, that is also important for my question) I’ve got a global Pass that is valid for 2 MonthsI have read through many different situations on this forum but still can’t find an answer to the following question: I will be in France and want to travel back to Germany but I do not want to waste my inbound journey for a weekend in my hometown. I know that I can travel through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Czech Republic. And I will do so. I found a nice night train that runs from Zürich to Prague without stopping in Germany - so far so good- but it still goes through Germany for some km. Am I allowed to use this? I sent a picture of the running Map of the train right down there.I’ll just take the s-bahn with my 9-Euro Ticket from the border of Czech Republik for the last Meters.I am looking forward to your answers!

1 year ago

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