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Amelie DeyaegerRail rookie

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I thought I could book reservations in the app, I'm confused

Hello. I need assistance with our passes. I purchased a mobile version of tickets for myself, husband and kid. I have downloaded the app and found the routes and times of preference. We purchased 1st class. I want to book our seats, but the app confuses me…I thought I could buy them on the app, but it’s saying to book on the website itself of the train company. Can someone please break it down for me so that I know exactly what to do? Thanks

1 year ago

brinsKeeps calm and carries on

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All pass holder seats full? London - Amsterdam June 8

Hi I’m trying to make my first resv (global pass) from london to amsterdam on june 8 for the 11:04 train but it says “Prices unavailable. No price results were found for this connection. It is possible that all pass holder seats are sold out. Please try searching for another connection or check 'More information' and try other ways to book this seat reservation. If no pass holder seats are available anymore you need to buy a separate full fare ticket to board. So all the pass holder seats are full?Do I just go ahead and pay extra (31GBP vs 39GBP) on b-europe? or wait and risk it to book it when i’m in london the 31 May?

1 year ago

JricauRail rookie

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Need to join my family on 1 interrail pass. Can't book reservations

Hi Everyone,I unfortunately have 2 interrail pass numbers for my little family of 5 as a result we cannot book our train seats together… very very disappointing. I have already reached out via email but due to the volume of queries you are experiencing this issue has not been resolved. Could you please assist me.Thank you,Jenny O’Donnell

1 year ago

Olivia2finneganRail rookie

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Most trains say ''prices unavailable'' when booking seat reservations. Would it be possible to board without?

Me and my 3 friends are going interrailing for the month of a July. I went online there to reserve our train tickets but mostly all of the trains say “prices unavailable” as it is possible that all pass holder seats are sold out. If a train requires a seat reservation will we still be able to board without paying for the reservation, will our interrailing ticket cover us? We are aware we would possibly be left with no seat but this does not bother us as we just want to ensure we get onto the train. It says on the websight to try booking a train reservation ticket at the train station but being honest we don’t want to rely on that as we are 4 young girls and we do not want to wait until the day to find out if we will be able to board the train or not as it could be sold out on the day as we are going at peak time and we do not want to be stuck in a foreign country we don’t know our surroundings in. So since it won’t allow me to reserve tickets as it’s saying prices unavailable will we s

5 months ago

shawshank_02Right on track

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N/a reservations required. What does it mean?

So I’m planning my route and for some trains in Spain and Portugal it’s coming up with n/a for seat reservations. What does this mean?

1 year ago

LeeRail rookie

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Reservations for multiple travellers

HiI’m a bit confused about the best way to manage reservations for two of us travelling together. It seems there are two ways to manage a multi-person trip so that reservations are made together (so we can sit together): either by adding both travellers/passes to an account on the interrail web site or by adding both travellers/passes to the app on one mobile device.I understand that these two options are not connected, so it’s one or the other. Which option should I choose? Are there advantages to using the app option, eg we can make reservations together and have the reservation on the phone (without having to print out)? ThanksLee

1 year ago

mcadvFull steam ahead

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About making reservations In France/SNCF

As I am now in FRance and travelled yesterday and then overnight to the south a few points to clarify due to recent topics raised. These are from trying out on the long-distance (purple) machines to see how it works and what is available. These machines work the same all over FRance. There are also blue machines for local tickets only without any REServation and the like.It takes a fairly long way but it is possible to make REServations as passholder (differntiated between IR and EU and for both 1st or 2nd). Set up trip, probably for ´later/other station´ then there follows a very long list of types of pax (age, help needed for handicap, etc.) and then a page for ´reductions´ (I always use the French text-you can set them to /en/ and mostly also /de/). Click on MORE/autres there comes the Ir/EU option etc.It will take a few seconds but then appears an overview on date/time chosen for connections and prices to pay. To my utter amazement sometimes it even showed 2 connecting TGV for 10€

1 year ago

emmakatharineNew aboard

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Concerned about not getting seats on popular train routes Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal)

Digging through the posts about Portugal reservations, I understand that I won’t be able to make my reservation until I am actually there. However, I am concerned about actually being able to get seats on a popular train route (Faro-Lisbon) for the dates that I want to travel. It’s all over the eurail website to reserve ASAP because clearly summer is a busy time. I won’t be in portugal until 4 days before I want to take the train (in July). I think I have read somewhere that Portugal does not have the same restrictions as France, etc, on the number of eurail passholder seats per train - can someone confirm this or help point me towards more information? Thanks! Also, is anyone else disappointed in the Eurail program for southern europe? I ended up just buying tickets for Spain individually and am going to just leave travel days unused because I was watching trains fill up before my eyes (for dates months out), because I had no way to book reservations and didn’t want to mess up destina

1 year ago

cyberbubKeeps calm and carries on

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Spain reservation fees

I’m just considering buying an Interrail for me and my son for a 10-day trip from the UK into France and Spain. Last time I had an Interrail was 30 years ago - all paper-based, and very very few reservation fees!If we want a train journey with a connection (for example Granada to San Sebastian, which has at least 1 and maybe 2 or 3 connections) - do you have to make and pay for a reservation for every single ‘leg’ of the journey? For a journey with 2 connections, that would be E10 + E2 Interrail reservation fee on the app.. x 2 ‘legs’ = E24 just for reservations, per person? Is that correct?I have even read that you can’t actually book reservations on the Interrail app for Spanish trains, is that correct? So how would you do it - only in person at the station? It all sounds like a nightmare, possibly not worth it!!Thanks for any info!

1 year ago

KayaRight on track

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The trains available on the website are available for reservation If I buy the Pass?

Hi! I’m thinking of buying an interrail card; however, i am not sure whether there are seats for the train i want to. If i search through the Interrail website, are all the trains I see available for reservation? Or will there be some shown that have already been fully booked? Thanks in advance! Best,Kaya

1 year ago

BillBurkeRail rookie

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Eurail & France reservation Issues

After much searching, I have finally come to understand how miserable it is to try to use a Eurail pass in France. This was not the case last time I used the pass many years ago. I now have 2 first class passes, and I cannot seem to make any reservations for any French trains. Eurail claims that they can do it, but everything comes up “price not available” even months in advance. DBahn also has the same issue. B-Europe says it can’t find any trains. My first leg is 05/27 from Paris to Bayeux (small town in Normandy). There are multiple trains per day going that route, and there’s no way they’re all booked at this point. I have $70 worth of long distance charges trying to call SNCF (didn’t expect that from my phone plan!). I wait on hold for 15 minutes, and the automated system says something very fast in French and hangs up on me. Great use of time/money! I’m completely fed up with this whole process. I’m about ready to cancel the stupid pass, rent a car, and drive everywher

1 year ago

PollyholRail rookie

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Can't book seat reservations Paris- Bern ''Gateway error''

I’ve managed to reserve first seat from London to Paris. I’ve since been trying for 3 Evenings to reserve seats for 2nd journey from Paris to Bern. It either keeps telling me gateway error or it just keeps circling ?? Any ideas . I still need to reserve more . I really wouldn’t be happy travelling without reservations so at least I know I have a seat !! Any help and guidance would be appreciated Thanks

1 year ago

Natalie HesfordRail rookie

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Printing reservation tickets even if I have a mobile pass. Why is this needed?

Hi! I am traveling using a global Eurail pass this summer for France, Italy, and Spain. I have a mobile pass and have paid for seat reservations on trains from Bordeaux to Paris and Florence to Rome. In the emails for our bookings they say we need to print out copies of our tickets, even though we have the mobile pass. Why is this the case and what will actually be needed when we board the train? The email says this: “Remember, you’ll need physical copies of your reservations to show the conductor on board the train, along with your eurail Pass. Showing this email won’t be enough, so make sure you keep your print-outs somewhere safe.” I just don’t understand why we’d need paper copies if we already have a mobile pass??? We’re also trying to find trains from Paris to Barcelona but now realize you must have a paper pass that is mailed. How realistic is it that we could book a train a few days in advance from Paris to Barcelona at a station in Spain in person when we get there?

1 year ago

Rona GrayKeeps calm and carries on

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Sleeper Edinburgh - London. Any way to avoid two travel days?

I am trying to book a sleeper from Edinburgh to London bu can I avoid the 20 mins of the night I leave being counted as a day of my pass? I leave 23.40..the app seeems to suggest I book it from the next station but I cant do that at a booking office

1 year ago

Ursula VolkmannRight on track

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Eurail booking reservation system doesn't work; Rome - Munich

Hi, I’m trying to book a seat for my trip from Rome to Munich, but the Eurail booking system doesn’t work. I put all the necessary information, but don’t get any answer...

1 year ago

katesuzRight on track

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Changing train stations in Milan - enough transfer time?

Hi, we’re planning our first trip to Europe and I’m finally figuring out the train routes. We’re switching train stations in Milan for a Paris to Rome route. I read online that you need about an hour to move from one station to another and that it’s only a 25-minute walk or quick bus ride. But I had no idea how much time it takes to get off the train and back on another. Our first train gets into one station at 13:49 (1:49) and leaves from the other station at 15:15 (3:15). Will this be enough time? Thanks for any help.

1 year ago

Ilkka VirjoFull steam ahead

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Night train availability / reservations, e.g. Munich-Rijeka

Hi! We have planned to continue from Berlin to Croatia on 23rd/24th/25th July, and I see there is a night train from Munich to Rijeka. It would be a fine alternative to catch this train to the other direction (Rijeka - Munich) on 30th or 31st July. However, it looks like all the trains are fully booked, at least there seem to be absolutely no couchette berths or sleepers available. Do you think they really are sold out, or is it just I don’t know where or how to look? Are all berths on sale already, anyway…?

1 year ago

anotherstuartRail rookie

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Can't book Vienna to Paris nightjet Thur 21 July

On the interail reservations page I cannot book and I cannot get any tickets at all fro this train on the Austrian rail https://tickets.oebb.at/ website - whether or not I put in the railpass discount. This is the 1930 from Vienna arr. Pris Est at 1094. Out of interest on the https://www.nightjet.com/ site there are no trains showing apart from Mondays and Saturdays, generally. Or so it seems to me. Any help in knowing if the train exists and how to book it would be welcome. Thanks

1 year ago

mthomasRight on track

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Budapest to Bled - booking issues

Hi we are travelling in July (mobile passes). Trying to book seat reservations on the train from Budapest to Bled. There’s a few changeovers and it goes through the night which is why we wanted to reserve for peace of mind. On the interrail’s reservation site it is showing one of the trains (maribor to ljubljana) as unable to book reservations for. I looked on the OBB website and it also won’t allow me to book ‘seat only’ reservations for this train (says ‘not available’). But on the interrail site it shows all our connections for this journey as ‘reservation not necessary’ ie we can just get on the train with our interrail passes. So should we just turn up and do you think we will get on the train without seat reservations? Or does ‘not available’ mean the train is already fully booked and we will not be allowed on? I’ve heard that especially in places like Slovenia seat reservations are really not necessary, is this true? Grateful for any advice thanks :)

1 year ago

Michael S.Rail rookie

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For reservation Hamburg to Stockholm it says ''Prices temporarily unavailable''.

How can I book my reservation in the Train [NT300 from Hamburg to Stockholm on 17.07.2022]? I have two digital Global Passes and connected them to the journey. The booking System says “ Prices temporarily unavailable “ and i should try it in some hours. The reservation for the German [EC6] from Osnabrück to Hamburg is available. Is every booking so uncomfortable complicated?Friendly regards,Michael S.

1 year ago

Tom BarnesNew aboard

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Night train from Prague to Budapest. What does it mean if it says (+1) in the app?

Hi, I want to take a night train from Prague to Budapest, which is a direct train. I thought this would mean that it would only cost one travel day, but the when I find the route on the app, it says (+1 day). Does this mean it would count as 2 travel days? And if so, why does it count as 2 travel days?Thanks :)

1 year ago

EmmaEmmaEmmaNew aboard

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Travel from Milan to Zurich. Can't find journeys in August

Hello, I'm looking to travel from Milan to Zurich via st moritz in mid August.I can find the journey for today (may) but not August. Does anyone know why this might be? Thanks Emma

1 year ago

WiandaNew aboard

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