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Barbara Spaggiari
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Ticket bought, how long do I have to wait for arrival?

When I bought the paper ticket for the Global Pass. How long do I have to wait for it to arrive?

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Aksuki Gasman
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Booking seat reservations - says ''purchase at ticket office or self service machine''

Good morning, we have a question about seat reservation.Me and my friends booked some travel days in Portugal and in some options it says that seat reservation is required. Now, when we try to book them it says that we need to do it at a ticket office or self-service machine so we supposed we have to ignore the warning and book them when we're there. The problem is that we keep getting emails to not forget to book the seats, so we are not sure on what to do. Thank you very much.

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Cannot book return from London to Paris but shows seats available

I am trying to book a return trip from London to Paris. Of course, very frustrating because very limited seat reservation availability. It keeps showing that there is availability for this return but then becomes unavailable when it is the order review. Any suggestions? 

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Chloé Duwaerts
Chloé DuwaertsNew aboard
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Reservation Innsbruck - Bologna switches from mobile to paper ticket that does not arrive in time

Hello, I have a problem during the reservation for a train from Innsbruck to Bologna.When I am on the page to verify my informations, my mobile ticket switches automaticaly to a paper ticket and it tells me that it should arrive on the 4th of july. However, I will already be gone by this date. Also I would really prefer a mobile ticket.Is it normal?Thank you for the response,Chloé

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Veerle Bus
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No more available reservations; Roosendaal - Paris - Barcelona

Hi, Me and my friend who I'm going interrailing with discussed last night which trains we would take from our home town (Roosendaal, in the south of Nehterlands) to Paris and the train from Paris to Barcelona. For both routes, there was one option still avaible for us to take the day we wanted to travel. My friends booked her reservations last night, but when I tried to do it, it gave an error message a bit further in my shopping kart. So I decided to try again this morning, however now both reservations I wanted to make are completely booked full and so are all the other trains that same day. I've already booked the hostels so it is quite important to travel that day. Plus my friend already has her reservations.  I am kind of freaking out a bit right now and do not really know what to do. Is there any possibility of making a reservation elsewhere than the interrail site? Or does anybody have any tips on how to get from one destination to the other in a different way?

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Keith Harper
Keith HarperRail rookie
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Can't book reservation “One of the legs of your journey could not be booked” but it does not say which leg!

My wife and I have spent 10+ hours trying to book our trains for a trip leaving in 6 days and one of the legs apparently cannot be booked. BUT IT DOES NOT SAY WHICH ONE! We are beyond frustrated and have reworked the trip 6 times now and all legs show available until we try to check out. Then I get this error and cannot figure out which one is causing the issue. HELP! PLEASE!

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Hoo Kuang Shan
Hoo Kuang ShanRail rookie
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Unable to get seat reservations at higher price

My wife and I bought a 3-day Eurail Pass for France, and for the day we have been trying reserve seats on both Eurail’s Rail planner app and their official website for Paris to Nice on 27 June 2022 Monday morning. Try as we might, even though the app and the site shows that there was an option before we logged in, but the moment we use our pass to try and book the option disappears. I suspect that the 10 Euro reserved seats are not available anymore.However, when we selected the option to book via another way, it pointed us to another website (travel.b-europe.com) that allows us to see that there ARE seats for the same train that can be reserved, with 20 Euros fee. We are happy to take that option, but then it asked us to key in the ‘pass cover number’ which only appears on paper tickets.Questions:can we still somehow secure the 20 Euro-priced seats, even though we have digital tickets? if yes, what’s the best way to reserve them?

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Suewil69Rail rookie
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Paper ticket for seat reservation - not an option

Will be travelling from Bucharest to Budapest - night train- coming from UAE - postal service fairly non-existent. Any suggestions for booking seats? Will there be availability if I wait until I get into Bucharest and go to train counter on the day - 7th July? Also will be travelling onwards so postal delivery not compatable - can I use the email confirmation ? 

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Nelson Fernandes
Nelson FernandesNew aboard
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Age when i try to book TGV

Hello everyone, When I am booking a TGV in France, there is no option to change the age, as I am 24 years old and the site only has this option from 26 to 59.Is there a problem with booking like this? Thank you.

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Kevil Duhon
Kevil DuhonRail rookie
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Can't book train reservations in Norway ''no trains available''

I am travelling in Norway with Eurail pass in late July and August. I want to make a reservation for the train from Voss to Bergen on July 29 and from Trondheim to Oslo on Aug. 11. The Rail Planner tells me there are not trains available for these trips. I saw something about replacement buses -- are there buses for these trips? Do I need to make reservations for the buses? Also, does my eurail pass cover these replacement buses?  I have tried calling Entur but I wait on hold for long periods and then the line goes dead.

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Elisabeth SandfuchsRight on track
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Seat reservation France names spelled wrongly

Dear all,For our trip Brussels Malaga with 2 children and 2 adults we have managed to book all seat reservations now, however we had to use all different channels (DB Reiseservice, sncf hotline, our extended family in Spain going to the train station…). Thanks for all the super advice already here on the community which helped a lot.I still have one issue though as the reservation done through sncf have spelling mistakes (f instead of s 2x in my family name and the one of the kids). Basically one could still deduct that it’s us, but it’s not the same. Does anybody have a recent experience whether this is being controlled? Shall I contact sncf to cancel and re-issue? bests,Elisabeth

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AudreyRight on track
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Combination of reserved seats and unreserved seats?

I am very confused about Eurail….So in my travel from France to Italy ...the first leg says no reservation needed….then the middle leg needs a seat (so I reserved and paid for one) and then the last leg said the pass seats were gone so I went to Italian rail line and paid for the full price seat.But….what about that first leg?? I have no reservation..it’s not even possible...so what if I show up there and can’t get on the train because it’s full….then the seats go to waste that I’ve paid for for the 2nd and 3rd leg??? :(I feel like even if the seat is free we should have a way to hold a spot or something? Am I missing something?? 

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Heikki Hukkanen
Heikki HukkanenRail rookie
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Can't book reservations for Paris - Nice

Hi,I am doing an interrail with my friend. We have bought passes and we want to go from Paris to Nice. We cant make seat reservations for the train? Can we still travel on that train with our passes without seat reservations or can we make them there in the train?Thank you in advance!Heikki H     

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Can't book seat reservation Paris-Madrid

Hello!I have a problem that I can’t seem to find the solution to. I’m going from Paris-Madrid in July and it is obligated to buy seat reservations. Since that’s not possible on the app, I called Deutsche Bahn but they said I can only do that in France. Than I also called French railway and you can’t buy reservations without american express that I don’t have. I really need to make this reservation quick since I’ scared that there won’t be any seats left. Does anyone have any idea please?

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Karen Wilsey Kern
Karen Wilsey KernRight on track
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Looking for High Speed Trains Between Italian Cities. How to book?

I’m trying to book reservations on this site for high speed trains between multiple Italian cities for late September  and early October but I don’t see the high speed trains listed on this site.  I can see them on other sites.  Why can’t I book them here?  Thank you in advance for your help.  

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Change train time reservation

I have booked seat reservation from Rome to Milan. I would like to change the time of the reservation. Is it possible to change reservation time free of charge?

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BenToghillNew aboard
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Train reservation impossible to buy

Hi, we are trying to get the EC 130 from Bratislava to Krakow at 10:57 on Sunday, however this seems impossible to buy - on the Czech train website, it is greyed out, system error. On the Polish website and OBB it is the same thing. I have asked in the train station twice in Bratislava and everyone says system error come back later (absolutely useless). I tried ringing the Czech website and they said to book it at the train station, and the people in Bratislava said try the website where I got told by them you can’t buy it here. What would you recommend?

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EmmaSurtRail rookie
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Cannot book reservation. I get an exclamation mark or the page does not respond

I can’t book my reservations on the train I want. When I have filled in all the information and want to go to the next step after filling in where I was born, the page does not work. I get a exclamation mark in the middle of the page, or the page does not respond in any way. I have tested refreshing the page, do the reservations again both in my computer and my mobile. 

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rtv_73Rail rookie
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Missing e-ticket in reservation email London to Amsterdam

I purchased 4 seats and I only received 3 tickets. It might be because my son and I have the same name.

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Can not book reservations. Error on Website

I want to book seat reservation but at the end of the booking process the website is doing nothing. In the website inspector its throws an error(im study informatik).So i cant book seats for the trains this means my Interrail-Pass is usless.They have no so support number so i have to write to the community. Interrail sucks.

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Leo Veltman
Leo VeltmanRail rookie
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From Londen to Broadstairs (Kent) - can't find connections

Is het mogelijk om van Londen naar Broadstairs (Kent) te reizen? Als ik treintijden over deze reis opvraag krijg ik een melding: we kunnen geen treinen vinden die overeenkomen met je zoekopdracht.Je begrijpt misschien wel ik ben een rookie!In Englisch: Is it possible to travel from London to Broadstairs (Kent)? 

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Longstanding issue relating to reservations on Germany-France crossborder trains

Hi! Hope this isn’t too appallingly annoying a first post on the forum! I love Interrail but have a major ticketing/reservations query. From posts on this website - a lot of them - and my own personal experience over the last many months, there seems to be something pathologically wrong with the availability of crossborder trains between Germany and France, like say the TGV 9552 or literally all of the others. Without a phone call to a reservations office - which I know is part and parcel of Interrail life but still a fair hurdle against easy use on such an important route - it is impossible to book these except at a railway station. It is completely impossible to book them online via DB or the Eurail.com system. This should not be the case because availability does exist.  Is there any way to resolve this in discussion with DB/SNCF, or to ask SNCB to expand the list of permitted stations in their online booking applet for Interrail passes? It seems like a minor technical fault which c

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OlafRight on track
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I cannot find Luxembourg in the app

I want to go from Brussels to Luxembourg. Unfortunately, I cannot find Luxembourg in the Rail-Planner-App.Original:Ich möchte von Brüssel nach Luxemburg fahren. Leider kann ich in der Rail-Planner-App Luxembourg nicht finden.

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Jennifer G.
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No seat reservation for 3 year old?

We are traveling with three children next month, two of them have their own interrail global pass, but our 3 year old is too young for his own pass.  But he's a little too heavy to be sitting on my lap for hours, so I wanted to include him in our seat reservation (ICE, Germany to France). I was told that wouldn't be possible unless I purchased a seperate ticket for him, at full price. I can't believe there's no way around this, or surely Interrail would have an option to add a toddler pass or something like that? Has anyone else had this problem?

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My payment didnt go through and searched reservations are now fully complete

Hi my seat reservation payment didn't went through and now I can't book my seats anymore, because they are now full, for thalys and nightjet, what I need to do now?

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