Train connections & reservations

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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! 

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. 

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?

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! 

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

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 

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

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. 

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!

Hello,I had trouble booking seat reservations via the Interrail reservations page for Brussels-Paris Thalys operated train so I called the customer service and bought the reservation there. I have a global 2nd class interrail pass and I was told that they are out of 2nd class seats but can sell me the comfort seat. I said I’ll take that since I thought that maybe then I’ll just be charged with a higher fee (the reservation was 25 €). When I got the reservation via email, it said pass comfort and 1st class. Now I’m worried that can I actually use this reservation with my 2nd class pass.

Hi , I'm travelling to Italy, mostly Rome and Tuscany and i wonder if I can use the Interrail pass from the airport or if i have to buy another ticket for this trip

Hi ! I want to make a seat reservation from Paris to Brussels on next september 17th and received the message “Prices unavailable.  No prices result...etc” that have already seen in another topics.  Can anybody help me to solve it ? Thanks very much in advance

Hello,what train line should I use to book a ticket from Wales(Bangor), London, Bath, Paris, Caen, Strasbourg and Troyes?  7 destinations in 1 month. 

Hello!I just bought a seat reservation on the Czech Republic train website for a train from Pagra to Budapest where seat reservation was mandatory. In the purchase of the ticket I have only put my name, he has not asked me for anything about the interrail pass. It is normal?And can someone explain to me how the process of taking a train is, that is, I have to show both the ticket (QR) of the interrail pass train from prague to budapest and the QR of the seat reservation, right?Thank you!

I have a mobile pass. I got the pass to use on Eurostar. I cannot reserve a seat on the Interrail site. It goes in a loop. I go the to booking tool. I choose the train. It shows ‘reservation required’ on the train. There is a dialogue to click ‘how to book your reservation’. Clicking on it sends it back to the booking tool.

I'm due to make an inbound trip with a Global Pass to the north of England on 25 June, when there is now a major strike planned.  Assuming the Eurostar runs but I can't get the onward train home from London, will it be possible to extend my inbound trip to the following day and if so who should I ask to do this?

Need a pass cover number for my mobile pass right now, could someone assist me with this?

Hello,My friends and I are planning on doing an Interrail trip this summer and we had a question about the seat reservations. Some trains seem to be fully booked on the days we were planning on taking them but the seat reservations are not required to board the train. Is it possible to still take the train without sitting down or is the seat required to board the train ?Thank you for the help,Louise

Hi I made five seat reservations yesterday for the Paris to Bordeaux Train ( In August )  There is a glitch, which means that when I select the 17.11 train, the 16.11 train is indicated ( screenshot attached )  however when you fo through to review order, the 17.11 is indicated again. My reservations have arrived, but they are for the 16.11, which is too early for our connection. Is there a helpline/ email address I can contact to correct this?  Has anybody else experienced the same problem?  Thank you Faye