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CliffSCCA
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Seat Reservations

Traveling from the US to Italy and Germany next month. Purchased a 4-day pass and have already saved my itinerary. I read that it's best not to activate your pass until you actually arrive in Europe since it can't be refunded once activated (just in case something happens last minute and the trip has to be cancelled) but I was wondering how far in advance I should be buying seat reservations?Some of the trains I've picked require them but most are just recommended. I assume I should not wait until I land in Italy to buy them since the could possibly sell out.Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Nightjet Vienna Brussels - mid August booking

Obviously demand is high this time of year but there seems to be zero availability from August 12 onwards (all the way into September and October as well) for the Nightjet from Vienna to Brussels. Any ideas?

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How to travel from Athens Greece to Patra Greece with Eurail Global Pass

Hi There!I am checking the train timetable to travel from Athens Greece to Patra Greece using Eurail global pass on Aug 11, 24 and it shows  "can't find any train to match".  I tried different dates, I got the same results.I also have tried Athens to Kiato and got the same results.  So, I am confused.  I am just trying to get to Patras and get on the Ferry to go to Bai, Italy.  How do I get from Athens to the Ferry at Patras ?Please help.

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Interrail reservation showing red.

I am trying to see if I can reserve a Eurostar seat for use with an Interrail card (which I haven’t bought yet). On the drop-down menu, the Interrail option is surrounded by a red outline when I select it. If I select the Eurail one it lets me proceed. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

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Trenord Tirano to Milan July 2024 - Possible closure?

OK, so next issue I see travelling from Tirano to Milan weekend of 19/07/2024 - I go to book Trenord for train from Tirano to Milan morning of the 20th July - cannot see any train schedule. Train schedule stops 08/07/2024.I check https://valtellinamobile.it/lavori-ferrovia-milano-tirano/ for disruptions etc and it translates to the below:The dates of the train block in 2024 and 2025 on the Lecco – Tirano lineLECCO – TIRANO and COLICO – SONDRIO – TIRANOPreparatory works for the 2026 Olympics 9 June 2024 – 8 September 2024 (90 day line interruption.LECCO – TIRANO and LECCO – COLICOPreparatory works for the 2026 Olympics June 2025 – September 2025 (90 day line interruption).Does this mean that line from Tirano to Milan on Trenord will not be running?Will it be diverted to a different route?Help appreciated - did not expect to strike issues in Switzerland over this time but I guess everything is geared for winter season perhaps? (hence Olympics?)

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"Reservation cannot be made" error message when trying to book a train from Berlin to Gdynia

I’m trying to book a train from Berlin to Gdynia (a journey with RE1 then EC59 connection) on the DB website. In the journey details, it says that the EC59 requires compulsory reservation. However, when I’m trying to continue with the booking, this error message popped up: “Reservation cannot be madeUnfortunately, a reservation is not possible for this connection. Due to compulsory reservation, a booking is therefore not possible. Please choose another connection.”so I cannot do the booking. Can someone help me on how to book tickets for this journey online? It’s stressing me out haha. 

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How to view my tickets on the app?

I'm planning a train trip England to France using Interrail, in about in a months time. I've made all the seat reservations and paid the supplements, but I cannot see the tickets or where to find them and they have not been emailed to me. I've downloaded the payment confirmation. However I have received the tickets for Eurostar and successfully printed them and downloaded them. But where are the other tickets?

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Unable to reserve EN 40476 Budapest-Berlin

Hi,I’ve been trying to reserve seats for my wife and I on EN 40476 from Budapest to Berlin in late July and haven’t had much luck.I first saw a recommendation to book this via oebb.at. I can book a combined ticket/reservation through that website, but if I search for reservations only, the website indicates “Ticket not available”. It’s a similar story with cd.cz and MAV -- it looks like they’ll happily sell me a pair of tickets but separate reservations aren’t available. Things get even weirder if I try to book it through the Eurail website directly. If I search for tickets for the two of us, I only see two options -- the seating compartment (ouch) and 2x single sleeper cabins ($$$).  However, if I search for a ticket for one of us, I see all of the expected seat types.These prices seem pretty high, but they are quite a bit less than the full ticket prices via oebb / MAV, so I guess this is just what a reservation costs? But regardless, I have no idea why I wouldn’t be able to choose a

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My Tripp Cologne to London - I'm a bit unsure

Hello user in this helpful forum,I have Interrail Global Pass Promo Senior and want to visit England. Starting in Cologne I wand to make shure that I need a reservation from Brüssel Midi to London. On www.b-europe.com I have to buy the reservation that costs 30€. Is this realy all I have to note ?I look forward to your answer - Thanks in advance * All the best *Martin

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Bosphorus Express and connexion

Hello, We want to take Bosphorus Express (Bucuresti —> Istanbul) just after the night train from Budapest to Bucuresti but, if someone already did that, we have some questions : We have 3hours for the connexion, do you think this is possible ? (Or does the train from Budapest to Bucuresti is often delayed?)  Do you think we can book our tickets the day for the day for the Bosphorus express? (We are in the middle of august we are afraid it will be full). We ask the company CFR and it is not possible to book it online or by phone/email with interrail passes. Thank you for your help !! :) Mélanie 

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Couchette reservation for family Bucharest to Istanbul

HiWe are a family of 4 inter-railing from London to Istanbul this summer. We want to book a private couchette from Bucharest to Istanbul using our interrail pass.I see now that you cannot do this online, and that we need to do this in person at a station. I had this confirmed by the Romanian CFR customer services folk. This feels very risky for us with a young family and being quite fixed on dates as we travel through Romania.I’ve looked on the interrail booking site and the OBB booking site and neither lets me book this train.Has anyone done this and can advise me if there is any way to book these tickets in advance? Could we do it using an agent of some kind? I’ve seen Andy recommended on Seat61, for instance.I think the only other option is to take the full cost of the seats on the chin and just book online without the interrail pass. Cost difference for the 4 of us seems to be around £100.I’d love some positive suggestions if anyone can help!Jennie

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Booking resrvation - from Bologna to Paris

HelloI would like to book two journeys with two global interrail passes from Bologna Centrale to Paris on August 30, 2024. Here are the details departure bologna centrale 9.36 amarrival paris gare de lyon 7.38 pm The route is already displayed on the rail planner application. However, I don't know where to make my reservation. Do I have to take each trip separately (there are two connections in Milan and Zurich) and if so, on which websites should I book? Thanks in advance.

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Prague - Budapest train IC577

Hey, i was trying to get a night train from Prague to Budapest, specially the Euronight 477/ Intercity 577 Metropol, but it doesn’t appear in the rail planner app, however, i can find it con de oficial cd page. I do not understand why it happens. Should I add manually the trip on the rain planner app, and get the seat reservation in the cd website? (i copied an older thread, since the solution there didnt work for me)I want to get the train from 18th of july at 22.03 leaving from Prague. However, i dont see it in the railplanner app. Whatever filters i use, it doesnt work :/. i can buy the reservation just fine on the CD site.

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Cologne Hbf to Cologne Messe Deutz

Hi! I wanted to follow up on my previous topic but my reply can’t seem to get in.. I’m planning on getting on this trip from Florence to Utrecht Centraal with these details: (on 31 July 2024)Firenze S.M.N - Milano Central (06:55-08:50) - reservation needed-transit 20 minsMilano Central - Bellinzona (09:10-10:46) - reservation needed-transit 31 minsBellinzona - Basel Sbb (11:17-14:56) - reservation optional-transit 17 minsBasel Sbb - Koln Hbf (15:13-20:05) - reservation optional-transit 16 minsKoln Hbf - Koln Messe Deutz (20:21-20:22) - reservation??-transit 28 minsKoln Messe Deutz - Utrecht Centraal (20:50-23:25) - reservation needed but I have 3 questions:The Basel Sbb - Koln Hbf (15:13-20:05) train is available in RailEurope website (shows FREE after I input the interrail pass), but it does not show up in the Rail app planner yet, why is that? Should I just add the trip manually?I can’t seem to find the Koln Hbf - Koln Messe Deutz train in the Rail app planner, it does not show any r

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New to Interrail - snag on first attempt to book in Spain

Hi, help requested!I am fairly new to Interrail. Our first journey is from Santander (coming in on ferry from Plymouth UK)  to Bilbao .. but when I enter this journey on Eurail it comes up with ridiculously long journeys of 11 or 23 hours. Anyone know what’s going on? It’s only 46 miles! Hmm? Advice about making reservations in Spain gratefully received. Many thanks :) 

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Website reservation - From Bologna Centrale to Paris

Hello,I'm contacting you because I'd like to book two journeys from Bologna Centrale to Paris, with two global interrail passes. On the Bahn website (https://int.bahn.de/fr) I can't select the interrail passes from the discounts on offer. Can you tell me on which site I can make my reservations?Thanks in advance.

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Book reservation from Bari to Bologna with a Interrail Global Pass

Hello,I would like to book a journey from Bari to Bologna using the Interrail Global pass on the OBB website (https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket). However, I have to choose between two options:One day tickets and day ticketsorSeat reservation only (no ticket)Can you tell me which one to choose? Thank you for your help.

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Trajet Tarbes-Rome -> Optimisation de trajet

BonjourNe souhaitant plus prendre l’avion, je fais le trajet Tarbes-Rome le 9 Juin, retour le 15 en train. Interrail me parait être une bonne option, mais je fais face à des questions d’optimisation, et de manque d’expérience aussi.J’ai pris par précaution un pass 4 jours, car je m’aperçois qu’en filtrant avec des temps de correspondance prudents (Filtre 10 ou 15min), j’aboutis à des temps de connexion, où je fais fatalement un overnight sans toucher un train de nuit. Donc je prends mon temps, 2 jours de pass pour l’aller et 2 jours de pass pour le retour.Il me faut faire une escale soit à Nice, soit à Marseille, ou encore Vintimille et passer une nuit quelque part ce qui n’est en soit pas un problème. Mais j’aimerais savoir selon les expérimentés de la communauté quel est le meilleur stop à faire, et si mon trajet peut-être optimisé.Voici par exemple deux propositions que j’ai:9/06 9:42 Tarbes->Toulouse->Marseille->Nice [STOP NUIT]->Vintimille->Milan->Rome 10/06 16:4

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TGV reservation

Hello there, Me and my friend are planning to visit france, we bought the interrail pass and booked our seats, how ever we got completely different seats for parts of the journey in the TGV, is there anything we can do about that?Looking forward to a response :)Matthias

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Bas Plaisier
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Travel from Bratislava to Krakow; RESERVATION PROBLEMS..

We are not able to make a reservation from Bratislava to Krakow.. We already have an hotel in Krakow at the start of our trip in Poland… But we hear that we have to wait for reservations 60 days before departure  - and they also said that the trains are always full…Can you help us for our trip starting 9 September from Vienna.. 

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Is it cheaper to reserve a couchette at the station?

Hi all.I'm looking at reserving a bed in a couchette for the night train from Vienna to Paris on 27th. It's €29 ish to do this via the OBB night jet website (for a 6 bed womens' only). Before I book, I was wondering if it's worth booking it at the train station in Vienna instead (or Bratislava if they're able to do it from there) to see if I can get it cheaper. Any insight would be appreciated. 

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Missing stop on Snalltaget Berlin-Stockholm

The train D10300 from Berlin-Stockholm seamingly does NOT stop at Malmö C.(29th May 23:59 from Hamburg Hbf)A couple weeks ago when I booked my reservation it still did and my ticket also ends at this station eventhough the train does not stop there anymore.According to the Snalltaget website it should stop, but scotty/DB navigator/google maps say it doesn't.Does anyone why this is the case? 

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Which passport?

Hi, I intend to travel from London to Brussels next month (then onto Austria and Switzerland). I have two passports, British and EU. Which one should I use for filling out the API for Eurostar?I haven't booked my return yet, but when I do, which one should I use then?Many thanks in advance. 

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PaulJou
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How book Stockholm - Gällivare reservation? Need help :(

Hello I really need your help, :) I want to travel from Stockholm to Gällivare in August with nighttrain and interrail. I did this last year, but this year the booking system is very strange. On sj.se the trains are not avaible yet. On sj.se even the trains for for June are not avaible yet. When will they put the trains on their website?  On vy.se they are avaible. But is it possible to buy the seat reservation for interrail on vy.se? When I want to buy a seat and I type my Interrail Pass Number as discount it wont get cheaper than normal price. If it is not possible to only buy the reservation for seat for interrail - is it possible on other websites?On vy.se I saw that the train connection is 14hours in July and 17hours in August, why? Will there be a 14hours one in August released soon?Thank you very much for your helpPaul

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Nightjet travel day

Hello, I booked a journey with the Öbb nightjet using my interrail ticket for discount. Does this count as a travelday? I did not make the reservation via the interrail site.  I would love some help! Thank you so much

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