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  • January 4, 2026
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Hi,

I've been trying for two days to reserve seats on Iryo trains from Barcelona to Madrid and Madrid to Seville using the Interrail reservation tool. However, the tool only displays the following error message:

 

Is this a known, possibly temporary problem, or is booking simply not possible?

Greetings
Volker

Best answer by eurocity101

Unfortunately, it’s a known issue which apparently hasn’t been solved yet. They advise to use the RENFE AVE instead.

 

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  • Railly clever
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  • January 4, 2026

Unfortunately, it’s a known issue which apparently hasn’t been solved yet. They advise to use the RENFE AVE instead.

 


The last poste is now 17 days old and still the reservation by IRYO isn’t working.
Will this problem solved soon?


  • Right on track
  • July 16, 2026

Hi all

just a short update: I tried today to book seats in the Iryo service center in Madrid and I can confirm it is still not working and the staff refused to issue seat reservations for Interrail pass owners.

I see three options:
i) fix the actual problem with the online reservations
ii) at least teach the team of Iryo to issue seat reservations (just ask them to issue normal tickets and discount the price to the price of the seat reservation)
If i) and ii) isn’t working update the connections of Iryo to “not included in pass network” (because this is the actual truth!)

I ask the ​@Eurail Community Moderator to update their posts and related websites since the currently provided information is (in the best case) misleading and you are selling a product with incorrect product description!

Best regards

Jan


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  • Railmaster
  • July 16, 2026

just a short update: I tried today to book seats in the Iryo service center in Madrid and I can confirm it is still not working and the staff refused to issue seat reservations for Interrail pass owners.

I see three options:
i) fix the actual problem with the online reservations

They are working, and have been working for a while, as far as I can see:

 


  • Right on track
  • July 16, 2026

Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, not for me apparently. I received the same (already shared above in German) error message on all Iryo connections I tried. 


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  • Railmaster
  • July 16, 2026

I can reproduce the error for Malaga-Zaragoza indeed. There are free seats though:

@Eurail Community Moderator What is going wrong here?


Camilo.
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  • Eurail Moderator
  • July 20, 2026

Hi ​@rvdborgt 

Let me ask the reservations SME 


  • Community Moderator
  • July 22, 2026

Hello there, 

This appears to have been caused by a temporary glitch. I have just checked the route and can see that price results are displaying correctly again.
 
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  • Right on track
  • July 22, 2026

Thanks for checking, I can confirm that it is working now and I was able to book the Iryo connection.


Well, the Iryo reservation is again not working. I got the same error message as Volker had, although one can see on the Iryo website that there are seats availabe on the train (Barcelona-Madrid).


… And I just called the Iryo booking agency at +34 910 150 097, the employee informed that they do not make any seat-reservation for an interrail traveller, unless they sell the ticket at the full fare, which on the leg I am planning to travel, is 70 Euros.
So if they are not behaving as an Interrail partner, why are they listed on the Interrail websit and timetable…???
(I hope they are not getting any flat revenues from participating in InterRail as long as they do not act like a partner?)


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  • Railmaster
  • July 30, 2026

Well, the Iryo reservation is again not working. I got the same error message as Volker had, although one can see on the Iryo website that there are seats availabe on the train (Barcelona-Madrid).

This seems to be reproducible:

Of course bookings are open:

@Eurail Community Moderator 

Are Iryo reservations so unreliable that you just have to keep trying until it works?