I am trying to book some trains and noticed that many of them require paper tickets to be mailed which I won’t have access to while traveling of course, so I was planning on going into the train station to buy the tickets in person. So my question is, if I go to reserve my seats in person, will they charge me the price of a full ticket even though I have a Eurail global pass? Thanks:)
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Making reservations at the train station. Do they charge the Eurail passholder fee or full ticket price?
Best answer by seewulf
There is no general answer :)
Usually the staff at the ticket office know how to handle Eurail :) and book then the reservations for you. (But there are still few that are not well trained and are not 100% how to handle reservations. If the ticket office use the International System you could ask them to use the Tarifcode 44 it´s the tarifcode for Railpass user)
Another reason why they try to sell full fares is that the Reservations for Eurail/Interrail user are solt out. Especially International TGV´s , Thalys & Eurostar have just limited seats for Railpass user and are often sold out. Happens actually quite often for Eurostar services from/to London and the TGV´s from Paris to Barcelona and Paris to Milan :/
If you let us know which Routes you have in mind we could say which reservation fee´s you can expect :)
+16There is no general answer :)
Usually the staff at the ticket office know how to handle Eurail :) and book then the reservations for you. (But there are still few that are not well trained and are not 100% how to handle reservations. If the ticket office use the International System you could ask them to use the Tarifcode 44 it´s the tarifcode for Railpass user)
Another reason why they try to sell full fares is that the Reservations for Eurail/Interrail user are solt out. Especially International TGV´s , Thalys & Eurostar have just limited seats for Railpass user and are often sold out. Happens actually quite often for Eurostar services from/to London and the TGV´s from Paris to Barcelona and Paris to Milan :/
If you let us know which Routes you have in mind we could say which reservation fee´s you can expect :)
Thank you for all that info! The first one im looking at is the night train from Budapest to Brasov. Also Bucharest to Sofia, and Budapest to Krakow. Thanks!!
+16Thank you for all that info! The first one im looking at is the night train from Budapest to Brasov. Depends on Comfort level you wanna book :)
The fee´s you can expect :) FunFact the trainname is "Corona" :D since many years.
Also Bucharest to Sofia should be arround 1,50€ in a local ticket office. As written here on the page of Bulgarian Rail
and Budapest to Krakow. Depends on the Comfort Level :) Budapest - Krakow - Warsaw The informations are not 100% accurate but it helps to get an over view.
Thanks!! A Pleasure :)
Thank you so much for all the links! One last question, are these prices the normal train prices or discounted for interail passes only?
+16The prices you see are the reservation fee´s for Interrail & Eurail :)
How ever railtravel in east europe is quite cheap :) Standard fare Bucharest - Sofia is 25€ :)
Note: as for now-and for some time to come, NO overnight and even NO direct train Buc-Sof, change Ruse (=first stop in BG). In fact that 25€ can even be further reduced by just buying INT ticket to Ruse and local BDZ ticket onward to SOF.
In general in these areas=East EUR there are no real issues with using a pass or booking the REServations-except that it may in the end be cheaper to buy local tickets as using passdays!
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