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Missing changes, outbound journeys and Glacier Express

  • 21 July 2022
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1. We have planned our route via interrail planner, how should we confirm and get tickets for the journey? 2. What is happening in the situation, when one train is late and we won't manage to change our train on time? Should we take another train withe the same ticket we have or should we book another train ticket?3. And how should we count the outbound journey day? We leave on 26th of August at 3 a.m from Poland and we change the trains in Germany and we arrive to our destination point in Slovenia the same day at about 8 pm. Should it be counted as the outbound journey or the change of trains starts the first day of the journey?

4. And the final question, We want to book the Glacier express in Switzerland, we have to buy ticket via Glacier express website, and we will choose the reduction for interrail. So is it counted as the travel day and should we put this journey to the planner?

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Best answer by AnnaB 21 July 2022, 12:58

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1. We have planned our route via interrail planner, how should we confirm and get tickets for the journey?

The planner is not a reliable place to make your planning as the time tables only are updated once a month. The ticket you get in the app.

 

 

3. And how should we count the outbound journey day? We leave on 26th of August at 3 a.m from Poland and we change the trains in Germany and we arrive to our destination point in Slovenia the same day at about 8 pm. Should it be counted as the outbound journey or the change of trains starts the first day of the journey?

The outbound/inbound travel days are a maximum of 2 normal travel days that can travel on in your country of residence. If you start your travel at 3 in the morning this day will be your first travel day and your outbound travel day.

4. And the final question, We want to book the Glacier express in Switzerland, we have to buy ticket via Glacier express website, and we will choose the reduction for interrail. So is it counted as the travel day and should we put this journey to the planner?

As you get a 100% discount on the price of the ticket you use a travel day just like normal.​​​

 

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. 

 Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 Reservations 

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website.  You can look at the guide in the link:

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105

If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice.

Please note that Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and train in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.

 Activation of pass

During the activation process, when you choose the start day of the validity of the pass, the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day, even if you don't enter a journey, the advice is therefore not to activate the pass before the first travel day as you only can deactivate the pass before 00.00 on the day the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you will loose travel days if you have activated the pass in advance.

It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works.

 Activation of travel day

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass, until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage  You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day.

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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You do not NEED to sit in the luxury coaches attached to normal cars on this Glac expr-POlski usually are apt to save the zloty so the views are nearly the same (a little less as normal cars have normal windows and not the panorama ones-plus that in Expr coaches you pay a lot for a few drinks/snacks. They all run i same train over very same tracks

Same-same applies to about all other swiss special advertised touristy expresses

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1. We have planned our route via interrail planner, how should we confirm and get tickets for the journey?

The planner is not a reliable place to make your planning as the time tables only are updated once a month. The ticket you get in the app.

 

 

3. And how should we count the outbound journey day? We leave on 26th of August at 3 a.m from Poland and we change the trains in Germany and we arrive to our destination point in Slovenia the same day at about 8 pm. Should it be counted as the outbound journey or the change of trains starts the first day of the journey?

The outbound/inbound travel days are a maximum of 2 normal travel days that can travel on in your country of residence. If you start your travel at 3 in the morning this day will be your first travel day and your outbound travel day.

4. And the final question, We want to book the Glacier express in Switzerland, we have to buy ticket via Glacier express website, and we will choose the reduction for interrail. So is it counted as the travel day and should we put this journey to the planner?

As you get a 100% discount on the price of the ticket you use a travel day just like normal.​​​

 

Thank you for answering!
Glacier express with Interrail discount is still 49 franks, so is it counted as travelling day?

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You do not NEED to sit in the luxury coaches attached to normal cars on this Glac expr-POlski usually are apt to save the zloty so the views are nearly the same (a little less as normal cars have normal windows and not the panorama ones-plus that in Expr coaches you pay a lot for a few drinks/snacks. They all run i same train over very same tracks

Same-same applies to about all other swiss special advertised touristy expresses

oh, ok. Good to know, thanks!

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Thank you for answering!
Glacier express with Interrail discount is still 49 franks, so is it counted as travelling day?

Yes, that is a travel day. 49 CHF is the fee for the reservation of the seats.

You can travel the route without reservation fee if you choose the non panoramic coaches or the regional trains. You can read more below.

https://www.swissactivities.com/en-ch/panoramic-trains-in-switzerland/

 

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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Thank you for answering!
Glacier express with Interrail discount is still 49 franks, so is it counted as travelling day?

Yes, that is a travel day. 49 CHF is the fee for the reservation of the seats.

You can travel the route without reservation fee if you choose the non panoramic coaches or the regional trains. You can read more below.

https://www.swissactivities.com/en-ch/panoramic-trains-in-switzerland/

 

yeah, but i dont know how to add this day to a planner, i cannot find this train in interrail planner

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Thank you for answering!
Glacier express with Interrail discount is still 49 franks, so is it counted as travelling day?

Yes, that is a travel day. 49 CHF is the fee for the reservation of the seats.

You can travel the route without reservation fee if you choose the non panoramic coaches or the regional trains. You can read more below.

https://www.swissactivities.com/en-ch/panoramic-trains-in-switzerland/

 

yeah, but i dont know how to add this day to a planner, i cannot find this train in interrail planner

You can add not listed trains manually ;)

I´ am not working for Eurail or Interrail i just share my knowledge here. Please ask in the Community and not via private message as this is the fastest way to get an answer. I prefer English/German/ Czech for my answers. In case of Reservationquestions please share some details like Route, Date, Trainnumber as otherwise we can just provide general advices or answers
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What do you mean with interrail planner? The railplanner app of Interrail? Because there is also a  interrail planner website, wich is only to search timetables and it is not a official website. 

Do you have any questions? Feel free to ask in the community! Known languages: Deutsch, Italiano, English.

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