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Nighttrain from Hamburg - Lugano (Switzerland) or somewhere else available?

  • 17 July 2022
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Hello!

I have been looking during the entire day for trains for 2 people where you are able to sleep from Hamburg. The information is very confusing and not straightforward so I’ve been stuck at this rote for many many hours. Are there any nighttrains available going to Paris (seems like no), Zurich, Prague, Krakow or something else available the 25th July (or alternatively 26th July)? 
 

If someone knows I’m very grateful for your help. We’ve already paid parts of the trip, so any route thats pretty convenient regarding sleep from Hamburg would be good.

Thanks a lot!

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There is very little chance that you will find a free place on a night train somewhere the next weeks, or even month. You might be able to find a seat somewhere but I guess that you want to sleep on the train. Night trains tend to be fully booked during the summer.

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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There is very little chance that you will find a free place on a night train somewhere the next weeks, or even month. You might be able to find a seat somewhere but I guess that you want to sleep on the train. Night trains tend to be fully booked during the summer.

I pressed solved already and don’t know how to remove it but:

Yes that might just be the case, but it’s weird, because i booked Stockholm - Copenhagen with a bed easily 1 week in advance and there were multiple options. It seems like there’s tons of options for seats only but how fun is that, 12hours in a seat:/

But then again, looking at the booking site at eurorail.eu it says there are no nighttrains with beds even in months from now so maybe I’m understanding it wrong I’m thinking (??)

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There is very little chance that you will find a free place on a night train somewhere the next weeks, or even month. You might be able to find a seat somewhere but I guess that you want to sleep on the train. Night trains tend to be fully booked during the summer.

I pressed solved already and don’t know how to remove it but:

Yes that might just be the case, but it’s weird, because i booked Stockholm - Copenhagen with a bed easily 1 week in advance and there were multiple options. It seems like there’s tons of options for seats only but how fun is that, 12hours in a seat:/

But then again, looking at the booking site at eurorail.eu it says there are no nighttrains with beds even in months from now so maybe I’m understanding it wrong I’m thinking (??)

 

The trains you are asking about are operated by OBB, https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home

try searching on their website if you like https://tickets.oebb.at/en/ticket enter interrail discount and search one way tickets not seat only.

However what was already said is correct, there is high demand and you should prepare for your chosen dates to be unavailable.

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There is very little chance that you will find a free place on a night train somewhere the next weeks, or even month. You might be able to find a seat somewhere but I guess that you want to sleep on the train. Night trains tend to be fully booked during the summer.

I pressed solved already and don’t know how to remove it but:

Yes that might just be the case, but it’s weird, because i booked Stockholm - Copenhagen with a bed easily 1 week in advance and there were multiple options. It seems like there’s tons of options for seats only but how fun is that, 12hours in a seat:/

But then again, looking at the booking site at eurorail.eu it says there are no nighttrains with beds even in months from now so maybe I’m understanding it wrong I’m thinking (??)

 

The trains you are asking about are operated by OBB, https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home

try searching on their website if you like https://tickets.oebb.at/en/ticket enter interrail discount and search one way tickets not seat only.

However what was already said is correct, there is high demand and you should prepare for your chosen dates to be unavailable.

I did look there before without success, but now I tried both without interrail discount and with it. It seems like they don’t offer nighttrains to interrail passengers (?) I might be wrong. But it seems like its fully booked even in September, hows that even possible.. seems like something must be wrong but I guess not

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I did look there before without success, but now I tried both without interrail discount and with it. It seems like they don’t offer nighttrains to interrail passengers (?) I might be wrong. But it seems like its fully booked even in September, hows that even possible.. seems like something must be wrong but I guess not

You are wrong. I put in a random route and date in mid sept and got couchettes and sleeper for both public fare and interrail discount.

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Kolla på länken till guiden för resevationer nedan. Där finns info hur du bokar nattåg med Interrailkort. 

 

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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JUst as a side remark: DB=german rails also offer a few overnite ICE trains=normal daytime, seats only. This NJ train has 3-4 old seated coaches too, which cannot be reserved direct via DB/Bahn. yes due to much press-releases and the sudden boom in travel post-covid about all beds etc in these trains has been booked already for main summer. To the surprise of even OeBB-the operator.

ïve travelled very regularly to ASEAN=south east Asia in a plane-taking some 10-13 hrs, once even on SAS (they upgraded me to Bis, but still a seat) and always overnight-and I still live.

The tipical old-time InterRailer (tagluffare) did not even know of something else.

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