Hi Interrailers (and hopefully Interrail customer service)
Not a happy bunny – been planning a trip starting in May (10 days, theoretically over 2 months) and most of the planning hinges on the Nightjet from Paris to Berlin (or Vienna).
The Eurail/Interrail app clearly states, in red letters, “Prices for this journey will start to be available 90 days before departure”.
OK, so i checked out the departure on 27 April, to see what changed when the date came within that 90-day window. At midnight plus one nanosecond, then every few minutes.
No prices available.
So i checked on the ÖBB Nightjet website and what do i see? “Seats can usually be booked 180 days in advance”. And indeed when you try their booking engine, it allows you to specify any date 180 days from now.
Result: there is zero availability from May onwards. Zero.
If it weren’t for the notice in red letters on the Eurail/Interrail app i might have had a chance of getting a Nightjet reservation to somewhere. As it stands, hours and hours of planning for nothing. Looks like we’ll waste our 10 days on short domestic journeys that would have cost less than a third of our Interrail passes. If it were an unlimited pass, it wouldn’t be so bad, but we can’t change it.
So which is it? 90 days in advance or 180? And if the latter, what is that message doing on the Eurail site?
Badger
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