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Please try to find an alternate connection. The unavailable leg will be removed from your cart.

  • 1 November 2022
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Richmond Siranjeevi

Trying to reserve from AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL (Netherlands) to ANVERS-CENTRAL (Belgium) and it won’t let me. Do I have to do multiple booking one go for it to work or? I notice that later dates won’t populate so I am booking it one by one instead of one go, is this an issue? It doesn’t make sense for me to wait for my full trip to populate train rides and they book it in one go.

The experience of trying to use the App hasn’t been great either. There isn’t a notification to tell you that train rides are now available, I have to go to the app each day to check and now that I can see the trains available I can’t make a reservation.

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Best answer by Angelo 1 November 2022, 15:32

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Richmond Siranjeevi

Also if the leg is unavailable why does Eurail show this option to me?

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Hi,

when are you traveling? The second Sunday in December every year there is the big timetable change in Europe, so data of the timetable are missing for some trains. The railplanner app is the last one that gets updates (it works offline). Check the website of the train company that runs the train for information (in your case SNCB/NMBS, NS International and Thalys), keep in mind that some trains can still miss, due to not finished timetables or planned works on the line. 

On this route only Thalys high speed trains need a reservation. There are every hour running Intercity trains Amsterdam-Brussel via Antwerp. In this trains no reservation possible and needed, just add the train to the railplanner app to get your Ticket and hop on the train. The train ride will be a bit longer than with Thalys. 

If you want to take Thalys high speed, you can reserve directly via b-europe (4 EUR booking fee on top of the reservation fee): 

https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish if you have a mobile pass you need to get a pass cover number here: 

 

Do you have any questions? Feel free to ask in the community! Known languages: Deutsch, Italiano, English.
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There are 2 train services for Ams - Anv. Thalys requires an expensive reservation (20 euro pp) and an hourly IC service which does not require reservations.

The planner shows all connections and whether reservations would be needed, but not whether they are available. That is often much later than the timetable being released and varies across operators.

For Thalys use this link for reservations and availability

:https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish

 

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Avoid Tha-often cancelled last minute or late. And thus you do not even have to RES and save that money. So you can buy more french fries (Fritten) or chocolate bonbons where BE is so famous for.

BTW-Antwerpen is the name of that city and as it is very firmly in the dutch speaking part of BE (vlaams) then use that. Anvers is the french version-2-lingo state Belgium has often 2 names for many things, incl cities. Trains from NL stop at very lowest of 4 levels-go up+up and then admire what this station gives the name ´railway cathedral´. It sits smack beside the zoo and the centre and the jewish diamond-cutter area.

You did not tell date-it is quite possible you chose a date when there are again works along the line-happens quite often weekends-and then sometimes no trains at all or only via big detour. Lah!

Richmond Siranjeevi

I am traveling on the 16th of December.

Richmond Siranjeevi

There are 2 train services for Ams - Anv. Thalys requires an expensive reservation (20 euro pp) and an hourly IC service which does not require reservations.

The planner shows all connections and whether reservations would be needed, but not whether they are available. That is often much later than the timetable being released and varies across operators.

For Thalys use this link for reservations and availability

:https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish

 

So close to having my issue resolved only to find out Thalys only accepts the paper pass code on their site and not the mobile digital code.

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@Richmond Siranjeevi I wrote in my reply how you can get the cover number with an mobile pass:

If you want to take Thalys high speed, you can reserve directly via b-europe (4 EUR booking fee on top of the reservation fee): 

https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish if you have a mobile pass you need to get a pass cover number here: 

 

Do you have any questions? Feel free to ask in the community! Known languages: Deutsch, Italiano, English.
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There are 2 train services for Ams - Anv. Thalys requires an expensive reservation (20 euro pp) and an hourly IC service which does not require reservations.

The planner shows all connections and whether reservations would be needed, but not whether they are available. That is often much later than the timetable being released and varies across operators.

For Thalys use this link for reservations and availability

:https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish

 

So close to having my issue resolved only to find out Thalys only accepts the paper pass code on their site and not the mobile digital code.

Not a problem - Here is a link 

Eurail: https://www.eurail.com/en/book-reservations#/generatePassCoverNumber

Interrail: https://www.interrail.eu/en/book-reservations#/generatePassCoverNumber

Richmond Siranjeevi

@Richmond Siranjeevi I wrote in my reply how you can get the cover number with an mobile pass:

If you want to take Thalys high speed, you can reserve directly via b-europe (4 EUR booking fee on top of the reservation fee): 

https://www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish if you have a mobile pass you need to get a pass cover number here: 

 

I should pick up a new pair of glasses. Haha but thanks I think that should sort things out. Cheers

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