We are planning to do a Rail tour of Europe starting in June 2023 from the UK.
Even though our plan is to travel first class where possible it still works out slightly cheaper to use the Interrail pass.
My question is how do you reserve seats on High speed/Night trains. Quite a few of the high speed trains don’t seem to show on the Interrail planner for some reason. Do you have to go on each train company’s website to reserve seats ? This would be a logistical nightmare.
For example we plan to Travel from Geneva to Florence (via Milan) on the High speed network (Travel time 6hr 25 mins) but these trains don’t show on the Interrail planner.
It’s all quite baffling….I’m beginning to wonder if it will be easier just to book the trains ourselves and not use the Interrail pass after all.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.