Hey! So I was interrailing last spring and had no problem with my reserved seats since I had them all printed out. I would however like to do a trip with no planned route or anything like that, ehich means that I can’t reserve and print the tickets at home beforehand. I was wondering if the e-tickets work fine by showing them from my email even though it says on the Interrail website to print all of them just in case.
Best answer by Angelo
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Hi it depends from country to country and from train to train.
Best countries to use trains with no reservation or with optional reservation are Norway, Denmark (except Copenhagen-Hamburg in Summer), Netherlands and Belgium (Thalys and Eurostar reservation compulsory), Germany (highspeed ICE only optional reservation), Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia.
Countries with a lot of trains with compulsory reservation, but easy to get it:
Hungary and Slovakia (only national trips, for international trips not compulsory), Italy, Poland (easy most of the trains, not easy Berlin-Poland).
Avoid Spain and international high speed trains to/from France and currently France and Sweden.
Check here where you can buy reservations, avoiding Interrail.eu
How to get Reservations 🙂 | Community
P.S. Most local trains do not need a reservation. Except some trains in Spain.
Add GB and IE also to the list of easy countries.
HU,SK,PL: RES only mandatory for the faster IC-trains -cost very little, can do till dep. (except at real busy times) from local machine or counter.
In general it is not really needed to print out all that stuff-as you have looked around you may have noted that most pax nowadays show it on their fone.
The nasty cases are as angelo tells: the hi-speed superfast trains in those 3 countries-but again these are so modern that e-tix are quite OK.
And as your suomenlainen: alas., the route via the 3 baltics: EE-LV-LT is not really to recommend-very few trains, bad connections, no trains over border, a bus will work better there.
site seat61com also has lots of info on how to get there overland from UK-and back, so use sectors out of it.
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