Hi. I am interrailing for the first time and I am looking at travelling from Lake Bled to Split on 30/07/2025. It says on the interrail site that a seat reservation is needed for both legs of the journey, from Bled to Zagreb and Zagreb to Split. The interrail site says that seat reservations for Zagreb to Split can be booked 60 days in advance which makes sense, however it says that bookings for the Bled to Zagreb train are unavailable and when I checked the OBB website they are also unavailable there. They seem to be always unavailable to book which makes me think that it is impossible to reserve seats as I find it hard to believe that every train for the next 6 months is sold out. I have seen a few questions on this site from a couple of years ago saying that you can’t always reserve seats on Croatian trains but I am not sure if this is still the case. Has anybody else done this route recently and have experience with this? Would I be able to simply board this train and sit in any free seat? Many thanks.
Seat reservations from Lake Bled to Split
Best answer by rvdborgt
Reservations for Croatian trains can be booked via e-mail to rezervacije@hzpp.hr, indeed from 60 days in advance. This year, Croatian railways don't seem to have shared the reservation data with the rest of the world, so you can only book a reservation at a ticket office in Croatia or via e-mail.
In general, use this page as a guide to reservations:
https://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm
Reservations for Croatian trains can be booked via e-mail to rezervacije@hzpp.hr, indeed from 60 days in advance. This year, Croatian railways don't seem to have shared the reservation data with the rest of the world, so you can only book a reservation at a ticket office in Croatia or via e-mail.
In general, use this page as a guide to reservations:
https://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm
In addition, Bled - Zagreb doesn't have mandatory reservations. Likely available at a Slovenian ticket counter but you might as well hop on and find a free seat -> there will be people getting off in Bled. ;)
Thanks both, much appreciated. Do you know if the night train from Bled to Zagreb also doesn’t have mandatory reservations?
As I said in my comment, no mandatory reservations. They are only necessary for overnight travel (from/to Germany and Switzerland).
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