I have a Eurail Global Pass and I’m trying to go from Barcelona to Paris on 8 August. The Rail Planner won’t let me reserve a ticket, but it says that ticket reservation is mandatory. I talked to every person I could at the Barcelona Sants station and they all said they wouldn’t deal with international trips. None of the websites I can find work either. I’ve been struggling with this all day trying every option I can.
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Trying to reserve seats Barcelona to Paris for Tuesday 8 Aug
Best answer by BrendanDB
Okay
Part 1: Barcelona - Perpignan (no seat reservations needed):
Part 2: Perpignan - Paris
(plenty of availability) get your seat reservation Perpignan-Paris asap here https://travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWish
+8Weird they didn’t help you anyway.
The direct train will probably be sold out anyway.
Your options:
- Take a (reservation free) Rodalies train to Cerbère or Portbou.
- Take in Cerbère (or Portbou) a TER to Perpignan (also reservation free)
- TGV Perpignan - Paris (if they still have places)
Gonna check for you, stand by for updates!
+8Okay
Part 1: Barcelona - Perpignan (no seat reservations needed):
Part 2: Perpignan - Paris
(plenty of availability) get your seat reservation Perpignan-Paris asap here https://travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWish
Renfe decided not to sell tickets and reservations for this train anymore.
There are 1st and 2nd class seats available in the 16:10 departure tomorrow.
The 14:32 departure only has 1st class available (2 seats).
The 10:33 is fully booked.
To book, call SNCF now (until 20:00, tomorrow from 8:00):
https://www.sncf.com/en/customer-service/contact-us/telephone
(Press #85 for English, delivery via email, no booking fees)
Price is €35.
Other options to book this train:
- Eurail Moderator
Hi everyone,
This issue has been happening for quite a while right now. This is being handled by our IT team, as this also involves the configuration from the reservation channel provider which our company uses.
In this case, I agree with solutions given by
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: The reservation availability runs normally again on the Eurail/Interrail reservation pages.
Renfe decided not to sell tickets and reservations for this train anymore.
There are 1st and 2nd class seats available in the 16:10 departure tomorrow.
The 14:32 departure only has 1st class available (2 seats).
The 10:33 is fully booked.
To book, call SNCF now (until 20:00, tomorrow from 8:00):
https://www.sncf.com/en/customer-service/contact-us/telephone
(Press #85 for English, delivery via email, no booking fees)
Price is €35.
Other options to book this train:
Using the phone number here worked! I was connected to a French service and they reserved me a seat no problem. The only thing of note is that they said you must use a European card to pay (or an American Express card, which I don’t have). Luckily I had an international debit card from when I lived in Germany and that worked. It was 35€ and the woman on the phone was incredibly kind and helpful.
If this happens to you in the future, I recommend just calling. The people at the train station were not helpful!
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