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When planning my trip It shows ''not available for some travellers'' and ''pass not valid''. What to do?

  • 13 July 2022
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Majoke Dopper

Hi, I’ve sent an e-mail more than 2 weeks ago about my trip to Barcelona and probably ‘ve bought the wrong pass. Besides a confirmation of receiving my e-mail I still haven’t received an answer. By now I’ve also bought a global pass cause I thought at least than I can book my trainseats. But now still the texts ‘not available for some travellers’ and ‘pass not valid ‘ appear. So by now I have spent €440,- on passes and almost 3 weeks on searching, emailing and waiting and I still don’t have the traintickets I need (Nijmegen - Barcelona ) and vice versa. Can someone help me out? How on earth do I reach Interrails customer service??

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Best answer by Claudi. 23 August 2022, 09:31

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What pass did you buy first? What pass did you buy then?

What route are you trying to make a reservation for?

What is your country of residence?

There are better ways to make reservations than the Interrail website. I’ll post some info on that in a new reply below.

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. 

 

Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 

Reservations 

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is to use other ways to make reservations than the Interrail/Eurail website.  You can look at the guide in the link:

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105

If you, after having looked at the guide, have questions about how to make specific reservation, please give your travel details (departure date, time and route) preferably in a new topic, and you will get advice.

Please note that Interrail/Eurail charges an extra fee of 2 EUR per person and ticket in addition to the fee for the seat reservation.

 

Activation of pass

During the activation process, when you choose the start day of the validity of the pass, the first day of the validity period is automatically made a travel day, even if you don't enter a journey, the advice is therefore not to activate the pass before the first travel day as you only can deactivate the pass before 00.00 on the day the validity starts. If your travel plans change in the last moment you will loose travel days if you have activated the pass in advance.

It can be wise to make a test and activate the pass with a start date well in the future and then deactivate the pass immediately, just to see that everything works.

 

 Activation of travel day

The advice from the experienced travellers in the community is also never to activate a travel day, that is connect a journey to your pass, until just before boarding the train, otherwise you might loose a travel day if your travel plans change in a late stage  You can't delete a travel day in the past. A travel day can only be deleted until 23.59 CET the day before the travel day.

Please note that I don't work for Interrail/Eurail and that I don't reply to personal messages.
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It is likely that your pass’ validity did not match with your desired routes, ie. if you purchased a One Country Pass and wished to make reservations for travel beyond the borders of the selected country. Our customer service team currently has a significant workload, but please feel free to reach out to me if this has not been resolved yet. 

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