Then you had 50 cts bargain! As the app charges for each+any RES an extra 2€ fee-which you could easily have seen if you had taken the 2-3 mins to read first the info. On bahn.com you can do it yourself for 4,50.

In case-like so many, you have to do more RES in other countries-find the long list by seewulf that anna fra Sverige links to in all 1st answers

Thanks a lot. Indeed I did not take into account, that there was an additional fee. It does not say so, I find it a bit annoying to find out about it now. You can guess it from the “pricelist”, where Gemrany is listed with 4 euros for 2nd class, which is wrong, and the example above “Berlin - Hamburg 6 Euros”.

https://www.eurail.com/en/plan-your-trip/about-reservations/reservation-fees/domestic-train-reservation-fees

They could write it down, once You go to “About reservations”. I think.

And: I now got my receipt, detailed, one of them. And it shows the following: ICE costs 6 instead of 4,50 PLUS an additional booking fee for reservations of 2 Euros per booking per person!!! THIS is really annoying.

The advice from the experienced travellers is to only make the reservation through Interrail/Eurail if no other way is possible. Please read more about that below.

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 

Thanks a lot and where on this site could I have seen it? https://www.eurail.com/en/plan-your-trip/about-reservations? Do not get me wrong, community is great, cloud intelligence is great, Your infos are great, but basic information, and I consider this a basic information, when a normal seat reservation in Germany costs 16 in the end for two people in one train, 8 for one, which is almost double as much as it costs, when i book through my db app, this info belongs on top of the site of the providing service company. I think.

But nonetheless thank You, I am learning!

Regards

Kira

Basically, the Interrail website is the last place to look for reservations. Only use it if there's no other option.

For optional reservations without supplement, the railways can decide for themselves what they charge. And they all have different prices and policies, e.g.:

• DB: €4.50 per journey in 2nd class, €5.90 in 1st.
• ÖBB: €3 per train; in Austria: €3 per journey.
• CD: CZK 76 (~€3) per train
• DSB: DKK 30 (~€4) per train
• NS: €4 per train (per journey if to/via Germany)
• NMBS/SNCB: €6 per train

Now for some reason, Interrail are booking some of their reservations via NMBS/SNCB. That is already an expensive provider and then they add their own 2€ booking fee.

Thanks a lot @rvdborgt , still I am a little pissed because of that policy. But I see the point, that i in future only buy the pass there and all the extras directly at the railway organization. I should have been more careful after recognizng, that even if I buy them via Eurail hey do not show up in the account. That I found strange.

Later I found out, that they are in the account, but not connected to the travel days, like i expected.

Not very sufficient.

But anyhow thanks for Your reply!

Regards

Kira