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Austria to Italy Brenner Supplement

  • November 28, 2024
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We plan to travel from Salzburg to Bologna on a Railjet with transfer in Innsbruck using a first class eurail pass.  The seat reservation fee on the obb website is 3 euro.  But when I put the seat reservation into my shopping basket the 15 euro supplement that is supposed to be paid is not added to the seat reservation fee.  I have selected the eurail pass discount for my obb profile.  The eurailpass website says that seat reservations made on obb site will automatically include the supplement.  So I am puzzled as to what we should do.

Thank you!

Best answer by rvdborgt

Reservations are optional but the operator in Italy wants an extra supplement from pass holders: €10 in 2nd and €15 in 1st class. On the ÖBB website, you pay extra if you want a reservation, so then €18 in total. To get the supplement via ÖBB, you must add the Interrail/Eurail discount, NOT check "Seat reservation only” and click on Find.

On the Eurail website, the reservation is included in the supplement (I think because they book through Trenitalia), but you pay an extra €2 booking fee, so €17 in total.

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    • rvdborgt
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    • November 28, 2024

    Reservations are optional but the operator in Italy wants an extra supplement from pass holders: €10 in 2nd and €15 in 1st class. On the ÖBB website, you pay extra if you want a reservation, so then €18 in total. To get the supplement via ÖBB, you must add the Interrail/Eurail discount, NOT check "Seat reservation only” and click on Find.

    On the Eurail website, the reservation is included in the supplement (I think because they book through Trenitalia), but you pay an extra €2 booking fee, so €17 in total.

    Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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    • WesH
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    • November 28, 2024

    Thank you!  You identified the problem I was having.  I had selected seat reservations only.  

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    • ginga
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    • December 7, 2024

    Hello

    Please pardon me asking a question here but

    I am trying to see how to do what was written above - '.... you must add the Eurail discount'.

    I can't see how to do that on the OBB site.

    Detailed help really appreciated.

    I'm also intrigued in that the cost of this journey using the Eurail pass plus the reservation & supplement fee isn't very different to just buying a ticket directly from OBB.

    Does that sound about right or have I missed something else? 🤔 

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    • thibcabe
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    • December 7, 2024

    Unless a ticket is 13€ 2nd class/18€ 1st class using Eurail will be cheaper, esp. if you take more than one train that day.

    Go to the ÖBB website, look for you train and click on "change" as shown here. Then "add discount".

     

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    • ginga
    • Keeps calm and carries on
    • December 7, 2024

    Thank you Thibcabe.

    Really appreciate you showing me exactly how to do this.

    My point on pricing was very wrong.

    I was comparing Eurail 1st class with obb 2nd class. 

    Thanks for correcting my error.

    Cheets

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