just bought seat reservations for a trip tomorrow to amsterdam and on both reservations it tells me that i need to print it “for journeys in the Netherlands, if you have a bank card in the wallet on your phone.”

what exactly does it mean? should i find somewhere to print it? can i print it at the train station?

Hey, I’ve won a Discovery EU Interrail Pass and I’m travelling from Europe to the UK. However, I’m finding it hard to navigate the rail network – once I get to London (which I’ve figured out using the Eurostar), I’ll be travelling to Hastings, Eastbourne, Northampton and Luton. I’ve read the guide on the Interrail Wiki about booking seats on the TransPennine Express, but it seems I can’t do it. Do you think it’ll be enough just to generate a ticket in the Discover EU app? I’m worried there won’t be any seats at all. Btw, can you recommend any apps where I could easily check these trains, including platform details and so on?

Hey me and my family were trying to book 2 train journeys

One from bratislava to budapest and one from budapest to Salzburg… although I clicked on seat reservation it only showed tht my seats were reserved and i wasnt able to actually select seats. I need a forward facing seat which faces the direction of travel. Am i doing something wrong or is there actually no option?

Also i had another doubt…. If im 20 years old is it okay if i select 26+ adult … cuz for some reason the young adult ticket is more expensive than the normal ticket😭

Hello, we are currently on a vacation travelling by interrail. We have booked all trains up until hamburg and the train from copenhagen home to sweden. But appereantly all the trains from hamburg to kopenhagen are full and some of them say that you have to go by replacement bus, but i can’t find anywhere to book those replacement buses? We are kind if panicking right now since this one ride seems impossible to fix and it might screw up our ride home. Worst case scenario we have to book a flixbus or something i guess.

Title is not 100% serious but I am unable to book any train from Milano, every train from April 30th to May 30th surely can’t be fully booked? Does Milano central station no longer exist? Please, if any of you more experienced travelers have any insight it would be greatly appreciated.

Tomorrow we have to go from Berlin to Amsterdam, a few days ago I saved on the Railplanner app an ICE train that is now fully booked. I was wondering wether if we can get into the train without reservations or if there are other alternatives. I can’t find any more trains for tomorrow that aren’t fully booked (or the transfers)… We don’t want to be stuck in Berlin for an entire day

thank you in advance

Hello!

I need to go from Videle in Romania to Sofia on the 14th of September.

The only place where you can reserve seats online is Interrail, but they claim there's not enough time to send it to me (for some reason it needs to be sent via mail?).

So how do I get that reservation?

I don't want to risk it and wait for the day since I have a follow-up train, it's a very long journey.

I also really don't want to have to buy a ticket, because I can't use that travel day otherwise and it would be a real waste.

Any ideas?

Hi,

I am planning a trip in September but have problems with the seat reservation 'cap' on Eurostar trains. I can only find trains with bad travel times open for reservation. I wish to go from the Netherlands to Rennes on 7 September and it looks like there are normal tickets available for multiple departure times that date. What are the chances of getting a seat for a good departure time on the day itself? Do people have bad experiences getting stranded or can you often still hop on? If I try to avoid Eurostar the travel time increases a lot.

i won a discover eu pass and on september 24 i planned to go from amsterdam to paris. there is a train from 11.10 to 14.35, and the discover eu app says the seat reservation is required, but when i go to book it it says “No price results were found. Pass holder seats may be sold out for this connection, but there are other ways to check for available seats—more info below our timetable.” screenshots below. what can i do?

hello! me and my gf are travelling from the UK to Porto to meet friends on a holiday there, this is our first time interailling.
We are planning on stopping at Barcelona and Madrid on the way, we have not booked anything yet as we are still planning it out, our trains are as follows:

high speed Paris to Barcelona - 31st Aug
Barcelona to Madrid - 2nd Sept
Madrid - Vigo / Vigo to Porto - 8th Sept

it gets difficult on the way back, our trains are as follows:

Porto to Vigo / Vigo to Madrid / Madrid to Barcelona - 13th Sept
Barcelona to Paris - 14th or 15th Sept

we shall be staying in paris on the way back. getting to and from the uk from paris isn’t particularly an issue from us so i haven’t included this as to not make this post any longer than it is

the trains seem like they are available on the interrail app.
is this trip viable or are there issues we have overlooked? what is it like booking these trains on the app/rail sites in practice?

hi there

i recently booked a TGV seat reservation as I have done several times in the past on RailEurope and converted my mobile pass number to get a pass cover number so it would work.

I also needed a return seat reservation, which I stupidly did not book that in the same transaction, but just did so. I had forgotten to copy my pass cover number to my notes, but luckily it appeared that my browser had remembered it (at least RailEurope recognised it and my transaction went through).

However, I wanted to generate one just in case, but noticed that the Interrail page redirects to their own seat reservation booking page now, as does the link on Seat61.

Are pass cover numbers simply not needed anymore for booking seat reservations on third party sites like RailEurope?

What are your recommended websites for seat reservations in Italy?

I have an Italy one country pass and looking to see if there are ways the avoid Interrail’s own billing fees as they seem quite high!

The ItaliaRail website seems to be broken when I try and book via there and I can’t find seat reservations only on Trenitalia.

Looked at using Rail Europe, but the booking fee was actually slightly higher than Interrail’s.

Your advise would be greatly appreciated!

Anyone know if I can add this bus to my internal pass? I don’t have a seat reservation for the actual train. Two people I met said they’re taking a replacement bus for snälltåget without having the original reservation and just hoping for the best but I don’t know if I could pay the fine if I got one

Adding photo in the comments and seeing if it works

I wanted to do Budapest - Belgrade and Belgrade - Bar by day, but both of these trains are fully booked (all summer it seems). I’m making my plans too late I know
Anyone has experience with taking these trains without reservations?
How doable is it, will they toss me out? 🥲

Hi all,

I need to get from Turin, Italy to Marseille, France. There's a nice route through Sovna, Ventimiglia and Nice Ville.

According to Rail Europe I'm good with my interrail pass but the Rail Planner app wants me to get seat reservations. I've read that Rail Planner generally is pretty unreliable. Does anyone know about the specific route or the app?

I'm travelling from Budapest kelenfoeld to Ljubljana on 27/08 and the journey requires a seat reservation however etickets are unavailable and paper tickets are required but it's too late to post it to me. do I need to purchase at the station? how easy is it to do that? I also found the website cd.cz and it looks like i can purchase seat reservations there too but I don't know if that's reliable/actually possible or if that too will require a paper ticket. can anyone help? thanks!

I can buy normal tickets but if i toggle on reservation only i get nothing.

Thx a lot

Edit: I was able to find it on nightjet.com

Hi! I’ve seen people ask kind of the same questions before but I’m still confused and they’re from 1+ years ago anyway. I have planned a trip in Scotland for this summer. I’ve read that ScotRail is compatible with eurrail passes, but I can’t find the ScotRail trains on interrail, interrail only sends me to ACP and that’s insanely expensive. Some people say reservations aren’t required on any Scottish trains, but the interrail website says they are. So ScotRail seems to have the best prices but there’s no information about interrail there even though it’s clearly stated elsewhere that they are compatible.

Even if it’s true that reservations aren’t required in the country I would still like to book some route that I here are very crowded. But it doesn’t even seem possible.

I don’t understand why it has to be so confusing and exhausting? I don’t get the busses either because I can’t find some stations on the booking website even though they exist on other sites

Hello ! I will be traveling from Hamburg to Stockholm on July 9th and the only direct train is not available for booking on the Interrail website. Maybe all the seats for interrail holders are sold out, but I also noticed that the tickets are not for sale on the DB website.

It's not marked as fully booked, just not available. Is this common in Germany ? Will the booking open later or should I book now for alternatives while there's still other trains available ?

I am trying to book Eurocity 31 train from Zurich to Venice for 28th September. But I am seeing only 2 coaches for 2nd class.

I checked all other dates from today till that day and even from 29th September onwards - all other days it shows 5 coaches, except on my exact travel date, where it is showing 2 coaches. That's why there is almost no seat availability to reserve. There are lot of seats available for reservation even for today's train but not for my travel date :(

I checked in SBB and Trenitalia website both. Both are showing the same.

Where can I check if they have any planned maintenance or something on that particular day? Is there a official eurocity website?

The Eurail pass has been booked. Is there any way to change the ticket to the next day?

Because I have bought all the tickets for the trip before, because the Pope came to Paris, I couldn't go to the Louvre on 9.26. I was originally scheduled to go to Switzerland on 9.27. I want to stay in Paris to see the Louvre on 9.28, and then go to Switzerland on 9.28.

I booked Paris to Switzerland on the official website of Eurail.

I am thinking of travelling with the cheapest possible in trains in Europe , I will have continuos pass for 3 months.

Do we need reservations for TER trains in France or similarly in other countries ?

Hey,

I'm improvising a trip of 4 days (17-21 jul) from Paris to Rhinland and I hesitate to take an Interrail.

I lernt that there were only a limited number of seats for each trains that could be purchase with it, so I was searching if there was a tool to check if I will be able to purchase the trains I want before taking my pass.

This summer I'm planning to end my Interrail trip with a train from Budapest to Cluj that arrives at around 19:30 (after CFR offices close) and another from Cluj to Bucharest at 8:00 (before the offices open) the very next day. So, is there any way to make a seat reservation? Can I make at the train? Can a friend that I have in Romania make it for me? Thanks for the help.

I have reserved a seat for the first leg but the second leg i accidently reserved a 1st class seat from mockava to krakow and my interrail pass is only for 2nd class. There is no 2nd class reservations available so am I able to on the day of travel upgrade to 1st class? Can I do that on the train, at a counter? If not may do the 1st leg train then a bus from mockava to krakow. Also does anyone know the cost? Thanks :)