r/Interrail

Hello there, my first post here, i saw some people in other posts saying sleeper trains aren't really good and made me question the original plan i had in mind. My current plan for a trip in November is:

- Paris to Ghent - Arrive at Ghent around 13h00, roam around for a bit, eat some local food, drink some beers and possibly see the Gravensteen and St Bavos, get to know the city for a bit then back to Brussels.

- Brussels to Berlin Sleeper train - 21h45 - arriving 10h00

- Berlin to Prague - leaving Berlin at around 15h00 and getting into Prague 19h00+-, where i'll be staying for 4 nights before going to Vienna to catch another sleeper to Rome.

I know Ghent and Berlin are really rushed in this, but Berlin isn't a city that really attracts me to be honest, i was going to take the sleeper directly to prague, but I would really love to see some places like the Wall Memorial, Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, and Ghent looks like a lovely place, and I saw the opportunity to check it out since it was kinda on route for the sleeper.

I thought it was a solid plan, but it might require a good rest between Brussels to Berlin, since i'll just have roamed around for a full day and will roam around in Berlin for some hours as well.

Alternatives would be: (I'm also considering this alternatives in case the sleeper gets cancelled or something)

Plan B - From Ghent to Cologne, arriving at Cologne at like 22h00, just staying for the night somewhere near the station and checking out the Cathedral, which does look amazing. Then Morning train to berlin, arriving at 13h00, staying there until 19h00 and last train to Prague. Would get a proper rest, get to see Cologne Cathedral but would arrive really late in Prague and leave a bit earlier from Ghent.

Plan C - Directly from Paris to Berlin, arriving at around 19h00 spend a night there then getting a train to Prague next morning. Would lose Ghent (and around 25 euros since i already got the eurostar to brussels haha), but would get a proper night, a bit more of Berlin and some more Prague.

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?

I am currrently planing part of my interrail through the Balkans.

I wanted to ask if anyone can give me recomendations on wether to take the route:

Budapest(train) - Belgrade(train, night) - Podgorica

or

Budapest(train) - Zagreb(train) - Split(Bus) - Mostar(Bus) -Kotor(Bus) - Podgorica

I know interrail isnt the best option in the balkans but it is what it is. Ive been to Split before and Mostar/Kotor istn a must but I feel like Ive seen paarts of Croatia allready and the train rides are during the day and over 6-8h each.
The route through Belgrade is maybe more of an adventoure and you get more of a true balkan feeling.

Maybe you have done an equal tour or been to the places and can tell me your recommendations :)

Thank you

Holaaa
Necesito ayuda porque no sé cómo ahorrar en el transporte, ya que voy a estar del 25 de octubre al 29 de octubre en Suiza. Estando de base en Lauterbrunnen y mis actividades serían visitar Wüegen, Thun, Kandersteg y el 29 regreso a Milán ya que de de ahí sale mi vuelo y el día 25 viajo desde Ballaggio (Como) a Lauterbrunnen, necesito ayuda mucha ayuda 😭😭😭

Hello! There is an offer in my country for the 10 days in 2 month pass for around 180€ and I was thinking of doing a route from Estonia to Bucharest. I've seen that the trains in many of those countries are cheap and while I want to use several night trains (Warsaw to Budapest and Budapest to Brasov) and considering that I've read that the connections in the Baltics are not very good I'm not sure if the pass for that price is worth it or if the price would increase a lot with the reservations and all. Does anyone have experience in a similar route? Thanks!!

Im going inter railing next year and ive planned to go from munich to vienna but i would like to camp for one of the days im in austria but im unsure on where is a good place for me to camp.
Id like a nice hike which is accessible from Vienna does anybody have any good ideas or helpful tips?
I could also take the train from munich to salzburg and then to vienna.

The EC trains from Hamburg mainstation to Copenhagen and any train service to Denmark (also to Kolding) are now replaced by a bus driving you from Hamburg Altona to Fredericia. Don't expect much help or direction from DB services. Busses leave from Hamburg Altona bus station ZOB. Be there early. We had two busses today with 100 people more waiting. Hope it will improve in coming days. Now on that bus and 10 min away from Fredericia. This was for EC 398.

So my friend and I booked seat reservations for RJ387 from Copenhagen to Praha that apparently doesn’t go anymore.
We found this out yesterday through a friend. So now we looked for a different journey from Stockholm to Vienna, but every night train / long distance train obviously has no seats left at this point.
My friend needs to get home, so we can’t do 2 days of local trains without seat reservations either.

Train operator doesn’t answer customer support, I already wrote a support request to interrail.com but they probably won‘t answer before tomorrow.

What are our options here? Can they even get us seats on different trains so that we can arrive on Wednesday? If we fly home will that be covered?

Thanks for any help 🙏🏻

Hi everyone,

I accidentally booked two train tickets for the same journey on 4 October — one with Trenitalia and one with Italo.

Route: Rome Termini → Venice Santa Lucia

Date: 4 October 2026

Passengers: 2

I only need one of the tickets, and neither ticket has been used.

Could someone advise me on what my options are?

* Can either ticket be cancelled or refunded?

* If a ticket is non-refundable, can the date/time or passenger details be changed?

* Are Trenitalia or Italo tickets transferable to another passenger?

I’m mainly trying to avoid losing the value of the second ticket if there is any legitimate option available.

Thanks for any advice!

We had a rather bad experience with the Spanish trains today when trying to travel from Madrid to Barcelona with bicycles (disassembled) on the high speed train (with interrail + the proper reservations etc ofc) When keeping it at least a little bit on the short side (ofcourse there is more nuance to it):

We first got refused access to the train by a conductor (after his colleague said everything was alright), without a valid reason to deny access and then he decided to enjoy his powertrip and taunt us for 5/10 minutes. We eventually managed to get new tickets for a train a few hours later, which we were allowed to board.

Once in Barcelona, we were assembling our bikes on the platform, but security wanted us gone. We couldn't carry our half-assembled bikes+luggage in one go but were refused any solution to the problem so I continued assembling the bike, but then the guard just started trying to physically drag me and my bike away.

After we managed to get everything off the platform and got assigned a new space to continue another security guard wanted us gone again. While moving our half finished biked again the guard and my friend accidentally bumped a little bit into eachother, after which my friend ofcourse apologized, however the guard suddenly started assaulting my friend.

We were send outside with everything. We thought everything was finished. But then the guard who assaulted my friend decided to still call the police and tried to convince the police my friend attacked him. luckily the police was very nice and calm.

The police and the guard both have me and my friends passport info. Nobody was arrested, nobody was hurt a lot, my special bamboo bikeframe was damaged during the chaos.

During all situations there was other guards/train staff present or called to come help. However their behaviour was very one sided and they never called out their colleagues for inappropriate behaviour. but we were immediately told off or threatened when mirroring their energy or even when my friend raised his voice to call for help or say he was scared of the guard.

I ofcourse feel like all situations are rather unacceptable, our rights got breached, we received physical violence, my bike is damaged, and we expect to receive a fine at home for some made up story by the guard.

I'm curious if anyone has advice on what I can do now and what our rights are. can Interrail be of any help? or is this just something with the train organisation? is a complaint enough for the conductor and both guards? or should we go to the police for the last guard? I feel a bit powerless and hate this feeling. A few years ago I already got an incorrect fine by a conductor in Italy who then committed fraud on the fine, and trenitalia didn't care and didn't want to believe their conductor could be wrong. And I would like to better study my options this time to maybe have some more succes.

Any tips or help would be appreciated. I thought let's ask here, I felt like it couldn't be the first time something like this happened, with 3 shitty situations on the same day. I would like these people to feel the consequences of their actions and get compensation for the damage to my bike and that my friend receives an apology etc.

Thanks :D

Hello everybody,

Im planning to use two days to return home (Frankfurt) from Gothenburg. The problem is, I will take a night train at 23:52 from Copenhagen and arrive in the morning to Hamburg, and still need to take another train home.

I read in another post here that one could manually split the trip until the last stop before the border (in this case Padborg) so that the border crossing happens already in a train leaving after Midnight, but when I try to do that it says this connection Copenhagen-Padborg is not covered by the pass network (but Copenhagen-Hamburg with the same train is and i already have a reservation for it). Does any of you knows of other solutions?

Thanks in advance!

So I’m moving to Norway with my dog!

We’re heading off in September and all his paperwork is being completed by the time we leave.

I’ve been looking at the best route possible work a few weeks now and I’m going around in circles… basically I’m trying to avoid railjet - they seem to have a very odd/expensive pet policy.

We reach hook of Holland at 8am on the 3rd September then will have to carry on by train across Germany, Denmark, Sweden then Norway.

So far the best route with the least time wasted I could find was to get a train from Rotterdam to, then Hamburg, then to Copenhagen, then to Gothenburg and finally to Oslo.

Obviously there are several changes in between the above, which can make the trip much longer… right now I’m looking at staying in Halmstad overnight then carry on From there to Gothenburg the next morning. But I am also considering going to fredericia then Copenhagen then Gothenburg because the transfer times are shorter and I’d not need to sleep in a random city on the 3rd.

Has anyone done this trip? What’s the best route? And the dog policy/ticket costs across these countries? 🤯

Hi, I’m going on an Interrail trip next week, but I’m a bit confused about how to use the pass.

As far as I understand, I need to activate my pass before boarding the trains, and then I’ll have to show a QR code that the app gives me after I activate the travel day, right?

I also have a second question: once I activate a travel day, can I take any trains I want during those 24 hours, or can I only take the trains that I have added to the list in the app?

I’m asking because I’ll be travelling with two friends, but I’m the only one who has added the trains we need to take to the list in the app, while they haven’t.

as the title says i’m studying abroad in granada, and with my program came a 14 day eurail pass.
what are some places i should visit?

Heyy! :) I won an Interrail Ticket via DiscoverEU and will probably start my journey in eight days. I just wanted to share my route as it is currently planned. I am very open to suggestions/help/ideas as well as meetups ^^

24. August: Münster -> Marseilles

25. August: Day trips to Nice

26. August: Marseilles -> Bari

31./1. September: Bari -> Patras (ferry), then to Zakynthos by ferry/bus

6. September: Patras -> Thessaloniki

7. September: Thessaloniki -> Belgrade (FlixBus)

13./14. September: Belgrade -> Bar

17. September: manage to get to Tirana airport to fly home to Germany

What do y'all think? Does that make sense?

Would be glad to meet a few nice people :))