r/Interrail

Hellooo! I’m currently planning a trip with my friend to hop around Europe this summer, but I wasn’t sure whether to get the Interrail or Eurail pass. I’m an American citizen living in the UK, but I don’t have a British passport.

I understand that the pass you buy should reflect where you’re coming from, but what would this classify as?

Thank you!! :]

Edit: I have just heard back from the support team and they clarified that I should get the Interrail pass, showing both my passport and my UK eVisa for inspection.

Hi! I am a first time interrailer and looking for inspiration for routes from Stockholm which are doable in 5-6 days. I am not really interested in travel within Sweden as I have seen most and would like to do a few destinations where I have some time to go out and discover and was thinking doing some nighttrains to make the most out of the trip.

I was even wondering if there are any tools that you would recommend to use to plan the route?

Hi there,

I booked tickets for Hamburg - Copenhagen on the 11th of August a few days ago, from the Interrail website (was the ECE 1198 train, announced 06:50 - 11:38).

However I can't find it anymore neither on the Interrail or on the DB website. The ECE 1198 routes seem to only depart from Pinneberg.

Does this mean I'll have to find a way to go to Pinneberg, then my current ticket will take me to Copenhagen, or should I refund my current ticket and book a new one via Interrail?

Many thanks!

Hello, I just purchased a ticket from High Speed Trains and they will not issue a ticket unless I send a photo of my passport and the credit card I used to purchase the tickets. Is this normal? It appears to be a total scam.

I know similar questions has been asked but I need some up to date current info. We are planning to travel from Istanbul to Bucharest via train. As the bosphorus express only starts operation mid June we are going to be a week or two early for it. What are my other options to travel from Istanbul to Bucharest via rail?

Hey Guys this is a bit last minute but I’m a bit confused. I am travelling tomorrow and I had plannen to go with the ICE from Hilversum to Berlin HBF 10:22-15:51. We had also booked Seat reservations to be sure. When I look at NS now. It doesn’t say that there is a train running at that time.

However when I look at the Deutsche Bahn website it says that there is.

I don’t know who to trust. I also don’t want to be stuck at the trainstation without a mode of transfer.

Anyone who can help me figure it out?

Hello! If I wanted to do day trips eg - Berlin to Leipzig or Hamburg and then back to Berlin on the same day. And can I do it multiple times Is that allowed or is that seen as commuting? Would the train conductor get annoyed / question me? Especially as I won’t have big travel bags with me?

Thanks! :)

six of us are going interrailing for two weeks soon, do we bring suitcases or backpacks? we have paid for 20kg checked luggage for the flights but are worried about taking the cases on the train and where they’d go!
any recommendations?
thank you!

Hi! I'm going on an interrail trip through Europe for 3-4 weeks this summer. As this will be my first time travelling out of a backpack i need to buy one - question is what size and brand is best ? Seeing as I plan on travelling a whole lot more, i would like a size that's versatile. For the size I was thinking about 50 L, and for the brand Osprey (though they are quite pricey, i would like to stay under 150-200€ grand max). Does anyone have any tips, or bags that worked for them ?

thanks!

I've just found out I've got a month free as I'm between jobs and would love to go interrailing, ideally leave the start of June and return start of July. The website says the paper pass would arrive by the 9th of June, which is much later than I'd hope to start my trip, I was thinking of starting on 2nd June.

Anyone know if this is generally accurate or if it's most likely it would arrive well before June 9th? I'm in the UK if that makes any significant difference to arrival dates.

I'd much much prefer paper pass over the electronic one.

Me and my friend want to go interrailing next year and want to do Berlin, krakow, vienna, budapest (and maybe lake bled) (not in this order) Is there any other must see places that we could add onto this? Plus any hostel recs?

Hi all! My friends and i are going interailing in June and we were wondering if you have to have your college ids to qualify for student discounts at museums and attractions throughout europe. We are irish so we don’t know whether they’ll actually recognize our student id’s. We are all 19 so we qualify for most places age requirements for the discounts.
We will be visiting split, ljubljana, Venice, florence, Vienna, Budapest and Berlin. If anyone has been to these spots it would be really helpful if you could let me know about your experience! Thanks

Hi I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on why this night train is not available to book? I have tried multiple site but cannot find it anywhere (either getting error messages from the interail app or tickets are showing as unavailable).

Does anyone have any experience travelling/booking this train. I am planning on getting the train on the 8th of August getting into Vienna on the 9th.

At a last resort would it be to risky to try and book it when in brasov?

Hi everybody!

Last time I had questions on this subreddit, you were so lovely with helping me find the solutions. I was originally supposed to travel with my best friend, it was going to be my first time interailing and I was so excited for it. It’s something I’ve been dreaming of for years.

Just before we were supposed to leave, my friend cancelled the holiday. I understand and she has her reasons, but oh man, that sucks. I found someone else who wanted to do a really short interrail trip with me - not necessarily worth the money’s worth but hey, I’ll take it! Unfortunatley, she has now also had to cancel.

So now it’s just me. I know people do this by themselves all the time, but i’m feeling quite sad about the way it’s panned out. I was looking forward to going on an adventure with my friends. I’m also a bit scared since I’ve had a traumatic experience on a night train, and I don’t really like the idea of taking one by myself. But on the other hand, I do still have the ticket, it’s been my lifelong dream and I don’t want to let my holiday go to waste.

Just wanted to share these thoughts here since this community has been so nice and supportive.

And if there are any single female travelers, I’d love to hear your favourite trips!

Hi everyone,

I’ll be travelling from Vienna to Kufstein soon as an international student and I’ll probably have 3 suitcases with a total weight of around 45kg.

My main concern is luggage space and whether boarding in 2nd class would become stressful with that much luggage.

For people familiar with ÖBB Railjet trains:

• Is there usually enough luggage space in 2nd class for 3 suitcases?
• Does 1st class make a noticeable difference for luggage storage and comfort?
• Any tips for boarding at Vienna Hbf with heavy luggage?

The price for first class is around 45€ and second class is around 23€ Thanks!

Hi, this is our second trip to Europe but different side and towns. Your friend here who has little to no knowledge and still trying to figure out needs help LOL. My husband and I are going to Europe next month for 13 days (Mine 2nd, Hubs 3rd time) from

- Edinburgh

- London

- Barcelona (flying from London)

- Switzerland ( Geneva, Bern, Lucerne, Brien, Lugano) - Undecided

- Paris

- Brussels

- Copenhagen (Possible stop at Amsterdam LOL IDK)

- Gothenburg (PORT of EXIT / FLY BACK TO VEGAS)

and I am thinking to get the Eurail Global Pass, but also I have this recommendation from my husband friend who is local in EU (I guess as per se) like Swiss travel pass, and other local sites and we used Italo, Trenitalia before but I am still overwhelmed by this planning. Any other recommendations/help/tips/ will be greatly appreciate. Is the Eurail worth it or should we just get a separate tickets for each town/places? We've learn from last time that even though its a little pricey, we book or buy the tickets on the platform so we are not rushing or in hurry to get to the station just in case we did not make it because we got lost going to the said station like last time. But, also we are aware that some trains are better if booking or do reservations ahead of time. I am a bit more worried about our Switzerland trip as I wanted to go different places in just 2 days but still trying to figure out a best way possible. And also wants to starts booking hotels/bnb as soon as possible as the rate are getting pricey but couldn't figure out coz I want to make sure that its not going to be hassle for us especially we are dragging luggages (2 Carry on & 1 Check In - have to bring goodies for the kiddos). Thank you in advance.

Just wondering if it is necessary to book the optional reservations.