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How does the pass work with regional trains?

I’m traveling in august using a pass. Some of my trips include regional transport, which I’m sure is common, but I’m struggling to find info on how the pass works on these trips. Does the pass cover for them? Or do I have to buy each individual local ticket as I’m traveling? The only info I can find says that I just have to show my travelday qr-code to a ticket taker, but I know some local trains don’t have that and instead have manual ticket gates for example. One of my trips is fully regional, so any help is appreciated :)

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u/blallslack — 1 day ago

One quick but important question

I won the pass and I’m travelling in June. I booked a ticket in which I change trains. I payed the reservations but the discover eu app only appear one qrcode for my ticket. But the trains are from a different company. So I show only that qr in both trains? It’s the same? Wouldn’t I need for example 2 qr codes as the tickets? (For example from London to Barcelona I change trains in Paris. The ticket that is in the app is the same and I show it in both trains?) So in every train I get on I need to show 2 qr codes? One from the discover eu app that is my ticket and the other that is the reservation? Thanks!

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seat reservations

currently trying to book the last seat reservations of my trip, but most of my journeys are "sold out" according to interrail. do i just book full price straight from railway companies of each different country? is it possible to still get some kind of a discount? cause this was the case with most of my planned journeys, and i already booked most of them like two months ago, i get that summer trains are booked fast, but the tickets for this exact trip only became available a week or so ago edit: just checked the whole month of my pass availability and there were no dates that had available seats for reservation and it definitely is not such a popular route (warsaw-vilnius) so is it maybe a bug or something??

u/West-Cry6419 — 2 days ago

Any recommendations for budget friendly itineraries?

Hey all! I won a pass last year and I want it to use it this summer, otherwise it will expire. The problem is that I still cannot convince my parents, so I thought that by showing them a budget friendly itinerary I might convince them. I think that’s the only option. I heard that is more convenient to visit places like the Balkans, central-eastern Europe, but not sure which of the countries are the best. I have a lot of places saved on maps lol and it seems like a hard decision to make ( maybe that’s also due to the fact I never been abroad so I am enthusiastic about it).

I am from Romania, to be honest its not that cheap to travel here either, that’s taking into account my family’s income and stuff. So maybe its better to don’t go for places more expensive than the ones in my country as for now.Hope you understand.

Honestly, even if it would only one country where I can spend a weekend or smth I’ll be grateful.

A few things about what I’m looking for in a place to visit: culture, architecture, history, nature, chill vibes. Not a fan of night life, fancy restaurants or stuff like that.

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u/purpose_seeker1 — 4 days ago
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Looking for Day Trip & Attraction Recommendations

This is the backpacking trip my friend and i (both F19) will be taking this summer from the middle of august to the middle of september. We both received the 7 day interrail pass for this summer and built an itinerary around that.

Travel itinerary:

-travel day 1(Graz-Berlin)

-4 full days in Berlin

-travel day 2 (night train: Berlin-Copenhagen)

-3 full days in Copenhagen

-travel day 3 (Copenhagen-Brussels)

-4 full days in Brussels

-travel day 4 (Brussels-Bordeaux)

+self paid bus to Lacanau

-5 full days in Lacanau

+self paid bus to Bordeaux

-spend the night in Bordeaux

-travel day 5 (Bordeaux-Barcelona)

-3 full days in Barcelona

-travel day 6 (Barcelona-Lyon)

-spend the night in Lyon

+self paid flixbus to Oulx

-1 full day in Oulx

-travel day 7 (Oulx-Trieste)

The trip is fully booked accomodation wise and mostly train wise. Our goal is to really take advantage of the pass and travel as far as we could, while keeping the path somewhat circular and to our taste.

I havent been to any of the cities and my friend hasnt been in most of them, so we would definitely spend some time just seeing the famous parts, but apart from that we would just like to actually experience the cities as much as we can. We want to do a bit of everything so maybe visit a museum, find beautiful places, enjoy good food, just walk around or wind down in a local cafe. If anyone has any reccomendations for such things in the cities listed please feel free to comment or if anyone has day trip reccomendations and to be more specific, we want the day trips to be mostly about seeing beautiful scenery or interesting cities, please leave a comment.

We really want to go on a day trip to somewhere from Berlin but here we have absolutely no idea where. We will be going to Malmö from Copenhagen, so we could also visit Sweden. We chose it as it is the closest but if anyone has a better reccomendation or anything spacific in Malmö that would be great. Then from Brussels we really want to visit Bruges so we will probably do that, although Antwerp also intrigues us...so again if anyone has a suggestion or reasons why one or the other would be better we would love to hear it. Lacanau will just be a surf and realx week then from Barcelona we plan to visit Sitges no other major plans there and the end is just travelling with hopefully amazing scenery and a day relaxing in the alps.

I apologise for the long ramble but we will be extremely thankful to anyone who reads this and maybe decides to comment :)

u/gucci2007 — 7 days ago
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Feedback+Travelbuddies

I (M19 from Germany) am planning an Interrail trip through Europe in June. The destinations are Hamburg/Berlin, Copenhagen with Malmö, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Venice and Monaco.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the route, and I’m also looking for travel buddies who would like to join for the whole trip or just parts of it.

Feel free to message me if you’re interested or have any questions.

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u/o_Anynms_o — 7 days ago
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Nightjet Names for Booking

Right so basically I booked a nightjet train from Amsterdam to Munich for me and my 4 friends and I could input their names. Now I have a mate - Andrew Boyne - whom we exclusively refer to as Phone (Long Story). Therefore, I put his name down on the booking as Phone Boyne. Will they have an issue with it if thats not the name on his passport? Thanks.

I am aware of the intricacies of our stupidity.

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u/MountainPleasant7230 — 12 days ago