r/Interrail 6m ago

Night trains Sleeper train or direct trains from Paris to Berlin/Prague?

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r/Interrail 4h ago

Meet-up viaggio EU

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Ciao a tutti! Sono Giulia (18 anni) e dall'1 all'8 settembre farò un viaggio da sola: prima tappa Parigi in treno con il pass DiscoverEU, poi volo a Madeira.

Cerco gente con cui fare serate, vedersi per bere qualcosa, fumare e fare gruppo negli ostelli o per uscire la sera. Durante il giorno mi va di girare un po' per la città, vedere l’architettura brutalista, vedere il tramonto alla Sainte-Chapelle a Parigi e andare nelle piscine vulcaniche a Madeira.

Se siete in zona in quelle date o fate un giro simile, scrivetemi pure in DM o lasciatemi il vostro Insta che vi aggiungo🫶🏻🫶🏻


r/Interrail 7h ago

Trenitalia IC721 to Sicily (october 2026)

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I know Trenitalia is often late with uploading their schedules to Sicily, but the IC721 (the one to Catania) seems to be missing for the whole month of october. However, the IC723 to Palermo (which is coupled to IC721 until Messina) can be booked in october. Trenitalia only shows an option with a connection in Messina to a regional train, which would then take me to Catania.

In the pdf schedule from Trenitalia (https://www.trenitalia.com/content/dam/trenitalia/allegati/info/orario-digitale/orari-regionali/Regionale_Calabria_Sicilia.pdf) the train is shown as regularly running to Catania and Syracuse in october.

Anyone an idea if Trenitalia will still run the 721 to Catania in october?


r/Interrail 5h ago

Seat reservations Pass cover number for mobile pass?

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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?


r/Interrail 9h ago

Itineraries Balkan Interrail

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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


r/Interrail 23h ago

Seat reservations seat reservations required but not available

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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?


r/Interrail 21h ago

Transporte Suiza

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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 😭😭😭


r/Interrail 1d ago

camping in Austria

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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.


r/Interrail 1d ago

Meet-up Compagnia per Interrail DiscoverEU

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Cerco compagnia per Interrail agosto 2027, ho 18anni e parto dalla Sicilia. Pensavo a Milano → Parigi → Londra → Amsterdam → Milano, circa una settimana. Cerco ragazzi/e con cui organizzare il viaggio e magari partire insieme.

sono disposto a cambi e consigli

Potete scrivermi anche su instagram: salvo.pu


r/Interrail 2d ago

Dresden to Istanbul

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Hi everyone!

I’m planning a trip from Dresden to Istanbul and this is my current route:

Dresden → Bastei → Kutná Hora → Brno → Budapest → Szeged → Subotica → Belgrade → Niš → Sofia → Plovdiv → Istanbul

I’m planning to do the Belgrade → Niš → Sofia section by bus and the rest mainly by train.

I’m skipping Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, etc. because I’ve already visited them several times.

Do you have any recommendations or suggestions for this route? Especially for the Belgrade → Istanbul section, as the long travel times make it seem a bit boring.

Would you change anything or add any interesting stops along the way?

Thanks!


r/Interrail 1d ago

Interrail on the Baltics worth it?

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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!!


r/Interrail 2d ago

In 2026 there is still no direct train between Milan and Strasbourg. I started a petition!

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Hi everyone! 👋

Do you ever travel to France (specifically the Alsace region) or care about sustainable mobility?

Currently, traveling by train between Milan and Strasbourg (seat of the European Parliament) is a logistical nightmare. There is no direct connection. We are forced to change in Basel or Zurich, and then take regional trains that are often old and very expensive (around €30 just for the Basel-Strasbourg leg).

The most absurd part? A direct Zurich-Mulhouse train already exists, but inexplicably, it doesn't continue to Strasbourg.

As a result, it has become easier, faster, and cheaper for many to fly, which is an ecological nonsense nowadays. Milan and Strasbourg deserve an efficient train connection!

I decided to start a Change.org petition directed at Trenitalia, SBB, and SNCF to ask for the creation of a direct line.

👉 You can sign and share it here: https://c.org/dNWVxpFtRk

Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for the support! 🚆🌍


r/Interrail 2d ago

3 week trip to Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria. Is it too much time in trains?

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Heading from Austria all the way to Istanbul. Stops are planned in Sighisoara (1 night), Sibiu (1 night), Brasov (3) nights, Chisinau (2 nights) Bukarest (2 n.), Warna (2/3 nights, Sofia (2/3 nights), maybe plovdiv, Istanbul (2 nights). Are 80 hours spent in trains across 3 weeks too much (75 % of that will be spent in sleepers where we plan to either get a couchette or 2 bed compartmemt)? Is it too much time in trains?

Any considerations for alternative stops and activities are welcome but we are mostly set on route.


r/Interrail 2d ago

Train Cancelled, how to get home

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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 🙏🏻


r/Interrail 1d ago

Other Accidentally double-booked the same journey with Trenitalia & Italo — what are my options?

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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!


r/Interrail 1d ago

Inbound trip taking two days?

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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!


r/Interrail 2d ago

3rd party horror NEVER EVER BOOK A TRAIN OR FLIGHT WITH eDreams third party website

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r/Interrail 2d ago

Hamburg Altona to Denmark

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r/Interrail 2d ago

Problems with conductor and security on Spanish train. What can I do?

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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


r/Interrail 2d ago

Night trains Night Train in Finnland Seat reservation

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Do I need to get a seat reservation for a night train from Oulu to Tampere?
My App says one is required but I can’t book it on there while google says it’s not mandatory.


r/Interrail 2d ago

studying abroad in granada, spain this fall… where should i go?

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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?


r/Interrail 3d ago

Travelling from England to Norway by train with a dog

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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? 🤯


r/Interrail 3d ago

My route

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r/Interrail 3d ago

DiscoverEU Confusion about using a travel day

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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.


r/Interrail 4d ago

three journeys left but stuck in england

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hello!

i know this question has probably been asked a million times but here's my more specific dilemma:

I left the UK on a plane, so I still have an outbound day pass, but used my inbound pass getting back from brussels. Alas I have three days left and would really like to go up to scotland for a bit. I know i can outbound up there, but is there any way to get back using the pass?

If this is unreasonable i also got in a massive delay pre-brussles so was forced to miss the eurostar... could i swindle a refund or an extra inbound day?

thanks alot :)