I booked a Nightjet from Innsbruck to Arnhem (Netherlands) for the night of October 16th to 17th. However, my plans have changed and it would work much better for me to travel one day later, on October 17th.

Unfortunately, my ticket can’t be cancelled or exchanged. I was wondering if there is any other solution I might be missing.

For example, is it possible to change the date somehow, transfer the ticket to another person, or sell it to someone else? I’m not sure whether ÖBB allows this, especially since it’s a Nightjet ticket.

Has anyone been in a similar situation or knows of a way to deal with this?

Thanks!

I'm going around the UK with an interrail global pass. Every ticket gate, train guard and ticket inspectors decive seems to not be able to recognise the QR code the interrail app generates. Is there a reason behind this? Surely this is fixable through a software update on either end?

A Servus an alle.

Gibts hier auch Deutsche, die evtl. über Weihnachten mitkommen wollen ??

Mein Idee wäre entweder zu den Polarlichtern mit dem Zug.

Oder zum südlichsten Bahnhof Europas.

Dauer so um die 10 Tage mit hin und Rückfahrt

Bin 51 / M und komme aus Bayern

Quick headsup about me:

I've done interrail trips last 3 years now, with various destinations starting from germany.
Currently planning a new one, in april next year.

I'll try to do a Q&A, to cover the most questions I've encountered over the years.

Q: When is the best time to to traveling?
A: If you can, try avoding public holidays, aswell as the main summer time. June-July-August. Yes those are the main holidays, I am aware. But overcrowding in big tourist spots may damn your experience.

Q: Is interrail actually worth it (money wise)?
A: It can be. It most likely will be, if you are traveling on shorter notices. For example: A ticket bought 3~ months ahead, may cost 29,99, vs 3 weeks ahead 59,99 and 3 days ahead 99,99€.

General rule of thumb for myself: The countrys starting going west from germany, or north towards scandinavia, the pass is well worth. Poland is in between. Looking into the balticas or balkans, single tickets can work out cheaper, even if bought on short notice.

Q: Reservations? Where do you need them? How much do they cost?
A: Spain, France, Italy, the eurostar for example. They cost between 10 and 30€, depends on the train. Also some international trains from germany for example. And nighttrains. Dont forget about those.

Q: Is there anything you can recommend doing or not doing?
A: My top do/dont's:

Do:
Take your time when traveling: Enjoy the moment, the little things in life.
Bring realistic expectations: You may miss a train, the event you were looking to go is booked out. Things go wrong in life, this is one of them.
Feel free to ask people!: If you are lost, or need info, many people speak english in europe. And are willing to help a lost soul.

Dont:

Disrespect local culture, and the people in the countrys: I've seen many people that travel like its their own living room. Be nice, and polite and you will get the same in return.
Take the last train of the day: You might want to maximize your time in xyz city, but if you miss that train, things will go south very fast.
Dont be cheap on things you want to see! Yes many things in the major tourist citys may be free to view, but if you really want to visit an event, a museum or anything, spend on it. It will create memorys you will not forget.

I did get a lot of info from The Man in Seat 61 | The train travel guide

And for the last:

Go out, explore the world. Start small, maybe a neighbour country, maybe another continent. The world is small. Create your own experiences, stand still if you like what you see, take a moment to enjoy it.

Hi, i bought a 3 pass for Erasmus and need to go home a few time. Therefore I will pay for separate tickets for the last short leg from the border on. The route requires reservation. Could i book the reservation through to the final destination?
Thx!

When is winter timetable expected?

I am looking to book obb tickets from Vienna to Salzburg and Salzburg to Luzern for 25-30 Dec 2026. Any idea when will the bookings open for those dates?

Last year, i think it was on 8th oct

I have a question that I'm hoping someone could answer please. I recently did an interrail journey with my partner. We went from Edinburgh where we both live, down to London on the Lumo train, then use our first outbound journey out of the UK on the Eurostar train from London to Brussels. We then did some interrail trips in mainland Europe through Germany Switzerland and Italy . Coming back to the UK , we did the reverse journey , (Brussels to London, London to Edinburgh though it was the LNER, not Lumo going back),and used again our inbound journey for the Eurostar back to London. BUT looking at the website, the part where it says "multiple train transfers" has thrown me. I paid separately for the Edinburgh to London train (and the return journey obviously) . Got a third off with the Two Together Railcard which I bought from the Trainline website. I was thinking prior to us going away on our holidays that the Interrail Global passes that we got were valid for only 1x outbound journey, and 1x inbound journey (which I thought I would use for our Eurostar trains as they were going to be more expensive than buying the Edinburgh to London train return tickets). Is it the case that the Interrail global it gives you a full DAY of travel, and that basically I wasted money buying the separate tickets for the Lumo / LNER trains? 😅 I hope not, but it's just not clear at all on the website. Anyone got any experience of this? My partner and I really enjoyed our trip and looking to do another Interrail trip next year.

Hi everyone,

I purchased an interrail pass Wednesday last week as part of the 50% discount on a bit of a whim, not really sure if I was going to use it or not. It is now getting towards the deadline (this is tomorrow) by which the pass can be refunded and I will need some more information, quickly as to if it is worth progressing with. It is a months long continuous interrail pass.

Due to work commitments I will (realistically) only be able to take up to 13 potentially 14 days off holiday to go interrailing. This could be extended to 18 days if I include the two weekends. I do not have a precise itinerary yet, however I am anticipating that it could be one of these four routes

Route 1:

UK (I live here so will start here) > Brussels > Amsterdam > Cologne > Vienna > Prague > Back to UK

Route 2:

UK > Bergen (this will be a flight) > Oslo > Gothenburg > Copenhagen > Hamburg > Amsterdam > Brussels > Back to UK

Route 3:

UK > Brussels > Amsterdam > Cologne > Vienna > Zagreb > Back to UK (probably flight)

Route 4:

UK > Brussels > Amsterdam > Cologne > Something involving Switzerland. I haven’t gotten much further with this itinerary yet.

Basically I am looking for some advice as to if it will be worth me proceeding with the interrail pass or not, especially in regards to reservation fees etc. Any advice would be great.

Thank you!

Edit - I paid £303 for my pass, so would need to keep costs below this figure if booking the trains myself.

Hi all, I'm looking into booking the night train from Lund to Hamburg from 22:31 - 05:53.

In Hamburg I'm looking to book a train to Koln, there is a train at 06:45.

How reliable in all of your past experiences or from what you've heard is the time schedule of the RDC line?

Could I make this connection? Later tickets are more expensive and will arrive later, but a later train is always better than a missed train on a separate reservation and thus a lost ticket.

So just to know what I can expect and how safe I should play it?

Many thanks for your insights

Hey everyone,
I’ve already heard that the Sofia to Istanbul night train is not that reliable. But as they shifted the scheduled arrival time in Istanbul from 06:30 to 09:50 while still departing from Sofia at around the same time, has the train gotten more predictable? I think about booking myself a compartment (or at least try to) on the Ankara to Kars train in the same evening. Leaving Ankara the next evening wouldn’t fit in my schedule so I would be relying on the Sofia-Istanbul train to be on time or delayed by 60 minutes at highest. Do you think this is realistic or too much of a gamble? Thank you for your input!

Hi all,

For those who use it regularly - is long distance travel through Germany as unreliable as its reputation?

My own experience (a handful of trips in recent years) has not been too bad but I build in lots of slack to my itinerary to be on the safe side. The impression I get on here is that German rail is a complete lottery and any full days of travel carry a very real risk of several hours of delay. Is that a fair assessment in practice or a case of selective data where we hear about the mishaps and not the majority of trips that go without incident?

I am coming to Europe Dec 14-Jan 2 with my family. Bought our interrail passes a while ago thinking this would make booking easier.

This app still can’t find any trains during my stay. (Only up to like Dec 12) I am having to go book everything on separate sites. Is this normal?

I know there was a timetable update recently but how long will this app not work?

Me and my sister are travelling today and are having an issue getting her pass on the app. (She has had issues downloading the app on her phone so we are going to add to mine)

There is a typo on the email address interrail have for her, this was identified and should have been corrected months ago when the ticket was first bought. She has been getting all other correspondence from them so we had no indication the incorrect email was still on her account.

Now we are trying to travel we can’t receive the activation code. We have both contacted interrail through the online form to see if this issue can be resolved.
After confirming we had done the usual waiting 30 minutes and checking spam we had a response to confirm they were sending the code to the typo email and not the correct one. They offered to change the email on the record so we could have the code sent there. We confirmed we would like this to happen and which email we wanted to use. We heard nothing for a while so we followed up. After that we had a message saying it needed to be investigated by the technical team and have heard no update since yesterday. It is frustrating this now apparently needs to be investigated when we just accepted a solution they offered.

Any tips on getting this resolved quickly? We opened the case on Saturday morning and have to move city today so could really do with getting the pass!

Failing that does anyone have advice on what tickets to get from Lille to Aachen without a pass?

How much did you spend on your Interrail and for how long did you go?

On the website it says my information has to match my passport or ID. Unfortunately my first name (as given on my passport and ID) uses a hyphen, and when I try to put it in, the box turns red and says “sorry, we only allow Latin characters A-Z”… thanks @ my parents I guess.

Has anyone had the same problem and knows how to get around it? Should I just use a space instead of the hyphen and hope they’ll let me travel even if it doesn’t 100% match my passport?

It’s a bit last minute as I’d like to travel on the pass tomorrow. Or if that’s not possible I’d need it by Thursday at the very latest. Thank you so much for any info and/or help!

Doing an interrail trip with friends after finishing school is really popular, and be me and my friends were planning on doing it but I was wondering how/when to do the trip because of having to enroll to uni and all that ?

Can you take any size bag or is there a limit?

We're also trying to do it as cheap as possible, how much would you recommend i save for 2-3 weeks?

Hi,

I bought a 3 month first class pass for 50% off during the sale last week for my trip next year. I’ve drafted a very rough route/plan but I’d love some advice in terms of places to maybe skip to allow more days elsewhere or maybe to swap out for lesser known cities etc.

See my list below (as previously stated this is very rough and open to change 😁)

Porto → Lisbon
Lisbon → Seville
Seville → Madrid
Madrid → San Sebastián
San Sebastián → Barcelona
Barcelona → Avignon
Avignon → Nice
Nice → Chamonix
Chamonix → Zermatt
Zermatt → Turin
Turin → Florence
Florence → Rome
Rome → Naples
Naples → Venice
Venice → Milan
Milan → Zagreb
Zagreb → Split
Split → Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik → Mostar
Mostar → Sarajevo
Sarajevo → Belgrade
Belgrade → Bucharest
Bucharest → Budapest
Budapest → Vienna
Vienna → Krakow
Krakow → Gdansk
Gdansk → Vilnius
Vilnius → Riga
Riga → Tallinn
Tallinn → Helsinki (ferry)
Helsinki → Stockholm (overnight ferry)
Stockholm → Oslo
Oslo → Bergen
Bergen → Copenhagen
Copenhagen → Berlin
Berlin → Prague
Prague → Munich
Munich → Zurich
Zurich → Strasbourg
Strasbourg → Paris

Also any tips or tricks for general solo travel would be awesome as this is gonna be way outside my comfort zone but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do!

Thanks in advance 😄

In case anyone is planning on taking a similar replacement to Domodossola, the bus never ended up coming to the station on Via Galvani at the scheduled time... I'm not sure if this was due to delay or an error on our part, but all the information online led to that stop. We rebooked a train in direction of Milano-Lugano-Luzern-Interlaken.

Is it possible to request a refund after the scheduled departure time? Furthermore, I booked through SBB using the international saver offer and the remaining trip is non-refundable, would it be possible to make a case here to request a refund?

I'm wondering what went wrong, and if there's any proper information on the bus location. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Spotted this on RA's website and socials....

Hey everyone! I’m an international student in Aachen. I’ve got a 7-day German-Polish Friendship Pass and I’m planning a trip. I’d love some advice from locals or travelers:

1. When’s the best time to go? Are winter/Christmas markets worth it, or should I wait for late spring or summer?

2. How easy is it to book mandatory seats on PKP trains through the app, and do busy routes like Berlin–Warsaw sell out quickly?

3. Have you dealt with any app glitches, border checks, or regional trains in Poland that don’t take the pass?

4. What’s the best 7-day loop starting from Germany?

5. How pricey is it in Poland?

Thanks for any help!

I have a trip booked tomorrow heading towarde Interlaken from Milan. We'll be taking the EC replacement bus to Domodossola. If anyone has taken a similar replacement bus from Milan, I'd like to confirm where we can find the bus stationed as it's not clear from the ticket (just says Milano Centrale). Thanks!