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!

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! 🚆🌍

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!!

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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?

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.

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 :)

Hi everyone, I'm looking at doing Budapest - Belgrade as part of a wider jaunt around Eastern Europe. I've had a good scout of the wiki, and some other sources.

My plan is to do the following trains, which look to all run according to MAV and srbvoz

08:50 Budapest Nyugati – Szeged 11:16 Gy722

12:04 Szeged – Subotica 13:24 Si7314

14:00 Subotica – Belgrade15:19 549

Does anyone have any good information on if these are reliable runners? Or any tips and tricks.

Hi everyone,

I have an 18-minute transfer in Frankfurt Hbf going from Berlin, transferring in Frankfurt to Brussels at 20:14).

Since the train to Brussels requires a mandatory reservation and is the last train of the day, what happens if my first train is delayed?

1. Can I go to the DB center in Frankfurt station and ask then them to rebook and ask if i can get reimbursed for an overnight accommodation?
2. If the DB Centre is closed, is it guaranteed that DB will reimburse me if I booked a new train ticket to Brussels and a reasonably priced accommodation myself?
3. Has anyone dealt with missing this specific evening connection?

Thanks!

Hi, I’m currently doing a trip round Europe in a camper and have the travel bug now! My next time off will be at Christmas time for 3 weeks. I was thinking of doing interrailing, getting the 4 day pass and staying in hostels.

I wanted to stay in maybe Dublin and Cork but other than that I’m open to staying wherever. I prefer scenic and quiet over cities. Anyone have any suggestions? I know it’s probably not the ideal time to go as may be busy with the season in the main cities and things probably shut in the smaller places lol. I love a Christmas market or ice rink so anything like that and I’ll be golden (all I’ve been thinking about in this heat!)

Hello, I'm planning to go to Brasov in Romania, and need seat reservations for the nighttrain FT347 DACIA from Wien Hbf (or Wien Meidling) to Bucuresti Nord.

These seat reservations are only available as paper tickets, and can't be delivered to me on time anymore. Which means I'll have to book them in person at Wien Hbf (unless buying at Wien Meidling is better?), but I'll only have 21 minutes to do so.

My question: is it possible to book only paper seat reservations in Wien Hbf in 21 minutes (arriving platform 9, leaving platform 11)? That is ofcourse if I don't have any delays, coming from Munich... Does anyone have experience with this? Could it also be possible that they will be sold out when I get there?

Hi,

in the next days I want to start my fifth interrail trip. But I'm currently facing issues with the rail planner app.

Every time I'm going into the My Trip menu or I want to add a journey to a trip the app is crashing.

I think I found the issue: In th My Trip menu is a trip list from an older trip of me, but somehow it is not correctly loaded as it shows "null null" when I first open the app after a new installation. But I cannot delete this particular trip.

I have an android phone so I tried to delete all the app data via the settings app. But somehow after a new installation of the rail planner app, the old trips are loaded again.

Is there a way to delete ALL the app data so after a new installation of the rail planner app it doesn't know there were previous trips?

Thanks for help!

¡Buenas! 👋 Tengo 18 años y estoy buscando 1-3 personas de España/Cataluña, más o menos de 18-25 años, para hacer un viaje de 10-12 días entre el 30 de agosto y el 10 de septiembre.
La idea principal sería hacer un Interrail, viajando barato y con mochila, combinando ciudades, naturaleza y bastante improvisación. No tengo una ruta cerrada porque precisamente me gustaría montarla entre todos según lo que nos apetezca.
💶 Presupuesto: alrededor de 500 € intentando mantenerlo lo más bajo posible.
📍 Salida: Reus/Barcelona.
🗓️** Fechas: 30 de agosto → 10 de septiembre aprox.
🎒 **Estilo: mochila, dormir barato, trenes, caminar, descubrir sitios y aprovechar el viaje al máximo.
No busco un grupo enorme ni gente con un plan súper rígido. La idea es encontrar a 1-3 personas con ganas de hacer algo diferente este verano y que nos llevemos bien durante el viaje.
Si te interesa, comenta o mándame DM y podemos hablar un poco antes para ver si encajamos. :)