petsounds70
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 11 years ago
Does it have the actual dates you are travelling or is it one which you scratch the dates off?, i intend to buy a 15 day all areas but haven't settled on a date yet but possibly April, would i be able to buy one in advance without knowing the dates i want to travel?.
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
You fix the starting date of your Interrail pass at the purchase: [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]
On a flexi pass (for example 5 travel days in 10 days), you fill in the travel days whenever you need them within the valid period.
Peter
petsounds70
Traveller
2 comments
Much appreciated Peter, thankyou.
nltrainer
Traveller
1404 comments
the ''pass'' itself is a safety piece of paper-the very same railways use for INTernational tickets, but with a special print. it also MUST have your ID/Paspt nr on it and the country of permanent stay and thus you can always be asked to show that. You CAN-like any INT ticket, only buy it for dates max. 3 month from date of sale-thus not now for april/may '14. There are more safety features-to prevent fraud, which of course we cannot tell about.
It should come in some fancy plastic holder, with also a ''travel report'' in it-in which you have to write down full details of yourself en all trips made. And a green booklet which tells you per country on what trains you can use, for which to pay/reserve extra and for which not (sometimes)-this info is NOT correct nor uptodate for many countries-but its impossible to tell here for which it is and for which not. There are also some extra freebees like cheaper entry etc. here and there-also shown in that booklet. The very same text is on the ''official'' webiste of interrail.
That travel-report you are asked to send in afterwards, fully filled out, then you get-maybe- some ''present'' later on-last time it was a USBstick with IR on it. This is some way for the railways to share the revenue to apprroxx. use of trains.