SamAdrian
Traveller
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Posted 6 years ago
Hi!
I am considering going on a trip with interrail tickets this summer and I have a couple of questions. First: The prices that is written when looking up a certain night train, are that the prices for only seat/bed ie the price that I will pay WITH my interrail card or is it a full price for one who has no Interrail card?
Second question: We are a family of five and want to travel by night. The couchettes are for 4 or 6 persons. If we make a reservation for five, can we be sure to get in the same room/couchette? And could there be one "stranger" placed in the same room as well? If that\'s the case, could we buy six beds even if have only five tickets/interrail cards?
Lots of things to wonder about..
I hope that you can give me some information,
Best regards,
Sam from Sweden
Flo
Traveller
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Hi Sam, welcome to railcc!
If a night train page looks like this [ux]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-night-train/zurich-hamburg-nj-40470/500[/ux] then the reservation prices are for Interrail passholders (prices are always per bed and person, unless otherwise stated).
I would recommend to book four beds in a four bed couchette compartment (eg the whole compartment). That way you would have the whole compartment on your own. Usually - as long as enough free beds are available - you will be booked into one single compartment. The numbers of your beds would then look like this (example): 41 (lower bed, left), 42 (lower bed, right), 45 (upper bed, left), 46 (upper bed, right). The middle beds (43, 44) would be unused).
Depending on the age of your kids you could then put the two smallest kids into one bed or ask the conductor to additionally prepare a fifth bed. This _could_ cost extra, depending on the age of your child(s).
What night trains do you want to use?
Flo