flussradler
Traveller
5 comments
Posted 1 week ago
Hey folks,
Next year, I will go on my fourth interrail trip and this time I'm heading to Denmark, Sweden and Norway. As I enjoy to plan trips in advance, I already started thinking about my itinerary for this one. One topic that came into my mind after been this year for longer time in France are our beloved seat reservations. Do you already experiences with that in Scandinavia when using interrail pass? I have already seen that in Norway most reservations are obligatory, in Sweden some are obligatory, some are optional. Where can you recommend to book them? And for which trains are the optional ones recommendable, because the trains are often full in summers? If you have any other interesting recommendations, feel free to share :)
Thank you and greetings,
Tom
MisterSteve
Traveller
1161 comments
In general the seat reservation advice is at https://www.interrail.eu/en/book-reservations/how-do-i-book-seats - but just look at the extra admin charges! And their direct links to operators are not alway accurate..
You won't like this. In sweden reservations are compulsory on long distance trains - but often the schedules are not confirmed until days before and reservations can't be made until then. Don't plan on using the night train to/from Narvik. Not only has that been one of the worst for late confirmation I believe nobody wants to operate it and it won't be there next year. Also the SJ night train from Stockholm to Hamburg is being dropped (the Snälltåget train to Berlin should still be making it's random dates...)
Denmark is reservation is usually needed on IC/ICL trains and direct Hamburg trains. But there are plenty of others. For Hamburg trains use www.bahn.com - do a journey enquiry but before clicking Search change the setting "Book Seat Only" so that it goes green. It's currently €5,50 per seat. Next year there should be longer trains but this has been a route affected by overcrowding.
For Danish internal trains use this link - carefully.
https://www.dsb.dk/en/#reservation=1
DO NOT alter the number of passengers from zero, just select the required number of seat reservations (and ignore the badly translated note that says ask for 1 seat). Should be 30Kr per seat
In Norway reservations should be available from somewhere in www.entur.no - but make sure you are booking on a train because they also do the long distance buses