red_leader89
Traveller
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Posted 11 years ago
Hi there,
I've been using your brilliant site to help plan my trip (which begins on Sat 1st June) so thank you for all your hard work!
I'm a little confused about how the train reservations work. Will I definitely be able to reserve in the train station?
I'm also a little concerned as my travel companion and I have chosen very specific train connections so if these are full then we may be stranded.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/amsterdam-to-cologne[/u]
Take this connection for instance. On the DB website I couldn't understand how to reserve a ticket. It says its a high demand connection so I'm concerned we'll not get off to Cologne on the first day!!
Please help!
Cheers,
Mark
Peter
Traveller
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Hi Mark.
Thank you that you like the information here on railcc. :)
If you like to support our work, please buy your official Interrail pass via our partner link [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]
If you bought already your Interrail pass at an other company, you should ask there for assistance, as we are not the support website of other companies - and it is not fair to give someone else the money but ask here for support and help. We also have to pay the servers, the programming and the pizzas we eat. :)
Amsterdam - Cologne: it is a free to use ICE train. On some dates the train might be full - which means: a lot but not all seats are reserved. The reserved seats are marked. You will see digit-signs above the seats showing reserved from Amsterdam to Frankfurt, Cologne to Frankfurt or whatever.
If you have no reservation, just search for a free seat. It might be the case that you have to change it during your trip. Sometimes reserved seats are not taken. Just wait ten minutes after departure and just sit down. But you will always be able to enter the train . if you have bad luck, you just sit on the floor somewhere ... that's Interrail. ;)
You can not buy this reservation at the website of Bahn: [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux]
If you buy it in Amsterdam, then you are charged a service fee.
Peter :)