Eurail/Interrail Rail Planner App Reviews

Just got back from 10 days of rail travel. App worked flawlessly. Always able to load a train onto our trip and use the QR code as our ticket. Seat reservations were a little bit harder and we often had to use the individual train website or app to get reservations. SCNF was the only difficult one. Worked in France, Germany (OBB & Westbahn), Switzerland, Austria, Hungary. Be sure to have a good data plan though. Not sure how it would have gone with spotty data. We used a 22 day Holafly eSI

Still has a few bugs to work out. One of them is when you save. Train schedules to your travel plans, but decide later to not use them. It’s impossible to eliminate them from the travel plans in multiple unusable listings uttering the screen. Occasionally, you have to force the app to close and reopen it so that it will actually load what your plans are. Seat reservation function just send you somewhere else.

Today I was at the train station in Amsterdam and all of a sudden the app did not work. It kept saying I was offline, where other apps worked just fine. I had to pay for the train to get into the station! While on the train I tried over and over and the same message appeared. When I was in better reliable WiFi I deleted the App and reloaded it again and everything was fine! Lesson learned take a screen shot of your daily pass ticket ! The screen shot works! It cost me €20 for the extra train tic

Okay this app is great for activating your pass and for figuring out which tickets to use, but it doesn’t give you the platform that you need to go to for the train, you have to figure it out as you go which is extremely frustrating when there is a quick transfer, or the train’s final destination is not your final destination. If the platform were added I would like this app a lot more

UPDATE: I felt I should update my review to reflect that when I cancelled my package online I was refunded in full without even requesting it. They’re at least reputable so I’ve changed to 3 stars. It was a while ago I had my bad experience so hopefully they’ve improved. —— The worst and most confusing UI ever and I am very experienced with various UIs. Frankly, I can’t tell what I can do in the app, where I purchase seats, why I’m having to buy 1st class seats when I bought a 5-day 1St Class p

Eurail is an amazing service but this streamlined my ability to quickly get trains and show my ticket very well. Never had a bad experience using this daily for 3 weeks.

It’s a real pain to purchase a ticket and see the message “reservations recommended” and not be able to click on the message and go purchase a reserved seat. Not user friendly at all.

I miss the paper version of the Interrail. The mobile app schedule for the trains does not show the same schedule as on the web or when checking with the train company itself. This makes the experience a nightmare because you don’t know who to trust. And ultimately you have to enter the journey manually.

Opening the app to see a trip my wife was organizing, I got part of the trip. I only got that after being shoved through pages of “what’s your pass number” . She’s also having frustrating problem with this app. Even if it says we’re booked somewhere I will be nervous till we get on the train.

It’s had to describe how terrible this app is. It doesn’t integrate with the Eurail web page. It can’t be used to reserve seats. It can’t be used to buy tickets if you don’t have a pass. But you have to use it to plan your trip. It’s probably fine for people who take the train regularly between a few different locations. But for tourists, it’s terrible. It only does one part of a complicated process for planning a multi city trip. The rest has to be done on the Eurail web page (with Google Maps