Buying an Interrail in the UK

[sor]

Just adding my experiences with the "digital" pass (on an iPhone, as someone mentioned it's not as good?)

Seemed to work fine when traipsing around BE/NL/DE/CH. Eurostar outbound was fine but coming back, it did seem slightly faffy to get it to activate the in-country travel day (and a few scans at the desk at Brussels before it'd accept it). I was particularly impressed that the barcodes could work NS's ticket gates. We need more of that.

I found the train information to be ok, though in Germany it seems every train was late anyway (and DB's app seemed especially useless during disruption - even when sitting on a train with a lot of worried looking people and endless German announcements, the app didn't say what was going on)

Someone mentioned you *can* transfer the pass if the device is lost or stolen - is this personal experience? The website made it sound as if they can't do that.

 

[rvdborgt]

Someone mentioned you *can* transfer the pass if the device is lost or stolen - is this personal experience? The website made it sound as if they can't do that.

You can do that indeed:

What should I do if my phone is lost, damaged, or stolen?

www.interrail.eu

I've read it works once; if you need it more often you have to contact customer service, like before this feature was introduced.

 

[sor]

You can do that indeed:

What should I do if my phone is lost, damaged, or stolen?

www.interrail.eu

I've read it works once; if you need it more often you have to contact customer service, like before this feature was introduced.

Oh interesting. That must be new (or I'm misremembering from only a few months ago) as I'm sure they made it sound like they were reluctant to do that

FWIW I actually did replace my iPhone while I still had an active interrail pass on it - it seemed that the iCloud backup stored the pass and it didn't complain when I tried to open it on the new phone. (I had already done all my travelling so I wasn't fussed if it did go away)

 

[rvdborgt]

Oh interesting. That must be new (or I'm misremembering from only a few months ago) as I'm sure they made it sound like they were reluctant to do that

It is relatively new, introduced earlier this year (or late last year, I'm not sure anymore).

FWIW I actually did replace my iPhone while I still had an active interrail pass on it - it seemed that the iCloud backup stored the pass and it didn't complain when I tried to open it on the new phone. (I had already done all my travelling so I wasn't fussed if it did go away)

Interesting. I thought the pass was linked to an IMEI number, which should be different on a new phone.