Boarding a train is the easiest way to travel within Europe.

 The traveller will benefit from a wide network of high speed and local trains. Moreover it offers a unique experience of travel, comfort, hassle-free journeys and wide range of destinations.

The Eurail Global pass is the best option for people staying a while within Europe and looking to discover many countries.

Top1. Features

• Unlimited rail travel in the participating 28 Eurail countries:
  

• Passes are also valid on some major shipping lines
• 1st class (adults/children) / 1st Class or 2nd class (for youth travellers only, from 12 up to 25 years old included on the first day of travel)

Formula

• Continuous formula for extensive travel: validities 15 days, 21 days,
  1 month, 2 months and 3 months
  
• Flexi formula for full flexibility: validities 5 days in 10 days or 10 or 15 days in a 2-month period
• Travel day may be used consecutively or non-consecutively
• Saver formula for 2 to 5 persons travelling together at all times (a child is considered as 1 person) in 1st class ONLY

Top2. Children’s rules

• Children under 4 travel for free and do not need a pass. The child under 4 is not entitled to a seat and during busy times the child may be required to sit on the accompanied adults lap
• Children aged between 4 and 11 travel for free with a Child Pass
• A child must be accompanied at all times by at least one person with an Adult Pass or Adult Saver Pass
• The Adult does not have to be a family member and can be anyone over 18 years old
• Up to two children can travel with one adult. For example, when two adults are traveling, they can take four children with them.
• If more than two children are traveling with one adult, a separate 1st class Youth Pass needs to be purchased for the additional children.
• Travellers aged 12 to 25 can travel with a 1st class Youth Pass.

Top3. Eligible Party

• People with a permanent residence (for more than 6 months) outside of Europe, the United Kingdom, the Russian Federation or Turkey are eligible to purchase or use a Eurail Global Pass.

Top4. Benefits

• For a full list of benefits, bonuses, discounts and locations of Eurail Aid Offices, please click here
• Benefits Rule: Travel bonuses may necessitate usage of a travel day.
• At the moment there are no extra pass benefits for Eurail pass holders in the following countries: Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Montenegro and Poland.
• Please note that Eurail Passes are not valid on the Postbus lines in Switzerland
• Reservation compulsory for high speed, scenic and night trains.
• Eurail Pass holders are entitled to special passholder fares (if the Pass is valid in the involved countries).
• For Eurail Pass holders covering Switzerland, a point to point ticket has to be purchased to cover the journey from/to Disentis to/from Brig (private line of Glacier Express in Switzerland). Eurail Pass holders are entitled to a 25% reduction on this point to point ticket. The fare is available in Euronet by searching for "Glacier Express or MGB Eurail Passholder Fares"
• Valid on DB IC buses, 2nd class only. Reservations are compulsory, and in some cases available through the DB connection in Euronet. Pass must cover the entire route

Conditions of use

• Passes must be validated within 6 months of date of issue
• Passes must be validated prior to first train journey / first use of bonus by a railway official in Europe (station’s desk) who also fills in the passport number.
  
  

Eurail Global Saver Pass

• All parties must be present when validating a Eurail Global Pass Saver.
• It is not obligatory for all persons listed on the control voucher to travel together; if only some of the persons listed on the pass make a trip, they have to carry the ticket and the Control Voucher with them. Note it is not permitted for anyone not traveling with the rest of the party to make another trip at the same time.
• A Saver Pass is valid for all persons listed on the control voucher. Persons on the control voucher who decide to travel on their own, separately from their group listed on the Saver Pass, will be required to purchase a full fare ticket.
• Flexipass: the date of travel has to be entered in the correct way before boarding the first train/ship, by the traveller, in the corresponding box of the calendar.
  
  

7 pm rule

• If a direct overnight train starts after 7:00 p.m. and arrives after 4:00 a.m. on a validated Eurail Pass, the pass holder must enter the next day’s date on the pass, provided it falls within the validity of the pass.
• If an overnight train starts before 7:00 p.m. on a validated Eurail Pass, the Pass holder has to fill in two days on the pass: the starting day’s date AND the arrival day’s date on the pass, provided it falls within the validity of the pass.
  
  

Travel Report

• Each time before boarding a train, bus or boat, it is important that passengers record their trip in the Travel Report on the Pass cover (in blue or black ink). If passengers travel without having entered the trip in the Travel Report, they risk a fine and payment of a full fare ticket.
• The conditions of use are no longer printed in the Eurail cover but in the traveller’s guide. Therefore, it is mandatory to give traveller’s guide to customers.

Special Conditions apply