New features

Some of you beady-eyed lot may have noticed a few changes to the planner over the past week. That’s because we’ve introduced some new features to the site to make planning an Interrail trip even easier. A lot of the new additions have been created after listening to user feedback – we really love it when we hear from our users so please give us a shout via social media or email with any suggestions. Or, if you think we are already amazing, we’d love a pat on the back, or for you to spread the word – whatever you fancy.

So, what are these new features?

Notes

When visiting a new city you will probably have all sorts of suggestions from people who have been there or from your own online research. We have designed the notes feature as a place to store this info, so it’s nicely categorised on a location basis.

To implement the feature we added a new icon to the right-hand panel.

Clicking on the note icon will open up a window for you to create your note.

You can add whatever you like: reminders, recommendations, points of interest, website links – anything that’s relevant to the location, or not – it’s up to you! The notes feature enables you to keep even more in the same place so no more scribbling down tips on random scraps of paper.

The icon will glow a beautiful yellow to indicate that you’ve got a note for a location.

Insert a new location

We were silly not to have this from the outset really, but you can now insert another destination to your route between two existing destinations. Previously, this wasn’t possible without deleting several locations and re-doing your Interrail route, which wasn’t a great way of doing things. This has all changed.

The plus icon allows you to easily add a new location in between two other locations.

Clicking on it will bring up the insert location window.

And clicking save will, in this example, insert Zurich between Paris and Munich.

Find things to do

Finding great activities in each of your Interrail destinations is now possible through Interrail Planner. We have teamed up with GetYourGuide to make sure you don’t miss out on those tours, attractions, and events that sell out quickly. Visit the Reichstag in Berlin, go white water rafting near Split , or tour the fjords from Oslo by utilising our handy new icon. Clicking it will take you directly to GetYourGuide, displaying results of things to do when you are in Munich, for example.

More seat reservation options

Making seat reservations for your Interrail trip is quite possibly one of the hardest things to do on the internet. Our app already enables you to search for seat reservations with ACP Rail, but now you have the option to search with Voyages SNCF too, and also click through to the Interrail.eu Reservations Service.

We really hope these changes will make the website more useful to you and further enhance the Interrail planning process. But, we won’t be stopping here, and there will be lots more to come in the future! So, if you have any feedback or suggestions for new features, please get in touch and let us know by email, social media, or the classic snail mail.

Check out the latest route planner here.