Eurail is gone, what an Interrail pass costs now

Is Eurail still sold?

No. Interrail's own press release, dated Utrecht, 10 September 2026, says the Eurail consumer brand and the Eurail Pass, previously sold to non-European customers, became part of Interrail on that day, and that from 10 September all travellers use an Interrail Pass. On 17 September 2026 the old Global Pass URL on eurail.com returned a 301 redirect to the Interrail Global Pass page, which carries a banner reading Eurail is now Interrail, and the eurail.com home page redirected the same way.

The banner's second line is the only statement about the product itself, Same Pass, same way to explore Europe by train. The release does not mention prices at all, so nothing official says the ladder moved on 10 September. What did move is the page. Every Eurail price table indexed before that date now points at a product page with a different name, a different default traveller and a different URL, which is why the figures you find by searching disagree with each other.

The single most useful thing to know before reading any of those tables is that the live page loads with Youth (12-27) set to 1, Adult (28-59) set to 0 and 2nd class selected. A table copied from the page without touching the selectors is a youth table. If it is headed adult, it is wrong by roughly a quarter on every row.

What does an Interrail Global Pass cost for an adult?

The ladder below was read from the live page on 17 September 2026. Selector state for each column is given in the caption. The page was in its default location setting, shown in the header as Europe, EUR, English (Global), and the traveller counter was set to exactly one person of the type named. Seat reservations are not included, the page says so directly above the cards.

Why do the Eurail price tables online disagree?

Three things went wrong at once. The first is the youth default described above. On the 4 days in 1 month pass the gap between youth and adult in 2nd class is €71, and on the 3 months continuous pass it is €239, so a mislabelled table is not off by a rounding error, it is off by the price of a night train.

The second is class. The 1st class adult ladder runs from €367 to €1242, and a page that quotes one row from it next to a 2nd class row from somewhere else produces a table where the steps between passes make no sense. The page toggles class with two buttons directly under the traveller counters, and the cards re-price without a reload, so a screenshot taken mid-toggle is easy to mislabel.

The third is age. The page defines youth as 12 up to and including 27 on the day the trip starts, adult as 28 to 59 and senior as 60 and over. Any table that uses a different youth cut-off is describing a product that no longer exists. Check the age band next to any youth price before you rely on it, and read our methodology for how we record selector states.

Which country of residence should a US traveller select?

The header of every interrail.com page has a Location settings dialog with a Country of residence dropdown, and its instruction is to pick the country where you live as shown on your ID or residency document. That is the sorting the old Eurail site used to do by existing, since Eurail was only ever sold outside Europe. There is now one page for everyone and the dropdown does the sorting.

The ladder above was read in the page's default state, with the location shown as Europe and prices in EUR. When we set the dropdown to United States without ticking the box that stores a location cookie, the site showed the same cards at the same figures, and the header kept showing Europe. So the figures a US visitor sees are, as far as the public page shows, the ones in the table. The currency menu in the same dialog lists USD, AUD, CAD, GBP and CHF among ten options, and a US reader can switch the display without changing the residence selection.

Residence still matters for one rule. The pass conditions say that if you live in one of the 33 countries of the network, the Global Pass is valid in your own country only for one outbound and one inbound journey. A US resident has no home country in the network, so that limit does not apply, and every travel day is usable anywhere on the map. That is the practical difference the old Eurail brand stood for, and it survives the rename intact.

What is not included in the Interrail price?

Seat reservations. The page states that most high-speed and night trains require a reservation at an additional cost, and that the pass price does not include it. This is where the real budget lives for an itinerary built on TGV, Frecciarossa or Nightjet, and it is why Interrail sells a separate Global Plus Pass that covers reservation costs for most trains. We look at how that product prices its reservation credits in the Interrail Plus Pass post.

Refunds are the other line to read before paying. The page says all standard Interrail Passes are refundable or exchangeable if returned unused, while promotional passes may be non-refundable depending on the promo conditions, with the answer printed on the payment confirmation. Compare that with the fixed fee Japan Rail charges on an unused pass in our JR Pass refund post.

Children under 4 travel free without a pass, children 4 to 11 travel free with a Child Pass added to the order, and up to two children can travel with one adult, youth aged 18 or over, or senior. The child passes must be in the same order as the adult pass, the page says they cannot be added after purchase. If you are planning around luggage on a multi-city trip, our luggage storage guide covers what stations charge to hold bags between trains, and our travel insurance guide covers what a policy does about a pass you never get to use.

How do I check an old Eurail price against the live page?

Because the release says nothing about pricing, an old Eurail figure should still reconcile with the live page once the selectors match. Work through it in this order.

• Open the Global Pass page and note the default, Youth 1, Adult 0, 2nd class.
• Set the traveller counter to one person of the type your old table claims. Youth is 12 to 27 on the trip start date, adult 28 to 59, senior 60 and over.
• Pick the class. The two buttons sit under the counters and the cards re-price without a reload.
• Match the pass by its exact name. Flexi passes are days within 1 month or 2 months, continuous passes are days, or months, in a row.
• Check the currency in the header. The default is EUR. A table in dollars was converted by whoever wrote it, not by the operator.
• If the old figure still does not match, the table was probably built from a promotional price. The page marks promotional passes as a separate category with their own refund rules.