Jun 23, 2009 I'm heading for Amsterdam this Sunday (June 28, 2009). I will activate my Eurail pass immediately on arrival and will travel to Paris. Validating Eurail pass in London before travel on Eurostar to Paris?? We have a Eurail Global pass and also bought. Do I need to activate the Pass before. Re: eurailpass france activation. May 08, 2011, 9:58 AM. I believe you can do it prior to the date, if you tell the ticket office clearly otherwise they will assume that day's date. But I do not know for sure, and the Eurail website does not seem to address this point eurail.com/planning/pass-activation. Report inappropriate. That's VALIDATE, not USE. I'll be using a Eurail Global Pass this summer. I'll start using it in Paris, after I get to Paris on the Eurostar from London. I am aware I cannot use the Eurail Pass for the Eurostar to Paris, or for any trains in England. I am also aware the pass must be validated (passport # entered, start and end dates of valid travel, etc) before I board my first train. All I'm asking now is: Does anyone happen to know if it'd be possible for me to validate my pass in London, say at St. Pancras, before boarding my Eurostar to Paris? At least that way I could do it in English, not my 50-year-old high school French! I would actually advise not to activate it at all and cancel it. Point to point tickets are cheaper and more convenient. Especially France is a very pass unfriendly country as reservations on long distance trains are compulsory, cost extra on top of the pass and there's a limited quota for pass holders. The Thalys is even more expensive for pass holders. My advise would be to book individual tickets: France: via: through For Switzerland and there is no advantage in booking ahead. Just buy your tickets on the day of travel. Trains can't sell out. For the international legs use bahn.de for any leg originating or ending up in Germany. For the thalys book at thalys.com and for other connections to or from France use trainline.eu. That euro rail pass could be an expensive millstone. There are good localised passes for travelling in German regions and around Switzerland. For everything else (and especially for London-Paris and Paris-Amsterdam), it would be better to purchase point-to-point tickets as soon as bookings open on each route. It is too early to be looking now for October - Eurostar is 180 days (24 weeks), Thalys 4 months, and most other trains around 3 months. Domestic trains in the do not need advance booking at all. So you have plenty of time to start planning.
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