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DB seat reservations

Posted by (NYC, USA) on

Booking DB tickets for two from Berlin to Dresden on a Saturday morning in about two weeks, medium demand expected. The list of available trains says "Reserve the seat of your choice now" for our train. When I click through for tickets and click seat reservation (for a fee), it says "Seats selected automatically". What's the point of being able to reserve seats if you can't choose - do they oversell? We have preferences, but there doesn't seem any way to enter them (next screens are payment info and click to buy).

What to do?

Posted by
3989 posts

"do they oversell?"

They will not sell more reservations for a train then there are seats. However they will sell as many Berlin to Dresden tickets as there are people that want to buy Berlin to Dresden tickets...

A ticket does not guarantee a seat. A ticket allows you to use trains on the route it has been sold for.
The point of a reservation is to guarantee you a place to park your posterior if more people board a train than there are seats available.

Posted by
148 posts

It appears I can reserve the seats I want through České dráhy for a nominal amount. Why DB won't let me select seats is not clear to me.

Posted by
41 posts

DB is like that sometimes. I have often found trains where I could select specific seats using ÖBB (Austrian) but not DB.

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