After global pass purchase...how to reserve seats?

Upon our arrival in a city and before we leave the train station we reserve our seats for our departure. In my opinion, seat reservations are inexpensive. That way I am quaranteed a seat.

For any night train, I think you should reserve ahead. Seats are the last thing to sell out, but I would not chance it. Other than that advice, I won't comment on anything outside Germany. For Salzburg to Munich. There are probably two trains (one express, one regional) an hour between Salzburg and Munich. Except for morning or early evening in Oktoberfest, I can't image these trains being sold out. You could get seat reservations at the Bahnhof in Salzburg for €5,50 per seat any time after you arrive. You don't need to use RailEurope. Just because you bought a rail pass from them doesn't mean you have to get reservations from them. In ten years traveling in Germany, I have only seen one reservable train that was SRO and, although all seats were occupied, most were not reserved. I could have bought a reservation just before boarding and had a seat.

Thanks for the help!

What JB and Lee said.....outside of Italy, the only train I required a reservation on during my travels( I was using Eurail pass) was one from Koblenz, Germany to Paris...simply went to the train station the evening before, got my reservation from the ticket agent ( about 10 Euros I think), and was good to go...

Your Paris-Bruges passholder fare will cost about the same as an advance purchase ticket would have...in case you think it looks kinda high. You can reserve it ahead of time either by calling Thalys.com by their phone number given, or ASAP when you arrive in France. IF it's sold out, there are other trains via Lille you can take... Ditto Lee on the Salzburg-Munich trains; about 5 years ago during Oktoberfest I used a railpass and just showed up at the stations (round-trip) when I was ready to travel - no problem getting on board. Don't know if Lee mentioned that the 5 of you could've traveled b/n Salzburg and Munich for €29...again, about the same as the railpass passholder reservation. Just info for your next trip. The overnight train needs to be reserved ASAP! That might require calling RailEurope...but the $18 (or whatever) they charge will be better than riding in an upright seat all night, or on a train with multiple connections throughout the night, or blowing a touring day sitting on a train...Although you mention reserving a "seat" for the Zermatt-Paris trip, there are only couchettes and sleeping cabins on those overnight trains, and Train 1 (and maybe Train 2, depending on which itinerary you pick - either the 2 or 3 connection train) come before the 'sleeping train'. You MAY be able to get your n/t res. online from sbb.ch: plug in your date, etc., then once you've chosen a train (I suggest the 19:13 dp) a few pages down the line (after the number of passengers, your ages, etc.) there's a drop-down menu that says something about Switzerland discount or something (can't recreate it now) and one of the choices is 'Eurail pass'. Click on that and see if it works for you. If not, then there's always RailEurope...