Hi. I am so sorry to be asking yet another reservation question, but I just can't quite get my head around a couple of things, and would love some advice from people with real experience at this.
I am really just interested in whether people think reservations are strictly required on Cisalpino (Switz-Italy) and the Eurostar Italia trains in Italy, during early June. I understand that eurail passholders have limited seats, but with so many trains leaving the stations I wondered if you would have a pretty good chance of getting on one without any problem? Or is it that they will give you the boot if you don't have a reservation?
I guess my concerns are just that reserving a train in advance limits the options a bit. It would be nice to be able to be flexible within a few hours on these travel days. And also my brain is rebelling at the thought of paying up to 20 Euros per person per reservation for ES trains, when I can see this adding up to hundreds of extra dollars. I will be more than happy to do it if required, but just wanted to check on it to be 100%.
I should mention I will be travelling with my girlfriend, so there will be two of us looking for seats.
Thanks so much for your help.