[mr_toad]

It’s usually cheaper to book in advance. In particular if you want cheap seats on the Eurostar you have to books months in advance.

[arjie]

Eurostar Snap used to be cheap as balls. 19 quid. Though going there it seems that it's no longer available https://snap.eurostar.com/uk-en

What a pity. Lots of fun weekends in Paris on that when I was younger.

[gpvos]

The Interrail reservations/supplements are fixed price (or for some SNCF trains there are two price levels as the train fills up). But their number is limited, so in a way the advice is the same.

[andrewshadura]

Not for Eurostar. Interrail seat reservations are often more expensive than a new ticket.

[gpvos]

I've taken Amsterdam-London with Interrail many times, usually €35, sometimes €57, often sold out. So yeah, two price levels; Eurostar is basically SNCF.

[andrewshadura]

I've had on multiple occasions Eurostar reservations cost more than 300 €. I didn't buy them, of course.

[gpvos]

Those were normal reservations, not Interrail ones, which I explicitly was talking about, trying to get the conversation back on track to Interrail which is the subject of TFA. Those high prices are what I meant with "sold out" above; in that case you get the prices for normal reservations listed instead of the Interrail ones. They are usually marked as such, though, e.g. on RailEurope it'll say "Rail Pass doesn't apply for this trip". Pretty big difference.