Originally Posted by
joer1212
Under normal circumstances I would wholeheartedly agree with you, but unfortunately, I have a full-time job, with a limited vacation time allotment. This time has to be used very efficiently. I don't have the luxury of uncertainty. This luxury can only be enjoyed when you have generous or unlimited time available (deja vu, did I say this already?).
Honest - there is nothing to stress about. So - the reservations system is down today, three months before your trip. Big deal. It'll be up again tomorrow. Or the day after. And if the reservation system is down then nobody else will be able to reserve seats either, so you are all in the same position.
I have been a regular train traveller throughout Europe for more than 40 years. I have done lots of trips entirely without reservations. And I've never had to stand for any significant amount of time - an hour at the most (i.e., from the stop at which I got on to the next one).
Long-distance trains rarely operate to full capacity, except on Friday afternoons, Sunday afternoons and a day or two either of side public holidays. And there are no public holidays in March (Easter is quite late in 2014), so you will be travelling off-peak, and you will have no problems doing what tens of thousands of rail travellers do every day - just get on a train and find yourself a seat.
I was under the impression that it was 90, not 60 days.
90 in some countries, 60 in others. And if you had checked dates in February you probably would have been able to work this out for yourself!
OK, fine, but I would hate to return to that site a month from now, only to be told that I still can't reserve a seat.
As I said... if you can't reserve a seat then nobody else can either, and you will all be getting on the train sitting down in the first seat you can find. And you WILL find a seat, unless it's a Friday or Sunday afternoon.