What ticketing sites do you guys use? Whenever I want to try (night) trains around Europe I run into a myriad of national websites with poor information on non-national trips, a lack of decent information on what to expect, annoying pricing/planning/booking UIs, and generally lack of information about how it 'works', as in some require you to have an App, a card, to print out tickets etc.

I often just give up.

In that sense, flying somehow feels like a much more standardised and straightforward experience, despite a ton of different ticketing websites, airlines and airports which all have their own apps and gates and conditions etc, too.

If you need information on train routes and where to buy tickets, the #1 place to get it is https://www.seat61.com/. It's an incredibly complete site run by a train enthusiast from the UK.

The DB app is horrible. It can only use your local time, at least when I used it. Was not fun to plan a trip from Japan. DB has the worst ticket machine I’ve ever seen too, I think in Berlin, although I might not remember the details perfectly and am probably exaggerating a bit.

Buy one ticket, and it asks you for money, the bill slot opens, you put money in, the bill slot closes, the ticket prints, and then the change return door opens. After you take your change, the change return door closes.

If you buy 4 tickets: it asks you for money, the bill slot opens, you put money in, the bill slot closes, the first ticket prints, and then the change return door opens, you take you change and then it closes. Then, the bill slot opens and closes, the second ticket prints, then the change return door opens and closes (repeat 2 more times). I know just the type of “meets the requirements” engineers that made this.