Travelling in Germany with the Train

Every one knows about the nice cars and the autobahn. You can drive very fast and enjoy your VW or Mercedes. During the years I learned to love the train. You can be flexible, relaxed. In this post, I will give you some tips to get cheaper rates and enjoy at most your rides.

1. Get to your Bahncard

 For long distance buy a Bahncard 25. You will get 25% off on all prices long distance. To start, you can get one to start which last 3 months. If you book in advance you can get very advantagous prices and time to time you get some coupons to get someone travelling with you. At last but not at least, you get the public transportation from you home to the train station and from the final trainstation to your final destination included. Very very convenient!

TIP: Always book your long distance trip online then you get the sparpreis!

2. Travel in groups as much as you want

For a spontanous getaway/city hopping, you have the Niedersachsen Ticket. With this ticket you can travel within the lander with regional trains for 22 euros as you want in one day, and for 4 euros/person more you can be up to 5 people on this ticket. Perfect if you want to go with your friends to a concert from Bremen nach Hamburg for the evenning, or if like me you have a baby shower in the afternoon in Braunschweig and you need to be in the evenning in Hamburg but you live in Bremen. You get to see the land, look outside, read books. And maybe you will end up in some of the crazy train stations of german villages like in Uelzen designed by Hundertwasser.

If you have time, book a "quer-durchs-deutschland" ticket for 44e. Same concept up to 5 people but all over germany.

TIP : Avoid the times before and after soccer games, otherwise thoses train get filled by drunken football fans. Or pay more and go in the Express Train (ICE, EC)