Hello - started searching for train ticket from Munich to Prague and it looks like I'm better off getting it from the "czeck train" website rather than DB bahn. Am I right on this?
Thanks for your help.
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211 posts
I'd actually book with DB Bahn since you are leaving from Munich.
Posted by
OP
North Carolina mountains
550 posts
I thought so too, but it was giving me really weird information....trains and buses. I checked the website "the man in seat61", and it says db bahn has trouble with this route for some reason. There was a link on his website to the Czech train ticket website and I found the tickets there. Just wondering if anyone has purchased tickets from there and used them without any problems.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
I've never tried purchasing tickets from the Czech Rail website. I hope someone who has "chimes" in. However, tickets purchased from Czech Rail are significantly less expensive, even for the same route, than Bahn tickets. I don't know how this is possible, but it is true. Part of it might be a higher tax on Bahn tickets than on Czech Tickets.
Example, Bayrisch Eisenstein is a station right on the German-Czech border. On the Czech side of the same building, it's called Zelezna Ruda. German Rail sells tickets from there to Prague, on any trains, German or Czech, for 31,20€. Tickets for the same route sell for 287 Kc (about 10,48€ at today's exch rate) at the ticket counter on the Czech side of the buiiding.
In 2012, at the main station in Prague, I paid 357 Kc, 13,03€, today, for a ticket to Bad Schandau, in Saxony. German Rail sells the same ticket for 27,60€.
But ignore the full fare price of a ticket from German Rail. If you purchase a Bayern-Boehmen-Ticket from German Rail (26€, single, 4,50€ more each additional person up to 5), you can travel from Munch (anyplace in Bavaria, actually) to Pilsen. From Pilsen to Prague, a Czech Rail ticket is about 3,60€ (100 Kc).