Train from Venice to Munich- Stop for lunch in Innsbruck?

You need to check the ticket situation if you do that. It may need two separate tickets, especially if you book seats.
Innsbruck is nice, perhaps you should make it an overnight stop.

Thanks for your reply, Chris! We have already booked an apartment for that night in Munich so if we want to see Innsbruck at all it will have to just be a quick stop. I've checked the train schedules on bahn.de and it looks like we'd be able to add in a stop in Innsbruck all on the same ticket. From what I can tell from Trenitalia it would have to be separate tickets..

You could stop for a meal. I don't remember a whole lot of excellent food in the vicinity of the station.

We frequently stay up in the mountains nearby at Seefeld-in-Tirol and only go down the hill to change trains or join the autobahn.

Of all the cities we have visited in Austria, Innsbruck leaves me the least interested.

YMMV

If you buy a discounted ticket through DB (can be as low as €49), it is good only for one specific date, time, and train number and does not allow stop-overs en route. My preference would be to choose one train, get a discount, and bring a picnic lunch onto the train.

If you book a full fare "Normalpries" ticket (€91 per person), then it allows stops on the route, but they ask you to check in with a station agent when you break the trip. For an open (unreserved) ticket on an international route, you usually have up to 2 weeks to complete the trip (down from 2 months in previous years).

Thank you Nigel and Laura! It sounds like stopping in Innsbruck might be too complicated so we'll probably just skip it.

You can advance purchase discounted Europa-Spezial Brenner tickets on the Bahn website for a connection from Venice to Munich with a scheduled four hour stopover in Innsbruck. Use the Bahn Query page. Input from: Venice, to: Munich for that date, make the time 800. Use the stopover function to schedule a stopover in Innsbruck for three hours. One of the connections will an Italian Eurostar (ES) leaving at 7:50 with a change to an EC in Verona. You'll get to Innsbruck at 12:32 (about time for lunch). You'll be scheduled to leave Innsbruck on another EC at 16:36, giving you 4h04m in Innsbruck and getting to Munich Hbf at 18:43.

If you put in 4 hours (400) for the stopover, it will assume you won't get back to the Innsbruck Hbf until 16:32, and 4 minutes won't be enough time to get to the EC, so it will schedule you on a later connection of regional trains. If you say you'll only stopover in Innsbruck for 3h58m (358) , it will also think you have enough time to catch the EC at 16:36.

May 10 is in less that a month. Some of the lowest priced tickets have already been sold. The price I see now for Savings fares is 69€/person. Ironically, if you leave Venice at 7:50, but don't stopover in Innsbruck, the fare is 89€.

Thanks, Lee. I often forget the option of building a scheduled stopover into one original ticket. What you obviously can't do is decide on the fly to add a stopover, since the ticket is only good on the named train(s).

There is something you can do, if you want to decide how long to stay on the fly and still use discounted ticket. It would give you complete flexibility, but could add a little time (½-¾ hr) to your travel.

Again, use the stopover function to add a stopover in Innsbruck. Just use 000 as the time. Then go down to Means of travel and change the means for the Innsbruck-to-Munich leg to regional (uncheck ICE, IC/EC, and D). Then your ticket will show regional trains (S, M or REX, RB) for the last leg to Munich. Regional trains are not specific on these tickets. By the Vor- und Nach-Lauf provision of the AGB for the Bahn, you can use any regional trains on that same route to finish your trip as long as you finish by 10 AM the following morning. There is at least one regional connection every hour, so you can leave Innsbruck whenever you want. But you can't take the faster ECs that leave every two hours.

Lee, your advice is very helpful. I really appreciate it. Thank you!