Best way to buy Twin German Rail Pass

The GRP page at the DB site used to indicate that a GRP pass of some kind could be bought in person in Germany. I am not seeing that now. And the fact that you get bumped to Eurail makes me think that DB doesn't sell them at this point.

Note also that the informational flyer they link to at that page is for 2025.

I've bought a lot of GRPs before, but there've been several changes in the previous few years. If you are using AI to get info, it may be pulling up old info in the absence of new info.

I want to know as well what's what and will check... could take a while.

When is your trip? What itinerary do you have in mind? What reasons do you have for preferring a rail pass over the other options? Sometimes the alternatives are better anyway. Maybe the forum could help you with the alternatives, which might include regional passes, the D-Ticket, guest cards, and/or p2p tickets.

thanks for responding

I’ve already purchased d-ticket - will use that for 2 of our 7 journeys, day trips, and local public transport
For the rest it would be too time consuming and difficult to use regional trains

For the 5, I’ve looked into pricing - depending on the time of day we travel, a pass would be a little more expensive, the same or a little cheaper

Even if a little more expensive, I like the flexibility and not having to spend time, purchase individual tickets. Yes, we will need to purchase reservations.

These days I tend to either start on my own/forums then use Gemini or the reverse. I have gotten the 2026 pricing and Google search for twin tickets brings me to a dbahn page then when I click again to choose - it automatically goes to Eurorail Germany page which also has dbahn logo. I’m assuming it’s going by IP location and automatically taking me there. It’s not a problem buying from there except I was hoping to add it to my DB Navigator app which it seems like won’t happen unless one had a DBahn order number (akin to record locator for airline)

It seems that if I buy at a local office of dbahn (assuming it does sell) then I will have a physical ticket/paper copy - not digital.
Hence my post here.

Perhaps someone who has purchased/used the twin pass in the past 6-12 months will respond with insights

I plan to speak to someone at DB today about this.

Thank you!

I look forward to hearing what you find out.

I checked in at DB's Reisezentrum at the main station in Mainz this morning and was referred to the main official there. He told me I could not buy one in Mainz (which I knew and wasn't planning to do) and he confirmed that you can walk into the Frankfurt Airport or Frankfurt Hbf station Reisezentrum and purchase the rail passes that appear in the chart on the PDF file linked to at the DB German Rail page. I assume that other main stations which have previously been listed on the DB site as Eurail aide stations can also sell you the pass in the event you aren't flying into Frankfurt. Here is a link that gets you to that list, per the Eurail site, in case you need it:

https://www.eurail.com/en/plan-your-trip/trip-ideas/trains-europe/useful-train-information/eurail-aid-offices

I asked him for a price on the 5-days-in-30 twin passes, and he quoted me 478 Euros (2nd class ) and 638 Euros (first class), which of course covers both of you - the same prices that appear on the chart mentioned previously.

I have only bought 2 of my several German Rail Passes in person. But I can tell you THAT is how I prefer to buy the pass. Instead of the unforgiving internet, there's a person there who knows what they're doing and can ask you the right questions, and you can get valuable advice on how to use the pass and how to fill it out properly, and if you do enter a date incorrectly (as I once did) or something similar, you'll know what to do and NOT to do. And you can ask all the questions you like as well.

I like the paper one. I don't scrapbook, but it's nice to have the hard copy to look at years later. I have a small cloth belt-pouch which I sewed McGyver-style using a pair of worn cargo pants in 1974 and which I used to carry my rail pass and passport in on my first rail pass trip. It was a laminated card back then. But I've also hung onto my paper ones. And it's a blast to just pull them out every couple of years and run through the memories that those passes bring up.

As far as adding the pass to the Navigator app goes... I don't really understand that concept since there are no specific itineraries on your German Rail pass. I am not app-literate - hardly bother with my cell phone when I travel in Germany. But you can of course handle any prospective itinerary using the app, right?

What can I say, Russ, thank you so very much.

This confirms to me that I have the choice of buying one in person if I chose to do that. We will be flying into Frankfurt and will be heading to the regional train station to get to the city - using our Dland passes. So we could purchase there.

I’ll do some more asking around couple of other forums to decide if I want the digital version - that’s how we have our Dland passes- on our phones.

Thanks again for taking the time and helping out.

No trouble at all to stop and ask... I had to pass through the Mainz station mezzanine anyway this morning to begin my stay here.

You will need to go to the FERNBAHNHOF - where the Reisezentrum is located - before proceeding to the Regionalbahnhof for your train ride.