I've read that the German Flexi TWIN Pass is not available to purchase online, that it's only available to buy at DB Travel Centres. Does anyone know if that particular Pass is available to buy at the train station at Munich Airport? We're scheduled to arrive at 8:25 am on 8/28/24 (soon) and want to get the Pass at the Airport as we plan to use it that day to get into Munich and then get on a train to Innsbruck. We've been to Munich a few times and didn't want to just walk around town exhausted until we could check into our roooms so we decided to just travel on to Innsbruck where we haven't been yet. TIA for info.
Posted by
Green Bay
21160 posts
I believe DB has discontinued the German Rail Pass. You can get a single country Eurail Pass, but then you say you are going to Innsbruck, in Austria. Then you would need a Global pass.
Posted by
Paradise
7072 posts
It is in fact valid to Innsbruck on certain trains (see flyer below.) But the GRP would only be worthwhile for multiple long-distance trips, probably within Germany. It is available online at eurail.com - now referred to as a eurailpass for one country.
https://assets.static-bahn.de/dam/jcr:c0b25c61-bd5a-41ac-aea9-a56b909a88b5/German_Rail_Pass_2024.pdf
I do not think it's available at the station anymore, but I may be wrong. Have a look at the eurail website to see if there are pos options in Munich somewhere.
One option for reaching Innsbruck is to take the train via Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the Regioticket Werdenfels + Innsbruck day pass, €48/2.
https://www.bahn.de/angebot/regio/bayern/regio-ticket-werdenfels-plus-innsbruck
Buy it at the station from a ticket machine at Munich airport and use it at any hour that same day on the regional trains. This ticket resolves the problem you would have with a p2p saver fare ticket on the long-distance trains using the faster route for such trains (which are train-specific and would be forfeited if a delay caused you to miss your train.)
AFAIK there is no English-language page that describes the Werdenfels offer. But you can run text from that page through a translator for details, and there's nothig stopping you from buying it at the station upon arrival.
Posted by
Bavaria
2480 posts
AFAIK there is no English-language page that describes the Werdenfels offer.
The usual workaround is to buy the ticket with the DB Navigator App (Android or Apple). It's also more convenient than queuing at the ticket machine. Select the connection Munich - Innsbruck via Mittenwald and you will automatically be offered the correct Werdenfales ticket (i.e. the one with the extension to Innsbruck).
Posted by
OP
15 posts
This is a follow up to my original post from August. There is INDEED a German (NOT Eurail German) Twin Flexi pass that you can only buy in Germany at a DB Travel Center. Due to delays on 2 of our scheduled flights to MUC we did not make it to a Travel Center that was open since we arrived after 8 pm instead of at 8:25 am. We had to find a hotel near a train station to spend the first night in Munich (which made us a "no show" for our hotel in Innsbruck) and the next day we were able to buy the Twin Flexi pass at the East Train Station which was close to our hotel. I never did see where the Travel Center was at the Airport but I was happy we could buy the pass we wanted and we used it to travel to 6 different cities in Germany as well as our trip to Innsbruck, Austria.
Posted by
Paradise
7072 posts
"There is INDEED a German (NOT Eurail German) Twin Flexi pass that you can only buy in Germany at a DB Travel Center.
Thanks to you for reviving this thread and sharing your own experience with the Twin Pass, rennettegrace. It was a major blow to railpass customers when the Twin-pass product disappeared from the DB site - AND from the Eurail site as well. Then at some point DB stopped playing their "shell game" with this pass with a website update. Thanks also to Kim703, who discovered and shared the same information on the forum earlier this month in this "German Rail Pass for Christmas Markets" thread:
I do see that now the Twin pass has to be purchased at a DB center,
vice online. I am seeing that DB has teamed with Eurail. However, in
doing some price comparisons, I have found cheaper fares for certain
passes via DB directly.
(For those who aren't familiar, Eurail doesn't offer a Twin-pass discount. You pay the one-person price x 2.)
In addition to the Twin-pass, DB sells other versions of the GRP in Germany too. The DB site has a link to a table for all GRP varieties:
"I never did see where the Travel Center was at the Airport but I was happy we could buy the pass we wanted and we used it to travel to 6 different cities in Germany as well as our trip to Innsbruck, Austria."
The GRP's used to be available only at certain Eurail-aide train stations. The DB site used to provide a link to a list of those stations, but I cannot find it. There is a list of stations in Germany at the Eurail site, however:
That said... you reported buying the pass at München Ost, which is not on the list at all. Perhaps the GRP's are now available at ANY rail station with a DB ticket counter (which is a lot more stations than the ones on this list.)
The DB site currently has no GRP flyer or price table for 2025. Let's hope DB's willingness to sell these passes for this year is a sign they will be sold in 2025 as well.