D-ticket

Maybe November. but what travel will be needed from 10/28 to 10/31? Can you be specific about the journeys you will take throughout your stay? With that we can provide better advice.

We will intensively use public transportation the whole time we are there (regional train, S bahn, U bahn). We would prefer to pay 1 month to cover part of October and some of November. Is that possible?

No, it is not. The D-Ticket works for a calendar month.

I asked about specific journeys because 1) travel in the OTHER month can be done and purchased in a variety of ways depending on where you are traveling and the trips you will make... cheap local day passes, cheap statewide day passes, guest passes which offer FREE travel, etc. might also be on the table... and 2) some of your travel in the "D-Ticket month" might not be entirely feasible with this D-Ticket alone.

I use the D-Ticket on my trips to Germany. Sounds like a sure thing for November based upon your posts.

Regarding October, is it worth 15.75 Euros per day or 63 for the 4 days? For just a week or less in a month I estimate travel costs for those days and then compare them to the D-Ticket. I will pay a few Euros over my planned costs for the convenience of not needing to purchase multiple tickets.

Have a great time!

So we would get D-tickets for November trip.
During October 28-31, we will be in Frankfurt and we will do some day trips within 1-1.5 hours from Frankfurt.
What do you call those regions?

Can we use this pass, Fahrradtageskarte Nahverkehr,, for throughout Germany?

That is a bicycle ticket. Will you be traveling with a bicycle? I don't believe it includes the fare for the accompanying human.

Around Frankfurt, there are day tickets in the local transit authority, called a Verkehrsverbund in German. For Frankfurt, it is the RMV or the Rhein-Main Verkehrsverbund. It includes local trains as far as Bacharach, Marburg for instance.

We don’t have bicycles with us, can we use that pass anyway?

Frankfurt lies witin the RMV transportation zone, so you'd typically be purchasing a RMV day pass (Tageskarte) for a round trip journey if traveling to other cities with the RMV.

I wonder where you are staying in Frankfurt - which will determine which station name you should use when doing searches for journeys and ticket information. Frankfurt (Main) Hbf is the main station.

These RMV passes are priced according to the distance you will travel. The RMV zone is the green/yellow zone on this map of Germany:

https://de-academic.com/pictures/dewiki/75/Karte_der_Verkehrsverb%C3%BCnde_und_Tarifverb%C3%BCnde_in_Deutschland.png

https://www.rmv.de/

When traveling outside the RMV zone, your tickets will come from DB.

There's the Hessen Ticket (day pass), sold by DB for if you are traveling to a destination that lies beyond the RMV zone but within the larger Hessen zone where Frankfurt is located. The map below shows the entire Hessen zone and the RMV zone as within it. The Hessen ticket serves as a pass for unlimite travel within this zone.

https://www.vrn.de/mam/tickets/tarifgebiete/hessenticket.jpg

Details for the Hessenticket: https://www.vgf-ffm.de/en/tickets-fares-plans/tickets-purchase/day-tickets#c7237

If you are traveling even further outside the Hessen zone, then there's a day pass that covers all of Germany - the QDL Ticket or Day ticket for Germany, good for unlimited travel on one day. Details::

https://int.bahn.de/en/offers/regional/day-ticket-germany

You do not need to be a geography expert to figure out which tickets you will use or what they will cost. Use the DB website to enter your start and end cities. Also, select "local transport only" under "mode of transport. Then after hitting "continue " button on the far right and you will see one-way tickets (Normalpreis or Einzelfahrt Ers.) as well as the RMV passes (Tageskarte for one, Gruppentageskarte for 2-5 persons) OR the QdL day pass (Quer durchs Land) OR the Hessenticket day pass; these last three are good for the round-trip.

You don't have to buy any of these in advance. They are available on the spot using the DB app or a ticket machine at the station.

Wow!! Thank you very much for detailed answer!!! I really appreciate it!

We don’t have bicycles with us, can we use that pass anyway?

No. You have to buy a ticket for yourself, then the Fahrradtageskarte covers your bicycle for the day. Fahrrad is the German word for "bicycle". Tageskarte means "day ticket". Nahverkehr means "local travel".

We don’t have bicycles with us, can we use that pass anyway?

No. This lets you take a bike with you on your trip.

So we would get D-tickets for November trip.

Probably. Over your 10 days in November do you plan to take at least one or two regional train trips in addition to the local day passes you plan to use? If so, a D-Ticket will save you some money. If you are going to be in one city or planning to use the long distance ICE trains, then it is probable break even.

What is your planned itinerary for your trip in November?