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Muchen-Pasing Train Station

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I am looking to re-book the trip from Paris to Kaufering. There is one that is less expensive and has only 2 stops and gets us into Kaufering in plenty of time to get to the car rental place before it closes. Our first connection is in Stuttgart and I was told it is a one level area and 10 minutes will be fine to get from one platform to another. In Muchen-Pasing it is only a 9 minute transfer from ICE 517 to RE 57414 and I can't seem to find info regarding how that station is set up. Is that enough time for me and my parents to get from one platform to the next? I am hoping so cause it is what will work best for us. Our next option is slightly more expensive, still only 2 stops, still a 10 min one in Stuttgart but a 55 min transfer time in Augsberg. But it will get us in with only 35 minutes minutes to get to the car rental place before it closes. What do you suggest?

Also, since I need to cancel our tickets for July 5, and am rebooking them for Sept 27, and the price is between 60-80 Euros less than the July 5 tickets, is it accurate that if I cancel my tickets I will be charged 19 euros per person but get the original cost of the ticket (319 euros) refunded to our credit card. Then I rebook the tickets at the lower price (239-259 Euros). Am I understanding their policy correctly. I did it on Trainline.eu--which by the way I discovered after spending 40 min with the guy at Trainline.uk trying to figure this out. He couldn't understand why he couldn't find my reservation--LOL. At Trainline.eu they don't give you an option to call anyone. I emailed them and never heard back.

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In my experience with Deutschebahn, if you cancel and re-book in one transaction, they will (a). Issue a refund for the full amount of your canceled booking, less the 19 euros per ticket fee, and (b) separately charge for the new tickets at the existing price. So if your new tickets are cheaper, you come out ahead.

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9 minutes at Munich Pasing should be OK, assuming your inbound ICE is on time. You arrive on Track 9 and have to go to Track 4. That means you exit the train and walk down a stairway to the cross-over tunnel, then walk about 150 feet, then up the stairway to Track 4. That should take about 5 minutes at most, so you should be waiting for the RE 57414 when it arrives at 16:26. You should be ready with your luggage and standing in the vestibule when the train pulls into Pasing. Push the green button after the train stops to open the door if nobody is in front of you.

If you miss it, the next train to Kaufering is in 20 minutes and maybe you will be OK with that.

Did you buy your July 5 ticket through Deutsche Bahn? Then, yes, you can cancel for a 19 EUR fee. If it was from TGV, that is a different story.

PS: here is a diagram of Munich-Pasing station. They have escalators.
https://www.bahnhof.de/resource/blob/1022986/1bcf122688ffd20b72af4cf5956b9fe2/M%C3%BCnchen-Pasing_locationpdf-data.pdf

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Here is the station layout for Pasing.

What is your date? For the date I looked at, July 26, ICE 517 arrives at 16:18. RE 57414 leaves at 16:10. You can't make that connection.

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Personally, I would avoid the train station in Augsburg when traveling with elderly parents, because it is currently a big construction site (no escalators). Nine minutes transfer time in Pasing is plentiful (I do that often); there are escalators and elevators. Go to the west side of platform 4 (i.e. go up from the tunnel to the right), so you get to the top of the train, where the free seats will be (the rear cars will be occupied by people boarding in Munich Hbf).

You can't make that connection.

@Lee: from another post it appears the the OP wants to travel in the last week of september. So the transfer time of 9 minutes is correct.

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Actually, I was looking for the transfer at Pasing to see what tracks they come in on and go out on. It looks like it is in on Gleis (track) 4 and out on Gleis 9. But the real time taker will not be the time between the escalators but the time getting from the train to the tunnel and from the tunnel to the next train, mostly getting from the ICE to the tunnel. Since RE 57414 on Gleis 9 is a regional train, they can sit anywhere in a class 2 car. Just get on the first class 2 car out of the tunnel. If the ICE is late, they should hold the regional train, but if not, there is another train to Kaufering in ½ hour. The next train gets into Kaufering at 5:29 PM. What time does the rental place close?

Where are they staying in Landsberg? I know there is a bus from the Landsberg Bahnhof to town (I've taken it). If the ICE is real late, as can happen for a long trip (it starts in Dortmund at 10:37), they could always go on to Landsberg and get the car in Kaufering the next day.

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