Rail Options Please - Staying in Munich 13 days

I had to read your post a couple of times to make sure I was understanding your plan correctly.

First, don't use RailEurope as this is a ticket reseller that will rip you off.

Second, don't buy a rail pass - especially one for 23 countries!!! You actually don't need a rail pass at all.
Third, Amsterdam, Swiss Alps and Venice are not day trips from Munich. If you want to visit these places, you will need to spend several nights.
Fourth, Eurorail, Eurorail Flex - these are some pass I assume that will be a total waste of money. An ICE train, however, is an actual train.
Fifth, please use the bahn.de website only as this is where you can find actual train schedules, buy your tickets, see real prices and other information. This is the website of Deutsche Bahn, which is the German National Rail Carrier.
Sixth, visit this website to read up on rail travel in Europe. You are making it much more complicated than it needs to be.

7th- The Bavarian-Tyrolian Alps are an easy daytrip from Munich... on a clear day from an elevated position, you can easily see them from the city. Pick a day with a good weather forecast and take the 90 minute train ride south to Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a great Alpine experience. The Berner Oberland is much too far for a daytrip from Munich... and it isn't even the closest part of the Alps in Switzerland.

8th- Sooner or later, long-time posters Lee from Colorado and Russ from Paradise will chime in about the various regional discount passes sold by Deutsche Bahn (not resellers like RailEurope or Eurail!). Most of your wishlist is located within the Bundesland of Bavaria (Bayern in German), so you would probably benefit from using the Bayernpass. I don't know the details, but they do. Paging Lee and Russ...

Nuremberg
Rothemburg
Amsterdam (Night train???)
Swiss Alps (Lauterbrunnen Valley, Murren, Schillithorn, Jungfrau, Eiger, Monch)
Venice Italy

From Munich you are expecting to do day trips to these places?? Why??? A'dam isn't the only one that's too far. They are all spectacularly far except for Nuremberg and maybe Rothenburg.

Even if you were to find night trains to Amsterdam and back - and even if it were possible to sleep on said trains - would you really want to spend only one day there?

If for some reason you absolutely positively want to park your rear ends in Munich the whole time, you can day trip to many places, and 13 nights in Munich might make sense. Visit the German Alps (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, for example,) to Prien and Herrenchiemsee Palace, to Salzburg Austria, to Regensburg, to Landshut, to destinations on the southern Romantic Road (like Landsberg and Augsburg) or maybe even to Berchtesgaden.

To visit the destinations you named, the only reasonable way is to shorten your stay in Munich, pack your bags, leave Munich, and to stay in those places. I would suggest this for northern Bavaria as well - move there for a Nuremberg/Rothenburg visit - use one as a base town for visiting the other instead of spending hours and hours coming and going from Munich.

From comments above and on your other question, it should now be clear that you can't "daytrip" to Amsterdam, Switzerland, of Venice and return on the same day. The best choice of rail pass will depend on how you modify your trip plan. The German Rail Pass is cheap (e.g., 5 days of travel for $200 per person) and actually covers the direct trains to/from Venice (runs once per day, pass does not cover the night train); other passes for 2 or 4 countries don't have that particular feature. The Eurail Global pass now covers 28 countries, but you don't need that much coverage.

Hi,

Are you considering the Amsterdam to Munich night train? If so, that is one night route still in operation, (luckily) in spite of several having been abolished.

@ Jeff...The DB website still shows the CNL operating between Munich and Amsterdam. I am aware of the changes in Dec 2014 affecting several of the night routes, ie their discontinuation.