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Rail pass or individual tickets Munich-Nurenberg-Berchtesgaden

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Ok I have a headache! We need your help/advice.

2 adults traveling together (we have been to Munich before and experienced the old town)
Arriving on a Monday from Venice at 830pm, staying near central train station
5 days in total but only 3 full days in Munich (Arrive Monday pm- going to Munich Airport to head home on Friday at noon)
Full day 1: Visiting places around the old town, Market, Residence, English Garden
Full day 2: Day trip to Nurenberg -back in Munch going out/dinner
Full day 3: Day trip to Berchtesgaden -back in Munch going out/dinner
Day 4: Airport

We are thinking a 3-day group U Bahn ticket will work for our time spent in Munich and we are thinking we will buy train tickets on the day of for days 2 & 3. Anyone think we are off here and that a Rail Pass or other combo ticket will be better?

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Look into saver fare tickets for the day trip to Nuremberg and back (takes about 1 hour 10 minutes by direct high speed train.) You may be able to find those journeys for around €60 round trip for two. These tickets are limited in number, low priced tickets selling fairly quickly.

You can do those two day trips after 9 am weekdays on a Bayern Ticket day pass for each day (€31/2) using the regional trains. Great price. But that means arriving after 12:00 noon in those destinations. They simply are not ideal Bayern Ticket day trips - and you have the same problem with Berchtesgaden when high-speed trains are used.

Regensburg, Landshut, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are somewhat shorter journeys and more doable by Bayern ticket or other cheap "region" day pass. Check the train schedules to see if they suit you.G-P is particularly advantageous as you can leave before 9 am using the Regio-ticket Werdenfels day pass (€28/2/day.)

The day passes mentioned are all available from ticket machines at the station on the day of travel. No advantage to pre-purchase (and non-refundable if you do that.)

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The first direct regional train to Nuremberg that can be used with Bayern Ticket departs
at 9:01 and arrives Nuremberg at 11:48; it is 40 minutes slower than the ICE.
But even with the cheapest Sparpreis ticket the ICE costs just under € 80/2 vv. whereas the Bayern Ticket costs € 31/2 and includes local transport in Nuremberg.

There are no high-speed trains to Berchtesgaden. You take the Meridian train
as far as Freilassing and change there to the local BLB train. First train usable with Bayernticket is
from Munich East (!) at 9:03 arrival 11:28.

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"There are no high-speed trains to Berchtesgaden."

No, there are not. My point was fuzzy here... It was this... even if you board a high-speed train out of Munich and route the trip to B'gaden through Salzburg, you won't save any time because the high-speed trains between Munich and Salzburg just aren't that much faster then the regional trains. So thinking about the high-speed train option in this case is pointless.

The Nuremberg day trip: sla019 is right - you CAN leave after 9 am and get there from Munich before noon on a Bayern Ticket. That said, you are trying to get back to Munich for DINNER and the evening. If you only have a couple of things in mind for Nuremberg, that will probably work alright. But Nuremberg is a place of some size with a castle, several good museums and churches, and some WW II places of interest, not to mention some nice pubs. If you hope to see Nuremberg more fully, and still get back to Munich for the evening, you'd need to leave Nuremberg at around 17:00 or earlier - the trip back to Munich takes about 2 hours on the RE train - and that sounds less than doable to me. IMO any full-throated day trip to Nuremberg that requires 3.5 - 4 hours on the train should probably start earlier than 9 - and end later than dinner time as well.

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