Train Ticket Help

You can use the D-Ticket for all your train trips within Germany on the slower regional trains. But if you want to take ICE or other high-speed trains from Munich to Nuremberg, you’ll need to pay for those additionally.

You can get a quick look at train fare differences along with schedules at www.TheTrainline.com

I think the Deutschland ticket would cover most of what we need but I assume we would need to pay separately for the Munich -> Nuremberg -> Munich legs since that would be ICE

All your trips can be covered by the D-Ticket including this one. While ICE is one way to do this route, regional trains cover it too. Just select "local transport only" under "mode of transport" or hit the "D-Ticket connections only" button when you search for a schedule and you will see the regional train options.
https://int.bahn.de/en

The D-Ticket is valid for regional trains across the border to Salzburg - but NOT for other local transport within Salzburg or Austria.

https://www.bahn.de/faq/deutschlandticket-verkehrsmittel-ausland

The ride from Munich to Nuremberg is so short there's really no need to resort to paying extra for ICE. And in Salzburg you buy a day pass, or walk. It's an easy city to get around in.

Russ. Im learning something new. A question: Is it a monthly ticket, but from the first of the month or for 30 days after the date of purchase? I see it's a subscription, too, and ig looks pretty easy to end up paying for 2 months when you just wanted one month?

The price is excellent. One of the best deals in Europe.

The Deutschland ticket is for the calendar month. It must be canceled by the 10th of the month prior to when you want to stop using it.

So if your trip goes past the end of the month, you need to buy 2 months. Still a bargain.

Thanks everyone. It looks pretty obvious now that the D ticket is the best bet for us. I don't mind taking the regional to Nuremberg and back at all.

Our trip dates are Dec 20 - Dec 31. So I think we basically need to buy the ticket some time after Nov 11 for the month of Dec and cancel the auto sub before Dec 10. I found an app called MVV through another thread that we'll probably use managing this.

@ Mr Ê 🇺🇸 🇺🇦... Good deal, yes. The new price of €58 each takes things up a notch but is probably unsustainable just as he previous prices were. It's too good a deal and generates too much ridership for the existing system. Month-long subscription passes have been offered for many years WITHIN the individual transport zones, and they still are, but of course no one buys them now These passes are priced such that they generate some profit, so for example, in the VRM (Rhine/Mosel authority) zone, a monthly pass is currently €133.80. Not a bad deal, really, for one's monthly transportation needs on the area's trains, buses and trams. But the D-Ticket for the entire country undercuts this price in the extreme. Not sure which secret government coffers are being pried open to subsidize the D-Ticket, but no coffer is bottomless...

Russ that pass pays for itself with two rides (not counting the local transport benefit). Maybe one ride if you buy a ticket the same day. Simply amazing. Its second only to the Hungarian Old Fart Deal.

You can buy it now, the app lets you choose the month you want to activate.

Not sure which secret government coffers are being pried open to subsidize the D-Ticket, but no coffer is bottomless...

No one except political dreamers ever expected the DT's price of €49 to remain stable for long. Before the introduction of the ticket, there was broad consensus that €99 would be a reasonable starting (!) price. But the Green Party, which was part of the ruling coalition at the time, pushed through the unrealistic price because it hoped that it would make voters forget a little how much it wanted to hit their wallets with its other laws (ban on combustion engine cars, ban on oil heating, etc.). The price will rise simply because the DT is yet another project conceived by the federal government but which others are expected to pay for (largely). The federal government wants to cap its annual contribution at 1.5 billion, and the laender, which have also been paying €1.5 billion, are expected to bear the additional costs instead.. But they will not do so. At the end of 2026, the DT will be in a serious crisis that can only be resolved by another price increase, and so it will continue every year.

I need to add a question to this. I bought my d ticket for December from the MVV app a week or so ago. No problems at all. However, when I go to buy one for my wife today it doesn’t even show up as a purchasable option. This is from her own account on her phone. I also checked in my account on my phone and the ticket I bought is there but also see no option to buy another ticket.

Any ideas here? Anyone else seeing the same thing? Our trip is still a few weeks out so it’s not an emergency just something I wanted to take care of now.

Coud be an issue with the MVV app you are using.

There are two recommended options at the Man in Seat 61 site (a widely-worshipped source of train information, and not just by me.)

ONE of those only sells the D-Ticket until the 10th of the month (and perhaps the MVV app is similar in this regard??) so you might try the alternative site he recommends:

https://europe.tranzer.com/ticket-product/248

His comments about this option:

You can also buy a Deutschland Ticket for a specific month in English
at europe.tranzer.com/ticket-product/248 without a subscription, just
a one-off payment with a credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, with a
trivial booking fee.

There's no need to remember to cancel anything afterwards, no risk of
missing your subscription cancel-by date and accidentally paying for
two months. They will email you later asking if you want to pay for
another month when your current month expires, if you do you'll have
to make another payment, if you don't reply they assume you don't want
to continue and won't take any further payment.

Source: https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-germany.htm#Deutschlandticket

I am aware that others on this forum have had success with the HVV option:

https://www.hvv.de/en/

Thanks Russ. Looks like there must have just been an issue yesterday because the option is back in the app today. Appreciate the extra information. That site will definitely come in handy for some other upcoming adventures.