Train travel Germany

I am having trouble finding St Goaresheim. Do you perhaps mean St Goarshausen on the Rhine?

Most of the travel between the cities you mention cross Lender borders. Assume you will be flying into Frankfurt and flying out of Munich. Only Munich-Garmisch-Munich could be done with a Laender Ticket, the Bayern Ticket to be specific.

For Munich > Garmisch, a "Regioticket Werdenfelser Land" could be used in order to avoid the pre-9-am blackout on weekdays which comes with the Bayern Ticket. It's slightly less expensive as well. But the real point of mentioning this is twofold; there are many different solutions for travel inside a Land AND for cross-Länder-travel, and you haven't provided enough basic information about your trip. We don't know where you fly into or out of, which dates you'll be using the trains, or even in which order you are visiting these places. If you can be as precise as possible about these things, you will probably get some information about how to best ticket your trips with an eye to cost.

My apologies for not giving enough information. Our itinerary is as follows.

September 16 arrival at Frankfurt airport and heading to St. Goarshausen. wouldn’t mind cruise from Rudesheim to St Goar.
On 19th from St. Goarshausen to Heidelberg.

21st Heidelberg to Munich.

23rd Munich to Garmish.
25th Garmish to Pertisau Austria.

27th Pertisau to Salzburg
28 th Salzburg to Vienna. We will stay in Vienna till Sunday, October 2nd.
October 2nd to Prague. We will end our trip in Prague and fly home on the 6th.

Tips for Germany:

9/16: Suggest cruising from Bingen (across the river from Rüdesheim) instead; train > boat connections tend to be better there.

What time does your flight arrive?

Use FRA's Regionalbahnhof station, where local trains depart. Buy RMV tickets at the station (€9 each) to Bingen Rhein Stadt station. You can walk with bags to the boat dock there. 9:15 and 11:15 departures from Bingen get you to St. Goarshausen 1.5 hrs. minutes later. Seniors get 30% off the cruise, adult gets 20% off by showing his/her train ticket.

9/19: At the station, buy the Day Ticket for Germany (Quer-durchs-Land Ticket) for 3 persons (€56) and ride after 9 am, only the regional trains (click on the "only local transport" box when doing your itinerary search at the DB site.) 2 changes of train, sample schedule 9:27 > 12:38.

9/21: Find and purchase an online "Saver fare" ticket for this longer trip; saver fares are train-specific. Sample schedule 9:13 > 12:10 direct, currently €53.70 for 3. Prices rise as tickets sell, buy online asap.

9/23: Buy a Regioticket Werdenfels day pass (€39/3 persons) from a ticket machine at the station; ride the direct regional trains at any hour of the day to G-P. 9:32 > 10:54, for example.

For your train ride out of Germany, do a saver fare search as you did for 9/21 at the DB site.

Of course there's a plan to introduce the €9 ticketing scheme on regional trains beginning in June and continuing through the summer. Details will be forthcoming at some point. So the traditional advice for dates 9/19 and 9/23 above might be out the window and transport even cheaper for you.

Thank you so much for your help.

I'd use tickets as following:

Sept 16 "Quer durchs Land" Ticket (€56/3).

Sept 19 Super Saver Ticket für IC/ICE (train specific, non-refundable, from €19.90 pp)

Sept 21 ditto, from €17.90 pp

Sept 23 Regio Werdenfels Ticket (€39/3)

Sept 25/27 Look for tickets at Oebb.at, apparently no special offers available

Sept. 28 compare fares at Oebb.at and westbahn.at; Westbahn often cheaper or more flexible

Oct. 2 look up fares at the Web shop of Czech rail, usually cheaper than at Oebb.at

The first thing you need to know, if you are planning to take the K-D boat to St Goarshausen, is that the boat usually stops in both St Goar and St Goarshausen (the boat that leaves Rüdesheim at 9:00 only stops in St Goarshausen, but it's probably too early for you). According to the schedule, it stop at St Goar first, then goes across the river and stops at St Goarshausen. There is a ferry that runs all day between the two stops.

I tell you this because years ago, when, apparently, the boat stopped first at St Goarshausen, someone posted on their European travel website that they took the K-D boat to St Goar. They got off in St Goarshausen, then watched with chagrin as the boat left them in St Goarshausen and went across the river to let people off in St Goar.

So, know that whether you get on in Rüdesheim or in Bingen, you can get off on either side of the river at St Goar or St Goarshausen (except on the 4 o'clock boat).

If you are going from the Regionalbhf at the airport to St Goarshausen (skipping the K-D boat trip), RMV sells individual tickets for 13,50€ p/P. But you can also buy a 5 person Tageskarte (day ticket) from the airport to St Goarshausen for 37,50€. That would be a bit less than the QdL-Ticket. If you are taking the K-D boat, the RMV ticket to either Rüdesheim or Bingen is 9,55€ p/P.

I've heard talk the the Bahn is considering having a 9,-€ pass to anywhere, but I don't think it will be valid in September.