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RT Amsterdam to Cologne - which site to buy from

Posted by (Orange Park, Fl) on

Planning on a middle of the week trip to avoid weekend Christmas crowds in Cologne and I want to buy two round trip ICE tickets from Amsterdam to city center Cologne (Koln Hbf?) for mid December. The tickets for sale are not up yet but will be soon so I want to be able to jump on it.

1] I can buy ICE tickets on the ns.nl site but the Man in Seat 61 says to use the www.bahn.de site. Does it make any difference which site I use?
2] Am I correct in understanding that we will scan the bar code on our tickets at Centraal to get through the gates to get to the platform but the conductor on the ICE train will also check our tickets and that I need to have credit card with me that was used for the transaction?

Anything else I should know?

Thank you.

Posted by
32715 posts

Number 2 - correct.

Number 1 - You can get them from either. Which has a better price? Which do you prefer?

Posted by
985 posts

Thanks Nigel. I really have no preference. I played with late acceptable dates and ticket prices are the same. It does look like I can have reserved seats during booking on the ns international site but that doesn't show on the DB Bahn site. Guessing I could register when I purchase then go in and add the reservation?

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