euro rail go into airport at munich

Connie,

While your pass will good on the S-Bahn, using it will require marking off a day on it. Unless you're going farther afield by train on the same day, it would be better to just buy a ticket to get from the airport to the city.

The bigger question is whether or not a railpass will be your most economical way of traveling by train. Advance purchase Savings fare tickets bought on the German Rail site can be quite cheap. Laender tickets for travel all day within a particular state are also very cheap.

What is your itinerary?

Arrive munich/ depart frankenmuth. travel upon between these locations.
connie

arrive munich depart frankfurt. travel between my choice.
connie

does that mean with my e pass, I won't have to pay any extra money for the train?
thanks for your help.
connie

Its a Suburban line, thus the "S"...

I guess that is a good way for Americans to understand it, but actually "Suburb" is "Vorort", in German. So why isn't it V-Bahn? And, I suppose you think the "U" in U-Bahn is for Urban? Actually, Urban is Städtisch; shouldn't the Urban trains be the S-Bahn?

When I first went to Germany in the 1980s, I saw S-Bahn defined as Schnellbahn (or quick train). However, it might have originally been Stadtschnellbahn (or city quick train), as opposed to, I guess, the U-bahn (or Untergrundbahn, or underground trains, Bahn), which make a lot more stops and thus are slower, or the Straßenbahn (streetcars), which are slower yet.

In Karlsruhe, the S-Bahn are oversized streetcars, call Stadt-Bahn. Here the "S" stands for Stadt, city.

connie,

To add to the other replies, the S-1 and S-8 travel from MUC to München Hbf. The trip is about half an hour (and very pleasant) and the train runs six times per hour. When you arrive at the main station, you'll be able to transfer to the "regular" trains to travel wherever you're going.

I'm not sure about using your Railpass for the S-Bahn, as it may use one travel day? This may depend on where you're travelling to after you reach Munich and what type of Railpass you're using. I believe the single trip fare for the trip from the airport is currently €9.20.

The adult single trip fare from the airport to downtown Munich is indeed €9,20. That gets you not only to the Hbf, but also to any location in the central zone, using other MVV (Munich metro) conveyances (U-Bahn, trams, buses) as long as you are going directly to your destination (no extended stops or roundabout path). For €10,40, you can get a Single Tageskarte (Gesamtnetz), which is valid for your trip in from the airport plus any other travel (hop on/off) throughout the MVV the rest of the day.

If you plan go to anywhere else in Bavaria that same day, a Bayern-Ticket Single, for €20, will take you there by regional train and will cover any travel in the MVV, including your trip in from the airport.

A full fare express train trip from Munich to Frankfurt is only €91, about $125. Even the least expensive single adult pass is twice that. If you break the trip up into smaller, single day segments, any day that stays in a single German state will only cost $27 for an all day regional pass.

I can't see how a railpass could ever pay off.

"Arrive munich/ depart frankenmuth."

Having been raised near Frankenmuth, I got a little chuckle out of this. If you visited and liked Frankenmuth, you might be interested to know that it was founded by settlers from Rosstal (Markt Roßtal) near Nuremberg (Nürnberg). If you are going near Nuremberg, Rosstal is worth a couple hour stop.

http://www.rosstal.de/index00.htm

Regards, Gary