Seats on German ICE

Andy, the city is called Nürnberg and the alternative German spelling for people without Umlauts on their keyboard is Nuernberg. The official English spelling for pronounciation ease is Nuremberg. Coach is open plan, like on a bus or airplane. Compartment is 3 seats facing 3 seats, so six in total. The compartment are separated from the aisle by a glass wall and glass door. In some of the compartments those 6 seats are around a table so you can read, write letters, type something, whatever. On the open plan in 2nd class it's 2 seats next to each other, then an ailse, then another 2 seats. Half of the open plan seats are 2 seats facing 2 seats around a table. the other half is like on an airplane and there are little tray tables like on an airplane. Silent zone means carriages without cell-phone reception. You can still talk and even sing or whatever but cell phones won't work when the train is moving. You take your luggage with you and there is plenty of storage - at least on the...

... open plan. If a compartment is really filled with 6 people (which happens frequently during commute hours) then you'd have trouble storing your luggage. If you travel in the middle of the day you can just take your luggage with you in the compartment, close the door and since people can see the situation from the outside thru the glass door it won't fill up completely.

That's fantastic information. Thank you very much!

But what about:
"I'm booking two tickets. I get what window/aisle means, but will they not be next to each other, but both an aisle or both a window?"

How does this work? When you ask for "window seat," does this give you two window seats, or one window seat and one next to that one?

I've looked for my tickets, but I don't have them anymore to see exactly what I picked during booking (window or aisle), but we had two seats next to each other like an airplane, one by the window and one by the aisle.

The must correctly assume that you want to sit together.

Sorry I don't have the details from our booking last year.

Andy

I usually take the train when I'm by myself. But the last time I made reservations for 3 and asked for 2 window seats (for the kids) the reservation system automatically put us into a compartment to keep us together. My kids were just sooooo happy about this trip. Here is a pic of such a compartment (2nd class) in the ICE