Student rate in Germany/Austria

Thanks for all the replies.

Maybe I can ask the question differently. Has anyone tried to use a US student ID in Germany/Austria, and got rejected?

Chister

The student rate varies with each museum. Some museums require that you be a student from the EU (so shwing your EU id card), some require you to be a student in the EU (just showing an id card from any school in the EU), or just being a student. It's best to carry your school id with you and try it at the museums. Sometimes your passport works since the rate applies to people under 25.

All of them accept the International Student ID Card from ISIC.org.

I'm hoping someone on here has some personal experience with this. You may try posting this on Lonely Planet, there's probably more students over there. I took my student ID when I was in grad school 10 years ago, it worked to get the student discount in Germany and Ireland.

our sons just showed their college id cards and got the discount when we went in '07.

The only place I had problems getting reduced rates for my kids was in Italy. Some Italian museums insisted that student rates were only for EU citizens.

Everywhere else we didn't need any special student card. They had their school ID's but were never asked for them. I did ask for a student rate when I bought tickets.

Have you ever tried to get into any US bar with just a German drivers' license? Won't work. You'll need a formal passport. Reason: The bouncer wouldn't know if that ID is real or fake. Same with foreign student ID's. That's why the ISIC card got invented and has been around successfully for decades!

the discounts at most places 1 or 2 euros multiplied by the number of places that offered them didnt make it worth the cost or time to apply for the internatl card for us. we decided to risk taking just the US college id's and had no problem. surprisingly at the zugspitze tram they gave our 18 yr old the childrens rate.