Buying tickets from D Bahn

You're one day too early. Book tomorrow evening.

OK. So it's just a time issue and not my techno-issues? Will it be self-explanatory?

What am I missing here.

"It won't let me go past putting in our ages and date of travel."

On the screen where you put in your date of travel, as well as start and end points, you only put in number of adult, children, whatever. You don't put in ages, yet. Is this what you can't get past?

After you find connections, you click "Check Availability", and it asks for ages. When you give it the ages, it takes you back to the screen with connections and "check availability". Is this where you are getting to?

You click "check availability" a second time, and it shows you what fares are still available and gives you the opportunity to "purchase".

Is the fact that, after putting in ages, it takes you back to the "check availability" screen that makes you think that you can't get past it. Just click "check availability" again.

Not sure if this affecting your ability to purchase tickets. But some of the fares on the D Bahn site have to be purchsed over the phone or in person due to the train company being used. I ran into this for a train from Vienna to Prague.

Edwin

Lee, I put in 5 adults - Search - then there's the schedule and I find the time I want but the only choice is Refresh - no choice to check availability.

I guess I should have been more explicit in my original post. When I tried to do a dummy booking for 2 July, there was a message after each departure time saying that booking 92 days in advance was the maximum. When I did a dummy booking for 1 July, the Savings fare column appeared with the "Check availability" message for several departure times. That's why I said you were trying to book one day too early.

Tim, I did what you did and now I understand. I think I'm ready to do this tmw when my July 2, 145euro/5 person fare is available. Thank you and all who posted help.

Laurie, I'm sorry, when you said "putting in our ages", I thought you meant "putting in our ages", actual numbers, like 40, which meant you had put in a date early enough to purchase. If you do put in a date not too far out, you will get asked for actual ages, as numbers, not just No. of Adults, etc. But then it takes you back to the original page with "Check Availability" shown and, at that point, some people think it didn't worked.

And, BTW, you don't have to put in "Koln". The Bahn website has become very tolerant of foreign and misspelled words. There are only two proper German spellings, Köln and Koeln, but the Bahn website will also accept the French/English spelling, Cologne. Recently someone used "Keulen", which is Dutch, and the Bahn accepted it. And, for people who don't understand that 'o' and 'ö' are completely different letters, pronounced differently, and you can't just substitute 'o' for 'ö', the Bahn website will accept misspellings like Koln or Fussen (for Füssen).

Sometimes "deumlauting" can cause difficulties when there is another town spelled without the umlaut. Then the Bahn usually offers you a list of alternatives, but not always.