My family and I will taking a day trip to Salzburg from Munich on June 13. It seems that we get the best deal by purchasing a Regional (Bayern) Ticket. When is the best time to buy that ticket?
We also need to take the train from Wittenberg to Berlin on June 25. We will be leaving from a weeklong festival in Wittenberg so I expect crowds at the train station. When should we buy that ticket? Any particular ticket recommendations?
Thanks!
Best time to buy the Bayern Ticket is just before you travel out of the DB Ticket automat. You can also buy at the ticket window for 2 EUR more. Write the names of all the travelers on the back of the ticket.
Lutherstadt-Wittenberg to Berlin can be done with a Regio 120 ticket, which is also a laender-type ticket. Travel after 9 am weekdays. If you want to take a mainline train, buy as soon as you can to get the best price and buy seat reservations for 4.50 EUR each if you want to guarantee a place to sit.
Are you flying into Munich on June 13, or will you already be there. If you are flying in, buy the Bayern-Ticket at the airport. It will be valid, after 9 AM, for you travel by S-Bahn to Munich Ostbahnhof (or the Hbf) and for a regional train to Salzburg.
If you buy a Regio120 Ticket in Wittenberg, it will be valid all day (Sunday) for any regional train. There are REs leaving at 8:12 and 10:12 and later. There are no reserved seats on regional trains, but the REs originate in Wittenberg, so if you get there early (20 min?) they will arrive empty at the platform, so you should be able to find seats.
If you want a reserved seat, take a long distance train. There is an ICE leaving at 8:52. Fare for each adult (over 14) is 19 euro; children under 15 travel free but must be declared when you book.
You didn't say the size (number and ages) of your "family". The Regio 120 Ticket might not be the appropriate ticket, depending on number and ages in your party. You can enter the travelers with ages on the Bahn website and it will tell you the appropriate ticket.
Thanks, Sam.
For the Bayen ticket, we'd like to take a 9:04 train from Munich Ostbahnhof to maximize our time in Salzburg. Just to be clear, we can buy the ticket at like 8:30/8:45 and as long as we use it after 9:00am we're good, right?
Apparently, you will already be in downtown Munich, not starting from the airport. Yes, 9 AM is the start time of your travel using the Bayern-Ticket. But if you need local transportation to Ost (S-Bahn?), you will have to pay for that separately.
Thanks for the help.
Yes, we (me, my husband, and two daughters in their early 20s) will already be in Munich on the day in question (we fly in a couple days earlier)
After Munich/Salzburg adventures, we head to Berlin (already bought that ticket last month at a good price) for a few days. Then we are meeting up with a church group for a week long festival in Wittenberg. We will be done and heading back to Berlin on Sunday afternoon, June 25. My concern is just that a lot of the folks at the festival will be doing the same thing, so I'm just trying to think it all through.
I could be overthinking things too, I realize.
Go to www.bahn.com and make your decision. With the Regional trains, you can get a Brandenburg-Berlin Ticket for 29 EUR covering everyone, but no guarantee of a seat. Just get on the platform 15 or 20 minutes early when they spot the train and maybe you can get some seats.
Using the ICE or IC trains, There are 1st class tickets available if you buy now at 140 EUR or less on the IC train that come with seat reservations. That is a better price than buying Flexpreis tickets and adding seat reservations. You're right. There are no Sparpreis 2nd class tickets available for that day.
