We want to go from the airport to Hauptbahnhof via S1 or S8. I was planning to buy the 18 EUR ticket and use it for 5 Adults. I read in one of the travel guides that this ticket is restricted to 2 Adults and 3 children. Is this correct or can 5 Adults use this ticket. Thanks.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19118 posts
Stop reading those other travel guides. Only here can you get the correct answers. Although some transit districts do limit day passes to only 2 adults, that is not true of the MVV Partner Gesamtnetz Tageskarte. It is valid for up to five adults for travel anywhere in the Munich metro (MVV) area. See here.
With the Partner Tageskarten children under 6 can come along for free and children under 15 count as half an adult. So ten children 6-14, or two adults and six children 6-14, could travel together with a Partner Tageskarte.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19118 posts
"I read in one of the travel guides that this ticket is restricted to 2 Adults and 3 children."
Please, in what travel guide? I would love to correct that misconception.
Posted by
OP
Chicago
6 posts
Before I identify the travel guide, let me quote it to make sure that I am not wrong:
"For two to five people on a short stay the best option is the Partner-Tageskarte, which provides unlimited travel for one day (maximum of two adults, plus three children under 15). It's valid anytime time except 6 am to 9 am on weekdays. The costs are E 9 for an inner-zone ticket and E 18 for the entire network."
You are saying that five adults can use one E 18 ticket?
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19118 posts
I'm not saying it, MVV (Munich metro) says it. From their website, "The partner day ticket is valid for up to five adults. Two children between the ages of 6 and 14 years count as one adult".
What you quoted is incorrect.
MVV also says, "Every day ticket ... is valid until 6 am the following day." MVV does not say that the Tageskarte is not valid before 9 AM; it's valid from midnight.
A Bayern-Ticket, for €28, is valid for travel inside the MVV (as well as all over Bavaria), but only after 9 AM weekdays.
In Nürnberg, a Tages-Ticket-Plus is valid for up to 6 people, only two of whom can be adults.
What you quoted is so totally wrong as to verge on criminal misrepresentation. Was this presented on a website as the opinion of a poster, or the official opinion of the website?
Again, on what travel website did you see this abhorably incorrect information?
Posted by
OP
Chicago
6 posts
I believe your statement "What you quoted is so totally wrong as to verge on criminal misrepresentation" is too strong for the circumstances. The statement is in Fodor's Germany 2008, Munich Essentials, page 94. Perhaps they corrected it in their 2009 issue.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19118 posts
So you are telling me that that information was in a book published by Fodors? Don't they charge money for that book? They should be expected (demanded) to be accurate.
I give my advice for free, but I know people are depending on the accuracy of my information, and I always try to check out my resources.
Shame on them.