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Quick Rail Ticket question from Stuttgart!

Posted by (Rochester, NY) on

Hello, and I'm posting a bit of an 'emergency' question mid-trip. I want to travel up the Rhine, but don't necessarilly want to use just RE-bahn and want the flexibility of getting on and off the train at a whim: Can I purchase a normalpreis (fullprice, no discounts) ticket and use it for a short segment of my trip, hop off for two hours, then hop back on and keep going? Or is a Landerkarte with just slower trains a better idea?

If so, would this have to be completed in a one day span, or over the course of the two-month validity period?

Thank you again for all of your help!
Brian

Posted by
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From the time you start using a "full price" ticket, if it is for under 100 km, you have until midnight of that day to finish your travel. If it is over 100 km, you have until midnight of the following day.

However, you have to specify the class of train (ICE, IC/EC, or RE) on the ticket. So, for instance, you could not buy a ticket for an IC, get off part way, and then finish the trip via ICE.

If you know where you want to get off, and for how long, you can specify this on your ticket. If you are using express trains (ICE/IC/EC) for part of the trip, you could even purchase a Dauer-Spezial-Ticket, with the breaks built in, and pay as little as €29 each direction. I did this in November with a 2 hr layover in Köln on the way to Hannover.

Posted by
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BTW, if you use a Baden-Württemberg-Ticket, the "slower" trains you use (RB) stop at every little station - more opportunity to get off at a whim. The Long Distance trains don't stop very often.

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