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For the love of God I don't speak Germanese!

Born2bwire

Born2bwire

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Uggg... Trying to plan out and arrange for a trip to Germany in September and bahn.de is only partially translated to English. My German isn't good enough to be able to discern the finer details and limitations on the various special ticket packages like the Schülerferienticket Bayern. The plus side is, if my trip goes well enough I'll be too drunk to care about trying to figure out the best rail package to get.

So that there is actually something of interest for those that click on this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61cN7bEnPWI
 
well, I'm going to take a guess that said ticket is for the school people. That time period would be roughly in the middle of their 'summer' vacation, which the word roughly translates into. Thus there may be an age restriction and you might need a student ID card to get one & use it.

you can get tickets that will get you all over Bavaria, I got one for 22 euro's for a day. However there may be better deals for however long you need it for.

The easiest thing I did was having a Eurail which lets you put so many days on it(got to get it validated in a train station with your passport) and then for that day you can travel on almost any train you want. Reservations cost extra, but only 3-4 euros. I don't know if it gets you on local city trains, but most everything else is covered.
 
What I am planning to do is that a friend and I are going to fly into Frankfurt Am Main and meet up there (I'll be flying from a different part of the country). I'll be staying in Germany from the 3rd until the 13th when I need to get back to Frankfurt AM and fly onto Hong Kong and my friend is going to stay in Germany for Oktoberfest. So I was planning on going from Frankfurt to tour Bavaria, see Wurzburg, Regensburg, Muenchen, Zugspitze, Fuessen, etc. I'm 25 and a university student so I qualify for the Youth packages and I would expect for some of the student packages, like that Bavarian Student ticket you need to be 27 and under years of age. It seems that ticket is good for travel throughout Bavaria from August to mid-September for 34 Euros but there seems to be restrictions, probably in regards to the lines that it is good for. I was hoping to just get a single month long or two week rail pass and use that as opposed to having to work out tickets for each individual leg of out journey.

EDIT: There is that InterRail, but you need to be a resident of a participating European country. I had not heard of EuRail so I'll look into that.
EDIT: Nope, EuRail does not have a single country Germany pass so any of their passes are needlessly expensive.
 
OK, I know most companies have an online presence these days but, I think it has led to many false economies like your current situation. There are these little known folks called "travel agents" who's sole purpose is to take the confusion out of traveling to new places. Try it till you have the knowledge to book your own.
 
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