Cheap Train Tickets in Germany, Monthly Cheap Tickets

 The train may be comfortable and relatively fast, but the ticket prices are often relative expensive. In this Article there are therefore 7 tips to book cheap tickets with the train.

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 Special offers (supermarkets etc., bahn.de) Even if you can hardly imagine it, I bought my last train ticket with a supermarket promotion. Every now and then there are train fixed-price vouchers in shops, which you can convert into cheap online Exchange ticket.So it pays to keep your eyes open.

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 Bahn bonus points with Bahn Card -> often discounts in the newsletterDepending on the type, a Bahncard reduces the fare by 25, 50 or 100%.The Bahncard 25 is particularly useful even for occasional travelers, as these 25% discount has also been granted on the savings price at the train.The Bahncard 50 only offers the discount on the much more expensive flex price.In general, it always makes sense to look for savings prices, more on this in the next tip.With a Bahncard or the Bahn Bonus Card it is possible to earn points for every bookingto collect, which you can currently redeem for a free ride from 1000 points. I have already taken the train a few times for free. Every now and then there are also actions in which the required points are halved- then you should definitely use your points.

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 Super saver price search -> contingent, from 3 months in advance, with less than 3 days in advance no saver prices You can get saver prices long in advance book, preferably at least 3 months before your trip. Saver prices are detailed in quotas, which means for every long-distance rail connection there is a certain number of cards for each price level. These are of course faster from on particularly popular travel days or weekends Other travelers booked as connections during the week. If a contingent is sold out, the price rises to the next level.The 19 € prices that the train often advertises are only available if you arrive very early and the quota has not yet been used up. There is a still quite unknown tool on Bahn.de, Here you can flexibly set when you want to travel and get the result then a list with prices and travel times, which is much clearer than in the normal search on bahn.de.You can sort by departure times or prices.Note that a super saver price ticket cannot be canceled.

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 Country tickets If you are not pressed for time, with lots of people are on the road and only want to drive in a federal state, it is worth one of the to bucen cheap country tickets, which can only be used in regional traffic. In some federal states, the neighboring state is also directly involved, it further distances are also possible.

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 Long transfer times -> book train journeys with interruptions A pro tip is booking connections with long interruptions.For example, it often makes more sense than booking a return trip as single tickets,if you only want to stay a few hours at a stop on the route, an intermediate stop to add. For example in Frankfurt am Main on a trip from Hamburg to Stuttgart.To do this, click on More options under the travel information. Here you can add a stopover and the time you want to stay. If you have a clever route you can, for example, some cities on your tour with only take a ticket with you. However, the starting point and destination must not be the same.

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 Book a trip from abroad, but don't use everything Strangely enough, trips abroad are sometimes cheaper with Deutsche Bahn than only trips within Germany.Often there are train stations just behind places in Germany, if you choose the route there,

you benefit from the contigents of the European saver prices. You can also go to the website of the railway company abroad, in this case for example once the ÖBB from Austria to go. Assuming we want to go to Munich, we only get the same connection displayed here which I entered in the ÖBB as destination Innsbruck, with a change in Munich.The train in Germany is the same, but the price despite the longer connection to Austria cheaper. In this case, you could continue to Insbruck after you are in Munich just let it expire.

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 Remove the tick for Fast connections prefer When searching on bahn.de, the tick is by default "Prefer fast connections" set. Often times, removing the hook can save you tons of money. Then next to ICE also IC connections are displayed, which are often only a bit slower are, but also cost less. So it is easier than you think to save money when booking rail connections. Now click on the link in the description to try out which ones Connections you could really save and book your next ticket much cheaper. Do you know any other tricks?

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