How can I get the best deal from DeutscheBahn when travelling to other countries in Europe from Frankfurt?

9/8/2016 11:56:26 PM

Aside from booking three months ahead, taking early morning and late-evening trains and using the Sparpreisfinder, you can also optimise for day (and date) of travel.

Typically, Fridays and Sundays will be high-volume travel dates with a lot of the cheap tickets sold out very quickly. By contrast, if you travel Tuesdays or Thursdays the cheaper tickets are available for a much longer time.

9/8/2016 4:52:02 AM

If you can’t get a “Sparpreis” or if you are planning a longer trip, a eurail pass might be for you. If you are from Europe, an interrail pass is the equivalent but cheaper version of the eurail pass for Europeans.

You can choose which countries you’d like to visit and how many days with train travel you will have (like 5 train travel days within a month).

For a weekend trip from Frankfurt to Paris and back, Sparpreis will probably be cheaper, but as soon as you add a third city, start comparing prices with the eurail/interrail passes.

9/7/2016 2:29:00 PM

  1. Right now they have the special you have mentioned going on right now. If you want to book. I recommend booking 3 months in advance.
    Here is the link to the discount Deutsche bahn
    https://www.bahn.de/p_en/view/index.shtml

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  3. You should have your booked ticket printed. or have the deutsche bahn app with your ticket Info and QR code. In the ICE they check your ticket. (most of the time)
    You should be on the platform before the Departure time as most of the time the trains are on time. In the train station there usually is a board that says where your train is leaving and if it is on time. You can also use the Deutsche Bahn app.

9/7/2016 12:30:01 PM

There is no ‘trick’ to getting the best price, except the earlier you book the better price you get, but that is true with pretty much all travel booking. You will typically find lower prices at less popular times of the day. Prices at the ticket machines are the same as the prices online(at http://bahn.hafas.de). You can sometimes get an even cheaper price by asking the planner for routes not including ICE trains, then it will use IC trains instead. If you are taking a lot of trips, you can get a BahnCard 25, which costs €62 gives a 25% discount on all fares for a year.

There are no compulsory extra fees you have pay, but you will have to pay an extra €4.50 if you want a seat reservation.

The difference between the reduced price tickets and the full price is that with the reduced price ticket you have to take exactly the train specified, with a full price you can take any train on that route that has the same or lower category. (ICE > EC/IC > RE/R)

9/7/2016 12:13:09 PM

The Sparpreis-Europa (ex-EuropaSpezial) fares might be a good solution. You can search for these using the Sparpreis-Finder. If you only want to try the ICE without necessarily going abroad, there is also a similar type of discounted fares for domestric travel.

In both cases, you have to book long in advance, be somewhat flexible with timing and commit to a specific train as there are a limited number of tickets for each train and you generally cannot change them.

Note that the fare you found at the machine was probably different, because I think that Sparpreis tickets must be booked at least the day before.

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