Use the 29 euro ticket from Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets are usually quite expensive - bought regularly. No wonder that car-sharing or the recently launched organization "deinbus.de" are major competitors of the railways. But many people just love (meditative) train travel and feel safer on the train than in the car, especially in winter when the roads are icy. If you take care of it in good time, you can even travel cheaper by train than most car-sharing options allow, namely with the 29-euro ticket from Deutsche Bahn.
How to use the 29 Euro ticket from Deutsche Bahn
Go to the homepage of Deutsche Bahn. You can only book the 29 euro ticket online and not buy it at the Deutsche Bahn service or travel center.
- Register on the Deutsche Bahn homepage. You will then receive data with which you can log in via the customer login.
- Enter a desired connection in the search mask. The Spar-Ticket is valid for all connections within Germany. If you book a route that is shorter than 250 kilometers, you can travel even cheaper: with a 19 euro ticket.
- Note that with this 29 euro ticket you are traveling in second class. The first class costs 49 euros with a saver price.
- If you are traveling as a couple, the saver fare costs only 25 euros for each of you. Children under 15 travel for free. If you are in possession of a "BahnCard 25", you can benefit from a 25 percent reduction.
- If you want to reserve a seat, it costs you 2 euros less than at the counter. But it is not necessary. You can also book the 29 euro ticket without reserving a seat.
- Provide the necessary information about yourself (age, owner of the BahnCard 25 or not) when you make the booking on the screen. It is very important that the ticket can only be booked - or already (depending on your perspective) - 3 months before the start of the journey. With popular connections at Christmas, for example, these cheap tickets are gone incredibly quickly.
- So if you don't make a note in your calendar that you are planning a December trip from Berlin to Frankfurt in October, for example, let's say on December 12th. December - want to book, then you will quickly try in vain to get hold of one of these cheap train travel places.
- Unfortunately, speculating on the return of a ticket does not help. Even if you then check every day for days or weeks whether one of these cheap tickets is still available, you will rarely be successful (on popular routes).
- At Christmas it is also the case that tickets are only available until the 13th December are about to be booked. You then have to search a little on the Deutsche Bahn homepage to find out from which date the cheap tickets can also be booked for the following December days.
- It is probably safer than paying by credit card to give the railway a direct debit authorization. To do this, you have to conduct correspondence with the railway, i. H. you need your signature. But that usually takes a very long time, weeks, at least often longer than Deutsche Bahn states.
- You can then print out the 29 euro ticket on your computer. You should print it out in A4 size. You then have to do it in the train Show it to the inspector with the card with which you bought it.
- Cancellation is no longer possible after the first day of validity. You can cancel your 29 euro ticket before the first day of validity; however, there is a 15 euro reimbursement fee.
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