I wouldn’t say this ticket is meant for long distance travel. But it comes in very useful for regular German people who already have and use a monthly ticket for their region. Because now when they arrive in a different town or travel past regional borders. They won’t have to buy an extra ticket anymore.
As a tourist I will visit Germany starting from Hamburg in June. In addition to that I would like to see some cities like Berlin and Munich. Do you recommend this ticket to me?
@@kad1820 It really depends on what your intention for the ticket is. If you want to just have a metro/ bus ticket for when you’re in those towns and if you use a lot of public transportation within these cities for a longer time, maybe even visiting close by towns like Potsdam, then yes. But for traveling between Hamburg to Munich or Berlin I wouldn’t recommend it. For that I recommend buying ICE tickets several weeks in advance so they aren’t as expensive.
@@kad1820 Daily public transport tickets for the cities you visit are already around 10€ a day, so you basically get the 49€ ticket for free. The Hamburg-Berlin route is 4 hours with regional trains, so totally doable. If you want to go to the Baltic sea from Hamburg thats also an option. For Berlin-Munich and back to Hamburg i would book super saving tickets for the ice next month.
@@kad1820 Just to remember: the (+) no need for local tickets inside the cities and beyond when travelling across the south and north. the (-) only usable for regional trains meaning it add extra time for your journey if you are travelling between cities.
there is no mention here, that this is a subscription ticket, which auto renews on a monthly basis which you need to cancel by the 10th day of the month to stop the subscription. that is a very important omission.
I am traveling to Germany in about 2 weeks and called DB to confirm. Non-residents can get the Deutschlandticket from the DB office at the train stations with cash. The online purchase won't work due to a required address verification.
Purchasing the D-Ticket with a regional transport company requires a monthly subcription, a German adress and a credit history check - all hurdles makes it not really suitable for a temporary foreign tourist to Germany.
You forgot one kind of transportation that can be used with the D-Ticket: ferries. When they are part of the public transport system, like in Hamburg or Berlin, they are included in the ticket. One of the ferries in Berlin - the F24 or Paule III - is a rowing boat with space for 8 passengers.
That's 100 % true, the famous Harbour Ferries in Hamburg for Example. Don't made a "expensive" Hafenrundfahrt, take the Harbour Ferries. Easy like taking a Bus. Every 10 Minutes from Landungsbrücken for Example....You can go to Finkenwerder for Examble, Airbus Factory. No German City have Ferries like Hamburg. It's like the famous Habour Ferries in New York...
@@wolfgang6915 I did both in Hamburg last year in summer. The Harbour ferries with the 9 euro ticket but also the große Hafenrundfahrt. The Hafenrundfahrt is moderated and you get lots of infos and usually the Captain is super funny and also goes very close to the big vessels in the Harbour. It also goes through the small channels in the Speicherstadt with couple of nice photo stops. So I would still recommend the commercial Hafenrundfahrt for people who have never been to Hamburg 😊
For tourists its important to know that this is a *subscription* model. Therefore: If you need this ticket only in the current month, cancel the subscription directly after buying it, so that you have it only in this month.
I just came to Germany yesterday. Thanks for your video about this 49 Euro public transportation ticket. It would be a great help for me to explore around. 👍
As for any long haul journey, ICEs still remain dominant because of course you don't want to get ultra tired or break your body out of say 13-14 hrs journey but once you reach a region via the IC/ICE/EC, the 49euro D-ticket gives you the ultimate freedom ! My only wish is, the trains won't continuously be late or cancelled like last year's summer ! That thing is frustrating for sure. But, I am happy that I'd get to see more beautiful german villages.
Since I‘m a student in Hamburg it actually only costs me 19€. I think it‘s really amazing especially considering that it used to be 30€ a month just for Hamburg and a few nearby towns.
For me it's €36 since my company is offering D-Ticket Job. That's unbelievable to think since I pay €85 per month just to travel within two zones in Düsseldorf. It doesn't even cover the whole Düsseldorf!
In my case, it's even just 28 € because my company is one of the largest corporations in Germany, so they can make a better deal with the local transportation agency, plus they subsidise the job ticket through the rent car drivers pay at the company's garages. Before the D-Ticket, the job ticket cost me 40 € for the greater Cologne area (VRS), which was already a bargain compared to the official monthly ticket at 250 €, now I only pay 28 € for the whole of Germany - great!
You may have a problem with that - as far as I can see online, there is no way to get a D-ticket without providing a German address. This could be difficult if you are backpacking around.
Leipzig einundleipzig... Leipzig das gelob ich mir, wer hat das gesagt? Leipzig hat übrigens den größten Bahnhof Europas und nach dem New Yorker Grand Central Terminal zweitgrößten der Welt. Allerdings was den Publikumsverkehr in Deutschland angeht ist der HBF Hamburg einsame Spitze...
This is brilliant. But they should also make plans to increase the capacity of the public transportation network. In addition to tremendous environmental and social benefits, this will also save fuel, which is in short supply.
Thing is, there's no way to really just increase capacities, trains can only be so long (for various reasons), you can't stock wagons higher than double decks, and even if there was all the personal available, there's only so much room on the tracks for a limited number of trains. We need more tracks? In Germany? Ja, that's being common sense for at least 3 decades now, the keyword here is "in Germany" though! ... So basically, it's another just slighty more solid version of last year's "cheesy pay and pray ticket!. :D
I remember doing a similar venture in Poland on an extended holiday weekend with Polregio's 46 zł weekend ticket (then about 10 euro) and was able to travel half the country, staying at 1-star hotels. The whole 4-day vacation was under 100 euro total!
It's not so bad that you have to change trains seeing as the point of this tickets to to connect people and show people new destinations. You just need to be up for adventure!
Oh god i remember last year when i got my 9 euro ticket, my train from Köln to Dortmund was FULL FULL it was kind a nightmare but kinda fun lol. Cant wait to try the 49 euro ticket when i move 😄
I'm going on holiday to Germany soon, but I won't buy the ticket. Last year, however, I bought the 9 euro one. The reason is obvious: the subscription. There are too many rules to follow and the ticket is only electronic; The purchase and payment must be made online. Last year it could be bought anywhere. But then, does a monthly pass for tourists seem normal to you?!? Let's be serious, come on!
Yeah, me and my friends did that last week and we travelled several german cities. We had to withstand 3 hours in a queue at DB kasse and argue with an employee but it was worthy! :D
I've done Hamburg to Frankfurt and back using only RE's 3 times during the 9eur ticket :P, takes about 9 hours, but if all the REs are on time, its not a huge deal.
@@Ghreinos well, tbh the first time, I had to go and due to some storm all ICE's got cancelled, so I was stuck in Munster and started the RE Trip, which then I felt wasn't the worse, so during 9eur period, just went on with it :P
Just did the exact thing, but I began the journey in the opposite direction. I was supposed to be in Hamburg at noon but arrived there at 4 pm after a tree fell onto the tracks and I had to take a replacement bus, the next train had to wait to pass a single track section because the other track was under emergency repair, a person pulled the emergency brakes, and another person sent a bomb threat to the Deutsche Bahn via e-mail, so I had to leave the train again and take another replacement bus. The return trip wasn’t as chaotic, but I had to wait at Göttingen for several hours for the first train of the next day.
Most people have a subscription based ticket anyway which costs a lot more even if it is only valid in one city. So many people safe money now every month plus they could travel the whole country without extra cost.
Just to point it out: for tourists this ticket won't be as convinient as one may think. if you stay in a city, a 6 or 7 days pass may be cheaper than 49 euro (e.g. Berlin LGBT Pass - that anyone can buy in reality - is ~ 35 euros for 6 days and much less for 3 days). If you travel between cities, if you book in advance, you can get ICE train rides for euro 29... Doing Berlin to Frankfurt or Berlin to Munich by regional train is just a stupid way of wasting valuable tourist time. If you do a trip seeing two cities stayin 2-3 days in each, it will be more convinient therefore to get an ICE train ticket for the long distance and get more existing day passes for the two cities. In fact, from a turist POV, the D-Ticket seems very much to benefit Deutsche Bahn than the customer. And if you travel europe on an EUrail pass, it gets even worse since germany will be just one or stops of the trip and travelling between them will be covered by the EUrail pass already.
Daytickets for the inner cities are already 8-10 Euros. If you use just one regional train for a daytrip on the visit, the 49€ ticket is cheaper. For example Hamburg-Lübeck, Frankfurt the Rhine region, Munich to Berchtesgaden, or even Hamburg-Berlin which isn't that bad.
All true and still if you visit more than one city, paying for daily or weekly passes more than once or twice and needing to adjust to different borders of their respective Verkehrsverbünde might often be more expensive than a D-Ticket, it certainly will not be as convenient as the D-Ticket will be. I have been on an interrail trip to France and Spain for two weeks and I certainly paid more than 49€ for only public transport without regional trains in addition to my already existing interrail ticket (with which I used the regional trains of course) in six different cities. Something like the D-Ticket would have been great even with already having a valid rail ticket.
@@Psi-Storm Hi, may I ask your opinion about this D ticket more further? If I wanna travel from Heidelberg (visit Frankfurt), then Dusseldorf (visit Koln, Essen, Dortmund), then Hamburg, then Berlin. Do you think it's best to buy this ticket? Looking forward to your reply,
Well, I loved the 9 Euro ticket. I brought my Mum to the coast at Wernermunde, and we had an amazing time. I just managed to get the 49 D-Ticket through an App. I'm sure I'll enjoy the benefits, but it is kind of pricey. Will try to make the most of it.
For long distances if you want to save some time and are willing to spend some extra money, Flixtrains are a great alternative. Frankfurt to Berlin is only €19 if you book some time in advance. They also have connections to other main cities in Germany.
We're in Germany now and went to a DB office yesterday at the Munich train station. We asked a customer service employee at DB if we could buy these tickets. His response was that they are only available to Deutsch residents. We didn't know how to respond to him, we gave him the benefit of the doubt since he's a DB employee but don't understand why we are reading and watching so much information about others being able to buy these tickets.
I was in Germany almost all summer 2022 and I have to say the 9€ ticket was a blessing, and yes, it incentivated tourism, I went to cities that weren't in my itinerary, just because I could travel there very cheap. Public transport in Germany is espectacular, but it was very expensive, my last 2 weeks without the 9€ ticket were pretty pricey, even buying the weekly ticket. That said, I am also aware of the lack of planning and logistic issues thare arose from this ticket, one time I was stranded in Köln for 90 minutes because there was no train conductor, and the last weekend of the summer, coming from Hamburg was pretty intense, also I'm aware that that's part of the reason the DB employees are protesting at this moment. But this is a good idea, specialy for Germany's energy transition, German citizens told me the public transport was good, but they'd rather use their car because it was cheaper. Now to solve the logistics issue of higher train demand, who knows? Maybe they'll hire me because they need more people haha.
This is only half information. No one can buy this subscription unless she has IBN [bank] that means you need a bank account in Germany or may be in EU. Otherwise tickets are very costly even a day ticket for ABC zone cost €11.40 and monthly cost more than €100 😯
Oh gosh, thank you for posting this. I was devastated when I realised. I can't even use my own non EU country to register. Fortunately I discovered you can buy it on a different app than DeutscheBahn. I have the ticket now.
What do I think about this ticket? We were planning to go to Greece or Malta for our summer holidays. But now we started considering exploring Germany instead. And we'd be able to visit our friends as well...
Hi, Would you have a list of all regular trains travelling from frankfurt, heidelberg,trier, luxembourg, stuttgar, hamburg, venlo, bonn, cologne, lubeck, nuremberg to passau and to munich where i go home with the eur49 ticket, please? Or do you have a link where I can follow? Where can I buy the eur49 subscription ticket without having a bank account? thank you //
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I bet they called it "Deutschlandticket" this time because the original name 49€ Ticket would not allow later price raises. It's also very hard to get at least at the moment because the ticket counters seem to rebel against the incredible demand and just stop selling it. If they had just kept the concept of the 9€ ticket which could simply be bought at a ticket machine it would have been a piece of cake but with their contract idea and forcing people to use digital solutions which they dont want and all it's kinda getting messy.
I want to less cancellations of trains and additional trains to manage a crowd. On Saturday and Sunday, the train journey is not a pleasant experience.
Danke für İnformation 👍Ich lebe in der Nähe von München und gestern Tickets für 49 Euro gekauft habe. Ich starte morgen eine 2-tägige Reise nach Füssen. Ich hoffe, es wird nicht zu voll mit dem Zug😁
This ticket drives everyone crazy. All the trains are packed or delayed forever or never come. All the DB train crews are taken out of it. I highly advise you to get a car.
When the 9€ Ticket launched a friend of mine from croatia, who at this time studied in vienna/austria, he used it with a friend to travel through germany :) because he has never been there before. From there he travelled to Bavaria`s capital Munich, german`s oldest town Trier/Rhineland-Palatine (with a short day trip to the world`s richest country Luxembourg bc their transport system is totally free) and the carnival stronghold Cologne/Northrhine-Westphalia. There he sadly got sick bc of the corona virus....further planned trips of him were headed to germany`s biggest hanseatic city Hamburg, germany`s capital and government seat Berlin and to the florence of the Elbe Dresden/Saxony. He really used it :D but I used it greatly as well. With the ticket it was my first time going to Konstanz/Baden-Wuerttemberg, a beautiful middle city on the Lake Constance and the swiss border, Baden-wuerttembergs beautiful and rich capital Stuttgart and the beautiful city at the baltic sea in the real north Lübeck/Schleswig-Holstein :) (A friend of mine and me compared the last visit with trips to Hamburg and Schwerin (The small eastern-northern capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with its beautiful and pompous castle). So I can really suggest to use it to get out of your comfort zone and visit all the beautiful sights and cities of Germany! I was able to discover more of the north and I also want to discover more of the east of Germany :) I`m definitely planning trips to cities such as Dresden and Leipzig/Saxony, Potsdam/Brandenburg (for the famous Babelsberg film studious), Halle and Magdeburg/Saxony-Anhalt and Rostock/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania! PS. I`m from western germany, strictly speaking from the Ruhr area, near Dortmund. And around 2 years ago I moved to Heidelberg to study their. It`s a lovely city in the north of Baden-Wuerttemberg, well known for its university (which is the oldest of germany), its oldtown, as well as its beautiful castle on the hill. This is something I also can highly recommend to visit one time.
Used the 9 Euros ticket last year. Got excited after watching this video and planned a Germany trip again this year. But extremely disappointed this time. Lot of train delays and cancellations. I could not visit many of my planned places. I want a refund and compensation. 😔
Can some one please tell me how to activate the ticket on the DB website or APP? I opened an account at DB, purchased the d-ticket, selected the trip I want being sure that they are not ICE (I used the filters), but then there is no option to add the d-ticket, just paying as usual. Does anyone know how to use it, to get the benefit to get the discount applied?
D-Ticket does cover all regional trains. Thus no extra ticket / surcharge needed. D-Ticket is valid for one (or more - it is a subscription) calendar month. No further validation needed.
Hey, how long it took you to withdraw money from your bank? I bought a ticket yesterday. Its is active, conductor checked it today but my money are still in the bank. No charges
Hello, any tips on how to plan longer trips inside Germany but with trains that are included in the D-Ticket? DB website is not very friendly to do it, multiple sections trips are difficult to plan. Thanks!
I wish California can have similar promotion! Im a world traveler, been to 5 continents.... But i never been to Germany 😅, except 2 hours layover in the airport 😅. I like exotic places, with ancient ruins,beaches etc. Greece, Italy, France keep me going again and again for it's art, history and food! If you can convince me you have something special.... I might visit 😅
You're right - also you have to provide bank details (IBAN number), account details and an address in Germany. It makes it more difficult than it needs to be, certainly for tourists. How can someone who plans to backpack around Germany provide a German address?
I'm travelling to Germany in July this year. I'm flying to Frankfurt and thinking of travelling via train to Berlin. I will be staying in Berlin for 15 days. Should I purchase the D-ticket? Will I be able to find local trains to Berlin from Frankfurt in which I can use this D-ticket?
Just give us the flat rate ticket for the entire country and enable us to buy it in any store or kiosk. I dont want to deal with no god damned "subscriptions" or paperwork or "requests".
3:25 why DB? Why? So that people begin to associate overcrowdedness (made up word) with public transport in their minds? DB needs to be thoroughly reformed to reflect 'German efficiency' mantra.
DB is fine. It's the rail network that needs to be repaired and extended. The government didn't invest into it since the 90s, because building roads was deemed better for our car industry. And most new track builds were stopped by nimbys for decades. Now they want to move cargo back onto trains, which just doesn't work, because many train tracks are already at capacity.
I live in America but I read on Deutsch Bahn that I have to use a German Bank account to purchase the ticket. I need a IBAN number but in the US they have only swift. How would I purchase the ticket ? It doesn’t want credit cards or debit cards from the US
@@stiefelriemen632 I am from Italy. Our national railway company Trenitalia used to be very bad, worse than DB. In the recent years I have been witnessing an improvement on the quality of the trains, on their speed, on the connection, and on their punctuality. Now it is better than DB in my opinion. Things are possible
My friend from Canada did not have a European bank account. The Canadian postal code was not accepted on the app and therefore the Euro ticket could not be purchased.
What if the 49€ ticket acted as a discount card on the IC/ICE? if my total is 150€ from Stuttgart to Aachen, then I only pay 101€ because I already have the 49€ ticket on the side. Or maybe even making it like a fixed 20-25% discount on all fast trains if you have a valid 49€ ticket.
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I wouldn’t say this ticket is meant for long distance travel. But it comes in very useful for regular German people who already have and use a monthly ticket for their region. Because now when they arrive in a different town or travel past regional borders. They won’t have to buy an extra ticket anymore.
Good point!
As a tourist I will visit Germany starting from Hamburg in June. In addition to that I would like to see some cities like Berlin and Munich. Do you recommend this ticket to me?
@@kad1820 It really depends on what your intention for the ticket is. If you want to just have a metro/ bus ticket for when you’re in those towns and if you use a lot of public transportation within these cities for a longer time, maybe even visiting close by towns like Potsdam, then yes. But for traveling between Hamburg to Munich or Berlin I wouldn’t recommend it. For that I recommend buying ICE tickets several weeks in advance so they aren’t as expensive.
@@kad1820 Daily public transport tickets for the cities you visit are already around 10€ a day, so you basically get the 49€ ticket for free. The Hamburg-Berlin route is 4 hours with regional trains, so totally doable. If you want to go to the Baltic sea from Hamburg thats also an option. For Berlin-Munich and back to Hamburg i would book super saving tickets for the ice next month.
@@kad1820 Just to remember: the (+) no need for local tickets inside the cities and beyond when travelling across the south and north. the (-) only usable for regional trains meaning it add extra time for your journey if you are travelling between cities.
there is no mention here, that this is a subscription ticket, which auto renews on a monthly basis which you need to cancel by the 10th day of the month to stop the subscription. that is a very important omission.
He did mention is only available as a subscription and that is monthly. The until 10th of the month to cancel was indeed not mentioned.
That is very elaborate👍 Plus the tickets bought at trainpal now has a discount😮
I am traveling to Germany in about 2 weeks and called DB to confirm. Non-residents can get the Deutschlandticket from the DB office at the train stations with cash. The online purchase won't work due to a required address verification.
Thanks for the info!
Some regional transport associations that sell the d-ticket may be more relaxed about this.
Purchasing the D-Ticket with a regional transport company requires a monthly subcription, a German adress and a credit history check - all hurdles makes it not really suitable for a temporary foreign tourist to Germany.
@@AakashKumar10 Is HVV a regional transport system? Do you have the web address? Thanks.
@@davidsimpson1390 Yes, of Hamburg. If you search for hvv switch you should be able to find it easily.
You forgot one kind of transportation that can be used with the D-Ticket: ferries. When they are part of the public transport system, like in Hamburg or Berlin, they are included in the ticket. One of the ferries in Berlin - the F24 or Paule III - is a rowing boat with space for 8 passengers.
That's 100 % true, the famous Harbour Ferries in Hamburg for Example. Don't made a "expensive" Hafenrundfahrt, take the Harbour Ferries. Easy like taking a Bus. Every 10 Minutes from Landungsbrücken for Example....You can go to Finkenwerder for Examble, Airbus Factory. No German City have Ferries like Hamburg. It's like the famous Habour Ferries in New York...
@@wolfgang6915 I did both in Hamburg last year in summer. The Harbour ferries with the 9 euro ticket but also the große Hafenrundfahrt. The Hafenrundfahrt is moderated and you get lots of infos and usually the Captain is super funny and also goes very close to the big vessels in the Harbour. It also goes through the small channels in the Speicherstadt with couple of nice photo stops. So I would still recommend the commercial Hafenrundfahrt for people who have never been to Hamburg 😊
This will also help to promote local tourism so tourists see more than just Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin.
and Cologne !
For tourists its important to know that this is a *subscription* model. Therefore: If you need this ticket only in the current month, cancel the subscription directly after buying it, so that you have it only in this month.
@@tobyk.4911 Yes, you have to cancel it by the 10th of the month before.
They're missing out because the little towns are more beautiful...
@@DWTravel if I will subscribe it for June, can I buy it anytime before 1st of June? Or is there also maximum date when I can buy the ticket?
I just came to Germany yesterday. Thanks for your video about this 49 Euro public transportation ticket. It would be a great help for me to explore around. 👍
Have a good time in Germany!
The 9 euro ticket was available in the summer of 2022 not 2020
Oh, you're right! Thx 👍 It's "the summer of '22" - at least the subtitles are correct 😉 2:54 min
So I'm visiting Munich in 2 weeks and including a day trip to Nuremberg. Is this the best option ? Or is the Bavaria day ticket suffice?
Yessss! Tourists can also buy it for saving🥺 and I also know a cheaper channel😎
As for any long haul journey, ICEs still remain dominant because of course you don't want to get ultra tired or break your body out of say 13-14 hrs journey but once you reach a region via the IC/ICE/EC, the 49euro D-ticket gives you the ultimate freedom ! My only wish is, the trains won't continuously be late or cancelled like last year's summer ! That thing is frustrating for sure. But, I am happy that I'd get to see more beautiful german villages.
Since I‘m a student in Hamburg it actually only costs me 19€. I think it‘s really amazing especially considering that it used to be 30€ a month just for Hamburg and a few nearby towns.
I am also student, how did you buy ticket for 19 Euros?
Please explain why you are syphoning other people's tax money is: Amazing?
For me it's €36 since my company is offering D-Ticket Job. That's unbelievable to think since I pay €85 per month just to travel within two zones in Düsseldorf. It doesn't even cover the whole Düsseldorf!
Wow, that is a great deal!
In my case, it's even just 28 € because my company is one of the largest corporations in Germany, so they can make a better deal with the local transportation agency, plus they subsidise the job ticket through the rent car drivers pay at the company's garages.
Before the D-Ticket, the job ticket cost me 40 € for the greater Cologne area (VRS), which was already a bargain compared to the official monthly ticket at 250 €, now I only pay 28 € for the whole of Germany - great!
@@dirkschwartz1689 Siemens?
@@Michaelkrm Deutsche Post DHL
Sounds great for people looking to do some extensive backpacking in Germany. I'll keep this in mind if I ever have the chance to do so.
You may have a problem with that - as far as I can see online, there is no way to get a D-ticket without providing a German address. This could be difficult if you are backpacking around.
It's so great to see so much Leipzig in this video. I can't wait to come back this fall!
😃😃😃
Leipzig einundleipzig...
Leipzig das gelob ich mir,
wer hat das gesagt?
Leipzig hat übrigens den größten Bahnhof Europas und nach dem New Yorker Grand Central Terminal zweitgrößten der Welt. Allerdings was den Publikumsverkehr in Deutschland angeht ist der HBF Hamburg einsame Spitze...
This is brilliant. But they should also make plans to increase the capacity of the public transportation network. In addition to tremendous environmental and social benefits, this will also save fuel, which is in short supply.
Thing is, there's no way to really just increase capacities, trains can only be so long (for various reasons), you can't stock wagons higher than double decks, and even if there was all the personal available, there's only so much room on the tracks for a limited number of trains. We need more tracks? In Germany? Ja, that's being common sense for at least 3 decades now, the keyword here is "in Germany" though! ... So basically, it's another just slighty more solid version of last year's "cheesy pay and pray ticket!. :D
@@silkegehtyoutubegarnichtsa892 What did u mean by this? keyword here is "in Germany" though!
I remember doing a similar venture in Poland on an extended holiday weekend with Polregio's 46 zł weekend ticket (then about 10 euro) and was able to travel half the country, staying at 1-star hotels. The whole 4-day vacation was under 100 euro total!
It's not so bad that you have to change trains seeing as the point of this tickets to to connect people and show people new destinations. You just need to be up for adventure!
Nice video,lucas
Oh god i remember last year when i got my 9 euro ticket, my train from Köln to Dortmund was FULL FULL it was kind a nightmare but kinda fun lol. Cant wait to try the 49 euro ticket when i move 😄
😆 Please share your experiences with us!
Very eco-friendly and affordable for most people. Great idea.
Lukas, your smile is infectious !!!
I'm going on holiday to Germany soon, but I won't buy the ticket. Last year, however, I bought the 9 euro one. The reason is obvious: the subscription. There are too many rules to follow and the ticket is only electronic; The purchase and payment must be made online. Last year it could be bought anywhere. But then, does a monthly pass for tourists seem normal to you?!? Let's be serious, come on!
Tip: You can cancel the subscription immediately after purchase, then it is not automatically renewed. 😊
"Normal" is that non-residents are excluded from such - heavily subsidized - ticket offers. But it is still an offer in first place for commuters.
Cheaper than local transport month tickets and has more functions
Yeah, me and my friends did that last week and we travelled several german cities. We had to withstand 3 hours in a queue at DB kasse and argue with an employee but it was worthy! :D
Yea same, some of them have such sh*tty attitudes for no good reason
Every nation has some own attitudes and I consider it as fancy national diversity :D
I've done Hamburg to Frankfurt and back using only RE's 3 times during the 9eur ticket :P, takes about 9 hours, but if all the REs are on time, its not a huge deal.
You are crazy :'D
@@Ghreinos well, tbh the first time, I had to go and due to some storm all ICE's got cancelled, so I was stuck in Munster and started the RE Trip, which then I felt wasn't the worse, so during 9eur period, just went on with it :P
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Just did the exact thing, but I began the journey in the opposite direction. I was supposed to be in Hamburg at noon but arrived there at 4 pm after a tree fell onto the tracks and I had to take a replacement bus, the next train had to wait to pass a single track section because the other track was under emergency repair, a person pulled the emergency brakes, and another person sent a bomb threat to the Deutsche Bahn via e-mail, so I had to leave the train again and take another replacement bus.
The return trip wasn’t as chaotic, but I had to wait at Göttingen for several hours for the first train of the next day.
@@VieleGuteFahrer 😂😂😂😂
it is a slow train, includes buses, and makes frequent stops...if you have time and use it a lot, it is a good deal
I can feel the crush of an overpacked train as it sits inexplicably for moments on end with little air circulation already!
Nice informative video. Thanks ✨
Most people have a subscription based ticket anyway which costs a lot more even if it is only valid in one city. So many people safe money now every month plus they could travel the whole country without extra cost.
Juhu, das Tarif-Chaos hat ein Ende!
das ist tatsächlich der größte Vorteil des Tickets :D
I’ll look into his when we visit Germany next year.
Just to point it out: for tourists this ticket won't be as convinient as one may think. if you stay in a city, a 6 or 7 days pass may be cheaper than 49 euro (e.g. Berlin LGBT Pass - that anyone can buy in reality - is ~ 35 euros for 6 days and much less for 3 days). If you travel between cities, if you book in advance, you can get ICE train rides for euro 29... Doing Berlin to Frankfurt or Berlin to Munich by regional train is just a stupid way of wasting valuable tourist time. If you do a trip seeing two cities stayin 2-3 days in each, it will be more convinient therefore to get an ICE train ticket for the long distance and get more existing day passes for the two cities. In fact, from a turist POV, the D-Ticket seems very much to benefit Deutsche Bahn than the customer. And if you travel europe on an EUrail pass, it gets even worse since germany will be just one or stops of the trip and travelling between them will be covered by the EUrail pass already.
Daytickets for the inner cities are already 8-10 Euros. If you use just one regional train for a daytrip on the visit, the 49€ ticket is cheaper. For example Hamburg-Lübeck, Frankfurt the Rhine region, Munich to Berchtesgaden, or even Hamburg-Berlin which isn't that bad.
All true and still if you visit more than one city, paying for daily or weekly passes more than once or twice and needing to adjust to different borders of their respective Verkehrsverbünde might often be more expensive than a D-Ticket, it certainly will not be as convenient as the D-Ticket will be. I have been on an interrail trip to France and Spain for two weeks and I certainly paid more than 49€ for only public transport without regional trains in addition to my already existing interrail ticket (with which I used the regional trains of course) in six different cities. Something like the D-Ticket would have been great even with already having a valid rail ticket.
@@Psi-Storm Hi, may I ask your opinion about this D ticket more further? If I wanna travel from Heidelberg (visit Frankfurt), then Dusseldorf (visit Koln, Essen, Dortmund), then Hamburg, then Berlin. Do you think it's best to buy this ticket? Looking forward to your reply,
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Well, I loved the 9 Euro ticket. I brought my Mum to the coast at Wernermunde, and we had an amazing time. I just managed to get the 49 D-Ticket through an App. I'm sure I'll enjoy the benefits, but it is kind of pricey. Will try to make the most of it.
For long distances if you want to save some time and are willing to spend some extra money, Flixtrains are a great alternative. Frankfurt to Berlin is only €19 if you book some time in advance. They also have connections to other main cities in Germany.
Great initiative
Just reminds me of JR Pass in Japan which include certain classes of Shinkansen, and local train
It covers all JR services! Unfortunately they're doubling the price this October :(
@@VEVOJavier yes, but as far as I know, Shinkansen Nozomi part of JR didn't get covered by JR Pass
I wish we had that kind of train system in the US. Our public transportation really sucks.
There is still much left to improve here.
We're in Germany now and went to a DB office yesterday at the Munich train station. We asked a customer service employee at DB if we could buy these tickets. His response was that they are only available to Deutsch residents. We didn't know how to respond to him, we gave him the benefit of the doubt since he's a DB employee but don't understand why we are reading and watching so much information about others being able to buy these tickets.
Their websites state it’s for Germans and Europeans. So I’ve given up on the idea of getting it coz I’m neither
I was in Germany almost all summer 2022 and I have to say the 9€ ticket was a blessing, and yes, it incentivated tourism, I went to cities that weren't in my itinerary, just because I could travel there very cheap. Public transport in Germany is espectacular, but it was very expensive, my last 2 weeks without the 9€ ticket were pretty pricey, even buying the weekly ticket. That said, I am also aware of the lack of planning and logistic issues thare arose from this ticket, one time I was stranded in Köln for 90 minutes because there was no train conductor, and the last weekend of the summer, coming from Hamburg was pretty intense, also I'm aware that that's part of the reason the DB employees are protesting at this moment. But this is a good idea, specialy for Germany's energy transition, German citizens told me the public transport was good, but they'd rather use their car because it was cheaper. Now to solve the logistics issue of higher train demand, who knows? Maybe they'll hire me because they need more people haha.
😀 DB is looking for staff members - that's a fact. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
This is only half information. No one can buy this subscription unless she has IBN [bank] that means you need a bank account in Germany or may be in EU. Otherwise tickets are very costly even a day ticket for ABC zone cost €11.40 and monthly cost more than €100 😯
Oh gosh, thank you for posting this. I was devastated when I realised. I can't even use my own non EU country to register. Fortunately I discovered you can buy it on a different app than DeutscheBahn. I have the ticket now.
great idea
What do I think about this ticket? We were planning to go to Greece or Malta for our summer holidays. But now we started considering exploring Germany instead. And we'd be able to visit our friends as well...
If you managed to buy it, let me know...
Will surely buy it!
Yess
I need this information
2:54 in summer of 2022, not 2020. Tolles Video👍
Thank you! It's "the summer of '22" - but at least the subtitles are correct 😉
@@DWTravel Yes😄
But you did not show non German tourists how to buy that ticket. This video is useless.
Also will be great to show how is look like working app in train
and is better to maje new video about paying for non resident of Germany
It seems subscription to buy the 49 euro ticket. As a tourist how can I buy it? DB app needs a bank account.
Reminds me of wohender ticket that I used to buy in 1997, I think wohnender ticket used to cost 10 Deutshe Mark
You mean the Wochenend-Ticket. That was really long ago! The price changed over the time (raised) and then Deutsche Bahn took it out of the offer.
2:56 you mean 2022 ! 2:57
You're right: 2022 not 2020! Thanks
Why would you make buying it so hard for non germans? What if i don't want subscriptions?
It isn't really aimed at tourists or foreign visitors you have to have a German bank account or a German address.
Loved that most of the video is in my city Leipzig
Germany always offers the best things. I Love Germany.
Hi, Would you have a list of all regular trains travelling from frankfurt, heidelberg,trier, luxembourg, stuttgar, hamburg, venlo, bonn, cologne, lubeck, nuremberg to passau and to munich where i go home with the eur49 ticket, please? Or do you have a link where I can follow?
Where can I buy the eur49 subscription ticket without having a bank account? thank you
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Check here: www.bahn.com/en
Very informative
I got my ticket and so happy for that !
Merhaba, ben de bilet almak istiyorum alman banka hesabım yok nasıl alabilirim bilginiz var mı
@@zeynepsahin5262 sanirim banka hesabi olmadan olmuyor.
hey where are you from? And how are you bought ticket? Can uou explain? Thanks
Nice!
Long time, no “see” Lukas….give us more of your youthful energy please
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I bet they called it "Deutschlandticket" this time because the original name 49€ Ticket would not allow later price raises. It's also very hard to get at least at the moment because the ticket counters seem to rebel against the incredible demand and just stop selling it. If they had just kept the concept of the 9€ ticket which could simply be bought at a ticket machine it would have been a piece of cake but with their contract idea and forcing people to use digital solutions which they dont want and all it's kinda getting messy.
There are also about 3-5 Regio Express you cant use it as well.
Great ticket 🎫 ..
I want to less cancellations of trains and additional trains to manage a crowd. On Saturday and Sunday, the train journey is not a pleasant experience.
Danke für İnformation 👍Ich lebe in der Nähe von München und gestern Tickets für 49 Euro gekauft habe. Ich starte morgen eine 2-tägige Reise nach Füssen. Ich hoffe, es wird nicht zu voll mit dem Zug😁
@ Jouliana ITS NOT THE L.A. METRO BUT YOU GET THE CONCEPT VERY USEFUL 🌞
Love it ❤❤❤
This ticket drives everyone crazy. All the trains are packed or delayed forever or never come. All the DB train crews are taken out of it. I highly advise you to get a car.
Lukas!!! 😍😍😍🥰
I pay online 29 € because the employer supports us additionally.
Wow - lucky you!
Hi I’m travelling in Germany with my 7 year old boy for the Euros fly into weeze through to Wuppertal and back is it worth getting the 49 euro ticket
Yay i live in Leipzig and finally someone makers a Video in leipzig
Very promising for Students.
Isn’t it a good idea to combine it with Musea Tickets next year?
Good for cultural exchange!
When the 9€ Ticket launched a friend of mine from croatia, who at this time studied in vienna/austria, he used it with a friend to travel through germany :) because he has never been there before. From there he travelled to Bavaria`s capital Munich, german`s oldest town Trier/Rhineland-Palatine (with a short day trip to the world`s richest country Luxembourg bc their transport system is totally free) and the carnival stronghold Cologne/Northrhine-Westphalia. There he sadly got sick bc of the corona virus....further planned trips of him were headed to germany`s biggest hanseatic city Hamburg, germany`s capital and government seat Berlin and to the florence of the Elbe Dresden/Saxony. He really used it :D but I used it greatly as well. With the ticket it was my first time going to Konstanz/Baden-Wuerttemberg, a beautiful middle city on the Lake Constance and the swiss border, Baden-wuerttembergs beautiful and rich capital Stuttgart and the beautiful city at the baltic sea in the real north Lübeck/Schleswig-Holstein :) (A friend of mine and me compared the last visit with trips to Hamburg and Schwerin (The small eastern-northern capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with its beautiful and pompous castle).
So I can really suggest to use it to get out of your comfort zone and visit all the beautiful sights and cities of Germany! I was able to discover more of the north and I also want to discover more of the east of Germany :) I`m definitely planning trips to cities such as Dresden and Leipzig/Saxony, Potsdam/Brandenburg (for the famous Babelsberg film studious), Halle and Magdeburg/Saxony-Anhalt and Rostock/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania!
PS. I`m from western germany, strictly speaking from the Ruhr area, near Dortmund. And around 2 years ago I moved to Heidelberg to study their. It`s a lovely city in the north of Baden-Wuerttemberg, well known for its university (which is the oldest of germany), its oldtown, as well as its beautiful castle on the hill. This is something I also can highly recommend to visit one time.
Used the 9 Euros ticket last year. Got excited after watching this video and planned a Germany trip again this year. But extremely disappointed this time. Lot of train delays and cancellations. I could not visit many of my planned places. I want a refund and compensation. 😔
I thought Lukas worked with Julia Leischik for her Sat1 show "Bitte melde dich"!? Does he not work there anymore?
Can some one please tell me how to activate the ticket on the DB website or APP?
I opened an account at DB, purchased the d-ticket, selected the trip I want being sure that they are not ICE (I used the filters), but then there is no option to add the d-ticket, just paying as usual. Does anyone know how to use it, to get the benefit to get the discount applied?
D-Ticket does cover all regional trains. Thus no extra ticket / surcharge needed.
D-Ticket is valid for one (or more - it is a subscription) calendar month. No further validation needed.
I bought mine 😊
pls describe how are uou bought ticket
Can I buy the ticket in the train station ?
Yes, at the DB travel center in the train station.
Amazingly affordable
Hey, how long it took you to withdraw money from your bank? I bought a ticket yesterday. Its is active, conductor checked it today but my money are still in the bank. No charges
Honestly, we don't know. It probably also depends on your bank.
over one month they can wait for transfer of money. for
Did we can travel from Berlin to Munich using this ticket?
The 49€ ticket allowed me to travel to Vienna for just 14.90€ because you can get to Salzburg without even paying for an extra one.
What a shame! You spoke so general! You did not show how we can use our Ticket-D on the mobile app DB local transportation!
I'm getting it through my employer for an even better price and look forward to using it in the future
That's great! Any particular trips planned?
my employer already took over 50€ for our public transport tickets, so I won't have to pay for mine at all (well, less tax returns also, but still)
Most likely I will go to Hamburg and visit the Miniaturwunderland
@@sushi777300 great idea 🤠
Hello, any tips on how to plan longer trips inside Germany but with trains that are included in the D-Ticket? DB website is not very friendly to do it, multiple sections trips are difficult to plan. Thanks!
I wish California can have similar promotion! Im a world traveler, been to 5 continents.... But i never been to Germany 😅, except 2 hours layover in the airport 😅. I like exotic places, with ancient ruins,beaches etc. Greece, Italy, France keep me going again and again for it's art, history and food!
If you can convince me you have something special.... I might visit 😅
The bay area is working towards the bay pass. Hopefully, it can be successfully implemented in thebnin County area.
Will this work on RB59 90381 ? Train ?
yes
Very useful, thanks for sharing ❤❤ BTW I found an even bigger 5% discount on European railroads😂 Save a lot🤩lol
Germans really know how to complicate everything. I have no idea why it has to be a subscription and not available in any ticket machine.
You're right - also you have to provide bank details (IBAN number), account details and an address in Germany. It makes it more difficult than it needs to be, certainly for tourists. How can someone who plans to backpack around Germany provide a German address?
I'm travelling to Germany in July this year. I'm flying to Frankfurt and thinking of travelling via train to Berlin. I will be staying in Berlin for 15 days. Should I purchase the D-ticket? Will I be able to find local trains to Berlin from Frankfurt in which I can use this D-ticket?
Just give us the flat rate ticket for the entire country and enable us to buy it in any store or kiosk.
I dont want to deal with no god damned "subscriptions" or paperwork or "requests".
3:25 why DB? Why? So that people begin to associate overcrowdedness (made up word) with public transport in their minds? DB needs to be thoroughly reformed to reflect 'German efficiency' mantra.
DB is fine. It's the rail network that needs to be repaired and extended. The government didn't invest into it since the 90s, because building roads was deemed better for our car industry. And most new track builds were stopped by nimbys for decades. Now they want to move cargo back onto trains, which just doesn't work, because many train tracks are already at capacity.
I live in America but I read on Deutsch Bahn that I have to use a German Bank account to purchase the ticket. I need a IBAN number but in the US they have only swift. How would I purchase the ticket ? It doesn’t want credit cards or debit cards from the US
It would be also very nice if Deutsche Bahn were offering trains without delays
you could also wish that hunger in the world is defeated tomorrow, but some things are too utopian for reality.
@@stiefelriemen632 I am from Italy. Our national railway company Trenitalia used to be very bad, worse than DB. In the recent years I have been witnessing an improvement on the quality of the trains, on their speed, on the connection, and on their punctuality. Now it is better than DB in my opinion. Things are possible
would help if they had toilets that worked last year had to get off and take a piss than catch the next train
My friend from Canada did not have a European bank account. The Canadian postal code was not accepted on the app and therefore the Euro ticket could not be purchased.
We often hear about this problem with the D-ticket for people from abroad. Sorry for that!
Im coming from England can i buy it at the rail station when i arrive only want it for a week
You can buy it at "DB Travel Centres" throughout Germany or via DB sales channels online.
What if the 49€ ticket acted as a discount card on the IC/ICE? if my total is 150€ from Stuttgart to Aachen, then I only pay 101€ because I already have the 49€ ticket on the side. Or maybe even making it like a fixed 20-25% discount on all fast trains if you have a valid 49€ ticket.
Also, it is not valid on Regional Trains operated by DB Fernverkehr, so gotta be careful with that
really😮
yes👍👍👍
I am traveling from India on tourist visa to Germany. Reaching 6th July. Can I book €49 ticket from India for month of July.
Yes, you can - but as it's a monthly subscription, you'll need to cancel it as soon as you buy it. 👉www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/deutschlandticket
It was 9€ last year 2022
Thanks for sharing But Can I go to Berlin if buy Germany's 49-Euro Ticket ?
Very useful for us low income earners