How five people can travel from Lübeck to Munich for only €37
August 1st, 2009 by Tim Uden
If you travel from Lübeck to Munich on the ICE high-speed train it will cost you €127 and take between 6½ and 7 hours. This comes to €635 for a group of five people travelling together.
You can also travel from north to south within Germany entirely on local trains (that is using the S-Bahn plus RB and RE trains). Travelling on local trains the trip from Lübeck to Munich will take around 14 hours and involve up to eight transfers.
Buying individual tickets on this journey will cost €90.10. However there is a much cheaper option if you’re travelling on a weekend.
DB’s Happy-Weekend-Ticket (Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket) is good for unlimited travel on weekends in Germany on all local trains for up to five people travelling together. This ticket costs €37 if you buy it online or €39 if you buy it from a ticket machine at the station. Split between five people that comes to only €7.40 each.
Five people travelling from Lübeck to Munich would save up to €598 if they travel with a Happy-Weekend-Ticket instead of the ICE train. That saving is enough for around 70 litres of beer at the Oktoberfest.
I don’t know about you but – as much as I enjoy travelling on a fast train – I would take the slow train and save my money for Munich’s beer halls.
Lübeck to Munich is pretty much the longest train journey you’re likely to make within Germany so this is an extreme example, but it illustrates what you can save if a group of five travellers want to save some money (but don’t mind spending an extra five or six hours travelling).
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August 7th, 2009 at 3.29 pm
HE grate information thanks.
September 15th, 2009 at 3.34 pm
If we travel from Saturday morning (from Dusseldorf) to Bielefeld, can I stay overnight in Bielefeld and sometime on Sunday continue on to Hannover for the same 37 euro fare or do I need to purchase another ticket for the second leg of the trip (Bielefeld-Hannover). Thank you.
September 16th, 2009 at 11.28 pm
@Jerry Mundel
According to the DB website, the ticket is “Valid for up to 5 persons travelling together and for parents travelling with their children aged 14 or younger on Saturdays or Sundays between 0:00 a.m. (midnight) until 3 a.m. of the following day for only 37 EUR if you buy your ticket online.” This would imply that you need a new ticket for travel on the following day.
Also you have to stick to local trains (travel on express and high speed trains aren’t allowed on this ticket).
April 1st, 2010 at 10.27 pm
Just FYI- I’ve used the Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket, and while it is awesomely cheap, it is also a brutal and terrible experience if you have are traveling with many bags and doing a number of transfer. It can also be quite challenging if you are trying to juggle bags and kids. Many of the trains are packed (as all the Germans are also using this cheap ticket to take excursions), so assume that you will have to stand 60%+ of the time. We had one bag stolen (due mainly to my travel buddy’s lack of attention), and had some fast and stressful transfers trundling along with our luggage and a tired 6 year old. This travel was in mid-January, so I can’t imagine what it would be like to use this train during Oktoberfest.
In short, it’s a great money saver, but only use it if you are traveling with few/no bags and kids old enough to stand for a significant portions of the ride.
May 11th, 2010 at 12.30 am
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May 12th, 2010 at 7.47 pm
Myself (62 years) and my wife want to travel from Frankfurt on 24 May in the afternoon to Munich and return to Frankfurt on the 27 May noon or afternoon.
Could you please advise us on the cheapest train deal we can get and what to do .We will be travelling together
Thanks
May 12th, 2010 at 9.29 pm
I checked your travel dates on the Deutsche Bahn website (http://www.bahn.com) and it says that the cheapest fare would be €198 for both of you. The ticket would be cheaper if you had a BahnCard, although these are usually only worth it if you are a resident of Germany and travel frequently by train.
You may want to look at this site (http://www.bahn.com) and see if you can find a cheaper ticket by checking alternate travel times.
A cheaper, but more complex, option is to use DB's Lander tickets. These are travel passes good for travel on local trains (not valid on express trains) within a individual state, you would need to get the Lander pass for Hesse and also the Lander pass for Bavaria for each day you travel to complete your journey. Using these passes your travel will cost €120, however the travel time is twice as long (6 hours compared with 3½ hours) using this cheaper option and you will need to change trains in Nürnberg and Würzburg.
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May 31st, 2010 at 2.33 am
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June 14th, 2010 at 9.06 pm
Lübeck feels very old compared to B., the cities are *really* different.
June 15th, 2010 at 12.11 pm
Those trains won´t have travelled much faster than at best perhaps 80km/h. With lots of stops. Changing trains. If I recall it correctly, even today it takes about eight hours from Lübeck to Munich. Donn part of hemorrhoids treatment group.
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August 1st, 2010 at 1.47 pm
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August 19th, 2010 at 12.32 pm
So this is available just for the weekends? Even so, the money that a group can save worth the long time spent on train. But this is not so bad.And this is a direct travel, without any other transfers?
August 23rd, 2010 at 1.34 am
Sometimes buying online is cheaper but there are also times or deals that are not offered online.
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August 25th, 2010 at 8.59 am
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August 26th, 2010 at 9.52 am
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