Hello,
A few years back I remember reading about a website where travellers could input their day and time of departure for a ride on DB. If there were enough people interested in travelling the same train, the site would somehow group those people together for a group ticket, saving everyone who signed up a whack of cash. Does anyone know if this site still exists? If not, did DB have it shut down?
thanks,
ian in hamburg
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Websites for pooling of group rail tickets
Ticket sharing on Deutsche Bahn
I was just thinking about this yesterday, it was called Fox (?) something?
Bahnsparfuchs (?)
Sucha scheme is a violition of the T&Cs of DB as I understand them so they may have got it shut down.
Their special offers from €29 for InterCity travel, now extended to theend of 2007 might have also made it less viable.
Bahnsparfuchs (?)
Sucha scheme is a violition of the T&Cs of DB as I understand them so they may have got it shut down.
Their special offers from €29 for InterCity travel, now extended to theend of 2007 might have also made it less viable.
Yeah, thanks anyway. I'm sure if everyone has a mobile phone for last-minute updates, this day and age it's doable. Not sure how they can prove you've not simply formed a last-minute club.
Gruppenreisen, Klassenfahrten & mehr
Gemeinsam reisen macht Spaß! Wir bringen Sie in der Gruppe besonders günstig ans Ziel.
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/preise/gruppen/g...ebersicht.shtml
Gemeinsam reisen macht Spaß! Wir bringen Sie in der Gruppe besonders günstig ans Ziel.
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/preise/gruppen/g...ebersicht.shtml
YorkshireLad,
Thanks for that link. It's a great idea that hasn't caught on, I guess. I put in what I thought would be a heavily travelled rout - Hamburg - Berlin - for leaving in a week's time, and the only hit that comes up is someone leaving in a couple of days. I guess not enough people know about it or trust that it will work.
Thanks for that link. It's a great idea that hasn't caught on, I guess. I put in what I thought would be a heavily travelled rout - Hamburg - Berlin - for leaving in a week's time, and the only hit that comes up is someone leaving in a couple of days. I guess not enough people know about it or trust that it will work.
QUOTE (silty1 @ Jul 9 2007, 2:36 pm) 
I put in what I thought would be a heavily travelled rout - Hamburg - Berlin - for leaving in a week's time, and the only hit that comes up is someone leaving in a couple of days.
That's how DB have undercut such sites.
By offering discounts of up to 50% if you book in advance and you know you don't have to rely on anyone else or site next to a wierdo for a long journey.
Do you get that 50% discount if you don't have a Bahncard?
You can get up to a 50% discount if you book a return trip over a weekend on fixed trains.
Likewise there are speical deals offering inter city travel from € 29 up to the end of 2007.
Only a small number of people on trains (under 20% I think) are actually paying the standard fare.
Likewise there are speical deals offering inter city travel from € 29 up to the end of 2007.
Only a small number of people on trains (under 20% I think) are actually paying the standard fare.
QUOTE (MonksTown @ Jul 9 2007, 3:03 pm)
...if you book in advance and you know you don't have to rely on anyone else or site next to a wierdo for a long journey.
An unfortunate spelling error. "h" key faulty?
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