Bayern ticket
The
Bayern Ticket is a
Deutsche Bahn rail ticket which is valid for rail and bus travel throughout the whole of
Bavaria. The ticket can be used between Monday to Friday from 9am until 3am the following day. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays it can be used the entire day until 3am the next morning.
Ticket Types
- The Bayern Ticket covers up to five people and costs €29 when bought via the internet or one of the automatic ticket machines at the station. It costs €31 when bought from a human at a ticket counter. Sons, daughters and grandchildren under 15 years of age of travellers sharing the ticket as well as dogs (who don't need to be related) travel for free instead of an adult (but with maximum 2 children).
- The Bayern Ticket Single has the same conditions as the group ticket, but is valid for only one passenger. It costs €21 from the machines and online, and €23 from the ticket counter.
- The Bayern Ticket Abend is valid on journeys between 6pm and 6am the following morning. It costs €21 for up to five people (€22 from the counter).
- The Bayern Ticket Single 1. Klasse costs €31 and is valid for one person in first class. This is especially useful on busy trains (e.g. Friday and Sunday afternoons/evenings) where seats are limited.
- The Bayern-Böhmen Ticket has the same conditions as the Bayern Ticket but also includes the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic - as far as Plzen. The group version costs €34 (€36 from the counter) and the single version €24 (€26).
Validity
The Bayern Ticket is valid on all non-Intercity trains; in other words, on all RE, RB and IRE trains but not on IC, ICE or EC trains. It is additionally valid on all
S-Bahn,
U-Bahn, tram and city-bus routes throughout Bavaria, including the
MVV in Munich, the Verkehrsverbund Nürnberg (VGN), the Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbundes (AVV) and many more. It is also valid on virtually all rural bus services in Bavaria.
Train times can be found on the
Deutsche Bahn website. Select "Only local transport" ("Nur Nahverkehr") to limit your search to trains on which the Bayern Ticket is valid.
The ticket is also valid as far as
Salzburg and Kufstein in Austria, as well as Sonneberg in Thuringia and
Ulm in Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is also valid on the
Zugspitzbahn between
Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Grainau, on the
Lindau to Memmingen stretch via Kißlegg and on the Außerfernbahn between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Kempten via Reutte. It can additionally be used to gain reduced admission at over 100 attractions in Bavaria.
At weekends, the
Schönes Wochenende Ticket can be used for small-group travel throughout Germany on regional trains. In Austria, the "Einfach Raus Ticket" is a similar offer, costing €28 for up to five people, again for use on regional trains after 9am or all day at weekends.
See also
Transport
Munich
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