European Train Tickets

IrishKev

Hey,
Considering an interrailing style holiday in August for a few of us. It will only be about 8-10 days long so wondering about the best way to go about train tickets. Rough plan is to fly into Munich, then onto Frankfurt (or possibly Berlin but it's a bit out of the way) and finish in Amsterdam. Seeing as it's only two train journeys I'm thinking there's surely a cheap enough way of getting about instead of the full interrail ticket. The cheapest and most suited I've seen so far is the regional Benelux - Germany Eurail 5 day travel for about 200 quid. Any ideas as to a cheaper way of getting from place to place?
We're all under 25 also so we can get youth tickets.
Thanks in advance

keithclancy

IrishKev wrote: »

Hey,
Considering an interrailing style holiday in August for a few of us. It will only be about 8-10 days long so wondering about the best way to go about train tickets. Rough plan is to fly into Munich, then onto Frankfurt (or possibly Berlin but it's a bit out of the way) and finish in Amsterdam. Seeing as it's only two train journeys I'm thinking there's surely a cheap enough way of getting about instead of the full interrail ticket. The cheapest and most suited I've seen so far is the regional Benelux - Germany Eurail 5 day travel for about 200 quid. Any ideas as to a cheaper way of getting from place to place?
We're all under 25 also so we can get youth tickets.
Thanks in advance

Why not just buy the two train tickets ?

http://www.deutschebahn.com/en/start.html

The EURAIL pass is only for NON EU Residents.

Think you need the Interrail Pass:
http://www.interrail.eu/interrail-passes/one-country-pass/germany

Look up the cost of the Train normally and work it out, perhaps it doesn't work out that much more expensive to just buy the tickets directly.

With the Interrail pass you cannot take the ICE without a supplement anyway.

IrishKev

Yeah I was thinking the same about getting them individually, looked up Munich to Frankfurt a few days back and got a price of €189 just for one person. Madness!
Oh, never realised the EURAIL pass is for non-EU residents, that's that ruled out anyway. Thanks for the info.
Can you explain what you said at the end there about taking the ICE without a supplement a bit better please, I don't know a whole lot about the train system in Europe! Cheers

Chinasea

Have you looked at flying into Memmingen for starters with Ryanair - very low air fare's sometimes and up to 5 people can travel down to Munich (76 miles) on the one train ticket for €29 on the Länder-Ticket.

All regions/Bundesland (states) have the Länder-Ticket valid in their states, plus, usually, a few short links across the border. Time validity is 09:00 to 03:00 on the following day on working days and 00:01 to 03:00 the following day on weekends. Tickets begin at €22 for 1 person and €29 for 5 people. These are excellent value.

BenShermin

keithclancy wrote: »

With the Interrail pass you cannot take the ICE without a supplement anyway.

This isn't correct, reservation for ICE trains while recommended is not compulsory. I've had no problem travelling around Germany on ICE on an interrail pass without any reservations or supplements in 2012. The interrail website states that this is still indeed the case at the moment.

Reservations for "ICE Sprinter" trains ARE compulsory though. However, these trains only go in and out of the main cities at rush hour, no tourist with an ounce of common sense would use a rush hour intercity train in Germany anyway.