<story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”&lt;p&gt;These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)&lt;p&gt;If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&amp;#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&amp;gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &amp;quot;villages&amp;quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&amp;gt; Berlin options:&lt;p&gt;- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20&lt;p&gt;- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection&lt;p&gt;- All trains: 1h50 with no change&lt;p&gt;Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></comment>
<story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”&lt;p&gt;These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)&lt;p&gt;If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&amp;#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>Our Dutch Scouts of age 15-17 also plan their own camps and do so on a shoestring budget, and it turns out that yes you can get from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic with all your camping gear using only like fifteen different German regional trains :-)</text></comment>