In general, economic train ticket prices in Germany are relatively expensive. Especially for pockets of student families like we used to. But that does not mean cheap tickets can not be obtained. There are several ways you can travel at low prices. To all parts of Germany.
The German railroad system is fronted by Deutsche Bahn (German Perumka) divided into two types, nahverkehr (short distance travel) and fernverkehr (long distance travel). Nahverkehr is served by Regional Bahn (RB), Regional Express (RE) economic train. If you want to travel long distances with nahverkehr, then you have to change trains several times.
Fernverkehr is served by executive trains of InterCity (IC), InterCity-Express (ICE), Euro City (EC), Euro Night (EN) and D-Zug. If you ride this train, we rarely have to move. Aplagi if traveling between major cities such as the route Hamburg - Munich, Cologne - Berlin, Berlin - Munich, etc.
Even though the train type is different, that is economy and executive, the ticket price does not necessarily meet the criteria. If you do not know the train ticket purchase system, we can just buy an economy ticket at a price more expensive than taking an executive train. Harm, right?
The surest way to get cheaper tickets for both types of trains and trips is to buy a discount card called Bahncard. The Bahncard consists of three types, according to the size of the discount, bahncard 25 (25 percent discount), bahncard 50 (50 percent discount) and bahncard 100 (train subscription card for a year, valid throughout Germany). Usually people choose bahard according to their intensity in traveling. Who likes spontaneity and don't travel too often by train, choose bahard 25. More often, bahncard 50. And yaring routinely uses the services of the train, can use version 100. The discount card is valid for one year. We use version 25, because we often go spontaneously, with intensity not too high.
For economy trains, cheap tickets can be obtained on weekends, namely Saturday and Sunday. This type of ticket is very cheap when traveling in groups of up to 5 adults. Valid throughout Germany, from midnight until three o'clock the following morning. So if used on Saturdays, tickets are still valid until Sunday at 3 am. If using it for long distances, passengers must be prepared to go up and down and change trains.
If traveling in only one state on weekdays or on weekends, you can use state cheap tickets. The price is different depending on the state of each. Just like a weekend ticket, this ticket is valid for a full day for a maximum of 5 adults. The price is relatively cheap compared to weekend tickets. If traveling alone, single state tickets are available. For the city or regional area (certain cities), there is another cheap ticket system like this. Just dig as much information as possible about this kind of info.
Executive train tickets can also be obtained at bargain prices, if you know how. German Railway Company Deutsche Bahn always informs this on their official website. For example cheap tickets for executive trains for example are special prices starting at 50, 75, 100 euros and so on for medium or long distance travel. Tickets of this type are very much in demand. And on certain routes and even tickets must be purchased at least a month before. In addition to this special price ticket, there is an offer called Sparpreis (savings package), consisting of 25 and 50 percent savings packages. Requirement is that tickets must be purchased at least three days before departure. On holidays, these tickets are usually sold out in advance.
Sometimes Deutsche Bahn cooperates with a supermarket to sell cheap tickets. This type of ticket can be used throughout Germany. We just need to write the route on the ticket. Very flexible and the price is more skewed up to 50 percent. Once two, family travelers use Ebay services to get cheap tickets. If you diligently check prices, and monitor their progress, cheap roads can sometimes be achieved.
If you want to go to neighboring countries like Denmark, France, Belgium, Czech, Poland, Austria and Switzerland, there are cheap ticket offers called Europa Spezial from Deutsch Bahn. We once traveled to Zurich in Switzerland with a capital of 100 euros per person one way. We also get cheap tickets to Prague, Copenhagen and Vienna from here.
The key to cheap roads is to be diligent in finding information about cheap tickets. Family travelers have often proved it. That way, the available budget can be saved :)