amckee3
Traveller
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Posted 9 years ago
I have a funny situation. I've lived in Germany for six months, have the papers to prove it, and have an Interrail pass I want to use next month. Unfortunately, I want to go out, back in, and back out of Germany on night trains, for which of course I can't use my Interrail because of origin-country policy.
However, being an exchange student from America, if it's convenient I can also prove myself to be a non-EU resident. There is this pass called a German Rail Pass (germanrailpasses.com) that looks to be in the same family as Eurail and Interrail, and is only available to non-EU people.
My questions is, would a combination of both give me basically free access anywhere? I can see it failing miserably however, if I'm on a night train from Munich to Zagreb for instance, and an inspector wants me to prove I have tickets for both countries the train passes through, and I'm forced to simultaneously forced to prove both that I do and don't live in the EU/Germany.
Anyone have any experience with getting around country-of-origin policies like this?
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
If you only want to leave and then return to Germany by night trains, don't buy an extra rail pass. Just buy some saver tickets.
You said Munich to Zagreb - have a look here for the night train: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/munich-zagreb-en-499/151[/u]
You have to book the night train at a station in Germany. But you can book a Deutsche Bahn IC bus online: [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn/Munich-Hbf/Zagreb/2000[/ux]
Which route you want to return back to Germany?
Or do you plan to travel as well inside Germany?
As you have already your Interrail pass, I hope you bought it via our railcc partner link [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]. railcc is official partner of interrail.eu - and you get the free PLUS account here on railcc: [u]https://rail.cc/en/plus[/u]
Thank you to be fair and to support all the free information and help we offer! :)
Pete :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
IMO you would get pretty close towards fraud using a German Rail Pass and an Interrail Pass simultaneously.
A better and safer option would be to buy reservations with partial pass tariff which would cover the part within Germany as well.
Another option would be to get a Deutschland-Pass which is basically a one month railpass for the DB network available to everyone. It is 269€ for 18-26 years olds.
Flo 8)