cls888
Traveller
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Posted 6 years ago
Hi, thank you in advance for helping me with this question. I am struggling with the decisions on purchasing German Rail Pass or Eurail Pass.
The German Rail Pass site says the pass can be used to connect to Venice. I will be staying in Hannover for 5 days which makes German Pass a good option for touring Germany. I will then need to go to Venice. Which trains do I take to go to Venice and what type of additional tickets do I need to purchase if I have German Rail Pass?
Thank you again.
Peter
Traveller
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Hello and welcome.
It is a nice add-on of the German Rail Pass to travel on some selected routes from Germany to a city outside of Germany, like your wish, to travel to Venice (Italy). :)
Have a look here (where you also can buy the German Rail Pass to support the free content and help on rail.cc) to find all connections listed: [ux]https://rail.shop/acprail/germanrailpass[/ux]
In your case it is the direct DB (German railways) / ÖBB (Austrian railways) Eurocity (EC) train from Munich to Venice: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train-type/deutsche-bahn-oebb-eurocity/32[/u]
Departure at Munich main station (Hbf) [u]https://rail.cc/en/munich/munich-central-railway-station/l59[/u] at 11:34
Arrival time in Venezia Santa Lucia [u]https://rail.cc/en/venice/venice-santa-lucia-railway-station/l279[/u] at 18:10
If you travel to more destinations outside of Germany, the Eurail pass might be the better choice - like you wrote already. All in all it depends on your planed route. As sometimes even saver price tickets might be cheaper than a rail pass.
Pete :)
cls888
Traveller
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Thank you very much Pete!
I will definitely use the link you have listed above to purchase the tickets.
Peter
Traveller
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Enjoy your trip. And if you have further questions, please let me know.
The departure and arrival times of the train (train number EC87) might change a little bit (not that much), depending of your departure date.
From 16 May to 05 August, the departure in Munich is already at 11:11 h (instead of 11:34 h on other dates).
To check it, have a look on [ux]https://plan.rail.cc[/ux] for departures from Munich to Venizia after 11:00 h - it is the DIRECT train EC 87 you can make use of.
:)
Flo
Traveller
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Hi!
On weekends (Saturday, Sunday) there is also another direct train (EC 1289) from Munich (dep 07:34) to Venice (arr 13:56) which you can use. :)
Flo