European Rail Travel - OBB vs DB train price diffrence

I am planning a trip from München Hbf to Innsbruck Hbf. The German website (DB) is giving me a price of E37.30, while the Austrian (OBB) a discounted price of E19. Same thing happen when I look at the prices between Innsbruck Hbf. and Venezia Santa Lucia, OBB have a much lower price than TrenItalia website. Is that much of price difference between the these sites or I am reading it wrong?:confused: Thanks

Surely they can be different. Just book the cheapest. ;)

I am planning a trip from München Hbf to Innsbruck Hbf. The German website (DB) is giving me a price of E37.30, while the Austrian (OBB) a discounted price of E19. Same thing happen when I look at the prices between Innsbruck Hbf. and Venezia Santa Lucia, OBB have a much lower price than TrenItalia website. Is that much of price difference between the these sites or I am reading it wrong?:confused: Thanks

The problem with the Innsbruck-Venice price differences is that the DB, the Oebb and Nordmilano jointly run a train between Munich and Venice, in which Trenitalia has no role. This is because the Italian consists that used to run on the route were junk, and the Italians wouldn't upgrade them. So there's one set of prices. Trenitalia will also sell you a ticket between the two cities (or intermediate cities, such as Innsbruck) but on other Oebb trains to Brennero and then on Italian trains to Venice (or even on roundabout routes), with its own set of fares. Trenitalia won't sell you a ticket on the direct train, and you really can't compare the two fare structures.

When I go to book the ticket on OBB site is asking if I prefer saloon coach or compartment coach; which one is better? Thanks so much for all the replays!:-:

Please verify, since this is from memory. I believe the difference is between the 6-seat rooms (compartment?) and the airplane-style open seating (saloon?). Personally, I would prefer the open seating style, seems less cramped to me. If you have a group of 6 though, the private room could be nice. A private room which isn't full is also fine, but of course it is hard to tell in advance

I see now that both websites, DB and OBB offers the same price between München and Innsbruck, and Innsbruck and Venezia. Does it make any difference from where I buy the tickets? Would the train have German and Austrian cars or all are the same? If yes, is one better than the other? I also noticed that the price between Innsbruck and Vnezia is only EUR10 more for 1st class. Considering the 4:45 hrs train ride, is it worth the difference? Thanks for taking the time to replay!

The train will probably have all German cars or all Austrian cars. However, it doesn't matter where you buy the ticket: if you have a 2nd class ticket, you can sit in *any* 2nd class car. Even if you make a seat reservation, the reservation system will book you into any available car, whether it is German or Austrian. And if you have a reserved seat in one car, but you find another car which looks better to you and has some unreserved seats available, feel free to sit there!

If you can go 1st class for only 10 Euros more, I would probably do that. I usually travel 2nd class, and those cars and seats are just fine, but you do get more space in 1st class. In a 1st class compartment, you still have six seats - 3 and 3 facing each other - but the amount of legroom in between is much greater. If you go for the open-plan coach, you will find 2 seats on either side of the aisle in 2nd class, whereas in 1st class you have a single seat on one side and 2 seats on the other side.

Have fun!



I see now that both websites, DB and OBB offers the same price between München and Innsbruck, and Innsbruck and Venezia. Does it make any difference from where I buy the tickets? Would the train have German and Austrian cars or all are the same? If yes, is one better than the other? I also noticed that the price between Innsbruck and Vnezia is only EUR10 more for 1st class. Considering the 4:45 hrs train ride, is it worth the difference? Thanks for taking the time to replay!

Hi.
which train you are going to take (train number). On www.fernbahn.de you can look for your train number and see whether this are austrian or german cars (Austrian cars are labelled as "wagenmaterial öbb").
Another advante of the first class is lounge access in munich and insbruck.
yours
757DUD

The Munich - Venice - Munich train is operated by an OeBB trainset.

Thank you all for the very useful info!^