UKCatsHoopsFan

Is there any way to pre-purchase reservations for Munich to Prague DIRECT when you have a Germany-Czech Rail pass?

The train I want is showing on the DB website, but does not price with a Rail Pass.

When I try RailEurope.com, they only show a 1 connection at an inconvenient time. When I talked to a representative, she too sees the direct train I want but tells me they are unable to make reservation.

Is my only option to buy tickets at the kiosk and hope that we can find seating together? (Have been told by a friend in Prague that this is a popular train on a Friday.)

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

UncleDude

Try a phone call to the English Speaking Call Center :

You may also book your ticket and make seat reservations via our Call Centre. The ticket will be send to you by mail or you may be picked up at any of the ticket vending machines with touch screen at the stations. Timetable information is also available.

Dial + 49 1805 - 996633 from outside Germany (phone charges apply) and speak to our friendly service staff.

Or e-mail to English Center : [email protected]

Flying Lawyer

At least not online. What should work is an online reservation for the German portion of the journey. This would give you confidence that you have a seat and it might not be likely that somebody else bought a reservation for the remaining part of the journey. If so, you still can try to change seats during the journey. It should be possible to buy a reservation at the station.

UKCatsHoopsFan

Didn't read closely enough...UncleDude answered the question!

MIKESILV

Perhaps I didnt read this carefully too
But I believe the OP said they had a Germany-Czech Eurail pass so why would they be "buying" tickets?

Personally unless you are travelling at a very busy period (or wanted a sleeper) I wouldnt bother booking in advance, get your seat at the station and you will be OK.
If you do feel the need to be fully assured of a seat beforehand and in the departure for at least the day before get your hotel concierge to call.

mike

Track

If you have a German-Czech railpass, of course you already have the ticket. There are two direct Munich-Prague trains a day and two additional connections. All are regional trains in Germany but offer the possibility of reserving seats. The reservations can be obtained at any train station in Europe for 3 Euros a seat; there is no need to use a hotel concierge and certainly no reason to use Raileurope's grossly overpriced reservation service. I doubt these trains would be full, although Fridays may be problematic, as a poster noted. If you don't have time to get the reservation at least one day before departure, just get to the station (I assume you are leaving from Munich) early enough to claim any unreserved seats (reservations are noted above the seats or on the corridor).

CHIC SILBER

I have just arranged 2 first class saver passes on this link

http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/pa..._saverpass.htm

and it was simple and the passes arrived in 2 days with

no shipping charge

My wife & I are starting rail travel from Hamburg and visiting

Dresden Prague & Berlin then returning to Hamburg

KMA26

Pardon me if this is a naive question.

My wife and I want to take the Munich to Prague direct train (@0844) on October 6th. After registering at the Deutsche Bahn site and going through the booking process, I learned that the ticket could NOT be printed at home and could only be mailed. We depart for MUC in 3 weeks.
Our concern in booking how (versus in Munich) is whether or not a train might get full for this post-Wiesn day.

1. Is this a reasonable concern?
2. If I book online at bahn.de, is there any real risk of the tickets not arriving in Chicago in time? If they didn't, would the reservation still be in the bahn.de system and be available to be printed at the Munich Hauptbahnhof?

Thanks in advance.

Track

The 8:44 Munich-Prague is not a Deutsche Bahn train but rather one operated by the Vogtlandbahn, under the brand name Alex. That may be why the DB can't sell the tickets on the internet, but they do sell Alex tickets. I can't see any internet possibility of buying Vogtlandbahn tickets, but my experience has been that DB sends tickets through the mail promptly. Just order them as soon as possible.

Aviatrix

DB dispatches tickets very promptly - but you're at the mercy of the postal system.

This is NOT a train on which reservations are compulsory. Germans, by and large, are still very much in the habit of buying train tickets and jumping on the next train that comes along, and this is not a peak route so I doubt you'll have a problem buying a ticket nearer the time.

I think the risk of the ticket getting lost in the post is far greater than the risk of you not being able to get a seat on that train. The worst that can happen is that they've run out of their quota of reservable seats and you will have to find a seat on the day.

Rodman9000

These kind of tickets can be purchased from a US Travel Agent in the States, trust me on this one. You are correct about the DeutschBahn indicating they must send German RailPasses, EuroRail passes, etc. to a physical address, but that's only if you buy the ticket through them.

Find a Travel Agency in your area (I suggest doing a websearch with key words of travel agency, city you live in, and Deutsch Bahn), and you will get the ticket(s) right away then and there. In this case, you will have to purchase a "ALEX" ticket (not a train system through DeutschBahn, but you can buy them through Deutschbahn), because ALEX/EX is the only trains which will run straight from Munich to Prague with no changeovers.

Taking a bunch of my American friends to Prague on Saturday, 29Sept2012 by this method. Good luck!