Originally Posted by
Reid
I'm staying in Cologne and flying out of DUS Terminal A (Swiss) later this month. The flight leaves at 9:40am. I was looking at taking the ICE train from Cologne to either Dusseldorf and transferring to the S11, or taking it right to Dusseldorf Flughafen and then taking the Skytrain. Any recommendations or recent insight on whether Skytrain tickets are still going unenforced?
Would the train that leaves Cologne at 7:30am and arrives at 7:50am(main) or 7:58am(flughafen) leave sufficient time to get to the airport, check in and get through security.
Taking the ICE means you can
not use the tickets from the Verkehrsverbund (VRS or VRR), which limits you a lot..besides the ICE can be late ...
Just take the direkt train (Regionalbahn/Regionalexpress) from Cologne main station to Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal ..leaves e.g. at 07:31 and arrives at 08:08 at DUS, then take the skytrain ..arrives at 08.20..
total cost is 11.30€ which is pricegroup 5 for the Verkehrsverbund VRS. the ticket is valid on the skytrain aswell as all city stops in Cologne..so depending on where you stay, you can use the ticket straight from the hotel to DUS.
However depending on the day of travel and your time of departure, I would allow myself a bit more time than 1:20 between arrival and departure of the plane..in that case you probably have to take the train from Cologne to Düsseldorf main and then change there..
As for skytrain. I just used it some weeks ago and the rules are easy..
from the DUS website:The following tickets are accepted for the SkyTrain:
valid VRR and VRS tickets
special DB tickets, such as City plus, NRW-, Schöne-Reise-, Schöne-Fahrt- and the Schöner-Tag ticket
Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH and "Parkvogel" (a brand of SITA Airport IT GmbH)car park tickets for up to 9 persons
Tickets for the observation deck at Düsseldorf Airport (Terminal B) on the day of us