Originally Posted by allen074
ok i got the tickets today - they say SMOKER - so i call them - and fight with them - she says our web site lets you pick - BUT IT DOES NOT
so basically after 30 mins of fooling around - i told her to cancel the seat reservations
it appears that on bahn.de i can book the seats that way for 3 euro as you have all suggested... so i will do that --
is there anyway to guarantee the first car on the ICE train?? thanks again for all of your help!
There is a way of reserving the first car (with view over the driver's shoulder), but I don't remember the reservation code. Email DBahn and ask. By the way it's only the ICE-3 trains, the newest ones, which offer this view, and it's a first-class compartment in one direction and second-class in the other. Anyhow, the ICE trains between Berlin and Hanover are all ICE-1 and ICE-2 sets, so it doesn't help. ICE-3's are used on the Hamburg-Berlin-Munich, some Munich-Frankfurt-Cologne-Duisburg-Amsterdam/Dortmund, Stuttgart-Zurich, and IIRC Dresden-Frankfurt runs.