Talk:2009-08-29 52 13
Southern german residents interested in sharing tickets?
I'm basically interested, but travel cost is an issue. However, there might be a chance to considerably cut that down. The idea would be to go to Berlin on thursday or friday, stay there for a few days, and then return home (and call that a small vacation). Would also need an accomodation, of course. --Ekorren
Cheap travel to Berlin
There's that new offer for weekdays similar to the well known Wochenendticket, called Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket. Like that one and the Ländertickets, it's valid only in local trains, and not before 9 am on weekdays. Unlike those, it is not valid in non-railway-traffic like bus, metro, tram and ferries.
Using only local trains is slow, but in a group that doesn't matter, does it?
The Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket is 34 EUR for one person and 5 each for the second to fifth. #6 needs a new one. This results in the following pricing scheme for a small group:
| # people | price per person in EUR | |
|---|---|---|
| Mon-Fri | Sat/Sun | |
| (QDLT) | (SWT) | |
| 1 | 34.00 | 37.00 |
| 2 | 19.50 | 18.50 |
| 3 | 14.67 | 12.33 |
| 4 | 12.33 | 9.25 |
| 5 | 10.80 | 7.40 |
| 6 | 14.67 | 12.33 |
| 7 | 12.57 | 10.47 |
SWT includes local traffic within of Berlin on the same day, QDLT doesn't. Starting at 9 from Tübingen allows me to reach Berlin before midnight via either Würzburg or Nürnberg and do a detour or a two hours stopover at a station of free choice along the way (there might be hashes). Throwing another 8.40 EUR into the pot makes that four hours (by starting earlier than 9 am). --Ekorren 11:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
dawidi
So I see there's planning going on for a bigger meetup in or near Berlin, with the most likely date now being the 29th of August. From what I'm currently planning for the week before that, I'll be on my way from Kiel to Regensburg (by train, with my bike) on that weekend, so if a meetup happens then I could probably stop by in Berlin for a day and join you :-D
(I voted as ifneedbe for the previous and following Sundays, as I could adjust my plans to fit those dates if you decide against the 29th for some reason) --dawidi 20:29, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
- moved from Talk:Berlin, Germany --Davidc 18:03, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
