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Transport there

The Eibsee can be reached by bus or rack railway. Bayern-Tickets are probably valid on the bus, but not on the rack railway.

The Zugspitzbahn is a narrow gauge mountain railway which goes up to the highest peak of Germany. From the station of Grainau up it's running as a rack railway. Tickets to the peak are 42 EUR round trip, but tickets until Eibsee (which is already well into the rack railway part) are much cheaper, probably around 5 EUR one way.

Timetables

from Würzburg

• Start at Würzburg 6:41 , arrival at Treuchtlingen 8:30
• continuing at 8:35 (5 minutes), arrival at Augsburg 9:30
• continuing at 9:51 , arrival at Weilheim 11:16
• continuing at 12:11 , arrival at Garmisch-P. 12:56
• Bus from Garmisch 13:04 arrives at the Eibsee at 13:45

Why not 5:31 and be there an hour earlier? The more time to explore the area, the better. --Ekorren 17:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Return:

• Bus at 17:10 arrives at Garmisch 17:51
• Train at 18:04 arrives at Weilheim 18:49
• continue at 18:53 (4 minutes), arrival at Augsburg 20:09
• then either continue at 20:28, arrival at Treuchtlingen 21:20, continue at 22:25, arrival at Würzburg 0:06
• or visit Augsburg hashpoint (might still be too far), continue at 21:18, arrival at Nürnberg 22:25, continue at 23:35, arrival at Würzburg 0:56

Version 2

(by srs0?) I'm sure the above way is probably cheaper, but I have surgery at 06:30 Monday morning, so arriving home past midnight isn't an option for me. Here's my idea from Würzburg:

• Start at Würzburg at 08:31, arrival at München at 10:41 (ICE 581)
• Continuing at 11:12, arrival at Tutzing at 11:39 (RB 30613)
• Continuing at 11:46, arrival at Weilheim(Oberbay) at 12:06 (Bus)
• Continuing at 12:11, same as above from here.

38.00 euro with a BahnCard50

Return:

• Same to Weilheim(Oberbay)
• Continuing at 18:54, arrival at Tutzing at 19:14 (Bus)
• Continuing at 19:20, arrival at München at 19:48 (RB 5424)
• Continuing at 20:20, arrival at Würzburg at 22:35 (ICE 780)

38.00 euro with BahnCard50. (Round trip 76 euro each with BahnCard50.)

So much less time in transit, and I can hopefully get a couple hours more of sleep before my surgery. So Danatar/thepiguy, would you be open to taking that instead? --srs0?

You could also part from the group for the ICE part alone, only pay for that extra, and join the group ticket for the rest of the trip. --Ekorren 17:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the second version was by me (srs0). Also, since I don't actually know any of the plans yet (and asking thepiguy resulted in "I don't know, I'm not doing any of the planning"), what's the transportation outline? Ekorren mentioned a group ticket, so I assume that means the idea was to buy a 5-person ticket and use that? If so, I'll gladly pay for the ICE part and connection myself and re-join with the group in Weilheim. -Srs0 18:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the plan definitely would be a Bayern-Ticket for all of you. If someone has some leftoevr money to throw away, I'll gladly take it because for me it's going to be much more expensive as I need to come from Baden-Württemberg and probably alone. I was about to cancel the idea because of that. --Ekorren 18:13, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

from Tübingen

Earliest possible connection to Eibsee:

Tübingen 4:21

Plochingen 512/536

Ulm 644/723

Augsburg 833/851

Weilheim 1006/1011

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1057/1115 Zugspitzbahn (or by bus)

Eibsee station 1145

Several reroutings and later connections are possible.

Latest connection back:

Eibsee station 1715 Zugspitzbahn

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1750/1804

Reutte in Tirol (Austria) 1859/1917

Kempten 2036/2049

Ulm 2159/2210

Plochingen 2321/2344

Tübingen 023

or:

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1804

Weilheim(Obb) 1849/1853

Augsburg 2009/2025

Ulm 2140 (and on as above)