I’m glad it was helpful! Good point that a local pass can be a better deal in some cases, like with senior or youth discounts. For others, the DT ends up cheaper because the local pass was basically turned into the Deutschland-Ticket. For us, the DT was nearly half the price of what we paid for a 1 month transit pass in Berlin a few years ago!

I’m glad the Rheinbahn app worked for you! We’ve had a good experience with it.

Thanks for the information (I was tearing my hair out).

Anne

I answer so many train questions that the DB should put me on the payroll haha 🙂 I’m glad you were able to get the DT using the Rheinbahn app!

Worked a treat.

If travelling from UK when asked to enter land or country in the app use vereinigtes konigreich

I just now saw your comment! Yes, your ticket will be in the app. I’ve had clients say they used a screenshot and that was accepted. But there is always the chance that a conductor will ask to see your ticket in the app. Everything I’ve read has said you must be able to bring up your ticket in the app and if you can’t, it can be seen as not having a ticket. There have been a few times when it’s taken several minutes for the ticket to load in my app and some conductors have waited until it loaded to scan my ticket and others have just moved on. If you don’t want to take a chance, you can get a cheap e-sim to use if you do need to show your actual ticket.

So glad to hear that!

I just now saw this comment!You can only get this ticket via a subscription, which is why you can’t buy it at a machine. You have to set up your subscription in advance. Some of our clients have taken a screenshot of their ticket and used that when asked to show their ticket but there’s always the chance that a conductor will want to see the actual ticket, and that requires an internet connection. If you buy the ticket with the DB app you’ll have to do a bank transfer to pay for it (unless something has changed in recent months). If you want to pay with a credit card, use the RheinBahn app.