Bundlesiga- Travel question

[MariborKev]

Someone was telling me that you can still travel free on trains in Germany if you have match tickets(scheme was in place during the WC).

We're off to Dortmund v Monchengladbach at the weekend but we'll be coming up from Cologne.

Anyone know if the scheme is still in place?

[Closed Account 2]

I think you can travel free on local S-bahn trains, but I'm not sure if Köln - Dortmund would exceed the limit (in terms of km), do you have the tickets already ? It will probably say what the terms and conditions of the free travel are - I can translate it if you want? Or if not there should be some sort of symbol of the free transport like a "DART" or "Tube" logo - for Stuttgart it's the VVS (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkehrs-_und_Tarifverbund_Stuttgart) which is the metro area of Stuttgart (would be like free trains, buses and DART within County Dublin for say a Shels match), this is the one for Dortmund Area (Rhein/Ruhr), maybe contact them and ask them to confirm it.

http://www.vrr.de/en/contact_us/index.html

[MariborKev]

Yup.

Have the tickets.

I assume the section is "freie Hin-und Ruckfahrt am Veranstaltunstage mit all VRR Verkerhrsmittein"?

[Closed Account 2]

Yeah that just means "free transport to and from the 'event' with VRR transport modes"

Basically any S-Bahn, Bus, U-Bahn or Tram will be free in the VRR (Ruhr) area.

Köln is outside of the VRR zone

http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/118/vrr_netz.gif

Get a day return ticket to Solingen and then from there the ticket will be free, use this site to plan:

bahn.de

It's one change at Hagen, does anyone in your group speak German?

[MariborKev]

Thanks cdfh,

I'm sure we'll get it sorted.