Anyone had passes from Germany mailed to your home?
 

I remember that in the Fall someone had posted something about having her rail tickets mailed to her here in the U.S. It seems that I can't find the post as I can't get the archives past Feb. of this year.

Anyway, has anyone purchased tickets from the bahn site & then had them mailed to your home. If so, how long did it take to receive them>

I have had tickets mailed several times before. I always travel with a rail pass, so when I need reservations or night compartments, I call bahn.de and they mail them to me. I think the last time the postage was less than 3€. I don't remember exactly the length of time that it took to reach me, but I am sure it was less than 2 weeks.

Hi elaine123,

Yes, I have also, had tickets mailed to me from the DB in the USA as well as here in Germany.

s

Yes. About 10 days or so to Houston about a year ago.

swandav2000, how long did it take for your tickets to arrive? So far, from the other posts, I'm seeing about 2 weeks...

scatcat & rkkwan, any problems w/ the tickets? Did you just have them stamped before you got on the first train?

Are they stamped at a DB window? Will there be a DB live manned window in the Frankfurt airport?

Thanks.

Hi again,

Actually, it only took four days to get to me in Knoxville. I was pretty impressed!


s

Thanks!

I believe mine took about 5 days to get to Utah.

Thanks to everyone who responded. Did bahn.de charge you a service charge for the passes you ordered? Were you charged extra postage? Finally, was your credit card charged the 3% service charge for the currency conversion? Thanks in advance.

I have downloaded and printed German Rail Passes and point-to-point CGN-AMS tickets from www.bahn.de without incident. It's instant, no postage, and no necessity to queue up once in country. Get off the plane and on the train.

Any currency markup is established by your credit card issuer. Die Bahn doesn't charge anything for conversion. They just send a debit for x€ to the network.

Mine were tickets not passes. There was no service charge and only about 3€ postage. I ordered mine by phone and I was given the total at that time. You will be charged the 3% conversion fee unless you have a credit card like Capital One that does not charge conversion fees. I got that card for that reason alone.

scatcat, do you speak German? I have tried to call 2 times, and both times I have been unsuccessfully transferred to what was supposed to be an English speaker.

That's great about the Capitol One card. I'm going to research it.

Thanks!

elaine

I do not speak German. I wait on the recording to stop and a human answers. I then say "do you speak English?" They transfer me to an agent who speaks English. I have had good luck so far. I will be trying my luck again tomorrow morning. I need sleeper reservations and I will have a railpass. I have never figured out if you can reserve just the sleeper without train fare, so I just call.