Hi:

I really wish I had found your forum sooner. We had debating between Prague and Salzburg, and Salzburg won. We have about 5 days after visiting people in Kassel, Germany...from the 21st to the 25th of September, before we have to take possession of a cottage in Burgundy. I finally agreed to go to Salzburg and bought our train tickets via Deutschebahn (with delivery of tickets to Kassel).

Then I found your forum and saw all the wonderful comments about Prague.

Question: is it too late to change our plans and get a refund for our tickets? We'd like to go to Prague instead.

Linda

Hi Linda,

Unless you got a deep discount, nonrefundable fare, you should be able to get almost all of your money back.

topping

Ira, pardon me if I seem a bit dense, but I don't get your last message.

At that time of year I suspect you might be able to simply exchange the tickets at the rail station unless you were sold something that is non-refunable.

I hope you can exchange or return your tickets, as I think you'd enjoy Prague. And five days in Salzburg would be too many. But 5 in Prague would be good. It's a charming city.

Hi L&E,

Each new message brings a thread (a set of messages) to the top of the list.

Subsequently, a thread may fall to number 100 or lower on the list.

I sent a message (topping) to bring your thread back up.

Thanks Ira...there's all kinds of nifty things going on here that we don't understand.

BTW, we went to the www.bahn.de website to see about changing our tickets and its quite easy--although we had to do a bit of searching using a German phrase translator. We had created a profile to buy our tickets, and using the same profile, we could bring up our itineraries and cancel or change them.

We decided, however, not to do Prague this time because it involved 2 1/2 days of train travel...we're already planning another northern European or eastern European trip where we have shorter time periods between stops.

The bahn.de website is a wonderful resource. If you use the advanced form of search between destinations, you can choose street addresses between your two points and it will configure not just your train travel, but walking directions and times, busses, and air travel. And very quickly and efficiently. Amazing!

This time we'll divide our extra time between Salzburg and Alsace.