Rostock and Luebeck
 

After posting question about transportation from Wanemyende to Berlin we have decided to skip Berlin as we were there shortly after the wall came down and do not want to spend 8 hours on a train to see it again. I have a question for "treplow" as your suggestions on visiting some of the Baltic seaports sounded the most appealing. Do you catch the train at the port for this destination? Thank you for this suggestion. I sometimes wonder when someone answers with a cute (funny, no) answer if that is all they have to do with their time. Thank you again "treplow".

We walked from the ship to the ticke counter in the Warnemuende RR station. It was a short walk, there were only 2 ships in port. Bought our ticket there, round trip. We did not ask about any discounted tickets, but there might be some, although usually limit you then to the slower Regio trains. Took the S-Bahn from W. to Rostock station, where our Luebeck train was waiting.

From the Luebeck station walked to the old town,through the Holstentor. Immediately after crossing the river , we then found a nice place to eat, outdoors along the river, to the right. From there we just poked through the old town on foot, visiting the Marienkirche, admired the guild houses, the Thomas Mann house, the oldest pharmacy in (Germany?), the market square, etc. We stopped in a cafe overlooking the city hall and had the obligatory Luebeck marzipan. Finally,we walked back to the station and enjoyed the rest of a very relaxing day.

I believe I mentioned before, but you can get all the train schedules/connections on www.bahn.de; click the Stars and Stripes or Union Jack for the English language version.

What a help. Thank You

I read your original thread and didn't see anything rude with the responses you received - you hadn't provided information as to where your ship was docking and so posters were asking for it to better answer your query.

At any rate, even though you addressed this question specifically to treplow, I will note that when we docked in Warnemunde on our Baltic cruise the ticket counter was not open and the only way to obtain tickets was to use the ticket machines.

Probably the ticket counter would have opened later, but since I had a guide on purchasing tickets from the machine that I obtained from cruisecritic.com, we didn't have to waste part of our day waiting for the counter to open. The machine instructions were in German so I was glad I had a guide on what to do.

There are ticket kiosks at almost all DSB stations, the porblem is, thet frequently they won't accept US issued credit cards with a magnetic strip. In Germany (Europe?) they largely use now credit cards with chips. If you don't want to/can't wait for the ticket counter to open, you can always buy the ticket on the train, albeit with some extra chasrge.

Or you could use cash in the ticket machines.

Travel time between Warnemuende to Berlin is about 3 hours one way.
Travel time between Warnemuende to Luebeck is about 2.5 - 3 hours one way.