Train Times and Prices... WOW

[Palermo10]

FWIW....

I just received my German rail pass today. Valid until July 3, 2006. (I leave on Sunday)

Pretty cool. www.europeonrail.com

[suppitty]

I was looking into train fares for a round trip Frankfurt-Nuremberg, and even that was more expensive than renting a car. Autobahn goes straight into Nuremberg so a 120 mile trip should be done in about 45 minutes.

[MarkoC]

The wife and I both got 8 day rail passes good in Benelux (Holland, Belgium & Luxembourg) Germany & Switzerland. At about $400 each it works out to $50 every train day. :cool:

[cswan]

Here's another item of interest from the Rick Steves' European Rail Guide.

All passes for Germany also cover border towns such as Salzburg, Austria, and Basel, Switzerland on trips to or from Germany.

So for all those German rail pass holders you have some cross-border day-tripping options if you're based within a 2-3 hr. rail trip to these border towns.

Christine S.

[Palermo10]

Yeah but they don't work to Prague :(

[GOOOOAL!!]

Anyone know if the rail stations in Kaiserslautern and Nuremberg will have either rental lockers or a bag check?? I really don't want to have to lug my crap around all day on gameday, let alone worry about putting it somewhere during the game.

Don't know about Germany but France 98 we were planning on dropping our bags off in a locker, going to the US game and then taking a night train that night and save on a hotel. The lockers at the station were all closed because of security. They were afraid that someone would leave a bomb in one. The only locker we found was in Paris and that was only because they had a guarded, x-ray system for the room with the lockers. I wouldn't count on getting a locker at the station.

Your best bet might be finding someone else who is going to the game and has a hotel in that city and dropping your stuff off there (possibly costing you a beer or two).