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mei @mei@donotsta.re
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train ticketing is a joke
Tip 2: If you don't see any cheap Amsterdam-Berlin fares at int.bahn.de, for example when booking at relatively short notice or on a busy day or date, here's a trick which can often reduce the cost. Go to Czech Railways www.cd.cz and book from Amsterdam to Prague (if you want Amsterdam to Berlin) or from Prague to Amsterdam (if you want Berlin to Amsterdam), first clicking More options then Travel via and entering Berlin as a via station. For example, on a busy Sunday afternoon booking only a week ahead, bahn.de had no Sparpreis fares available at all on one afternoon train from Berlin to Amsterdam and wanted €109 on another. Czech Railways had tickets available from Prague to Amsterdam for only €61 which included that first afternoon Berlin-Amsterdam train as part of the journey. Buy, print out your ticket and travel! It is perfectly legitimate to use only the Berlin-Amsterdam part of a Prague-Amsterdam ticket and there are no problems doing this - German conductors are able to scan Czech ticket barcodes. Works some times, doesn't work all the time, but worth trying!
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light nickel livery @lnl@screaminginsi.de
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@mei in PKP IC you can sometimes get a ticket from Warsaw to Berlin (via Poznań) cheaper than to Poznań. I think at least in part because international travels are taxed VAT 0% but domestic are at VAT 23%
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Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lnl @mei I think it's mostly because the fare structure is different?
Also the cheapest level used to start at 25€.
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light nickel livery @lnl@screaminginsi.de
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@IngaLovinde @mei ok I just got it first try, even if the difference is just pennies: week ahead, ticket to Berlin is discounted by Super Promo International, VAT 0%, but to Poznań it's regular price + VAT 23%. To not make it easier, currency rates seem to be a variable in this neocat_googly. Still, simpler and much cheaper way is to ride IC and not EIC.
ebilet.intercity.pl route proposal: from Warszawa Centralna 11:00 to Berlin Hauptbahnhof 16:06, EC 46 Berlin-Warszawa-Express. Cheapest option is non-refundable offer, class 2: 147,63 PLN (34,90 EUR). There is an option to choose Flexible offer and/or Class 1.
Same train as before, but on route Warszawa Centralna to Poznań Główny 13:24, class 2, for 149,00 PLN. Alternatively there is IC 1808 Podlasiak departing half an hour later, but arriving 14:22, class 2 for 69,00 PLN.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@lnl @IngaLovinde @mei erm ackshually tickets are in the 8% vat bracket
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