cdhafc1874 Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 So far - Got my ticket checked between Salzburg & Munich Didn't get my ticket checked on the ICE between Brussels & Aachen (would've saved €50 if I'd bumped it) Didn't get my ticket checked from Aachen to Köln going to the game last night or indeed on the train back. Got my ticket checked between Aachen & Köln today but wasn't checked on the train back. I've got multiple train journeys on Saturday as well as Sunday to/from Stuttgart so will see the final tally. My way home after Sunday night doesn't involve any more trains until I'm back in the UK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Boarded our ICE to Berlin yesterday and discovered the German comedian Henning Wehn and his mate had commandeered our reserved compartment. Ejected with immediate effect, and a comment of "Do you think you're funny pal?" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 7 hours ago, Lurkst said: Boarded our ICE to Berlin yesterday and discovered the German comedian Henning Wehn and his mate had commandeered our reserved compartment. Ejected with immediate effect, and a comment of "Do you think you're funny pal?" Did you have to pay extra for these compartments? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Jag Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 9 hours ago, Lurkst said: Boarded our ICE to Berlin yesterday and discovered the German comedian Henning Wehn and his mate had commandeered our reserved compartment. Ejected with immediate effect, and a comment of "Do you think you're funny pal?" If you had a paid for seat reservation, then that is shocking. Should have told them to gtf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Did a seat reservation for the ICE tomorrow - can anyone make heads or tails of which carriage it is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdhafc1874 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 3 hours ago, bairn88 said: Did a seat reservation for the ICE tomorrow - can anyone make heads or tails of which carriage it is? Having had a go using Google Translate, it chucks it back into English as... 2 seats, apartment 256, seats 41 & 42, 2 windows, table, large space Which I'm guessing means Compartment 256, seats 41 & 42, at a table next to the window. Still doesn't tell you which carriage compartment 256 will be in mind you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 1 minute ago, cdhafc1874 said: Having had a go using Google Translate, it chucks it back into English as... 2 seats, apartment 256, seats 41 & 42, 2 windows, table, large space Which I'm guessing means Compartment 256, seats 41 & 42, at a table next to the window. Still doesn't tell you which carriage compartment 256 will be in mind you. Cheers - compartment 256 it is. Wherever that may be! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 7 hours ago, German Jag said: If you had a paid for seat reservation, then that is shocking. Should have told them to gtf. They were, on no uncertain terms. 10 hours ago, welshbairn said: Did you have to pay extra for these compartments? Just a standard seat reservation, like the old days ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensible Soccer🏴 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 Well, we've been based in Munich all week, beautiful city. We're flying home from Schiphol so on a marathon train journey across Germany/Holland. Our train reservation was for 10:45 but due to the delays we've jamp on the 08:45 ICE train, to Dusseldorf to get a connection to Arnhem. We've sat in the restaurant carriage as I'd heard that those seats can't be reserved. This 08:45 train will get us into Dusseldorf 45mins before our scheduled connection. It's just me and the wife, we're through Nuremberg and no ticket checks so far but my plan is to just argue my case as our original booking would mean that we'd miss our flight due to their delays 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 Slight delay to our flight out of Edinburgh to Düsseldorf but everyone still in good spirits and buzzing. Can’t wait for the next week 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensible Soccer🏴 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 15 minutes ago, AJF said: Slight delay to our flight out of Edinburgh to Düsseldorf but everyone still in good spirits and buzzing. Can’t wait for the next week Mate, you'll love it. Fantastic cities & people. We've been out drinking with Germans, Austrian, Ukraine, Dane, Czech so many folk and they are all desperate to join in with Scottish craic. We were mostly based in Munich, amazing weather, and just walking around with a Scotland top on the police were approaching us and saying how much they love Scotland and want us to do well. Scotland top = celebrity status 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 Chaos on our ICE train this morning from Dusseldorf to Stuttgart. Seats appearing to be double booked and one even triple booked in my carriage. Folk having to stand in the aisle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensible Soccer🏴 Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 10 minutes ago, AJF said: Chaos on our ICE train this morning from Dusseldorf to Stuttgart. Seats appearing to be double booked and one even triple booked in my carriage. Folk having to stand in the aisle Yup, the trains are chaos. The floods a few weeks ago have caused mayhem in the South especially. It's worth noting that if you're train is delayed or cancelled (which basically they all are) then there's substantial refunds to be had, through the DB website. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 Sitting in Manchester airport and they've just cancelled the Munich flight. Greetin! Anyway my Hungary ticket is now for sale if anyone is over there needing one? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensible Soccer🏴 Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 37 minutes ago, Christophe said: Sitting in Manchester airport and they've just cancelled the Munich flight. Greetin! Anyway my Hungary ticket is now for sale if anyone is over there needing one? Ouch, nightmare. I avoid Manchester airport if at all possible. It's gotta be one of the worst run/managed airports in the world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 2 hours ago, Sensible Soccer said: I avoid Manchester airport if at all possible. It's gotta be one of the worst run/managed airports in the world. Aye that'll make him feel better like -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self-raising Lazarus Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Return leg, gare du nord. Security is so poorly run it's almost funny. Just adding insult to the injury of watching that guff last night. Scotland at tournaments eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 On 22/06/2024 at 05:52, Lurkst said: They were, on no uncertain terms. Just a standard seat reservation, like the old days ... Those boys certainly had a better time in Germany than us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 What a start to travelling home btw. Train delayed by 125 minutes due to a person being hit by the train in front. Arrived at the platform at Frankfurt Airport 49 minutes before my flight and somehow managed to drop my bag, get through security and passport control with 20 minutes to spare. Sweat pishing off me and still can't quite understand how I've avoided the nightmare scenario of missing that flight. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 DB emailed me this morning to say my train to Zurich had been cancelled, no more information was given. Went to the station anyway as the hotel was next door, and further investigation plus chatting to other TA let us know that the train was running, we just needed to switch to a regional service a few stops before Zurich. So we got there with just a small delay. Rasps to the DB PR team there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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