1. Registration for the DB-phone ticket procedure
Before you can buy DB Tickets casual on your Smartphone, you need to sign up for the cell phone ticket procedure at the Deutsche Bahn:
- If you are at least 16 years of age, have a valid ID and a smart phone with a German SIM card, you can sign up here.
- When you register, you select the method of payment. The Option of PrePaid, debit and credit card are available. Then enter the relevant payment data.
- you will then need to enter your login information and your personal ID number and your phone number.
- At the completion of the Deutsche Bahn to send you your PIN via SMS.
Log on to the Deutsche Bahn
2. The Mobile Ticket App
After you have successfully registered, download the mobile ticket App, and you can purchase your first cell phone ticket. By the way, you acquire with each Ticket purchase via Smartphone also bonus and status points, if the ticket costs five euros exceed.
- The free Android App "handyticket Deutschland" will get you in the Play Store, the iOS App in the iTunes Store.
- The sequence of Ticket-buying is similar to the ticket machines, so you will probably have no problems with the card purchase.
- The mobile Tickets you can not only buy for themselves, but also for the people that accompany it. Travelling are allowed up to five people.
- Important: When you purchase the DB-Tickets, you must provide a valid identification card and you must also carry during the journey. This can be your passport or your EU passport, credit card or your bahncard. Some Transport only identity card and EU passport to apply, however. You may need to have your Smartphone with bought a DB ticket, goes without saying.
Mobile Ticket App
These train Tickets you can purchase via Smartphone
With the mobile ticket procedure, you will not only purchase tickets to normal, but also saving the price of tickets, such as, for example, the Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket. You can also book via mobile phone of the seats. Additional services include:
- The Europe-special-Tickets to Austria, in the Netherlands, to Switzerland, to Belgium, to Denmark, to Sweden (X2 trains) to France (high-speed trains ICE and TGV), Italy (for EC trains via the Brenner), to Prague, and with the IC Bus to Poland.
- Also, you can purchase via Smartphone, many countries tickets such as Baden-Württemberg-Ticket, Brandenburg-Berlin-Ticket, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ticket, Schleswig-Holstein-Ticket, Saarland-Ticket, the Rheinland-Pfalz-Ticket, Sachsen-Ticket, Sachsen-Anhalt-Ticket, and Thuringia-Ticket.
- In addition, the owner of a Bahn-Card is available when purchasing a mobile ticket is often the free City Ticket, as well as leg Online bookings.
- Note, however, that you can't buy mobile-Tickets for journeys within a single transport composites and no follow-up trips with City mobile on the purchased phone-Ticket are allowed (as of Feb. 2014, all information without guarantee).
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