Even More Deutschland Ticket Drama

How, where, and whether to buy the German 49-euro ticket

This post is an updated version of an article I wrote last spring during the rollout of the Deutschland ticket - Germany’s successor to the 9-euro ticket.

We’ve now all had the 49-euro ticket for about a year. For us, it is definitely worth it. We don’t own a car and public transit + biking or walking is our only way to get around.

My previous BVG subscription, which just covered Berlin transit zones A+B was 29 euros a month, and was set to increase to almost 60 euros. And I regularly need to travel into Zone C, which requires buying an add-on extension ticket each way. A monthly ticket covering all three zones would be more than 80 euros a month.

My daughter’s secondary school is in Zone C and she was not deemed eligible by BVG for the normal Schülerticket for Berlin students.

(We gave up trying to figure out why. Their rules state that students who attend school in Brandenburg can be covered on transit to school for the portion inside the city. But we applied twice and were never approv…